Social Networking and LinkedIn Tips by Susan Guarneri, Career Goddess Networking has been the number-one way to find jobs – and good ones – for years. In fact, for the past 20-some years I’ve been in the careers industry as a career counselor/coach and outplacement specialist, it has been the first strategy I’ve recommended to
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Resumes, Networking, Headhunters – Useless Without Marketing Sweet Spot by Marta Driesslein A career transition is no longer about getting your hands on a list of contacts, networking with headhunters, or going online to look for work. It’s better than that. Want to neutralize most of your rivalry* Hot-swap the traditional means of securing a
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Personal Branding & the Business Card: Tips for Appearing More Professional, Legit and/or Possibly Employable. PLUS! Dead Give-A-Ways of the Dangleberries and other Personal Branding Screw-ups You Want to Avoid! by Daviod LaPlante’s blog OK, take that swank bluetooth dangle-dongle berry outta your ear and read’up! That plan of yours to have you’re next professional
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12 Résumé Tips to Get You Hired – from Express Personnel Your résumé is your introduction to a prospective employee. What it says, or doesn’t say, will be a major factor in whether you land an interview – the first step to getting the job. To craft a résumé that highlights your strengths and sells
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The Top 10 Tools for 21st Century Career Success! Career success isn’t rocket science–it’s a simple 3-step process. (1) Know what you want to achieve. (2) Define what success looks like (how will you know you achieved it?) and (3) Take action. The more you do, the faster you’ll get there. Circumstances do not make
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Answering Interveiw Questions 1. Tell me about yourself? Cover four segments about your life – your early years, education, work experience, and what you have done in recent times. Keep you answer to not more than 2 or 3 minutes. Be sure you don’t ramble or elaborate. 2. What can you offer us? Be sure
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How To Format Your Resume For Internet Job Searching Email resumes…Web resumes…HTML resumes…Scannable resumes… Keyword resumes…Text resumes…ASCII resumes…PDF resumes…Word resumes…Traditional resumes… A resume is a resume, right? But then, what are all these different types of resumes you keep hearing about? If you are confused and not quite sure what is being referred to when
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LinkedIn may offer path to dream job Like many people these days, I have a Facebook account, which I mostly use to stay connected with high school chums and other friends. In the past six months, though, I’ve also established a professional online presence through LinkedIn.com, a popular career-oriented network. (The site has 13 million
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Ten Fears of Job Seekers Being a job-seeker can be a frightening and stressful experience. The longer the search goes on, the more stressful and confusing it can be. A job seeker might question if they are doing anything right, what they should change, what flaw is keeping them from employment. Really, finding a job
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Tips For Job Interview Sample Questions Has your employer asked for a revision on your interview techniques? Has your employer decided you should refresh the job interview questions because they have become the norm? If so, you probably wonder just how you can improve your questions and impress any employer. Below are tips for job
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How To Get A Green Collar Job My 22 year-old stepdaughter recently moved back home after a year in New York City. She put her hopes of breaking into the fashion industry on hold, discouraged by the drudgery of a Manhattan retail job bookended each day by an hour-long commute from her Brooklyn apartment. My
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Boomers embark on new midlife careers As she approached her 50th birthday, Karen Doyle made a radical change: She gave up a successful career in marketing and public relations to become a gardener in Fort Lauderdale. Allen Sells, 61, once a financial services CEO, moved to Miami last year to become pastor of a church
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Tips for writing a thank-you letter after a job interview Tips for writing a thank you letter after the job interview. Some may question the value of sending a thank you to an employer after an interview but there is no surer way to get their attention and let them know how much you care
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The guide for the weary-eyed job seeker by Sarah Schneider Job seeker for dummies should be the best selling book out there – topping charts year after year. Because when you think you have this whole ‘job seeking’ thing down, you usually end up finding out that you didn’t have it at all. It seems
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When an Interviewer Says: ‘Tell Me About a Time When You…’ By Arlene S. Hirsch Behavior-based interviews have been around for more than a decade, but if you aren’t prepared for them, they can throw you for a loop. You know that you’re in a behavior-based interview when most of the questions begin with statements
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