Job Search Advice
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| Do You Need a Career Coach or Counselor? An entire field in the consulting industry has sprung up to help you find the right job. Most who work in this arena call themselves either “career counselors” or “career coaches.” These professionals charge a fee to make your job search or career change more successful. But how do you know whether or not you really need the help? |
| Pros and Cons of Career Coaches Guidance can be helpful, but job seekers have to take charge of own path. |
| How to Choose and Use a Career Counselor or Coach Career counselors and coaches are professionals who charge fees to help clients make their job searches or career changes more successful. |
Career Fairs
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Career Fair Checklist for Career Fair Success
Are you planning to attend a career fair soon? Are you searching for pointers to help you succeed at the career fair? Do you know the activities job seakers should perform before, during, and after the career fair? |
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Job Fairs: How To Make Them Work For You |
Job Search Strategies
| 20 Habits of Highly Effective Job Seekers in a Down
Market Even in a down market, job seekers and employees are not powerless or without recourse. In fact, you have more control over your career circumstances than you might think. I’ve developed 20 specific strategies and tactics that consistently generate powerful results for job seekers, even when it seems that “no one’s hiring.” |
| The Keys to Unlocking Your Most Successful Career Five Simple But Crucial Lessons Culled from Many Years of Offering Advice to Workers, Bosses and Job SeekersFive Simple But Crucial Lessons Culled from Many Years of Offering Advice to Workers, Bosses and Job Seekers. |
| Deciphering Job Ad Lingo Reading and understanding the content of employment ads is an important but often overlooked aspect of the job-seeking process. If you want to stand out among the competition and know which jobs you may be qualified for, it’s essential to understand the subtleties of the employer’s ‘expectations.’ In decoding the nuances of hire-speak, you may find you’re eligible for more jobs than you think. So, how can you interpret job ads to determine what an employer is really looking for in a candidate? |
| 10 Tips to Find Summer Jobs in a Tough Economy In these tough economic times, how does a teen find a job? Two career coaches who work with teenagers listed these 10 tips to finding hot summer jobs in a down economy. |
| How to reenergize your long-suffering job search While the economy may be slowly recovering, it's still tough to find a job and millions of workers have been unemployed for far longer than they'd like. |
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Not getting hired? 10 reasons why Do you lack what employers want? Yes, there are fewer jobs and there is more competition, but are you doing everything you can? Here are 10 reasons why employers might have passed you by. |
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Job Search Checklist
Peter Newfield’s Job-Search Checklist is like your job-search “trip
planner”. It’s a simple to follow strategy to systematically pursue the job you want.
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Boomers Looking for Work
How to turn age (experience) and skills (proven accomplishments) to your advantage in your job
search.
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The Dirty Dozen Dangerous Online Job Search Assumptions
A dozen false assumptions about the Internet and about job hunting on the Internet that may
hurt you. Don't be tricked.
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How to Organize Your Job Search
Looking for work can be a full-time job in itself. The longer you look,
the harder it is to stay positive and focused. To make it easier, organize your search, make
creative use of your time, and network,
network, network! |
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25 ways to sabotage your job search
Looking for a job is like dating -- sometimes failure is your fault. A tough job
market is more reason to do right on the things you can control. Burning bridges, a
generic cover letter can hurt your job earch. Don't forget lessons once you land a
job -- there may be a next time.
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| Job Search Guide for Everyone Job search is not what it was in the Seventies and Eighties anymore. According to the Department of Labor, the average American will have 3.5 different careers in his lifetime and work for ten employers, keeping each job for only 3.5 years. |
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The Job Seeker's Top 10 List
It goes without saying that today's job market is more challenging than it has been for many
years. That means you have to work even harder to uncover opportunities and distinguish
yourself among a crowded field of applicants. Here are 10 strategies to help you gain an edge
in a tough employment market.
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| Don't Let a High Salary History Derail Your Job
Search When the job market gets tight and lots of employees are sidelined, competition from other job seekers can lead to lower salaries, meaning you may not be able to find a job that pays what you are -- or were -- making. Wages have dropped in many industries, especially those related to financial services, says Josh Warborg, Robert Half International’s district president in Seattle. |
| MBA Job Search: Unemployed But Unbowed With the economy in turmoil, many MBA graduates are finding the job search tough going. To give readers some insight into the strategies they’re pursuing and the difficulties they face, BusinessWeek has recruited four out-of-work MBAs to write about their experiences for a new feature called “The Hunt” that will appear periodically on the Getting In blog. Comments, as always, are welcome. |
Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring: Take Charge of Your Career,
Find a Job You Love, and Earn What You Deserve InGet the Job You Want,Even When No One-s Hiring,career expert Ford R. Myers maps the new world of job search and reveals essential strategies for your success. You-ll learn how to seize opportunities that aren-t posted yet - how to make yourself an instant asset to potential employers - how to clearly stand-out as the best candidate ... and how to leverage social media, blogs, and other Web tools. |
| 6 Common Job Search Mistakes: Can You Recover? "When you do make a mistake, don't panic and don't stick your head in the sand," says Steve Davies, founder of PerfectJob Software. "It might be a lost cause, but if you do nothing, it's definitely a lost cause. Some managers will give you high marks if you can recover gracefully from a mistake, because we all make them." |
References
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Getting References That Will Help You Land a
Job
When you're trying to land a new job, you'll probably need to give references: names of former employers who are willing to talk to prospective employers about you. And, if you really want that new job, you'll have to make sure that your references will be willing to say something positive about your work -- and won't just limit themselves to your name, rank, and serial number. |
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How to Ask for a Reference Letter
Getting an outstanding reference letter is entirely within your control and easier than you think, even if you don't have a benevolent benefactor at your back. |
Researching Prospective Employers
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How to Research Companies
Knowing how to research companies and organizations is crucial
to a successful job-search campaign. To tailor your resume and cover letter to a
particular position, and especially to prepare effectively for an interview, you need to
know as much as possible about the company or organization.
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| glassdoor.com A free look at over 80,000 companies. Company Salaries, Reviews, and Interviews posted anonymously by employees. |
| Rutgers University Libraries Company Research Here are many sites with resources for researching companies in the U.S. and abroad.Simply return to the Rutgers University Libraries Business Research Guide for other topics. |
| Hoovers, Inc. Hoover's offers proprietary business information through the Internet, data feeds, wireless devices, and co-branding agreements with other online services. |
| How Do You Evaluate an Organization’s Culture During a Job
Interview? You’re in the hot seat, and you’ve just wrapped up answer 45 minutes worth of questions about your resume. The interview now opens the floor and asks you if you have any questions. You do—at least, you think you do. You’d like to know more about the company’s culture. Here’s what you should do. |
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