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| Date: April 6, 2005 |
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| In This Issue: |
| Thoughts of the Day |
Article : 4 Internet Job Search Mistakes to Avoid
by Kevin Donlin |
Article : How Long Does It Take To Write A Resume?
by Michelle Roebuck |
Article : Career Change.
by Michael Harrison |
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| I hope all your career related issues are going well. |
| Today let's look at Questions for Your Interviewer. |
You are nearing the end of the interview and you get asked
"Now, do you have any questions?" How do you respond?
This is your chance to show the quality of your character and
interest in the company. No matter how well the interview went,
passively responding to this question with a shake of the head and
a polite smile will only communicate to the employer that you are
not interested in inquiring about the job, the company, and your
place within their organization. Your approach to this Question
and Answer time will directly impact the interviewer’s assessment
of you and the interview. |
When thinking of questions the first things that probably come
to mind regard your salary, hours, vacation, and benefits. It is
not a good idea to ask these types of questions during this
time. It would only express to the employer that you are more
concerned about yourself than learning about the company. These
kinds of questions are valid only when a job offer has been
made. |
When preparing for this part of the interview develop questions
regarding the company or the organization. This will positively
influence your interview by showing that you care more about the
company and the job than just how much they will pay you. Good
questions to ask are: |
How would you describe your company culture?
What is the typical career path for someone in this position?
What is your company’s biggest challenge?
Where do you see this industry in the next five years?
Who is your competition and how do you compare?
How does your company measure success?
What skills are the most important for this position?
Describe your ideal employee.
Tell me about the people I’d be working with. |
| Do you get the idea? |
Not only will these questions indicate to the interviewer if you
are right for the job, but their answers will indicate to you if
the job is what you’re looking for. Just as you may not be a
perfect fit for all companies, not all companies are a perfect
fit for you. Just as you try to sell yourself to a company, a
company should be trying to sell themselves to you. |
Spend some time developing questions that will help you
determine whether the company is a good fit for you. |
| Have an awesome week, |
| Bryan |
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| Thoughts of the Day |
"Someone once asked me what is the hardest part about creating
what you want? My reply was 'Learning to stop figuring out how
you will get what you want.' |
"If you try to figure out how you will get what you want you will
limit yourself to what your ego or conditioned mind can do. The
key to creating what you want is to turn your desire or your goal
over to your subconscious which is connected to the Universal
Mind or Universal Subconscious and let it bring the goal to you
and you to your goal."
-- Dr. Robert Anthony |
| Article |
"4 Internet Job Search Mistakes to Avoid"
(c) copyright by Kevin Donlin |
The Internet is a easily the world's most powerful employment
tool. With the Web, you can access millions of job openings on
thousands of sites. With email, you can quickly contact
employers and ask for interviews. |
Yet, if used incorrectly, the Internet can actually prevent
you from being as productive as possible in your search for
work. |
| How? Why? |
Here are four mistakes that commonly befall job seekers using
the Internet. Avoid them, and get hired faster. |
1) Don't Email Your Resume Wrong
I've written before
(http://www.startribune.com/stories/1416/4371900.html) on how
to create a text version of your resume for emailing to
employers. Because not everybody has Word or WordPerfect, the
only way to be sure employers can read your resume is to email
them a version in plain old ASCII text. |
Make sure the resume you email looks good upon arrival, with
no funny line breaks or garbage in the text. How? Use yourself
and at least two friends as guinea pigs. |
It's easy. Practice formatting and emailing your resume to
yourself and others. Open the email. How does your resume
look? Good? Good. Garbage? Reformat and repeat until your
resume goes through cleanly every time. |
2) Don't Forget The Email Cover Letter
When emailing your resume to employers, don't dash off email
cover letter as an afterthought or, worse, fail to include one.
Treat email as you would postal mail -- always email a solid
cover letter with your resume. |
Your cover letter has many functions. Chief among them are
telling the reader what job you're applying for, where you
learned of the job, and your specific qualifications for doing
it. |
And don't get sloppy with tone or punctuation in email cover
letters. You're not banging out an instant text message to
buddies. You're writing a letter to the person you want to
work for. There's a difference. |
3) Don't Be Passive
It's easy to sit back and wait for postings to appear on the big
job sites, like Monster. But if you confine yourself to this
passive technique, you're missing out. |
That's because most jobs are filled by employers before they're
ever advertised online or in the newspaper. By some accounts,
this figure is as high as 80%. So it pays to be proactive --
use the Internet to get into the heads of hiring managers before
they pay for a job posting online. |
An easy way to do this is to use a networking Web site, such as
Linkedin.com or Ryze.com. At Linkedin.com, for example, you can
search profiles of 1,214,000 registered users (as of this
writing) to find people who went to your school, have the same
hobbies, live near you, etc. You can also find out where these
people work -- and this is critical. |
Because, once you find and contact someone who shares an
affinity with you, and works in the company or industry you want
to work in, you can make valuable connections that lead to
interviews and job offers. |
Tip: never approach networking as a one-way street. You become
road-kill and get ignored that way. Instead, give back to the
people you meet, online or off, before expecting them to favor
you with job leads. You must prime the pump before you get
anything out. |
4) Don't Forget Who Really Hires
Throughout history, there is no record of any person ever being
hired by a computer. It's people who hire people. Yet, some
folks spend days or weeks searching for jobs online without
ever meeting a hiring authority face to face. |
This is a mistake that happens when you confuse process with
results. |
Using the Internet to find a job is a process. The results you
want are a job. At some point, you have to get off the Internet,
get off your duff, and go shake hands with live humans. Never
lose sight of this. |
That's what it all boils down to, doesn't it? To get hired, you
have to meet and impress a living, breathing employer. |
| Go do it! |
Kevin Donlin is President of Guaranteed Resumes. Since 1996,
he and his team have provided resumes, cover letters and online
job-search assistance to clients in all 50 states and 23
countries. Kevin has been interviewed by USA Today, CBS
MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal's National Business
Employment Weekly, CBS Radio, and many others. |
For more information, click HERE
http://career-related.com/apm/gresumes.htm |
| Article |
| How Long Does It Take To Write A Resume? |
| by Michelle Roebuck |
Many people can easily write a resume in just a couple of hours.
They can do this by following a resume sample and just writing
their information in place of the sample. This is the quick and
easy way, but it’s not the most effective way. |
If you want to write a resume that gets noticed by employers,
you need to do an assessment of your skills, interests and
abilities before you write your resume. You also want to develop
a resume objective that best describes the type of position
you’re applying for. |
It could take several weeks for you to complete your resume.
It’s very common to write one or two drafts before finalizing
your resume. When you’re done writing, your resume should be no
longer than one or two pages. |
After writing the first or second draft, read it and make sure
it clearly states the skills and abilities that are relevant for
the position you’re seeking. Don’t put unnecessary information
in your resume that have nothing to do with your qualifications
for the job. |
If possible, have someone else read your resume. It’s always
helpful to have another person read your resume who will offer
you an objective opinion. The feedback will be helpful for you
in fine tuning your resume. |
If you don’t feel you can write your own resume, you can always
hire a professional resume writing service to do it for you. A
really good resume service will help you in assessing your
skills and abilities so they can write a resume that will
accurately represent you and your qualifications. |
About the author:
Michelle Roebuck provides job interview and resume tips at
http://www.job-interview-and-resume-tips.com
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| Article |
| Career Change. |
| by Michael Harrison |
Coping with change is now an everyday occurance. What's more
the pace of change is accelerating and the need for us all to
adjust is greater than ever. Yet, this is a time of opportunity. |
| Career change - Ignore it at your peril or seize the opportunity |
All around we constantly see the changes which are affecting us.
Economically power is shifting and the consequences are massive. |
China and India are emerging nations using modern technology to
massive effect as their economies grow at rates previously
unheard of. It is predicted that China will be the 4th largest
world economy by 2006, overtaking the UK and by 2020 it will be
challenging the world's largest economy, the US. |
Although these changes will be seen by most as threatening they
are really opportunity in disguise. Traditional and new
processes are being executed with increasing effect world wide
but the net result is that as this happens new situations arise
which we as individuals can tap into. |
The shifts in the world economy are affecting the large
corporations and people employed by the corporates. This does
not mean that within any community the need for goods and
services diminishes. In fact as more people benefit financially
from global changes demand grows and that demand has to be
satisfied. |
The key to succeeding in the new world order is to be prepared
to change. Jobs for life no longer exist, particularly in the
corporate world and people who suffer are those that cannot
adjust. |
What's more, world wide pensions are under pressure so that
means we all have to look out for ourselves in later life. This
is not a threat it is a challenge if you are prepared. |
Facing the challenges can mean there is a need for career
change. Each time I changed direction when employed in the
corporate world I faced new challenges. Perhaps I should have
been more wary but I got to enjoy the challenge and changes. |
Working from shop floor apprentice to CEO/Chairman in a variety
of businesses and learning new skills in executive positions on
the way bred ambition rather than fear of career change. |
As I was always ready for the next challenge/ change I probably
became un-employable so it was natural for me found my
consultancy business in 1990. |
The mind set which allows people to adjust to change is vital
because one thing is now certain more and more will be forced to
change career, so better to be prepared and instigate it, rather
than be forced into it. |
There was a recent press article about house moves in one of our
national papers which illustrates the point well. |
The article related how when a young family moved to a slightly
larger house they needed new bookshelves. Appalled by the price
the husband decided he would make his own. |
He was a corporately employed IT expert. He is now a maker of
fine furniture because as he explored the woods to use and
started creating designs he became an enthusiast. His enthusiasm
grew when he bought his second hand tools and talked with
established craftsmen. |
As he explored the different woods he started to specialise in
the design and production of contemporary chairs from Oak or
American Black Walnut which can sell for upto $7,000 a time. |
This is real life example of career change and a business
example of motivation, business creation and niche marketing
around a newly acquired skill. These are the qualities that will
be needed as the world economy continues to develop. So it
really is about opportunity not threat. |
| Tip |
Bring enthusiasm and optimism to your life and use your many
skills and talents to your business benefit, anticipate change,
welcome it. |
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