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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Searching for employment
- Searching for a job can be a daunting and confusing task for anyone, whether he or she is just entering the job market, looking for a better job or find him or herself without a job after several years with one employer. A job search can be successful when the person looking for a job knows exactly what they should and should not do when looking for a new job. Once a person has located a job that ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The art of selling yourself!
- To "sell" oneself on paper is not easy. Creating a resume is a design and construction job and a test of your writing skills as well. A resume can either be self written or written with professional help.Self-written resumes are attractive with good fonts but the disadvantages of self-written resumes are that they may be unfocussed and carelessly organised. The candidate who gets the job is...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to write cover letters that increase your chances of winning an interview
- Submit a poorly written cover letter and the chances are your resume will end up in the trash bin without even being looked at.On the other hand, a well written cover letter can almost guarantee you get an interview.Interview Winning Cover LettersOk, you may not win any awards for the cover letter that you enclose to your resume, but you may increase your odds it actually gett...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Resumes arent important - they are everything when it comes to getting an interview
- Employers and recruiters receive hundreds of resumes for every position they are trying to fill. To select their shortlist of candidates to interview, they look for the most common resume mistakes most applicants make and eliminate them first.To increase your chances of getting an interview, make sure you avoid these common mistakes.Ten Resume Mistakes to AvoidWhether you've b...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why one word answers are bad news at job interviews
- It takes a lot of time and effort to get invited to a job interview. Don't blow your chances by being misunderstood by the interviewer. Not many people are aware that giving one word answers to questions, substantially increases your chances of conveying the wrong impression.Active Listening Skill Tips for InterviewsDuring a job interview, a potential employer asks, "Can you tak...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What to do if you are over 40 and have lost your job
- Unexpectedly loosing your job can be a very traumatic and distressing experience at the best of times. If you are over 40 and can't find the job you deserve, you will need great inner strength and self belief to come out on top.Could this be you?You're working at your family's welding business during the day, and then go to your second job at night. You're 50-some years old, working ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What you should never put on your resume
- Liars Get Caught! What NOT to Put on Your Resume"Everybody does it" as they say. Face it, the job market can be a very tough place to compete. If everyone inflates their experience then how can an honest person get a job?Well, as tempting as it may be, you do NOT want to risk lying on your resume.Whether it's personal information, job experience, or schooling - employers are f...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 8 ?thurvival skills? for 05
- Just what is a "thurvival skill?" It's a skill that let's you thrive and survive at the same time. In today's economy it's not enough to just be good. You need to be better than your counterparts and colleagues. It's all about creating an action plan to keep you name in the limelight and on the top of the list. What list am I talking about? The one that says call X, hire X or X is the be...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Employment under a microscope
- A certain amount of oversight is involved in almost any job. The more important, the more highly skilled, the more successful the position, the lower the degree of oversight. At the bottom rung of the economic and social ladder - the laborers, the maids, the easily replaceable positions - the more watchful are the powers that be, the less secure are the workers, the more personally vulnerable are ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Think about a nursing degree
- If you decide to get a degree in nursing, there are many things you need to know and consider first. Choosing your nursing school may not be as easy as you expect. There is research that needs to go into it to be sure you get the best school available to you. You are going to want to look into different college programs, where they are located, how much they cost, what degrees they offer as well a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 10 key career success questions
- At some point in every professional or managerial career, there is a time when one start thinking: Is it time to move on or do something else? However, before you quit your job and take a fling at something else, realistically evaluate your career and potential options by asking yourself these ten career success questions: Do I really like my work or am I hanging on marking time? Am...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Career killers to avoid
- Many professionals and managers are so involved in day-to-day crises and fighting fires that they forget about a key leadership characteristic: self-management. Effective leaders are first of all effective in managing themselves ? their time, their focus, their emotions and their careers. It's too late to figure out what's next for you once your company has merged, had lay offs, changed strategy o...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Benefits of mystery shopping for secret shoppers
- Mystery shoppers are people who are hired to scrutinize employees, products and customer services of any organization. The benefits that they get from mystery shopping are:They enjoy doing a job that's fun and frolic.Mystery shoppers shop because they enjoy doing that. Mystery shoppers visit not just the stores but the restaurants and hotels too. They are supposed to evaluate product...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Wake up and learn something new
- The US Government has just released last month's job creation figures. It was the lowest number in two years. This is a revealing and disturbing snapshot of what is actually happening in the real economy, not the one artificially created for the headlines. Our US GNP or Gross National Product, is based upon manufactured durable goods. Unfortunately, the manufacturing economy in the US has not yet ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The case for internships
- America may be the Land of Opportunity, but this is also the land of the Big Trade-Off. Sure, you can have that nice house, but you're going to have to become a mortgage slave to keep it. You can drive that fancy sports car, but you'll have to fork over an insurance premium as hefty as the GNP of some Third World nations. In the Bible it says, in life, if you want honey, you get bees with stingers...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Successful job seeking ? the importance of your cover letter
- As an employer I receive many job applications each week. Some cover letters are so well written that I am compelled to review the attached resume even if our company is not currently hiring. I don't want to miss an opportunity to contact an outstanding individual. Other cover letters are sufficiently interesting that I will file them away and review them later in the week, while others simply beg...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Tales from the corporate frontlines: career opportunities for new graduates
- Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: Career Opportunities for New GraduatesThis article relates to the Career Opportunities competency and explores issues such as internal growth opportunities, potential for advancement, career development importance, and the relationship between job performance and career advancement. Evaluating the Career Opportunities competency in your organizati...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Everyday is saturday: help for the suddenly unemployed
- I recently was "unhired" by my former employer. Unhired is a softer term than "fired" but it means the same. With no warning and an immediate departure, I found myself at home enjoying the provisions of a severance package but curious about the next steps.Like most recently unhired people, I went through a range of emotions--shock, anger, grief, rebellion, self-reliant indignation, and so f...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Job lead websites to use in your telecommuting search
- Let me ask you a question: are you tired of using job sites only to find scam after scam? I bet you're nodding your head in agreement to that question. I know that I was sick and tired of spending all my time online searching for telecommuting jobs only to find scams. Any type of free job site is going to have a few scams, but some sites have more legitimate jobs than others, and some are easier t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to tell if you are fired and just dont know it
- No one should be fired and be surprised about it. There are always warning signs. The trick is in learning how to recognize the signs and to have a plan of action. Many time subtle hints are given that allude to the ax falling.Here is a checklist of early warning signs that add up to impending doom:Subtle* You are asked to update management on all your currents projects....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Unemployment blues: mind over mood
- Our lives are tranquil and smooth so seldom, it seems. We have our ups-and-downs, our good days and bad days, our sunny moods and black moods. The less we swing in opposite directions, the happier we tend to be. The biology of our bodies craves balance and consistency -- changes in our thought patterns and emotions interrupt the regularity of our nerve pathways leading to chemical inbalance and in...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 5 steps to standing out above the crowd at work
- Do you feel like one in a million at work ? and not in a good way? When you run into your boss in the hallway, do you get the impression she isn't sure who you are? Are the juicy projects always going to someone else?If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you need to raise your work profile. Here are some tips to get you started.1. Listen more than you talk. If yo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to recoup from missing the most important meeting of the year
- Sometimes missing a critical meeting just can't be helped. Despite the advance planning, you just cannot make it to the meeting. Before you get out the guilt stick and beat yourself up about how stupid that was or how bad it's going to be for your career, take a step back and examine how to overcome your absence.If you have been following my advice, you did all of the advance preparation fo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Auto-disqualification - when your resume never reaches the decision maker
- How would you know if your resume did or didn't reach the appropriate decision maker? You can truly never know for certain. However, there are steps you can take to ensure that your resume does not get "auto-disqualified", or provide obvious reasons not to be hired.There are several "mistakes" commonly made in resumes that give immediate reasons why you will not be offer...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Cvs and resumes sometimes just get in the way
- As a head-hunter and Career Coach I see so many CVs and resumes that look as though they are designed to get in the way of what I (or any other recruiter) might need to know about you the candidate. They vary from pure meaningless waffle without any identifiable facts to lengthy tomes with so much detail they send me to sleep. And I persevere where many others wouldn't bother.My least favou...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Rethink your career transition
- Are you going nowhere in your career? If you've decided it's time to change your career completely, here's a new way of changing!Before you jump ship, think about what's been happening in your career. Have you been making little or no progress for some time? You may be in the throes of what George Leonard, author of Mastery, calls the "plateau". Leonard argues that we master somet...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Working on a farm in kent
- Being a student, a person needs to look for summer jobs, to keep up with the expenses for school and fun activities. This task is not always easy, especially when you are studying at an American branch university and you have to pay tuition as well. So getting a summer job obviously rules out getting a job in your home Eastern European country as that would pay for only a couple of beers the most....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dont settle
- Chuck was the best of the twenty-four candidates. Still, he didn't have exactly what I was looking for and my instincts warned me of his unusual personality. Yet the skills required for the job were specialized and he had most of them, and I'd been interviewing for five months, and my boss wanted the position filled before the budget process started. No, he might not be perfect, but he would be ok...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Get off your butt and out of the rut
- It's amazing to see so many people who are prepared to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their careers.I'm sure you know of someone like that. They get up at the crack of dawn, drag their weary bodies out of the house and head off for another exciting day at work. Ten or twelve hours later they head home totally exhausted with all their energy sapped from their body.They might ma...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Age discrimination is alive and unwelcome here!
- Common sense appears to be a rare commodity these days. Why is this so?In an era when the emphasis seems to be on all things young, beautiful and sometimes shallow its about time we took stock of ourselves and did our businesses a favor by employing older workers! Age discrimination is a terrible injustice that has far reaching effects on our economy where ever we are.When I was much...