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Is It Okay To Ask For Feedback If You Don’t Get The Job?
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions You have attended the initial job interview, and maybe even more than one follow-up interview, and things seemed to go well. Despite your high hopes though, that dreaded rejection letter still arrives in your mailbox. What next? Do you just take it on the chin and move on, or is it okay to ask the recruiter for feedback in an attempt to find out what went wrong? This is actually a question to which you will find... |
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Employer Spotlight: Philadelphia Corporation for Aging
Discover what Philadelphia and PCA offer older adults and those who care for them. Our Employer Spotlight this week is shining on a company that is looking for you! Philadelphia Corporation for Aging is a non-profit organization designated since 1973 as Philadelphia County’s Area Agency on Aging. If you are interested in a new opportunity that will allow you to help others, read on… Working @ PCA With a stated mission to improve the quality of life for older Philadelphians, their... |
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Employer Spotlight: Philadelphia Corporation for Aging
Discover what Philadelphia and PCA offer older adults and those who care for them. Our Employer Spotlight this week is shining on a company that is looking for you! Philadelphia Corporation for Aging is a non-profit organization designated since 1973 as Philadelphia County’s Area Agency on Aging. If you are interested in a new opportunity that will allow you to help others, read on… Working @ PCA With a stated mission to improve the quality of life for older Philadelphians, their... |
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10 Tips To Make Relocation For Work Purposes More Feasible And Less Costly
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions For some job seekers, continuing their search for employment in their local areas can begin to seem like a pointless exercise. Businesses may have downsized, relocated or closed down altogether, leaving scant opportunities for the long-term unemployed, those seeking moves up the career ladder and those looking to move into an entirely different career field. While finding greater opportunities elsewhere in the same... |
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Long-Term Unemployment – Keeping Things Normal
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions As one long day just seems to merge into the next and any hope of change feels like it disappeared long ago, maintaining a ‘normal’ lifestyle during periods of long-term unemployment can not only feel difficult, but even pointless. The choices that we make and the way that we live our lives, however, can have an enormous effect on our state of mind, so bear in mind the following to help keep yourself on track.... |
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Long-Term Unemployed? Go Back to the Drawing Board to Develop Your Sense of Motivation
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions As I pointed out towards the end of yesterday’s post, drifting aimlessly through even a short-term job search campaign soon becomes demoralizing and demotivating, let alone one which extends into many months or even years. Blind, unfocussed efforts which don’t involve knowing where you are trying to get to and not having a roadmap to get you there, can only lead to intermittent activity and, most likely, rejected... |
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Maintaining Job Search Motivation – Realism, Activity and Planning
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Maintaining a sense of motivation and enthusiasm in any activity where results are slow to appear can be extremely difficult and demoralizing. Where job seeking is concerned, however, it is especially hard because long-term unemployment hits at so many different levels. Not only does the mere fact of being jobless cause endless stress and sleepless nights, but the financial problems and sometimes relationship and... |
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The Real Cost of Long-Term Unemployment
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions The number of unemployed people in the USA who are classed as long-term unemployed according to a definition which states that they have not held a job in at least 27 consecutive weeks, currently stands at around a massive 6.6 million – or almost 45% of the total number of unemployed individuals in the country. Although one study which was conducted back in 1989 found that in young people, the maximum psychological... |
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Career Passion – What Comes Naturally to You and What Would You Do for Free?
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions When we stop to think about our careers and about which direction to take, most of us quite naturally tend to consider where our strengths and weaknesses lie. Have you ever really sat down and thought specifically about the things that come easily to you though, or the natural qualities that you possess? The thing about the activities which feel effortless to us is that often we also find them enjoyable. When you... |
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Career Passion – Overcoming the Obstacles
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions One of the greatest difficulties that many people have when it comes to considering their career passion lies in their tendency to limit themselves due to the fear of failing. The fact is though, that almost without exception, we are all subject to this feeling, but what sets the successful people apart are the facts that they dream big and they overcome the fear of failure and go on to take action. Today’s exercises,... |
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Dream Your Way Into Your Perfect Career
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Following on from Friday’s post, today I want to look at a few more exercises to help you to discover your career passion, although this time I am going to be focusing on the future rather than on the past. The first of today’s exercises is one which involves visualization, and if that all sounds a bit New Age, then just bear in mind that without having a vision or a goal to aim towards, most of us tend to get... |
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More Exercises to Help You Uncover Your Career Passion
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions In this current mini-series, I am looking at how to uncover your true career passion and, in yesterday’s post, I suggested a few exercises which were designed to get you thinking about the things you loved when you were a child. As promised, today’s exercises follow on along the same theme. As before, don’t let your internal editor get in the way, and don’t worry about how silly your responses might sound,... |
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Past Passions – The Clues to Future Fulfillment
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Feeling passionate about the job that you do not only leads to personal fulfillment, but to personal success too. In fact, your passion is probably the greatest asset that you will ever have during the course of your career. It is what will drive you on to bigger and better things and what will sustain you when the going gets tough. It will be there, visible on your face and in your eyes and your commitment and enthusiasm... |
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Yet To Find Your Career Passion? Then, Start Here!
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions For most people who are thinking either about choosing a first career or changing career, the process starts with a list of all the most popular occupations. As they work their way down the list, some jobs might be struck off because they don’t pay very well or because the individual knows somebody else in that profession who is unhappy in their work, and others because perhaps they involve a subject that they know... |
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If You’re Going To Compete With Anybody, Compete With Yourself!
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions They tell us that competition is good. They tell us that it motivates us and gives us something to aim for. In a job search or career sense, however, does competing against other people really work? Human nature is such that in many areas of life we have a tendency to compare ourselves with other people. In some cases, we might feel that we are the ones who are doing better or have more, but of course in others... |
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More Tips to Help You Rise Above Rejection
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions In my last post, I spoke about the ability of job search rejection to undermine confidence and essentially paralyse job seekers, as well as offering a few tips on how to push through the rejection blues. In today’s post, I just want to suggest a few more ways that you can rise above rejection and put your all into your next opportunity. 1. Be realistic I think I’ve probably used this quote in an earlier post,... |
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Taking Rejection on the Chin
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Nobody actually likes having to face a rejection of any kind, but unfortunately in today’s job market, all too many job seekers are not having to deal with it just once, but in many cases repeatedly. Also unfortunately, the tendency is for many to let rejection get to them to such an extent that it affects their chances of success next time around. Here then, are the first of a few top tips to help you take rejection... |
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Do LinkedIn Recommendations Really Mean Anything?
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Of all the primarily business focused networking sites, LinkedIn is, of course, the most widely favored. For job seekers, it not only offers a great opportunity to showcase their talents through what they include in their own profiles, but also to gain recommendations from other people. With the ability to filter out anything which doesn’t show them in the most positive of lights, however, do these recommendations... |
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How To Handle Pre-Employment Tests
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions An interesting article in today’s Washington Post talks about pre-employment tests and how these are being used by increasing numbers of employers to delve into the personalities, thought processes, motivations, work styles, values and aptitudes of job candidates. Although these types of tests only used to be confined to certain types of work or industries, as the article quite rightly points out, nowadays even mechanics... |
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iPhone Applications to Help With Your Job Search
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions As promised, in this, the final part of my mini-series on getting the most out of your mobile phone during a job search, I intend to take a look at three top applications for iPhone users, all of which can be downloaded for free. 1. Audio Job Interview Professional One of the big keys to interview success is practice, practice, practice, and with this free application no longer will you have to face the embarrassment... |