10 Tips to Manage Your Career instead of Just Doing Your Job
It’s no surprise that people who are in career transition focus a lot of their time and energy on updating their resume, networking, brushing-up their interviewing skills, compiling accomplishment stories, etc. They know they need to be prepared; to “be at the top of their game” if they hope to land another good position. Reality. But what about those of us who are currently working — in jobs that may even seem quite stable? If you’re like most people, the activities mentioned above get little or no attention — that is, until you get laid- off, fired, or simply become [...read more]
You’re Invited: Special Career Seminar – Accomplishment Stories
Accomplishment Stories: Developing Your Most Powerful Tool to Get the Job Offer Remember a time when you heard a friend or colleague tell a memorable story? You can probably still recall some of the details about that story long after it was shared. Good storytelling creates a vivid picture and a positive response in the listener’s mind. Utilizing stories to enhance your job search is a skill that is often overlooked. Yet, without powerful accomplishment stories to tell prospective employers, you have almost nothing to “sell.” When you can effectively tie your accomplishment stories directly to the employer’s needs and [...read more]
5 Tips to “Spring Clean” Your Resume – Part 2 of 2
3. BE ACTIVE. In your Resume, use strong action verbs at the beginning of every sentence. Words such as “lead, launched, directed, built, managed and generated” have a lot more impact than a passive phrases such as “responsible for” or “handled.” 4. BE SELECTIVE. Focus on information that is truly relevant to your career goal and edit out the rest. There is no need to focus on your high school achievements or volunteer work if they are not relevant to the career you are looking for or if they are in your distant past. 5. BE HONEST. Never, never, never lie [...read more]
You’re Invited – Seminar: Active interviewing: Win the Interview and Get the Offer!
Join us to learn about Active Interviewing, winning interviews, and landing jobs. Good candidates like you often lose jobs they should be landing due to poor interview performance and bad interviewers. Many candidates try to prepare for interviews, but their preparation is inadequate or they are interviewed by employers who make bad hiring decisions. Even with all the available interview information, candidates continue to commit more mistakes in the interview than in any other stage of the job-search process – and hiring managers continue to make highly subjective and inaccurate selection decisions. Interviews are “broken,” but you can learn to [...read more]
You’re Invited: Seminar – Networking – The Core of Your Career
You’ll look at your friends, family members, even your dry cleaner in a whole new light after this powerful seminar! One of the keys to managing your career effectively is to build and maintain a strong and varied network. Every job seeker – and even those who are currently employed – should carve time out of their busy schedules for networking! Your network is your most valuable career asset! (Far more important than a résumé). You’ll learn how to cultivate this often-overlooked and underdeveloped resource into a positive and dynamic tool to create long-term career success. Every networking encounter will [...read more]
5 Tips to “Spring Clean” Your Resume – Part 1 of 2
Spring is just around the corner (starts March 20)! If your Resume hasn’t been getting the results you want, Spring is the perfect time to “clean it up” and significantly improve it. Here are five tips to freshen-up YOUR Resume this Spring: 1. BE BRIEF. Of the five main sections of a Resume – Header/Contact Information, Career Summary, Professional Experience, Education and Affiliations or Professional Development – the Career Summary is where brevity counts most. As they say, “Less is more!” The Career Summary is a brief statement of who you are, where you’re “coming from,” and what skills and [...read more]
The Seven Truths of Career Success – Part 2 of 2
This article is being presented over a period of two months. Last month, we shared the first four “Truths of Career Success.” In this edition of “Your Career Advocate,” we reveal the final three items in our list of “Seven Truths.” 5. Always research and be “plugged in” to the competition Research and be aware of the competition – whether it be information about other companies or other professionals in your industry. Always know who they are and what they’re doing. Endeavor to “know the competition better than they know themselves.” This will greatly enhance your competitiveness when jobs are [...read more]
The Seven Truths of Career Success – Part 1 of 2
This article is being presented over a period of two months. In this edition of “Your Career Advocate,” we have included the first four of our “Seven Truths.” Next month, we will reveal the final three “Truths” of career success. 1. The most qualified candidate does not necessarily get the job offer Many times, candidates with lesser qualifications get job offers simply because they’ve prepared and presented themselves in a more compelling way. In other words, they’re better self-marketers than the other candidates! In a tight job market, being qualified is never enough. You must DEMONSTRATE to the employer that [...read more]
