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
CAREER TRANSITION...
Your Personal Market Plan... for life!
Opening a Recruiter's "Screen Doors"
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.
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.
(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.
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.
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.
The Job Market's Mask: You've Been Called OVERQUALIFIED...
The ads say, 'Must have ten years-plus years' experience and a boat load of different technologies and languages.' That's the mask that the job market puts on itself through the screening process. You've expanded your target market and sought out jobs that were not quite "the right" level, but still get rejected and sometimes told that you're "overqualified."
KEYS TO OPENING A RECRUITER’S "Screen" DOORS
For years productive recruiters have relied on access to that special stack of resumes or a Rolodex of top candidates to recruit from for hard to fill positions. Since the 80s the drive behind recruitment technology has been an effort to replicate and scale this activity by storing these resumes in databases making them available through key word search.
It hasn’t worked.
TOP TEN TIPS: Resume Do's and Don'ts
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.
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
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
ARTICLE ARCHIVES:
Career Management | Career Transition | Job Search
High Tech/ High Touch | FIT Happens