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Narrow Your Search, Keep Your Sanity
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions While this might not be the case for you, many job hunters have found themselves going a bit crazy with their job hunt for one main reason: sending out too many resumes. Though you certainly want to start sending out your information to places that are hiring, the ‘let’s send one to everyone’ approach isn’t necessarily the best way to catch the right job for you. In fact, if you narrow your search, you might... |
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What are Examples of Your Accomplishments?
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions In the time that you’ve been working, you have done impressive things, even if you don’t think they’re all that impressive. Think about it – no matter what job you’ve held, you’ve done something that has gotten you noticed. Even if you’ve just been flipping burgers, there are accomplishments you can share with others (how many you have flipped in an hour, how few complaints you’ve had, etc.). When... |
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What’s Your Elevator Pitch?
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Right now, if a hiring department representative was standing right in front of you, what would you tell them about yourself? Not sure? You might want to think about it. Start thinking about the thirty seconds of time you have to impress someone who you’ve just met. And then think about how you can wow them in that time, even if it seems short. ◦ What do you do? – First of all, think about what you do and... |
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Has the Paper Resume been forced into Unwanted Retirement?
By Gretchen Gunn. Principal, MGD Services, Inc. Thanks to social media (LinkedIn) I didn’t miss a current Wall Street Journal article discussing the death of the paper resume (http://on.wsj.com/wftqlx). So is it true? Is the paper resume obsolete? Yes. As a staffing partner, I always hand them back to candidates I meet at career fairs or Wired4Hire seminars and gently ask that they email me a copy. Why? Because that paper resume has little chance of leaving my roll along brief case... |
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Are You Dreaming in Color?
By Todd Cohen Thought Leader on Building Sales Culture; Professional Speaker and Author , ToddCohen.com Now that 2012 is here, it’s the obvious time to do what we all do – think about the coming year and the past year, and then think about what we want to do different to make a greater or more significant impact in the upcoming year. It’s the natural thoughts we all have. I was talking with a colleague about what salespeople do when January rolls around and new goals and territories... |
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Test Your Personality BEFORE the Interview
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Some people seem to shine in interviews, and you might wonder why this is the case. Though they may lack certain skills, they can still manage to get a job right when they need it, and they continue to succeed when they are employed. What can you learn from them? While you might not want to think about it, the way you portray yourself in person may be the determining factor. If you don’t have the personality that... |
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What Your Emails are Saying to Hiring Departments
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions You’re emailing and emailing, but not getting the responses you want? It might be time for an email lesson. Though you might be sending your emails to the right person and providing the right information, if you’re not coming across well in your emails, you’re not going to make as great of an impression as you like. Are you making these email mistakes? ◦ No signature – If you don’t include your name at... |
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When You Don’t Have a College Degree
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Many more people in the job market today are worried about changing careers or being forced to change careers because of one minor blip in their resume – no college degree. In the past, it wasn’t necessary to have this sort of education because you learned the skills you needed to learn when you were on the job. Today is different and if you don’t have a degree, you’ll need to work hard to prove you’re just... |
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Why You Need to Change Your Email Address Today
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Applying for jobs online is so commonplace these days that it can seem like an afterthought. But the truth is that online job applications are so easy that most everyone is trying out this sort of job hunt, leading hiring departments to start looking for ways to avoid reading an entire resume. And what part of a job email gets looked at first? The email address. You need to make sure you’re following a few email... |
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Use Old Skills to Change to a New Career
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Though you might think getting a new job is all about you, that’s not the whole story. Instead, it’s the skills you have that will make you marketable and that will ensure your future success. If you’ve been thinking about a new career, you need to leverage your old skills into that new position. Here are some of the hottest job skills to have (or at least to put on your resume) because they can translate to... |
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When Your Job Doesn’t Fit You Anymore
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Gone are the days when jobs were careers, it seems. More people than ever are looking for new jobs, not because they’ve gotten fired or they haven’t gotten a raise, but because they simply want to try something new or they want to take their skills into a new industry. If your job doesn’t seem to fit anymore, it’s time to think about how you can seek out a job that will satisfy your current needs. ◦ List... |
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The RIGHT Way to Job Hunt
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Let’s face it – searching for a job can be a pain. It’s time-consuming, it’s dull, and, today, it can be frustrating since you may never hear back from most companies. What you need to know is that there are good ways and bad ways of hunting for a job. And if you want to search for a job (and be successful in as little time as possible), you need to learn the right way. Right now. Networking is the key to... |
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Brand Yourself and Make Hiring Departments Remember You
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions When you think about certain brands that you buy, you remember one special thing about them. Think about the Golden Arches and McDonald’s or ‘Just Do It’ and Nike. Branding is what makes companies memorable, and you can use this same idea to brand yourself in the eyes of an employer. If you can show a clear message about who you are and what sets you apart from others, you will stick in the mind of the hiring... |
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Ask for a Job…and Get One!
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Sometimes, it’s not about the skills you have or the people you know. You might turn in a hundred resumes without a peep, while someone else you know turns in just a few resumes and scores a job immediately. What’s the difference between their approach and yours? Assuming all of your job experience is equal, sometimes the one thing that can get you a job is the fact that you asked for the position. Think about... |
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Stop Sending the Wrong Message!
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Your resume and your online life may not be sending the right message about who you are and what you have to offer to the company. Before you apply for one more job, you need to make sure that you’re giving off the right signals to others who might hire you. Because if you’re not, the road to a new job might be longer than you’d like. Ask someone else to read your resume – Ask a trusted friend or a stranger... |
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Ask the Right Questions During YOUR Interview
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions When you walk into an interview, you might come prepared to answer all of the normal questions. You might even spend time thinking about strange questions they might ask you, and have smart and witty answers for those as well. But many job-hunters get nervous during the last question of the interview: do you have any questions for us? You might think the best way to handle this is to shake your head and promise to... |
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Tips for Executing the Exit Interview
By Kyle Lagunas HR Analyst, Software Advice Fact: When an employee leaves, all of the time, energy and resources you invested in them walks out the door. Though some organizations will have employees take a brief exit survey, they’re doing little to learn how the company can better attract and retain top talent in the future. A formal process for managing the end of an employee’s lifecycle–offboarding–is an HR department’s diamond in the rough. They’re your last chance... |
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What is the Hiring Department REALLY Looking For?
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Applying for a job is a lot more complicated than it used to be, isn’t it? While all you had to do in the past was fill out an application, now you have to have a cover letter, a resume, and maybe even a list of your relevant skills or certifications. Though you can certainly understand why hiring departments are being more…selective, this doesn’t always mean you understand what they’re looking for when posing... |
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Client Services Newsletter December ‘11
Happy Holidays from your friends at JobCircle! We hope that you and your family have a wonderful holiday season. We appreciate that you’re a part of our Circle! So, what’s new at the Circle? We thought we’d also take the time to let you know about a few recent changes that are designed to make your recruiting life easier. Here’s a rundown of some of the things we’ve been working on for you: Give me more applies! Applies, applies, applies. It’s all about the applies. You... |
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The Glaring Gap in a Resume – Does It Really Matter to Hiring Departments?
By Todd Bavol, The Job Search Ninja. CEO, Integrity Career Transitions Even if you’re not sure how to write a modern resume, you do know one thing for certain: any time you can’t account for in your work history is going to get your resume tossed to the side. Or is it? What you need to remember is this: anything that’s ‘certain’ in the job hunting rules probably isn’t a big deal to every hiring department. Of course, if you have long gaps in your work history, the employer... |