JOB SEARCH...



Career FITness...


What is FIT?

FIT Happens:  Finding The FIT

FIT Happens:  What's YOUR Story?

FIT Happens:  Your Personal Market Plan

FIT Happens:  Closing The Deal

Career and Health In Balance

Personal Fitness Meets Career FITness


HIGH TECH/ HIGH TOUCH...


Leveraging Your Campaign Efforts

Don't Let Your Mouse Bite You

Job Banks Revisited

Catch The E Train


CAREER MANAGEMENT...


Notes For My Colleagues

What is Career Management?

Managing Your Career Transition

Managing A Job Search Efficiently


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Cataloging of Articles

CAREER TRANSITION articles are written to provide information on making informed career choices...  Find your next right work.  JOB SEARCH articles are written to provide information on the simple, methodical process called job search...  Make your campaign more efficient.  FIT HAPPENS articles address a variety of career management topics... Career FITness 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. This page is a sampler...

Creating Career Continuity

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.

(CLICK ON my latest paper, above-- The Pilot)


Don't Let Your Computer Hurt Your JOB SEARCH 

It used to be so easy to be a corporate recruiter.  Pre-Internet sourcing avenues included newspaper ads, referrals, nepotism (and  the "closely related" good ol' person network) and the organization's own job postings. Then, 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, created a paradigm shift to the Internet.


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.


FIT Happens: An Introduction

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.


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.


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


Getting Started

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.  


  Why is IT called Career Services?

A "straw-dog" model offered by The Careerpilot


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