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Quiet Please! The Value Of Silence At Work And During A Job Search

Posted by • October 15th, 2010 • 1,256 Comments

In the chaos of a golf game, there are moments of silence where the player considers and prepares for the next shot – a shot vital to success. The process of silence allowing for the player to concentrate is the same at all levels, amateur to professional. Whether there are club members holding up signs for the pros, or friends holding up a finger to their mouth, the request is the same – quiet please.

[Quiet Please! The Value Of Silence At Work And During A Job Search] Our daily lives of working or looking for work can be chaotic, we rush to finish projects and we live anxiously looking for the next interview. In the rush and chaos do we take the time to be quiet, to consider and plan?

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Keep Coming Back: Four Simple Steps To Get A Job

Posted by • October 14th, 2010 • 96 Comments

If you’re like most job hunters these days, you’re finding slim pickings. The job boards seem to have lots of things that aren’t for you. The newspapers don’t even list jobs any more.

Looking for a job by hunting for just the right job listing, while good for traffic figures on job boards and corporate websites, offer little real value to someone looking for work. Only 1% of visitors to corporate sites find a job that’s worth the time it takes to apply. One percent of them get called for an interview. The real purpose of the flow of resumes is to prove the value of the candidate who actually is selected.

Recruiters need job boards to produce lots of resumes that they then discard. This is how they prove that they’ve winnowed a big pile down to the best available. The fact is that no one has the secret of finding the right people in their hands. If they did, you’d know about it and could shift your strategy accordingly.

Like the lottery, you can’t win if you don’t play. But never, never bet your next rent check on winning the online job search lottery.

If you really want a job, here are the four steps you must take:

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Time For A Pay Raise? Three Salary Negotiation Opportunities

Posted by • October 8th, 2010 • 1,004 Comments

As we saw yesterday in the Glassdoor quarterly employment confidence survey, 37 percent of workers are expecting a raise in the next 12 months. Today we’ll review the best ways to create and negotiate a salary increase in today’s market.

There are three ways to create an opportunity for salary raise negotiation:

* find a new job
* tell your employer you want a raise
* wait for your employer to offer one

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Five Myths Recruiters Believe That Impact Your Job Search

Posted by • October 7th, 2010 • 122 Comments

So you’re going to try to get a recruiter to pay attention to your resume. Or, maybe you’ve gotten a call from a recruiter who wants to talk with you about an opportunity. Or, maybe you’ve decided to respond to some job ads you’ve found online.

If you are going to interact with recruiters, you need to understand some of their basic beliefs.

Recruiters don’t really make hiring decisions. They winnow a big pile of resumes into a little one. They make judgments about who is fit for a job and who isn’t. Not the final judgment, mind you. Recruiters make the decors that narrow the list of prospects from 100 to 10. Then they rank and present the ‘short list’.

Recruiters belong to the category of people who can’t give you all of the help you need. They can, however, exercise a veto on your candidacy. Recruiters are gatekeepers and evaluators. Here are five keys to understanding what recruiters believe:

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Your Career Is A Subway Map: Why It’s Ok To Branch Out

Posted by • October 5th, 2010 • 929 Comments

While seldom do two career paths end identically, there is certainly something to be said for looking at the career paths of others and using them as a map for your own career possibilities.

Up until recently it was hard to see the career paths of others who have the same educational background or experience. The sphere of visibility many times stopped at the exterior walls of your company or companies where you previously worked. It was hard to gain any advantage of pattern recognition with such a small sample size.

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Scammin and Jammin: The Face Of The New Career?

Posted by • October 1st, 2010 • 3 Comments

When I was in college low those many decades ago (still can’t believe I graduated in ‘79 – seems like yesterday) times were not easy. We had high interest rates, and if you could buy a house with 12 percent interest you were doing good as back then banks required 20 – 30 percent down. The unemployment rate was not as high as it is today but pretty darn close. And entry-level jobs were not easy to find. I was reminded of those days recently when I was having coffee with a couple of old friends and they were discussing their reliance on their ability to juke and jive – to find – or make work in order to make a buck.

One friend likes to buy, fix up and re-sell old cars while he also has contracts with a major telecommunications company to sell their hardware and solutions. Another friend has 10 websites where he makes extra money through advertising. And yet another makes money selling for a number of websites in a number of different fields.

Is this the new career – working a little bit here and there to make a living?

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Five Myths Of Job Hunting

Posted by • September 30th, 2010 • 161 Comments

Getting a new job is hard work. If you dig around the job hunting section of a bookstore, notice how big it is and ask yourself what that means. You’ll get lots of advice about how to get a job, but much of what you read is not exactly true.

Here are five of the biggest myths when it comes to job hunting:

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Elevator Speech Out! Bumper Sticker In: Advice For Career Networking

Posted by • September 29th, 2010 • 246 Comments

For years, people have been asking me for help with their networking Elevator Speeches. And for years, I’ve been saying “When are you going to use that Elevator Speech?” In regular old human conversation, there just aren’t that many opportunities for us to launch into a thirty-second diatribe about what we do professionally – not if we want to be polite, anyway.

Regular conversation doesn’t happen in thirty-second chunks. A typical networking conversation tends to flow more like this:

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Why You Should Sweat The Small Stuff In A Job Hunt

Posted by • September 28th, 2010 • 86 Comments

The book “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” was a bestseller and helped a lot of people get over their controlling and high anxiety nature. But, when it comes to being in the hunt for a new job, I would encourage everyone to be sure and “sweat the small stuff” and ensure a high attention to detail.

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Is It Ethical To Stay In A Well Paid Job And Just Coast Through?

Posted by • September 22nd, 2010 • 964 Comments

Dear Liz,

I’ve been at my job five years, and there are aspects of the job that I love and others I hate. It’s a job I could do in my sleep, and there aren’t really any opportunities for advancement. At the same time, I’m well paid and the benefits are fantastic. The leadership team is great and my manager has been very good to me. On the other hand, salary increases have been tiny for the past two years. It’s a family-owned company and the business is about as recession-proof as you can get, so I’m grateful for that. For the first few years in the job, I was learning a lot, but I’m pretty well versed now and the learning has tapered off dramatically. I basically drift through each day, dialing it in and doing what the job requires and no more, since the opportunity to get a significant pay increase is basically nil. Part of me wants to look for another job, but another part of me says “You’re about to vest in your 401(k) matching contribution, and why leave a stable environment for an unknown one?” What is your advice?

Thanks,

Fred

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