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It’s difficult to effectively focus our job search activities when we are still working for our ‘future’ past employer. But with a proper structure and plan in place, we can be successful with just 1–2 evening hours of efforts per day. Here’s how:
Q: How much time should I spend on my job search each day if I have a full-time job, but searching for a new position?
In my lecture series on Job Search, I often hear, “I’ve sent so many resumes, but I’m not getting called for interviews.”
First, we do need to take a serious look at our Job Search ‘sales materials’, which include:
• a Resume that creates a desire about what you offer as a unique candidate;
- a LinkedIn profile that is more like a 3-dimensional sales brochure ‘all about you’ that drives the reader to one singular conclusion: “It’s going to be the best business decision that I’ll make today -if I choose to hire this individual!”;
- a Cover Letter that positions and presents our best, most sellable achievements that would be of specific interest to the hiring manager;
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There’s a common myth: ‘nothing happens’ before and after a holiday, so why bother!
As Job Seekers, we fall into this trap numerous times per year as holiday weekends pop up throughout the year. Easter, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and on and on with lesser holidays –each tempting us to ‘throw in the towel’ for most of a week or even two (one before, one after). The December holidays, no matter which ones we celebrate, seem to deem the whole month a loss, and that loss seems to carry over a number of days into the New Year. So by the time we are eating the last few turkey leftovers, like my great lunchtime sandwich yesterday, it’s clear in our minds that we really have only 2 weeks to make some magic happen, so I ‘may as we’ll wait’ until the new year. Bah humbug, to quote Ebenezer!
5 Steps to SuperCharging Your Job Search It’s going to be a tough Job Market for the foreseeable future, so we can’t just ‘do the same thing’ and expect different results: We Have To Change! In my Self-Recruiter® Lecture Series on Job Search and Career Management, I often ask those in the audience about the [...]
Q: Whom Should I Link With On LinkedIn?
This question actually arrived as,
“Tell me why I would want to have you as a LinkedIn connection?”
–after, of course, some very kind words about 2 of my (non-LinkedIn) lectures they had seen at The New York Public Library’s JOB SEARCH CENTRAL.
It’s always a value exchange. We give something, and we get something in return. But, who got the better deal? –that’s what we’re really thinking about.
We are all facing this same new privacy concerns as our world moves forward at a lightning speed, and none of us want to be the one that makes a misstep…
Personal Branding is the hot catch phrase at the moment, and for good reason.
Ever see that 80′s movie with Jeff Bridges called ‘Tucker: The Man and His Dreams’? He wanted to build a new car to compete with Detroit. Tucker’s dilemma is every new business’ challenge: “Chicken or the egg. Which came first?” He needed to sell dealership rights to get the money that he needed to build his car. No one was interested in buying dealership rights for a car that didn’t exist yet. But Tucker made an interesting observation one day in searching for the solution. He knew that people believed what they could see, but his moment of clarity happened when he first realized that people believed whatever they read in the newspaper. “If it’s in the newspaper, it must be true.”
John Crant of SelfRecruiter.com is one of the featured experts in the premiere edition of Launchpad: Your Career Search Strategy Guide, the new book from Chris Perry, founder of CareerRocketeer.com.
Launchpad is the ultimate career search strategy guide, published quarterly with exclusive articles on up-to-date topics from the industry’s top career experts. That varied opinion is a great resource for advice on every subject affecting your Job Search.
Take Back Control in your Job Search efforts with a fresh new look, from a different perspective. John Crant, a recognized expert in Job Search, shares the Secrets That Executive Recruiters Use -that YOU can use for YOURSELF!
SELF-RECRUITER® 4–Week Special Event:
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY’S
JOB SEARCH CENTRAL
John Crant of SelfRecruiter.com and The New York Public Library’s JOB SEARCH CENTRAL join together for a rare 4–week special event.
This Self-Recruiter® featured program series includes everything needed to get your Job Search on track in 2010 (Job Search, Resume, Networking with LinkedIn, and Interviewing), and it’s all in one place at the NYPL!
Welcome 2010! A New Year means a FRESH start… with your Job Search efforts!
Now is the time to renew, refresh and re-energize your Job Search efforts. A year has come and gone. Not getting the results that you wanted in your Job Search in 2009? Then it’s time to change your ways. Step out of line and take control for yourself. Yes, it is scary. The realization that if you keep doing the same activities, that your results are not likely to change, may help motivate you to take the steps necessary to be seen as that stand-out in 2010.
So, let’s change course now, at the start of the year, and before long, your results will begin to change too.
Why is it so difficult for people to turn to network contacts for help on the second or third time? The simple answer is guilt. We all have that nagging voice in our heads that our call is not of interest, and is really a nuisance, to those in our network that we may call [...]