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4 Resolutions for your Resume
By Gerrit Hall 2012 is here. Resolution time has come and passed for many. People everywhere threw out their last pack of cigarettes, renewed that forgotten gym membership, and planned out a strategy to finally clean out that garage! While those resolutions are all admirable, it’s not too late to add just a few more, for your resume. 2012 is your year to have a stellar resume. Having an awesome resume and using it the right way is your key to landing the very best jobs at the right time. Fortunately,... |
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Danger at Your Exit Interview
By Martin Yate CPC In a recent CBS article about exit interviews that encouraged you to share your real thoughts and feelings with the exit interviewer, I was the lone dissenting voice. When you resign you are firing your employer, in effect saying, "you aren't good enough for me anymore." This causes more work for your colleagues and isn't appreciated much by anyone; especially your boss for whom your resignation is at best a pain in the neck and at worst a black mark: a manager's job is to... |
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Hot Job of the Week: Patient Representative
By Annie Favreau Looking for a job with a future? This series profiles in-demand careers and expanding professional fields. Here's our latest pick: Patient Representative What's involved:Patient representatives can be found in almost any medical setting—hospitals, health centers, private clinics, or nursing homes. Your work is as varied as the locations, but the main goal is the same: helping to address the special needs and concerns of patients and their families. Patients call your office... |
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How to ace the world's toughest job interview question
By Martin Yate CPC I've been writing about job interviews, from both sides of the desk, for twenty-five years and without a doubt, the toughest interview question going the rounds in 2012 is, "Your job exists to help your employer achieve and maintain profitability. How do your efforts support these goals?" It's a question that can only be answered when you really understand the guts of the job you are pursuing. The question actually has two parts. The first part, your job exists to help your... |
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Use Your Email Subject Line As Resume and Door Opener
By Martin Yate CPC You want to get into conversation with recruiters and hiring managers as quickly and as often as you can, because initiating conversation is the fastest route to job interviews, job offers and out of this damn job search. Whenever you find the name of a headhunter or hiring manager, email is likely going to be your first line of approach. But In an age when email has become the world’s pre-eminent communication tool, we all flounder in oceans of unwanted communications. To... |
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Hot Job of the Week: Personal Fitness Trainer
By Annie Favreau Looking for a job with a future? This series profiles in-demand careers and expanding professional fields. Here's our latest pick: Personal Fitness Trainer What's involved:Part motivators, part Energizer Bunny, personal trainers help gym-goers shed their stubborn flab and reach their full fitness potential. In this job, you work one-on-one with clients to determine their goals and create routines to get the job done. From explaining how to perform a perfect sit-up, to... |
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Real-time, Leading Indicator Employment Data Now Available
Yesterday, we announced an interactive, online U.S Employment Trends tool (found at http://www.simplyhired.com/a/trends/national) which allows job seekers instant access to both local and national employment data. This tool is especially useful for job seekers and the media because it offers forward-looking data that can predict hiring based on job openings each month. Job seekers can discover job posting trends nationally by metro area, industry and occupation, in addition to the degree of job... |
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4 Steps to Show Off Your Personal Brand in Your Resume
What is a personal brand? In the job search industry, you see people throwing that word around a lot. You might see, use social media for your personal brand, or, 27 ways personal branding can land you a job. No, it has nothing to do with cows. Personal branding, much like corporate branding, is when an individual is associated with certain qualities or outcomes. Think about Donald Trump or the Kardashian family: they can slap their name on anything and you instantly develop an impression. The... |
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SimplyHired.com Releases January Employment Outlook
Today, SimplyHired.com released its January 2012 Employment Outlook highlighting national and local market outlooks, as well as industry and employer trends. According to the report, nationwide job openings fell slightly in December – down 1.9 percent month-over-month. However, December is a notoriously slow month for hiring, and job growth remained up 10.6 percent year-over-year when compared to 2010. On the local level, despite the overall slowdown in hiring, six of the top 50 metro areas... |
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The Big Three Career Resolutions for 2012 - Part 3
By Martin Yate CPC Career Resolution #3 - Connectivity and the skills of professional survival In an insecure world of work, with job security a thing of the past, you obviously want to avoid the financial dislocation that comes with the traumas of unanticipated job change. For any clear-headed professional, enlightened self-interest dictates that you learn and apply the practical career survival strategies that will give you greater control over your destiny and better tools for managing... |
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The Big Three Career Resolutions for 2012 - Part 2
By Martin Yate CPC Career Resolution #2 - Protect your job and boost your employability Do you know why your job exists? Strip away all the window dressing and at its core, your job exists for one simple reason: to identify, prevent and solve problems within its area of responsibility, in order to help the company make money, save money or otherwise improve productivity. Try to see yourself and your work in this light: You are a problem solver with a particular area of expertise. This will... |
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The Big Three Career Resolutions for 2012 - Part 1
By Martin Yate CPC Career Resolution #1 - Commit to your dreams and the plans that bring them to life We all make New Year's resolutions to do better professionally, to get a better job or a promotion and to make more money, but all too often we fail to harness these dreams to a workable plan of action The world of work is no longer as secure as it once was, lifetime job security is gone, replaced by most Americans changing jobs about every four years. The reality is that your current, or... |
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Your Resume vs. ATS: 3 Ways to Win the Battle
By Sean WeinbergYour resume has a lot of enemies. Between competitors, scrutinizing employers, and computer crashes, your resume has to look out for itself. Unfortunately, your resume has yet another enemy to worry about: an ATS. An ATS, also known as an applicant tracking system, is "a software application that enables the electronic handling of recruitment needs." In other words, an ATS is what employers turn to when there are simply too many applicants and not enough time to sort through... |
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The Over-Looked Job Search Marketing Tool: Your Email Address
By Martin Yate CPC In a competitive job search, the little things can make a big difference and the way you introduce yourself is one of them. As one of the first things any recruiter or potential employer sees, your email address is s a powerful marketing tool that the smart job hunter doesn't miss. But for job hunters like binkypoo@yahoo.com, bigboy@hotmail.com and DDdoll@live.com it's a lost opportunity. Now might be a good time to retire those college era addresses like binky, bigboy,... |
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The Job Seeker's #1 Time Waster (No, it's not Facebook!)
By Robyn Melhuish If you are currently unemployed, you may feel like time is yours to waste. With nowhere to go and no one to report to, you've got nothing but time, right? Wrong! As you probably already know, the clock is ticking on your job search. And the longer you remain unemployed, the harder it may be to land the job you want. So why are you wasting so much time? It's not the hour on Facebook or the occasional game of Angry Birds that's wasting your valuable time. No, the larger culprit... |
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The differences between cover letters to hiring managers and headhunters
By Martin Yate CPC A reader asks, "What are the differences between a cover letter to a recruiter and one to a hiring manager? Do you make the same points?" Good question. The simple answer is that while the overall structure and intent of the letter is the same... Sell to the customer's needs as you understand them Stick to 2-5 paragraphs For a printed document never more than one page For an email the same points apply, with your strongest selling points visible on the initial screen... |
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Six Marketing Fundamentals to Help Advance Your Career
By Josh Braaten Could your lack of knowledge of marketing fundamentals be holding you back in your career? Landing that dream job and even getting a raise or promotion is often as much about marketing yourself as it is having the right knowledge or experience. At its core, great marketing conveys value of a product or service to its potential consumers. In the context of your professional life, you are the product and service, and your current and potential bosses are the consumers. Here are... |
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Graphic Design Career: 4 Factors that Influence Your Salary
By Jessica Bosari When you embark on a graphic design career, you of course consider the challenge and satisfaction in creating art as a profession, but money is always a consideration as well. Careers in graphic design can be very lucrative, but exactly how much you will make depends on several factors. Here are just a few items to consider when trying to calculate how much you expect to earn in your career. Experience Experience is rated as one of the most important factors that can influence... |
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5 Mistakes That Can Cost You a New Job
By Melanie Slaugh There are a lot of different ways that we can cater towards the success of landing a new job. Dressing appropriately, being on time, and showing confidence in an interview are just a few different ways we can boost up an interview. While there are a number of ways we can easily spot where things went well, there are also a number of things that can get overlooked. Those seemingly small mistakes could be the defining factor in if you’re hired or passed over. Here are five of... |
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Five Things Employers Look for in a Cover Letter
By Jennifer Hood Now more than ever, it is of the utmost importance to stand out when applying for a job. A cover letter can be used as a technique to entice the reader and potential employer to review your resume. It should include specific abilities you possess and exhibit how you would use them to enhance the productivity of the team. Everyone who sends out a resume needs to send out a cover letter! Even if the cover letter was never discussed or wasn't mentioned in an advertisement, it's... |