Career Rocketeer
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Career Hole-in-One
I’m quite lucky, I have the profound honor of having Roy Parfitt as my father. His career was steeped in the early days of Silicon Valley in the 70’s where his ideas on how to respectfully treat employees revolutionized Human Resources. He is now retired, or as he likes to say “keeping my options open” and nowadays you can find him enjoying a hearty round of golf in Gig Harbor, WA or Sun Lakes, AZ almost any day of the week. We recently spoke about how he views the game of golf and he... |
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Writing Your Resume as a Journalist
My offer of a free resume critique is in its 34th week , so join the hundred of executives and professionals who have already emailed their resume to perry@perrynewman.com to find out what can be done to improve their apply to interview rate.With this in mind I recently spoke with a journalist I know to elicit some advice on how to write an effective resume from a professional who writes non-fiction for a living. I asked him, “What advice would you give a journalism student that is also applicable... |
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Career Transition: 4 Stages of Career Planning: Bitten off more than you can Chew?
Bitten off more than you can chew with your career transition?Do you feel overwhelmed and confused about all of the potential career choices?Don't know how to plan a successful career change?Is your lack of career direction creating chaos?My dog, Chester, often bit more than he could chew, and created chaos. Chester is a brown, "Bearded Collie," and the photo was taken when he was 4 months old and about 25 lbs. Now he is 6.5 years old and 75lbs. Still gets into trouble, but is so cute, no one... |
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Bitten off more than you can handle in your Career Transition: 4 Stages of Career Planning
Bitten off more than you can chew with your career transition?Do you feel overwhelmed and confused about all of the potential career choices?Don't know how to plan a successful career change?Is your lack of career direction creating chaos?My dog, Chester, often bit more than he could chew, and created chaos. Chester is a brown, "Bearded Collie," and the photo was taken when he was 4 months old and about 25 lbs. Now he is 6.5 years old and 75lbs. Still gets into trouble, but is so cute, no one... |
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Facebook Your Way to a New Job
Many job seekers have asked me whether Facebook can be used in the job search process. Well the answer is definitely, “Yes, it can.” While I would generally suggest that a job seeker spend his or her time seeking opportunities on other networks simply due to the more social nature of Facebook, there are definitely ways that you can use Facebook in your job search.Here are just some to consider as you go forth and pursue new career opportunities:Help your network help you. Keep your profile... |
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Do What You Know, Love What You Do and Be Who You Are
BE PREPARED TO UNDERSTAND YOURSELF…ever since I can remember, I always did what I was told. I guess a discipline thing that mom and dad taught me, but I also did what I was told when it came to career choices. I focused too much on what others suggested instead of what I wanted to do, or felt more comfortable. I did what I should. Did any of you ever feel that way? Do you now? Maybe if you did it again, you wouldn’t listen to everyone else, and do what you want.Following your passion is so... |
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In Remembrance of Our Old Friend TC
In this post, I have a little fun by sharing the obituary for the type of career many of us still seek; that is, the career our parents had (what I call the Traditional Career). Unfortunately, as this post indicates, she has left us and hopefully gone on to a better place. The Traditional Career (TC) was laid to rest today in an official ceremony that marks an uncertain transition in the life of the working world. Our little TC was admired most for her ability to inspire her followers to become... |
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Taking a Job Search Personally
Riding the roller coaster of emotions in a job search can be emotionally draining! Even the most even keeled personality can often feel like the ups and downs of a search are affecting the positive attitude they are trying to maintain in the process. Why? Obviously because a job search is so personal! Even professional sales people, who are used to handling frequent rejection in their jobs, are often deeply affected by inevitable rejections that come in the job search process. When you’re selling... |
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Brand-Yourself.com Launches Online Reputation Management Platform for Professionals
When was the last time you Googled yourself? Nine out of ten recruiters now use the web to find information about potential applicants. And half of employers are more likely to hire candidates that invest time in developing a strong online brand using social networks.What does that mean for you? It’s time to shape up your online image! All of us, especially Generation Y, have all kinds of content out there: high school track scores, Facebook wall posts, blog comments, etc. And these digital... |
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THESE ARE YOUR OPTIONS - 'FIND' OR 'BE FOUND'
I don’t mind repeating this point over again due to the inordinate number of ultra qualified job seekers who have been referred to me by friends, clients, my blogs, and my standing offer of a free resume critique at http://www.perrynewman.com/, that still don’t get it. The rules of resume writing and conducting a successful job search have changed dramatically since 2008, and most job seekers with three or more years experience who are imminently qualified for a job in their field are clueless... |
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ATS software is screening your resume! 5 resources to get noticed!
•Is your resume getting the attention it deserves? • Ever wonder what happens when you apply online?• Ever try to apply to a job you are qualified, only to be blocked by the software? • Wonder if the keywords in your resume are the “hot” keywords for your industry?If you answered yes, to any of these questions, you need to learn about ATS software, right away! Each time you submit a resume online, chances are that ATS software will be used, to screen you in, or screen you out.... |
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10 Ways to Create Work When There’s No Work
Statistically speaking, there are 6.3 job applicants for every job opening in the U.S. Anecdotally speaking from recruiters, many companies are receiving hundreds of applications per job opening. Regardless of the numbers, the right fit for each talented professional may not surface for some time.This past week, I received an email from a job seeker in California. Theresa has been out of work for a year and questions whether it makes sense to take a much lower level position because of the long... |
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Everything I Needed to Know About Job Hunting I Learned from The Godfather
There are so many resources out there for job hunting and career advice that sometimes I don't know where one ends and another begins. Lately I've been able to look around and realize that there are actually career lessons in everything, from songs to movies to interactions with other people. So I thought I'd go a bit outside the box on this one and present some job-search tips gleaned from one of the best movies ever made, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather."Never hate your enemies. It affects... |
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One big lesson from the Olympics for your job search!
There have been a few articles I’ve seen using the Olympics to make a point related to a job search. However, I believe there’s one point that’s been fascinating to me but lost in many of the other discussions. One of the most amazing things to me as I watch these elite athletes compete for a hunk of precious metal, is how some perform at their peak when it matters most, and how others fail! Think about that… in any sport you choose to examine, the top 3 to 5 contenders are pretty close... |
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Caution People! How Social Media Is Muddying the Waters for Perfectly Good Jobseekers … and How Companies are Letting it Happen
Are hiring companies going to far by rummaging through a job candidate's online social media accounts, looking for reasons to justify disqualification. Some say they are.Invited to an interview, you step into the room and unload that heavy photo album you’ve been clinging to onto the conference table. In addition to a resume and brag book, you have pictures on your iPhone of your dogs and the neighbor’s cat stalking the birds enjoying your new bird feeder. The interview progresses by you opening... |
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11 Facebook Applications to Launch Your Job Search
Do you want to have suitable, jobs, emailed to you daily? Would you like to find out what it is really like, working in a particular company, division and department?Do you want to connect to decision makers and hiring mangers directly? Wouldn't it be great to make your Facebook page and profile more professional-looking?As a Business and Career Counselor and Instructor at Georgia State University, I am often asked how to job search using Social Media. One of the thirteen,... |
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11 Facebook Applications to Launch your Job Search!
Do you want to have suitable, jobs, emailed to you daily? Would you like to find out what it is really like, working in a particular company, division and department?Do you want to connect to decision makers and hiring mangers directly? Wouldn't it be great to make your Facebook page and profile more professional-looking?As a Business and Career Counselor and Instructor at Georgia State University, I am often asked how to job search using Social Media. One of the thirteen,... |
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(W)age Discrimination Is Alive and Well... And What You Can Do About It
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting really tired of reading the headlines over the past few years. It seems everywhere you turn, another company is laying off thousands in reaction to the bad economic conditions.If you’ve ever been responsible for deciding who to layoff (which I have), or if you have been victim to a layoff (which I have), I’m sure you’re familiar how layoffs typically work……reduce costs by determining who’s expendable, locate the biggest salary savings, and... |
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Look at Your Brand as an Ongoing Project
If you check the personal branding process for most experts, it will include the following steps:Find/ExtractCreate/ExpressCommunicate/ExudeMaintainMaintain!OK, you got it. It’s really all about maintaining and the reason is, once you create your personal brand, all you need is to communicate and maintain it (monitoring and controlling in Project Management phases). Building a promise is not a one-step process, but is one that will last a lifetime. Because exuding your unique brand attributes... |
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Job Search Stalled? Increase Your “Impressions” with a Networking Journal
How many marketing impressions (regardless of the medium) does it take before an individual will recognize the message and/or brand?Many sources say that five is the magic number:"The more times people see an ad, the more likely it is to have an impact. The optimal number seems to change based on the industry and creative effectiveness, but results seem to indicate that a frequency of five impressions per target is the most efficient."MARKETINGMarketing. Impressions. Frequency. Target. Why are... |