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It All Begins in Your Head-Part 2 by Judi Perkins - Sep, 2010 Last entry I showed you how and why your thoughts, verbalizations, and intents create what you experience. To quote Mark Twain: “If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you’re right.” So if you don’t like what’s happening with your job search, look to how you’re thinking and what you’re saying about the process, because your ability to find the perfect job is determined by your attitude and beliefs. ... |
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Over 50? Tricks to Land a Better Job by Robin Ryan - Sep, 2010 You read so much bad news about anyone who's a mature worker that you might think your best years are behind you if you are over 50 - WRONG! I've recently worked with several career counseling clients who are past 49 and each has had a BIG career success. Hope - and self confidence, plus some savvy know-how - seems to be the key. Wendell is a programmer in his mid 50s - a tough job title to maintain on a permanent ba... |
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Top Five Career Mistakes by Nimish Thakkar - Sep, 2010 Held, guilty of career stagnation -- of course, no one is ever going to pass that sentence on you, but by ineffectively managing your career, you could easily find yourself making the same career mistakes most individuals make. 1. Randomly pursuing jobs Apparently, even the greatest of strategists do not have a clear plan when it comes to their own careers. Most, just accept jobs or opportunities that come their way, wit... |
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Why finding a recruiter won't automatically end your job search by Laura Smith-Proulx - Sep, 2010 I was recently asked by a prospective client if I "knew" any recruiters. Well, I do maintain strong relationships with recruiters in various fields, but there seemed to be a disconnect in the question. You see, finding a recruiter is only part of the effort you'll need to undertake in order to be successful. Recruiters find candidates, not jobs. Let me repeat that again - a recruiter will NOT set out to find you a job. T... |
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Playing Your Cards Right: 7 Steps to Making Your Employer Your First Customer by Dee McCrorey - Sep, 2010 A thought crosses your mind while sitting in your cubicle at work, “One day I’d like to run my own business.” You’re not alone. A recent study on employee engagement, (complimentary copy of the article with registration) conducted by the Corporate Executive Board's Corporate Leadership Council (CLC) and published in the May 2010 issue of Harvard Business Review, found that 25 percent of the "employer-identified, high-potential... |
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Is Multitasking Helping Or Hurting Your Performance? by Ramon Greenwood - Sep, 2010 With your workload piling up, multitasking may seem to be the only way to get the job done. But hold up. Research by the University of Michigan reveals that what we think of as multitasking may be nothing more than skipping about between multiple tasks, forcing our brains to refocus with every new subject. This reduces productivity by 20% to 40%. “Attempting to multitask is one of the single greatest ways to undermine pr... |
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How to Get Inside the Mind of an Employer by Kevin Donlin - Sep, 2010 There's an old marketing maxim I live by when advising job seekers. It dates back to the 1930s and comes from Robert Collier, one of the best writers of sales letters who ever lived. It goes like this: To create successful advertising, the writer must enter the conversation already going on in mind of the reader. Because everybody is thinking about something. If you can tap into a person’s thoughts with your mess... |
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Have you Developed a Career Disaster Management Plan? by Nimish Thakkar - Sep, 2010 Disaster management and emergency preparedness, once the exclusive domain of large government and corporate entities, are now being utilized by regular people like you and me to hedge against uncertainty. When disaster strikes, we are often incapacitated by fear and confusion. Rational planning and decision-making are not always easy in such situations. Fortunately, we can learn a lesson or two from our corporate counterpar... |
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Put Your Career on the Fast Track by Nimish Thakkar - Sep, 2010 Achieving impressive, but consistent, career growth is every professional’s dream. Yet, many believe that aiming for professional success is a difficult undertaking that often requires complex Machiavellian strategies or political tact. Not true. The best recipe for long term success is plain old PHP (planning, hard work, and persistence). Speaking of success, what actions if taken in 2007 will fire up your career and take ... |
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Resume Writing Strategies from a Career Coach’s Secret Toolkit by Nimish Thakkar - Sep, 2010 Ever wonder how career coaches and resume writers transform ordinary resumes into attention-grabbing documents? As career professionals, we use a variety of strategies to position job seekers and add the much-needed “punch” to their resumes. 1. Address employer needs; speak their language Employers look for solutions, not people. When a company publicizes an opening, it is advertising a need, a gap within its system. In... |
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