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Date: September 21, 2005

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Thoughts of the Day

Article : Discipline Will Get You That Job By Scott Brown

Article : Employment Job Searching Using the Internet By Dakota Caudilla

Article : 3 ways to stand out in the interview By C.M. Russell

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Thoughts of the Day

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. -- Vince Lombardi

"There are no limitations on what you can be, have or do, except the ones you place on yourself." -- Brian Tracy

Article

Discipline Will Get You That Job

By Scott Brown

There are many facets of life that require discipline; getting up every morning to go to work, paying your bills, putting gas in your car and countless other things. However, many people consider looking for a new job as a hassle that can be addressed whenever the mood strikes them.

Many Americans today adopt the ‘it can wait’ attitude and their career search suffers as a result. Finding a job, just like putting food on the table, requires discipline and extreme effort to accomplish.

People who join the military get a taste of discipline during boot camp and basic training. However, even these folks lose a considerable amount of their discipline when they enter the working world. If you have the discipline to work out every day or to get up and go to work, then you have the discipline to find a new job and find it quickly.

Look everywhere for that job

The discipline required to find a good or even a great job starts with looking for that job. You have to look continuously and when I say continuously, I mean at every free minute that you have.

Finding that perfect job means leaving for lunch and going to the library to search the internet for jobs. It also means spending a minimum of one hour a night surfing the job boards to find that perfect job. And that is just the beginning.

Once you have disciplined yourself enough to spend all your free time looking for a new job, you can begin to divide your job search time into specific tasks. One important aspect of looking for a job is to make contacts. You do this by sending your resume to all placement agencies and letting them know your requirements for your new job.

Network with friends

You must also spend some time networking with your friends to see if they have any ideas for you. You should also spend time networking with acquaintances whose spouse might work for a good company or a person you met at church who works for a company that might be hiring. No matter what the source, you need to try and take advantage of any contacts you may have.

Another aspect of a disciplined job search is looking at all possible sources for a job. This might include multiple job boards, several newspapers, and many different company websites. It never hurts to send a resume to a company that is not hiring because they will generally keep your resume on file for 6 months.

Finally, it never hurts to use the phone book and call places where you might like to work. I have actually gotten a job while the market was terrible by blindly calling software companies to see if they needed help.

Stay positive and stay disciplined

Another important aspect of disciplining yourself to find that perfect job is to keep a positive attitude even in the face of rejection. I have sent out hundreds of resumes without a response but have managed to continue sending my resume until I landed a job.

Unfortunately, looking for a job is not like going to McDonalds. You can’t just pull up to the drive through window and select your new job from the super value menu. Throughout your intense job search efforts, you must maintain a positive attitude and remain disciplined.

If you consider getting a new job or advancing your career as one of those events in life that require perseverance and discipline, you will succeed where others fail. If you are able to dedicate any and all free time to finding that perfect job, your efforts will be rewarded. So, put your nose to the grindstone and accept the fact that finding a new job is going to take lots of work and extra effort. It’s going to require your utmost discipline.

About the author: Scott Brown is the author of the Job Search Handbook http://www.jobsearchhandbook.com/book/default.asp?pc=BryanThorby As editor of the HireSites.com weekly newsletter on job searching, Scott has written many articles on the subject. He wrote the Job Search Handbook to provide job seekers with a complete yet easy to use guide to finding a job effectively.

Article

Employment Job Searching Using the Internet

By Dakota Caudilla

Finding employment opportunities has never been easier than now- with the consistent and constant growth of the Internet. Using the Internet, job seekers can simply find vacancies of their choice in the location of their choice. With a simple click of the mouse, a huge list of job opportunities is literally at their fingertips.

Once upon a time, the only way job seekers can find jobs is by browsing the classifieds section of the paper. This method of job seeking is not only tiring (what with the small prints) but it is limited within the area where the job seeker is residing. Job seekers who wish to find employment outside of their state or county will have to get their hands on classifieds of the state itself. Although this is not an entirely tough thing to do, but at the end of the day, you would have to sort through a huge stack of newspapers just to find the job that you want!

One of the most amazing things about finding employment on the Internet is that job seekers can sign up a membership account. Membership accounts are usually free, but with the free job seeker account, the options are limited. With a paid job seeker accounts, you’ll have more freedom and can place more information and details into your portfolio. However, millions upon millions of people have successfully found their dream jobs by using the free membership accounts offered by these employment agencies.

With an account with the employment website, the job seeker can place their personal information, contact details, education history and history of employment directly into the website’s database. Some employment websites even allow job seekers to place their recent photos into the database, which is useful to the employer, for verification purposes. With the entire resume placed in the database of the employment website, the job seeker searches through the database of vacancies in the website. A simple search can be done through the employment website’s search engine. You can fine tune the search by category, location, country, area of expertise, job type, and more. Interested job applicants with their resumes in the database will only have to log into their employment account, click apply, and the resume will be automatically sent to the potential employer.

Compare this with the way things were done about a decade or more ago; in order to apply for a job, you have to type a whole cover letter individually, print out your resume and send it by post. Although this task is not very hard to do, but it limits the choices of the job seeker down; and the process is slow, if the application actually reaches the employer or not. The postal industry did not have such a smashing record at that time.

As you can see, finding employment on the Internet is not only free, it’s extremely convenient. On top of that, you can search, browse and apply any time you want, irregardless of whether it’s office hours or not! 24 hours a day, 7 days a week ­ the employment website is available to every single one of their job seeker members.

About the author: Dakota Caudilla, journalist, and website builder Dakota Caudilla lives in Texas. He is the owner and co-editor of http://www.your-next-job.com on which you will find a longer, more detailed version of this article.

Article

3 ways to stand out in the interview

By C.M. Russell

Those job hunters who get the job offer are the ones who stand out in the interview process. So how do they do it? Well, here's 3 reasons why...

1. Practice & Prepare. Going into an interview without doing your homework is a recipe for disaster. You must have a "story to tell" when it comes to that awkward first question..."So tell me about yourself". Your story is something that you need to be able to recite without hesitation and with confidence. It should weave a tale about your career goals, your passion for working in that industry and why you want to work for this company.

Your preparation should include scoring the company website and learning everything you can about the firm. Then prepare a list of smart, relevant questions to ask during the interview. Doing this will show you are interested in the company and that's what all interviewers care about.

2. Get Recommended. During the interview process you are likely to meet with many of the people in the company or department. This is a golden opportunity to get them to recommend you to the hiring manager. It is imperative to establish a repore with these people and make them feel comfortable around you. When you sit down with them, don't talk about yourself. Ask the staffers about their work, how they got the job, and what they like about their work.

People love talking about themselves, and they form positive recollections about people who listen to them. This will allow them to remember you, and they're likely to talk about you to the hiring manager. If they're impressed, the manager will know.

3. References Make a Difference. Many people often have a list of references with them. They usually wait for their references to be called on after the interview. But a powerful tactic would be to have your best reference call the person you interviewed with BEFORE they call them. Envision the call going something like this...

"Hi, Mike. This is John Miller. You just interviewed Laura Jones, and she asked if I'd serve as her reference. I was her manager at XYZ Industries. I just wanted to reach out to you and tell you what a great find I think she'd be for a company like yours ... "

A message like this on the hiring managers voicemail could be the clincher you need to get the job.

About the author: Mr. Russell is a job search industry veteran. He currently serves as President of http://www.allcountyjobs.com, a regional job board network for CT/NY/MA. His blog, Secrets of the Job Hunt is available at http://secretsofthejobhunt.blogspot.com/

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