February 3rd, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce
Career Spotlight for this week: Radiation Therapy Providers – $66,000/year, expected 10-year job growth is 25%. More about other careers in the Career Changers’ Guide.
Four great new articles PLUS a Webinar notice were added to Job-Hunt this week:
Twitter Bonus: Job Search TweetSheet – one-page guide to using Twitter for your job search, by Marci Reynolds, Job-Hunt’s Social Media & Job Search Expert.
Tags: Job Search, jobs
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February 2nd, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce
You’re not that crazy about your job and where it’s leading (or NOT leading). Other jobs or careers interest you, but you prefer to avoid making the proverbial out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the fire mistake.
So what do you do now?
Speaking as a person who has made the frying-pan-fire transition at least twice and had 5 majors in 5 years of undergraduate study (I’m interested in everything!), this is not a simple question to answer, particularly when you are working full time. Or, when you are looking for a job full time.
My advice: Try, before you “buy!”
Having also been unfortunate enough to discover in the last semester of my 2nd senior year in college when my student teaching experience convinced me teaching high school American History or English was probably the last thing I wanted to do, trying a job before you are committed to it is smart.
So, how? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Career Change, Job Search
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January 27th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce
Career Spotlight for this week: Multimedia Designer– $51,000/yr average annual salary, expected 10-year job growth is 26%. More about other careers in the Career Changers’ Guide.
Four great new articles PLUS a Webinar notice were added to Job-Hunt this week:
Twitter Bonus: Job Search TweetSheet – one-page guide to using Twitter for your job search, by Marci Reynolds, Job-Hunt’s Social Media & Job Search Expert.
Tags: Job Search, jobs
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January 21st, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce
Career Spotlight for this week: Business Analysts – $68,000/yr average annual salary, expected 10-year job growth is 22%. More about other careers in the Career Changers’ Guide.
Four great new articles PLUS a Twitter Bonus were added to Job-Hunt this week:
Twitter Bonus: Job Search TweetSheet – one-page guide to using Twitter for your job search, by Marci Reynolds, Job-Hunt’s Social Media & Job Search Expert.
Tags: Job Search, jobs
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January 19th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce
I am a member of the Career Collective, a group of resume writers and career coaches. Each month, all members discuss a topic, and this month’s topic is making the most of the new year. Please follow our tweets on Twitter #careercollective and see the links to the other articles at the bottom of this post.
My recommendation to everyone for 2010 is to KEEP LEARNING!
Job hunting or not, promise yourself that you will learn something new and relevant every day – whether it is related to the job you currently have or the job you want to have some day.
Keep in mind the 2nd of Dan Pink’s “Two Simple Questions” from DanPink.com, posted on 01/01/10.
Am I better today than I was yesterday?
Stop Learning at Your Peril
Particularly now, with the very high velocity of technology change in our world and our workplaces, if you don’t keep learning, unpleasant things will happen: you will fall behind your competition in the marketplace for that next job search, and your professional/business network will get smaller and less effective. Both translate into less success in business (or education or government, etc.) and fewer options for you in the job market. Neither has to happen to you!
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Tags: job hunting, Job Search, new year's resolutions
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January 18th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce
Sometimes change we don’t want, change we may even fear and dread, can be very good for us in the long run.
Disasters
I was reminded of this yesterday. Because of a broken sprinkler head in the office next door in October (!), my office was flooded, and, after 12 weeks of everything-in-boxes, the new floor and carpeting were finally installed Friday. While we sat out in the hall, surrounded by boxes and office furniture – without the computers or Internet (EEK!) connected - we decided to reorganize the layout of the office.
By mid-afternoon, we were back (still in boxes), but with a wonderful new layout in the office! I’m now SO HAPPY that sprinkler head broke in October. If it hadn’t, we’d still have the old, inefficient layout (unchanged in 12 years). Of course, now we must to unpack, but we’ll be going through the stuff in the boxes, and (I’ve been informed) throwing out old useless stuff and shredding old documents. Gee, that does sound like fun…
But we’ll be happier, more efficient, and have much more room when we’re done. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Career Change, layoff survival
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January 12th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce
Career Spotlight for this week: Radiation Therapy Providers – $34.61/hour ($72,000/yr), expected 10-year job growth is 25%. More about other careers in the Career Changers’ Guide.
Four great new articles were added to Job-Hunt this week:
- Reconnecting: The Boomer Networking Advantage – following up her first Boomer Networking Advantage article, Phyllis Mufson, Job-Hunt’s Boomer Job Search Expert offers great ideas on how to reconnect with people from your past.
- Handling Case Method/Fishbowl Interviews – the first of a series of articles about new kinds of job interviews by Laura DeCarlo, Job-Hunt’s Job Interviews Expert. Laura describes the new “case method” and “Fishbowl Interaction Activities” interview types.
- Breaking into Marketing & Sales – the current tough economy can be a great opportunity to move into the field of marketing and sales, and, in this article, Erin Kennedy, Job-Hunt’s Marketing & Sales Job Search Expert, shows you how to do it.
- Career Jump Start for College Students – before graduation is the best time for college students to get a jump-start on their career networks, the newest blog post by Susan P. Joyce, Job-Hunt’s Online Job Search Expert.
Good luck with your job search this week!
Tags: job hunting, Job Search
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January 9th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce
Start your online professional networking now, while you’re still a student, and you’ll be ahead of the job search game for a very long time!
Yes, I know you have a very active Facebook account, and you have all your friends around you in class or the dorm and everywhere you are at school. But, you’ll be leaving them all soon, when you graduate. You’ll want to find a job, and you’ll want to help your friends find jobs, too.
So, Start NOW While You’re Still Seeing Everyone Regularly!
Even if you don’t graduate for 6 months or 2 years, lay the foundation for your life-long network and your job search using LinkedIn in ways that Facebook and Twitter can’t do for you. LinkedIn is the favorite place of recruiters right now, and is apt to be for several years into the future.
LinkedIn is more important to your career and to your job search right now than Monster or CareerBuilder. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Job Search, new grads
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January 6th, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce
This week, Tory Johnson, founder of the WomenforHire.com and Waggleforce.com, author of many best selling books, and workplace contributor forABC’s Good Morning America, became the newest member of Job-Hunt’s roster Job Search Experts as the Fired-to-Hired Transition Expert.
In addition, two other experts added to our knowledge with their newest articles this week: Kate Duttro, Job-Hunt’s Expert on Careers for Academics, and Diane Hudson Burns, on Veterans’ Job Search. In addition, a new blog post about Twitter was posted.
Career Spotlight: Human Resources Specialist – $74,000 average annual wage, expected 10-year job growth is 17%. More about other Careers.
Tags: career spotlight, Job Search Advice
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January 3rd, 2010 by Susan P. Joyce
These days, the most effective way to find a job is to attract employers to you. How can you do that? By creating and maintaining public profiles on these 6 powerful Websites. The payoff for you will be substantial and long-term.
The good news is that these sites are free for you to use, currently. The bad news is that this will take some time and work to create and to manage. Not a lot because much of what you create for one site (LinkedIn, for example) can be used with minor modifications on other sites.
In addition, these effort will pay off for you when you have captured the interest of a recruiter or potential employer who researches you to see what information is available about you on the Web because they will find these sites, often at the top of the first page of search results. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Job Search, personal branding
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