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Date: May 10, 2006

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Ebooks and Services

Thoughts of the Day

Article : Your Job Search Team

Article : Resumes in the 21st Century - Increasing your Chances for a First Interview

Article : The Killer Interview Question You Need to Answer Well

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I hope all is well with your career development.

Let's look at job search.

What do you need when you look for a job? Resourcefulness! Find a job where you can enjoy the skills that you have. In looking for a job, consider first this question "Where can I find a Job?" This is where you need to start.

Resourcefulness is needed in order to answer the question. You must know where to look for a job. You must also know who to talk to in searching for your desired job. Where to look? There are a lot of places in finding a job, like newspaper ads, internet job search sites, radio and television ads, job agencies, job fairs and also your College and University that offers job advice. But these are only the known or the open-job resources. By being resourceful you do not rely on the open-job resources but know how to find the hidden-job resources.

What are these hidden-job resources? You won’t find these jobs unless you use networking. You must know the places where to look for and the people to talk with.

There are lots of ways to look for a job. It’s just a matter of how to use your resourcefulness in finding the job you desire.

To your career and job search success,

Bryan

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Thoughts of the Day

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. -- Malcolm S. Forbes

Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. -- Mary Kay Ash

Article

Your Job Search Team copyright © by Kevin Donlin

If you're looking for a job, think like a goose.

Experiments have shown that geese flying in a V formation can travel about 70% farther than birds flying solo. Geese function more efficiently together than they do all by themselves.

Are you looking for a job all by yourself?

If so, know this: There's a limit to how much you can accomplish alone. But there's no limit to how much you can do as part of a team.

Think about it. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Steven Spielberg -- they all have management teams and/or boards of directors for support and guidance. (Even Jesus had 12 guys helping him out.)

So, if you don't have a job search team of people you can count on for help, start building one today. Here are the people you'll need on your team ...

Job Search Partner Like losing weight or quitting smoking, finding a job can go faster and more smoothly if you do it with a partner. So find yourself someone to bounce ideas off of and be accountable to.

A good job search partner can do the following:

* Review your resume and cover letters, to give you honest input. * Check in with you at least once a week to see how you're doing and provide encouragement. * Share job-search success stories from their own life or from people they know. Because you can't know it all.

Bill Gates has Steve Ballmer. Warren Buffett has Charlie Munger. You need a right-hand man or woman, too, to help you get more done in your job search.

Financial Advisor If you're between jobs and your income has taken a hit, don't panic. But do take steps to marshal your money, because financial worries can sabotage any job search.

That's why you need a financial advisor -- your accountant, spouse, older brother, whoever -- on your job search team.

Create a financial roadmap early in your search. The time to revise your budget is BEFORE money problems happen, not after.

Then, share your money plans with family members, especially if you're married (even more so if you want to stay married).

Determine how long your savings will support you without a job. This will tell you how many months you can hold out for an ideal position, and when you should seek a less desirable job to pay the bills.

Health Advisor Your brain is carried around by your body. If your body goes to pot, your brain will follow. And your job search will drag on for months as a result.

At the start of any job search, select one person to keep in contact with about your health. Write down your weight, resting heart rate and other key measurements, so you have a baseline to check on every few weeks -- this will tell you if you're putting on or losing weight, for example, and help you spot potential problems before they get out of hand.

No job is worth sacrificing your health for, so pay special attention to your body!

Spiritual Advisor Finally, be sure to find a spiritual advisor you can confide in to get your mind off of employment and onto matters of a higher order. Pastor, rabbi, shaman, spouse -- find someone who's not a bartender that you can pour your heart out to, if needed.

Because, you are not your job. You are a person first. And all people have spiritual needs, in addition to physical and financial ones. If your spiritual batteries run down, the rest of you will, too.

A good job-search support team will see things you don't, like a golf coach watching your swing. They'll be there with advice and encouragement -- and help you get hired faster.

Once you have that job, be sure to repay your team by treating them to dinner at the restaurant of their choice. Then, look for someone in need of a job whom you can be a team member for -- what goes around comes around.

Now, go out and make your own luck!

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.

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Article

Resumes in the 21st Century - Increasing your Chances for a First Interview

By Anastasia Zoldak

Since the advent of the personal computer, the increased use of the internet, and the automation and standardization in the way companies seek new employees. Many companies are now turning more and more to the Internet for their employees.

In a study by According to a 2005 industry study by Booz Allen Hamilton , 51 percent of the new hires in the United States were found on the Internet. This percentage includes an employer’s web site (21 percent), general job boards such as CareerBuilder.com (15 percent), niche job boards (6 percent), social networking technology (5 percent), and commercial resume databases (4 percent).

Because the process used in finding new employees has changed, people seeking a new position must also change the way they go about seeking a new job. The following are a few ways of improving your chances of getting a chance to interview. Think of your resume as a way of getting in the door.

The high volume of resumes sent into a company often overwhelms many Human Resource departments. As a result, they do not spend time reading every resume they receive. They scan the resumes for key words, skill sets, or education and compare them to their current job opening needs. The internal HR represenentative or recruiter then often follows upon those resumes that pass this initial scan. Those that are hard to read or do not show the complete skills requested by the manager are not considered and processed into the system.

This first process of screening resumes is now becoming more difficult for job seekers since the advent of new Human Resource software. This first screening process has become automated and a human being often is not the first to look at your resume.

Here are some tips to make sure you make it through that first cut.

1.TAILOR YOUR RESUME TO YOUR PROFESSION. - Use the proper resume format for your profession. You can find the proper format in a good resume book or you can hire a consultant to write your resume.

2.AVOID LONG-WINDED PARAGRAPHS - Think short informative sentences when writing about what you do. Recruiters and HR Representative do not spend time reading overly long job descriptions.

3.A RESUME IS NOT A PLACE TO BE MODEST - Make sure you mention ALL your skills, training, and awards. Don’t be shy! List all your achievements big and small, but do not exaggerate or fabricate skills. If you have, only training in a skill say that on your resume, but don’t forget to mention who trained you. For example if you where trained to use Microsoft products by Microsoft certified teachers it will make a huge difference to whomever is reading your resume.

4.USE CORRECT ENGLISH, GRAMMAR, AND SPELLING - People assume many things based upon the written word. Therefore, make sure that your writing is correct and concise. The person reading your resume might not have great grammar or spelling skills, but their desktop word processing program does.

Remember, in this era of electronic resume filing, a good resume is essential. To improve your chances of getting in for an interview, you need to create a resume that highlights your skills, experience, and yes even a little bit of your personality. Nothing less will help you find a job.

Anastasia Zoldak is a Recruiting Consultant based in Chicago, Illinois. She has had experience in all aspects of hiring and has recruited in a number of industries. Anastasia has also trained other recruiters & hiring managers on the various aspects of recruiting cycles.

Questions on recruiting or clients who would like retain her services, can contact Anastasia by e-mail at azoldak@zoldakenterprises.com

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Anastasia_Zoldak

Article

The Killer Interview Question You Need to Answer Well

By Gerry McLaughlin

In a job interview, the best way to separate the men from the boys, the sheep from the goats, is to ask a candidate what could go wrong with a project. If they had only done a course on the subject, they wouldn’t be able to answer. If they had only used it very sparingly then their replies would be very limited.

However, if they had extensive experience of a technical area, then they could probably go on at length about the possible problems and their solutions. Experience in troubleshooting past technical problems can vastly expedite your interview process.

As an interviewer I have found greater value in asking the candidate what problems they have had when using the particular skill instead of giving them a technical test. Too few interviewers actually do this.

Turn the Interview Around

Why not turn the interview around so that you are able to bring out your knowledge of a particular technical area or skill?

Before you go to the interview, think of all the things that can go wrong when using the particular skill - and what you have done in the past to make them right.

Go to the interview determined to get this across - that you know what can go wrong and you can sort it out. It should be pretty easy at the interview to be able to bring up the topic, one way or another, of the problems that you have had and your solutions.

You might want to ask them about the main problems that they have had at their site, and then discuss the solutions with them. You can then go on to state other problems that you have had and what you did to correct them. If they haven’t come across some of those problems yet, they might be very keen to have you for when they do.

Even if they have come across the problems, by bringing them up you will show that you have a broad based knowledge of the subject and can sort out problems in it.

Bad Previous Experience

I once did a series of interviews to find a couple of project managers. I interviewed quite a few people.

They all did well at the first part of the interview, and their resumes seemed great, this is until I started asking them what could go wrong with a project at the various stages of development, i.e. from scoping and estimating through analysis, programming and testing, to production.

I was surprised how few problems that they had actually come up against. Even when I came up with a problem myself, and asked how they would sort it out, they just looked at me blankly most of the time.

As there were no other candidates, I took three of them on, but my initial feelings about them were accurate - they didn’t know how to run projects, although one managed to do very well in other areas. The other two were a dead loss.

Therefore, if you are an interviewer, the best way to find out who will be able to do a job for you (rather than run a course) is to find out from the candidates which problems they have had in the past, and how they sorted them out. If they don’t know this at the interview, then they won’t be able to solve problems for you when they arise.

If you are an interview candidate, make sure that you have prepared a list of what can go wrong and how you would put it right, and go to the interview determined that you are going to get it across.

Interviews Can Become Quite Pleasant

They say that companies only take on people that they like. If you are able to talk to them as an equal (or superior) in a subject that they know and like talking about, often the interview becomes quite natural after a while as you talk about common problems met and solved. The interview can even become quite enjoyable.

Often you’ll know that you’ve got the job as you warm up to each other. You’ll leave knowing the job is in your pocket.

Set the Agenda

Interviews are about setting the agenda and showcasing what you know, and hiding what you don’t. They usually also have set times, e.g. one hour.

If you are able to turn the agenda to what you know, then you’ll often find that they either don’t have the time, or have satisfied themselves that you know what you are talking about, and won’t bother asking those searching, testing questions that you would rather avoid.

It’s happened to me before. They reached the point of the interview where they were to ask technical questions. They said to me in an embarrassed way, "You obviously know what you are talking about, so there’s no need to ask you these", and then closed the folder of questions.

I was very thankful for that. I started the following Monday.

Gerry McLaughlin has fulfilled every role in Software Development from Trainee Programmer through Systems and Business Analysis, Project Leader and Manager, Systems Manager and Chief Information Officer with a department of 80 people. Tens of thousands of IT Contractors visit http://www.ITContractor.com each month to keep themselves in touch with the market.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Gerry_McLaughlin

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