Now let’s go over some tips. There are a few simple strategies you can use to accomplish these goals. Have a plan. Identify your long-term goals and short-term requirements. What are the must-haves about any job offer you will accept? Where do you want this job to lead you? What type of company do you want to work for? How …
Electrify Your Personal Brand
Jane Harding, a top medical pharmaceutical sales representative, says that investing more in her personal brand could have gotten her hired faster. Here’s her story: She interacted daily with regional medical health centers, gave educational presentations and felt strongly that her portfolio of drugs helped patients recover more quickly from surgery. She made $100K+. One drug she represented was recalled …
Thoughts on Considering The Best Outplacement Coaches and Providers
Outplacement firms focus on transitioning employees. In downsizings or terminations companies often choose outplacement programs or have them in place for these events. If you work in human resources choosing an outplacement firm and planning ahead would be a smart use of your time. Make these decisions in advance. Make them now. The design and delivery of services make the …
The Product You – Develop Your Personal Brand
Career Pro of NC, Inc. Executive Outplacement & Career Transition HOW TO CREATE A PERSONAL BRAND Stand Out from the Crowd by Marketing YOU! Today, the job market is tight. Layoffs are spreading across the country. Competition from overseas is fierce. Getting ahead in your company, in your industry seems a steeper climb than it did even a few …
Federal Opportunities – Resources for People with Disabilities
Many people in career transition find the development of proper resources, federal resumes and the many online options for submittal of this information to be overwhelming. Fortunately the federal employment system provides many helpful resources for well-deserving and qualified people who happen to to be disabled in some way. It’s been my experience in 17 plus years in the …
New Graduates and Jobseekers – Five Ways to Move Out of Your Parents Basement
Stand out by writing and living your worklife mission and learn the new rules for careers. Start with a new paradigm, a new mindset. Find organizations that support your worklife mission and fight to join them. Generations ago it was your parents and even grandparents that thought they would be in one career path and maybe with one company. …
Your Job Should Be Your Calling
In May I attended a career conference sponsored by The Ladders and Kennedy Information. A lot of well-known folks inside Career Management Alliance and around the globe attended. As the conference blogger and photographer I also represented one of my key vendors. This experience put me back in touch with the kind of thought leaders that drive the career industry …
Thoughts On The Art of Resume Writing
Great writing sells. That’s it. That is all I should need to say on the subject. So for 15 years I have advocated for my clients in writing, on the phone and in person. Now resumes seem like they need an upgrade, a technology test. As you may know search engines use quite a wide variety of factors to …
So You Feel Bent, Broken? Have a Good Samaritan Heart.
Someone looked at me in fear when I said I would do a blog on this New Testament parable. Look I don’t claim to be a Bible scholar like you I said in my finest non-sarcastic tone. I don’t really have the Latin, Greek, or Aramaic to break it down like you but I am sure not going to be …
Employ Individuals with Disabilities
Sometimes it’s sad to see people who can look at a job loss, a temporary income setback or a career change as a devastating event. In your life transitions sit back and look at how good you have it. For many of us we have the intellectual capability, use of our limbs and face pretty minor health challenges along the …