• Online Job Search Techniques
    There're many ways to conduct online job search. However, many job seekers only think of posting resumes and searching opportunities on big job sites like monster.com, hotjobs.com and careerbuilder.com etc. There's nothing wrong with it, but according to a survey conducted by careerXrooads.com, of all hires in 2002, only 3.6% come from monster.com, 1.5% come careerbuilder.com and 0.5% come from hotjobs.com. Morever, many companies only advertise their job openings on their own company websites and some other speciality websites. Wouldn't it be nice if you can use search engines to find these o ...
    Author: Yulin Peng
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  • The Top 3 Resume Mistakes of Career Changers and How to Avoid Them
    1. Lack of focus in the resume

    Are you going from a Production Manager position to Pharmaceutical Sales?

    So…why does your resume start with this objective: “To obtain a challenging position that will provide continued growth, learning and advancement”

    HUH?

    What does THAT mean?

    I mean, if you are trying to change careers, you should probably be more specific about it.

    Something like this:

    “Award-winni ...
    Author: Rita Fisher, CPRW
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  • The 6 Stages of Modern Career Development
    Career experts say that people will change careers (not jobs) 5-7 times in a lifetime. This being true, career management is an important life skill to develop and cultivate. There are six stages of modern career development: Assessment, Investigation, Preparation, Commitment, Retention, and Transition. Learning the characteristics of each stage will empower you to navigate through each stage easily and with more confidence.

    In the Assessment Stage, you are getting ...
    Author: Michelle Casto
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  • Building A Career Of Choice
    Let's face it, most career choices are not choices at all,
    but people held hostage by paychecks. Most of us fall into a job;
    followed by a paycheck, and then become immobilized into
    taking any pro-active moves toward something we really love doing.
    How much sense does this make? We don't marry on these terms.
    We don't select friends on these terms. But we do spend eight,
    ten, twelve hours a day in work we have no passion for and
    a future we aren't particularly interested in cultivating.
    Perhaps now is the time to change all that.

    It doesn't matter whether ...
    Author: John Hoover
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  • Career Decisions in Uncertain Times
    With the state of our security and economic times cracking beneath our feet, what are Americans thinking about their current career positions? Torn between building job security in a low-risk environment and pursuing a career that adds to their quality of life, will Americans be sure about which way to jump if the bottom falls out?

    Since the terrorist attacks, career choices have been challenged in a few ways. “Being a career makeover coach,” says Shana Spooner, www.shanaspooner.com, “I’m finding two things – either people are ...
    Author: Amy Crawford
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  • A new career will change who you are
    I hear from many people who feel trapped in a career after fifteen or twenty happy, productive years. It's been a good ride, they say, but now it's time to jump off the train. They want to fulfill a creative dream, recover from burnout or just try something new. The old challenge is now a "been there, done that."

    If you can relate to that description, you probably recognize that midlife career change is both easier and harder than starting out in the world of work. Change is easier because you have resources to grease the rails. You have savings, equity in your house, and a retirement f ...
    Author: Cathy Goodwin, PhD
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  • Importance of your job search!
    So that you can decide just how critical your job hunt is in your total life scheme, let's put a kind of frame around the importance of the effort ahead.
    Reflect on it.
    A job is not just a job. Half of you waking hours are devoted to it. Its quality ramifies through all other aspects of your life. It determines your productivity and how far you will go in achieving f ...
    Author: Paul Debognies
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  • Making Sense of the Internet Job Search... Fine-tune your job search and save valuable time!
    When I first started job hunting on the Internet, I would spend countless
    hours searching for anything and everything. I would search one site, then
    jump to another, and search some more. One of the most frustrating things
    about job searching on the Internet is that most of the same job postings
    are duplicated across hundreds of job search sites! It's like having three
    hundred Houston Chronicles from the same day on your desk!

    --- Why so many? ---

    Monster.com (http://www.monster.com) and Headhunter.net
    (http://www.headhunter.net) contain numerous newly posted jo ...
    Author: Edward B. Toupin
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  • Over-Enthusiasm in the Job Search

    You have just had an interview that was great by your standards. You want to celebrate, maybe have a drink,
    dinner, and relax. You are SURE you will be the candidate who has won the job prize.

    In fact, you have had several of these kinds of interviews this week. Three of them!
    You were enthused after each one! However, doubts overcame you after the second one
    did not produce a job offer, nor did the first one, and you are now once again on a "high" over this
    third one.

    It's close to the weekend and you have decided t ...
    Author: Marilyn J. Tellez, M.A.
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  • Three Ways to Transition to a New Career
    Three Ways to Transition to a New Career
    As a Certified Personnel Consultant working for Find Great People International in Greenville, South Carolina, I receive telephone calls from people who are considering a career change. For some, transitioning to a new career is easier than others. Some professionals already possess a foundation of skills to make the transition easier. I’ll give an example. An unemployed network engineer and hobby electrician decides to become an electrical contractor for new construction. His transition might be easier because he needs minimal training to enter the ...
    Author: Steve Hall, Certified Personnel Consultant
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  • Interview skills - Going for a Job
    Hints and tips on CVs, interview skills and jobhunting.

    Going for a New Job?

    Jo Ellen has been offering some form of Careers advice for the past 15 years. She used to run career development workshops, and now does one-to-one sessions called Career Action. A couple of years ago Jo Ellen had a Careers Advice column in Cosmopolitan Magazine. Lots of the queries she got were on Interview Techniques and how to get the perfect job. Here are some of her thoughts after years of helping people get where they want to go:

    Interview rules

    You hear all sorts of rules about job ...
    Author: Jo Ellen Grzyb
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  • Career Transitions Made Easy
    Changing careers can be a scary thing. A variety of unknowns can creep into the career transition process. How will you know if you like it? What if you have to go back to school? What is the future outlook for the field that interests you? Like with any other endeavor, the best way to handle the inevitable fear that will appear is to arm yourself with as much information as possible. The 5 steps outlined below are designed to help you prepare for your new career change and make an informed decision.

    1. Volunteer. This is a great way to "try it before you buy it." Are you interested in ...
    Author: Myrtis Smith
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  • How to Track Your Right Career
    Are you lost in the wilderness when it comes to choosing a career? Once, we knew the way. As children, we played at different roles, but some became our favorites. Those favorites hinted at our gifts. They pointed the way to our exciting futures as entrepreneurs, dancers or astronauts. We did what was fun, and, in the process, we began to find and follow our paths.

    As young adults, however, our paths began to fade under thickets of obstacles: other people's expectations, poor self-esteem and /or lack of faith. ...
    Author: Jody Gothard and Cardell Phillips
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  • Formatting A Career Change Resume
    I'M CHANGING CAREERS - HOW DO I FORMAT MY RESUME?

    The best resume format to use is the combination resume. This resume format is not chronological nor
    functional. It combines both! It is extremely flexible and allows you to use strategies in a way that would
    normally be considered wrong.

    The difference between the combination format and the chronological format is that the chronological
    format resume is very easy to follow. The hiring manager will typically start to read the chronological
    resume at the bottom of the work history or professional experience section ...
    Author: Ann Baehr
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  • TAKE THIS CAREER AND SHOVE IT -- IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION!
    Are you listening to that little voice in your head telling you how much you dislike your job? If not, you may
    become angry with those around you, when in fact, you'll be angry at yourself for failing to taking the
    necessary steps to change your career -- or job within the same industry. Career change is not always
    easy. For some, the simple task of deciding what to do is often the hardest part. For others who know
    what they want to do, they often feel it will take too long to achieve their career goals when there ...
    Author: Ann Baehr
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  • Leadership Skill Training

    Quality leadership is a positive asset that is needed in every organization. Observe any successful club, committee or team and you will find a capable leader in each of these organizations. What makes a successful leader? Why do some leaders inspire confidence and have an innate ability to motivate while other “leaders” are mired in mediocrity?

    Most successful leaders have received good leadership training as they have advanced in their careers. Here are three ideas that each organization can utilize to train their employees to become successful leaders:

    Author: Stephanie Tuia
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  • How to Transform a Boring Note Into A Killer Cover Letter
    The AIDA formula is as old as dirt. It was taught when I was in school over a decade ago. And it's still being taught for good reason - it works! When you apply it to your cover letter, it has the power to transform a regular cover letter into an attention-grabbing "Killer Cover Letter" that'll make your phone ring off the hook.

    AIDA is an acronym. It stands for Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action. It describes the process marketers want to take their prospect through in order to make a sale.

    In this case, ...
    Author: Robert Phillips
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  • How to Transform a Boring Note Into A Killer Cover Letter - Part II
    In Part I, we covered how to grab the reader's attention with the opening sentence. Now
    we'll get them interested, arouse desire, and get them to take action. Let's get moving.

    Interest

    Now that you have the reader's undivided attention. The next step is get them interested in what you have to offer. In this case, since you're applying for a job, the goal is to get the reader interested in you, right?

    So how do you do that? You feed them interesting facts. Like how much money you saved your ...
    Author: Robert Phillips
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  • Face reality – Forced Career Change will happen during your working life.

    Most of us enter the world of work as employed and soon start to wish that we could change career or be our own boss.

    It is probably true that after a while a large percentage start dreaming they could work from home or start a home based business, few actually do something about it. They continue dreaming

    These days this is in explicable because it is possible to change career no matter what your age or profession. There is now less continuity in employment so adaptability and being forced the make a career or job change could face anyone at any time. You are certain to ...
    Author: Michael Harrison
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  • Career Change.

    Coping with change is now an everyday occurance. What's more the pace of change is accelerating and the need for us all to adjust is greater than ever. Yet, this is a time of opportunity.

    Career change - Ignore it at your peril or seize the opportunity

    All around we constantly see the changes which are affecting us. Economically power is shifting and the consequences are massive.

    China and India are emerging nations using modern technology to massive effect as their economies grow at rates previously unheard of. It is predicted that China will be the 4th largest worl ...
    Author: Michael Harrison
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  • Get Inspired About Your Career
    Do you linger in bed long after your alarm goes off on work mornings? Do you dread Sunday nights because they lead to Monday mornings? Do you watch the clock and wonder if the day will ever end? Do you look outside your workplace and ask, “Is there more to life than just this job?”

    If you suffer from any of these symptoms, it is time for you to create a new career! In her CD book, Advanced Energy Anatomy, Carolyn Myss, Ph.D. lays out a seven-step process for bringing an idea to physical creation. Here’s that seven-step process applied to creating a ...
    Author: Richard Hanes
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  • Building Performance Trust
    You can have outstanding ideas, yet never leverage them into winning at working results. That's because the secret behind those ideas lies in performance. Yours.

    Getting the okay to pursue your idea is directly related to the level of confidence other people have in your ability to deliver it. And if you do, you will create for yourself opportunities on a regular basis. One successful idea delivery leads to another and another and another. Bigger and bigger ideas are entrusted to people who consistently turn ideas into reality.

    You see, not only does an idea need to be a good one ...
    Author: Nan S. Russell
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  • Don't Fear Failure
    What a great admonition - Don't Fear Failure! It sounds so simple and so easy to achieve when you see it like that, but when it comes to life changing decisions that we all face, we often get sweaty palms, weak knees, and panic attacks at the thought of failing. But, unfortunately, failure is unavoidable. All successful people have failures in their past, and many will tell you that their failures have led them to the success they have today. It is hard to believe sometimes, though, when you see people that seem to have it all, that they have ever failed. Imagine if Thomas Edison had quit afte ...
    Author: Jonathan R Taylor
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  • Dissatisfied with your job? Stop Believing the Myths!
    According to recent statistics, 56% of the work force is dissatisfied with their job. According to a recent Monster.com poll, 87%of respondents said they were dissatisfied with their job.

    If you are dissatisfied with your job, you are in a self-imposed career slump!

    Why are so many of us in career slumps? Bottom line…we are not doing work that satisfies us! No matter what our employer does for us, if we are not doing work we really want to be doing, in a way that fits our desired life-style, we will never be satisfied.

    What keeps us in career slumps for so long? The numbe ...
    Author: Doreen Banaszak, www.getunslumped.com
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  • Closing the Gap on Your Career Goals

    If you still picture a steady progression up the ladder when you think of your career goals, it is time to shift your thinking. For most people, climbing the career ladder is no longer an option. The working world has changed so dramatically that linear career paths rarely exist, except as historical symbols.

    But, without those trusty rungs to show the way, how do you figure out the next step in your career? How do you determine if you need to go to business school or graduate school? How do you identify your next job?

    You could employ the dartboard method, or a Magic 8 Ball. Or ...
    Author: Shannon Bradford
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  • Success: Define Your Own!
    Many of us are prisoners of our own success. Maybe we started our careers with a goal of climbing the corporate ladder or earning $X per year or ________________ (fill in the blank).

    We then achieve success, are “respected” by our peers, have a nice big house full of great stuff, take nice vacations….. And yet, we often think, “Is this all that there is?” We have a sense of emptiness inside.

    I think many of us experience this “mid-life crisis” because we have borrowed society’s definition of success ...
    Author: Debra Thorsen
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  • AGEISM IN THE WORKFORCE
    FIRST there was sexism, then there was racism, now another ‘ism’ is poised to cause more headaches for South Wales employers – including how they word their job ads.

    The Government is currently asking people for their views on plans to outlaw age discrimination in the workplace by next October.

    The consultation – called “Age Matters” – asks how the UK should implement the EU Employment Directive, which bans any age discrimination in employment and vocational training.

    And the warning to unaware employers is: watch out for the pitfalls.

    The directive covers issues in ...
    Author: Paul Clutton
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  • Negotiating the glass ceiling – can women get to the very top?
    Does the metaphorical glass ceiling encountered exclusively by women still exist?

    If not, why is it that in so many plc Boardrooms the number of female Directors can literally be counted on the fingers of one hand, while the number of men run into thousands?

    Many believe it has become even harder for women to win promotions and hold on to them and that not only is the glass ceiling still very much present but women are also aware of hitting it at an early stage in their careers.

    Many career orientated females believe that they could break through the glass ceiling and make ...
    Author: Paul Clutton
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  • Handling Redundancy
    Why did you leave your last job?

    It’s a question that, following redundancy, many job applicants stumble around hopelessly with as they attempt to convince the interviewer that they wanted to leave when in fact they know that redundancy is more complicated than that.

    It’s true that many people in this situation are ready to leave at the time that redundancy hits them but the discomfort derives from knowing that given the choice they would probably not be sitting in that room at that time. Even if true, many candidates still believe that redundancy equals failure in the eyes of ma ...
    Author: Nick Gendler
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  • Turn Freelancing Into Your Parallel Career
    While you still have a job, why not start a parallel career by freelancing and aim towards the end goal of being your own boss (which is what changing career the Parallel Career Way is all about)? Don't wait until you face a midlife crisis or after you lost or quit your job.

    Today, literally millions of people all over the world have established highly-successful careers as freelancers. Many of these work-from-home professionals have found that freelancing offers a dream lifestyle - flexible working hours, free from bosses, total control, independence and 'good money'.

    As a fre ...
    Author: Joseph Lee
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  • Is a Career Change on Your Horizon?

    Making a career change is nothing new in today's job market.

    I've heard it said that the average American changes careers at least once in his or her life. Long gone are the days of working for the same company from the time you graduate high school or college until that magical retirement day.

    You sure won't find that kind of loyalty from companies to their workers these days, and it's rare to find that kind of loyalty from the average worker as well. What with companies merging, downsizing, and moving their operations offshore, you'd be wise to plan for a career change ...
    Author: Kathleen MacNaughton
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  • Time to start a new career?
    Your career choices might need reconsideration when your career offers
    few opportunities to personal development and you find it hard to get
    out of bed in the morning. Then it might be the right time to consider
    new career choices, working at home, starting your own business or a
    new education.

    What we do in our daily life is very important. If we are to spend
    more than 60% of our waking time at work or travelling to or home
    from work, it better be a job we like. If it isn't, we are better off
    making new plans and new career choices for a different future, a ...
    Author: Ingela Berger
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  • How to Write an Objective Statement

    A growing trend in new resumes is to give short shrift to or eliminate the "objective" heading altogether. Here are some compelling reasons to include this very important career statement in your resume and a top-10 tips list for writing a memorable one.

    Seizing an opportunity to submit as many applications as possible, some job applicants are omitting the traditional objective statement element within their resumes. Rewriting objectives to accommodate every possibility seems challenging, while including over-generalized statements seems ...
    Author: Lisa Casey Perry
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  • Finding Your Ideal Career
    In the current climate, many people are looking away from the traditional job market towards working for themselves. The massive redundancies and job-insecurity has caused many people to radically rethink their career plans. With the ever rising cost of living, many would be happy just earning extra money to support their family and to pay the bills.

    In this article, you will discover what you really enjoy in life and how to turn it into a money making opportunity, and perhaps even a full-time career. Your only limitations are those you impose upon yourself! At the very least, what you ...
    Author: Jason Johns
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