CAREER TRANSITION...
Your Personal Market Plan... for life!
Opening a Recruiter's "Screen Doors"
Career FITness...
FIT Happens: What's YOUR Story?
FIT Happens: Your Personal Market Plan
Personal Fitness Meets Career FITness
CAREER MANAGEMENT...
Managing Your Career Transition
Managing A Job Search Efficiently
JOB SEARCH...
TOP TEN TIPS on Creating GREAT Collaterals
Answering Questions Effectively
HIGH TECH/ HIGH TOUCH...
Leveraging Your Campaign Efforts
Cataloging of Articles
JOB SEARCH articles are written to provide information on the simple, methodical process called job search... Make your campaign more efficient. CAREER TRANSITION articles are written to provide information on making informed career choices... Find your next right work. FIT HAPPENS articles address a variety of career management topics... Career FIT leads to job satisfaction. High TECH-High TOUCH articles remind us to leverage our efforts with available technology and web tools... while respecting the high touch realities of people in their careers.
Career
Continuation:
Your Personal Market Plan
By meeting and beating both professional and personal goals during career transition you will be propelling future successes and the resultant rewards. Having a productive and efficient action plan, your Personal Market Plan during career transition, will reap the rewards of patience and persistence in your implementation.
(CLICK ON my latest paper, above-- The Pilot)
You’re in a "dead-end" job or industry… or out of work and seeking a challenging change of direction to jump start your career. It will take a concerted career planning effort, a strong sense of purpose and self discipline as you implement your strategic plan; and the patience to process your way through the tactical approaches to effective change. Its time to restore your confidence in your own ability to impact and control the continuity of your career.
Are you feeling a bit of post-holiday malaise? Back in college I used to refer to this time period between Christmas and Spring Break as the "dark ages." While involved in career transition, these same few months are very productive times. Don't waste them by falling into the dark ages...
A little extra exercise may boost your spirits.
ANSWERING THE SENSITIVE QUESTIONS
Classes on what NOT TO ASK were conducted a time warp ago in the era of equal opportunity and other political pressures--the flavor of the month pressure. So, they pick and prod and ask pointed questions, probing for little bits of personal information they clearly are just dying to know. A workplace peer might be discounted as a gossip. But what happens when the interrogation expert holds the power to hire?
Use a research tool like CareerAdvantage to create your list of target companies... You would be well served to limit your initial list to 70-100 organizations. Each week, select 5-7 companies to be on your HOT LIST, those you will be researching and networking to that specific week. Each week, create a "channel" to each target company on your HOT LIST... remember "The Funnel Effect?"
If the mere mention of your former employer still creates heated feelings of anger or doubt, consider some sage advice... 1) Sit down and compose a letter that you'd love to personally deliver to your former boss... incorporate every bad wish, ask all the unanswered questions.... let yourself go. Got the letter ready? You're ready for the next step...
ANSWERING QUESTIONS EFFECTIVELY
A famous Notre Dame football coach was once quoted as saying that, "Practice makes perfect."
Mr. Rockne was a bit misguided in his thinking...
You see, he drilled the IRISH to focus on the result of WINNING. An even MORE famous coach, of Green Bay Packer fame, spoke more frankly when he said, "Perfect practice makes perfect." Mr. Lombardi's intent was very different. He wanted his players to concentrate on PRACTICE, drilling on the "little things", the basics, so that they became instinct during the heat of real life.
I would always encourage you to remember three practical guidelines, rather than attempt to memorize glib, well-crafted answers to CHALLENGING INTERVIEW QUESTIONS.
LEVERAGING YOUR HIGH TECH TIME
Technology in general, and specifically the World Wide Web, presents a wealth of resources to all of us in our pursuit of "a good FIT" within our career. Both organizations seeking highly qualified professionals and highly qualified professionals seeking affiliation with their next right work, will be well served to merge the effective use of available technical tools with the realities of "high touch" Personal Market Plan implementation.
What is a NORMAL Career Transition?
In truth, the answer is, "it depends." So many factors influence the outcomes regarding who gets what from a well orchestrated transition that its difficult to even settle on meaningful metrics. Both hard and soft measures can be utilized to measure how a Candidate conducts the implementation of their Personal Market Plan.
RESEARCHING Career Related Information
One of the most important skills a job-seeker can learn during a job-search is research skills. The quality of your research skills will dramatically impact both short term job search and longer range career continuity. This is the first in a series of articles on web based (and other forms of) RESEARCH.
To use a phrase from the movie TOP GUN, seek those opportunities that may put you in to a "target rich environment." Seek out networking opportunities in circles related to your function or industry of choice.
If your goal is to find a new position, then you should prepare your search as a "business model", manage it accordingly, be flexible, and be ready for the unexpected. Here are some tips to get you started...
The age old employment equation has changed:
Good Performance + LOYALTY = Job Security
The job security myth has taken on the smoke and mirrors appearance of a good magic show. Learn how to stay marketable while in a good job.
Submitted by Darlene Davis of The Ryan Group for the JAN 2001 IACMP-DFW Newsletter
The training community is using technology and the Internet to their advantage... have you and your programming kept pace?
Submitted by Darlene Davis of The Ryan Group for the NOV IACMP-DFW Newsletter
Presented at the 2000 HR SOUTHWEST Human Resources Conference and Exposition October 18, 2000 in Fort Worth, TX
by Bob Maher, The Careerpilot, and Keith Nave
Retention:
Myths and Realities
What makes an employee decide to stay with a company? Many assume money is the answer. True money is important... But there are some proven, non-financial retention strategies that continually top the list.
Submitted by Darlene Davis of The Ryan Group for the OCT IACMP-DFW Newsletter
The Web changes everything-- including change itself... and its not just the Internet! It is also the digitalization of process, supportive software, hardware applications and wireless technologies that make spontaneous and interactive inclusion happen.
Submitted by the Careerpilot 10-13-00
A discussion of recruitment and retention issues of the new economy's technical worker.
Submitted by Darlene Davis of The Ryan Group for the SEPT IACMP-DFW Newsletter
Noted Dallas author and consultant offers tips and techniques to be shared within
our consulting practices...Professional to Professional!
Submitted by Helen Harkness, PhD of Career-Design. 9-8-00
Can Career Management Professionals maintain HIGH TOUCH in
a HIGH TECH world of work? We must and we shall! Check out
An E-White Paper to the IACMP and IBCMC, 9-8-2000
Downsizings make jobs go away, but don't eliminate the work that
needs to be done. Check out The Future of Work.
Submitted by Darlene Davis of The Ryan Group for the AUG IACMP-DFW Newsletter
Why is IT called Career Services?
A "straw-dog" model offered by The Careerpilot
A reference from the writings of Mark Twain
REEF POINTS...
THE THREE KEYS To Successful Career Management
BEST ADVICE For Productive Career Transition
For Effective Job Search, THE #1 RULE
The Basics, submitted by the Careerpilot
ARTICLE ARCHIVES:
Career Management | Career Transition | Job Search
High Tech/ High Touch | FIT Happens