JOB SEARCH...
TOP TEN TIPS on Creating GREAT Collaterals
Answering Questions Effectively
Negotiation Through a Headhunter
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
HIGH TECH/ HIGH TOUCH...
Leveraging Your Campaign Efforts
CAREER MANAGEMENT...
Managing Your Career Transition
Managing A Job Search Efficiently
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.
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?
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.
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.
Thanks to the investment of a few hundred million dollars of venture capital, Monster.com, HotJobs and a few less successful, but noble job boards, who sacrificed their hard earned Angel money for the cause, created a paradigm shift to the Internet. ITS NOT WORKING!!!!
I would always encourage you to remember three practical guidelines, rather than attempt to memorize glib, well-crafted answers to CHALLENGING INTERVIEW QUESTIONS.
If your current campaign efforts have become stale or non-productive, often the solution is to reposition yourself or select a different target marketplace within which to market yourself. Get a fresh start by preparing for your next steps as if executing a new "business model", manage it accordingly, be flexible, and be ready for the unexpected.
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
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.
TOP TEN TIPS: Creating GREAT Written Collaterals
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...
TOP 10 Tips: Salary Negotiation
CAREER Project Management: Your Personal Market Plan
(CLICK ON my latest paper, above-- The Pilot)
At Optîmance, we offer Career Project Management Teams to accelerate your job search campaign progress. Bring the "Its a SNAPP" philosophy to the life balancing time management of your career transition: SNAPP-Your Next Project.
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
Bob Maher, CMF... The Careerpilot
Bob created his online presence, www.careerpilot.com, in 1994. He has over twenty years of successful experience in Corporate Recruitment, performance management and Career Management Services. He is an entrepreneur and innovator in the use of information technology in the recruitment and employment process. On the Founder's Council of the Association of Career Professionals - International and quite active in their Professional Development, Technology and Chapter Growth initiatives--a frequent speaker at industry conferences and seminars. Awarded the prestigious "LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD" in 2006.