Career Spotlight:

We added five new Job-Hunt articles in the last two weeks:

• 6 Keys to Online Executive Brand Communications
  In this article, Job-Hunt’s Personal Branding Expert Meg Guiseppi describes the 6 bases of brand communication.  While Meg’s article addresses executives, these principles apply to everyone, executive or not.
• Give This to Your Spouse When You Lose Your Job
  Job-Hunt’s Expert-at-Large GL Hoffman offers tips and advice for people who have lost their job, and, more specifically, for their spouses and families.
• The Very Visible “Invisible” Web
  Ideas and resources for job seekers to discover what the “invisible” Web tells employers about them by Job-Hunt’s Social Media & Job Search Expert Miriam Salpeter.
• Landing that Marketing & Sales Job
  If you are interested in a position in marketing or sales, learn the strategies sales people can use to make this most important sale – yourself into that new job – from Job-Hunt’s Marketing & Sales Job Search Expert Erin Kennedy.
• Monitoring Your Online Reputation
  Google Alerts are great tools to help you monitor your online reputation, by Job-Hunt’s Online Job-Search Expert Susan P. Joyce.

Good luck with your job search!

Career Spotlight:

We added four new articles this week:

• Green Careers for Non-Technical People
  In this article author Carol McClelland, Job-Hunt’s Green Industry Job Search Expert, describes career fields available in the green economy for people who are not scientists,  engineering, technical, or other trades people.
• Prepare a Winning Federal Job Application
  Preparing an application for a Federal job is a time consuming process requiring, for a successful application, quite a bit of work.  Job-Hunt’s Federal Government Job Search Expert Camille Carboneau Roberts helps job seekers evaluate opportunities to see if they are worth the time and effort to apply.
• Networking Tips for 50+ Job Seekers
  Another great, short video from AARP, this time with networking tips and advice for job seekers over 50.
• Heat Up Your Job Search: Be Proactive
  Susan P. Joyce, Job-Hunt’s Online Job Search Expert, offers ideas for conducting a proactive (vs. a reactive) job search.

Good luck with your job search!

Career Spotlight:

We introduced four new articles this week:

• Over 50: Managing “the Age Issue”
  Providing insight from a recruiter’s perspective in this article, recruiter and Job-Hunt’s Working with Recruiters Expert Jeff Lipschultz helps job seekers see the difference between being “over-qualified” and being a “seasoned veteran” and how they can help recruiters and potential employers see it, too.
• Your Information Gathering Style Impacts Your Job Search
  Most of us are unaware of the impact of our personal preferences on our lives.  In this article by Job-Hunt’s Career Assessments Expert Susan Guarneri, you’ll see how your preferred method of gathering information impacts your job search and how you can adjust your style to be most effective.
• Capturing Your Invisible Skills
  You probably have skills relevant, even important, to your job search that you are leaving off your resume.  In this article, Job-Hunt’s Careers for Academics Expert Dr. Kate Duttro helps you dig out and recognize the value of those skills in your job search. 
• Networking for the Networking Phobic
  Networking gets a bad rap by many job seekers, but networking is not only critical to a successful job search, networking can also be fun.  Read this article by Susan P. Joyce, Job-Hunt’s Online Job Search Expert, to find out how.

Good luck with your job search!

Career Spotlight:

We also introduced four new articles this week:

• First Jobs and Lessons Learned
  With this insightful statement, “Where you go to school will never get you a job; what you choose to do with your education will,” Job-Hunt’s New Grads’Job Search Expert Chandlee Bryan launched her first article by sharing what she learned in her first jobs, both before and after college.
• Introvert’s Path to Job Search Success
  Job-Hunt’s Introverts’ Job Search Expert Wendy Gelberg describes the path successful introverts use to find a job, capitalizing on an introvert’s natural tendencies.
• Fortune 500 Recruiters Interview: Western Union
  Job-Hunt’s Fortune 500 Job Search Expert Laura Labovich, a former Fortune 500 recruiter herself, shares a fascinating and VERY illuminating interview with two senior level recruiters at Western Union. If you think social media is irrelevant to your job search, read this!
• Making Your Own Job Search Luck
  Scientific research has shown that good luck “charms” do help people succeed in fields as diverse as golf and puzzle solving.  So Susan P. Joyce, Job-Hunt’s Online Job Search Expert applied that research to the job search. Try it!  It works!

Good luck with your job search!

Career Spotlight:  Are you naturally snoopy?  Love putting puzzles together, particularly complex, 1000+ piece puzzles?  Enjoy studying people and what motivates them?  You might enjoy being a Detective.  The average salary is $61,000/year.  Fifty-four percent have college degrees, and the predicted 10-year job growth is expected to be 17%. More information on this and other careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

We also introduced four new articles this week:

• Age Discrimination in Job Loss
  If you’re over 40 and unemployed, you probably suspect that your age has something to do with your employment status.  In this article by Job-Hunt’s Boomer Job Search Expert Phyllis Mufson, Phyllis interviewed labor attorney Mark Risk to understand, in general, what age discrimination in job loss is and how to address it.
• C-Suite Power Play: Get Social
  This is the 3rd of a 5-article series named C-Suite Power Plays by Job-Hunt’s Executive Job Search Expert Deb Dib.  In this one, Deb encourages executive job seekers not to ignore social media.
• 4 Truths of Career Transition
  As someone who started her most-recent career transition in 2006, Job-Hunt’s Job Search for Women Expert Deborah Shane examines some of the truths she has discovered in her journey that can help all of us. 
• Being Brilliantly Visible
  In a competitive job market, job seekers need to stand out, and in this article by Job-Hunt’s Job Search Marketability Expert Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter learn some methods of becoming “brilliantly” visible to potential employers. 

Good luck with your job search!

This week, we very proudly welcome our newest Job Hunt Expert, GL Hoffman Job-Hunt’s “Expert at Large.”

GL is a serial entrepreneur and mentor, having founded two companies that “went public” providing excellent learning experiences for GL. Currently, he is chairman of JobDig which operates Job-Hunt Sponsor LinkUp, one of the fastest-growing job-search engines. His blog can be found at WhatWouldDadSay.com.  His latest book is StartUp, 100 Tips to Get Your Business Going, available in print at www.startup100tips.com or ebook at www.wiseandwiser.com. GL also blogs for US News & World Reports and FastCompany.

GL’s first Job-Hunt article, Staying Positive at a Tough Time, is a very important one because maintaining a positive attitude is such a difficult aspect of job hunting, yet so important for success in job search.

We also introduced four other new articles this week:

• Executive without a Degree plus the associated Sample resume
  Author and Job-Hunt Resume Expert Susan Ireland helps a senior level job seeker continue her career rise in the non-profit sector without a college degree.
• Monitoring Your Online Presence
  Job-Hunt’s Social Media & Job Search Expert Miriam Salpeter describes some of the ways job seekers can monitor and influence their online visibility.
• Keep Your Digital Act Clean
  Tory Johnson, Job-Hunt’s Fired-to-Hired Transition Expert, offers suggestions for keeping your “personal digital footprint” positive in.
• Using Google to Find Jobs Hidden in Dot-Jobs (not Dot-Com) Sites
  Job-Hunt’s Online Job Search Expert, Susan P. Joyce, introduces a new method of using Google to uncover jobs from your favorite employers in the Job-Hunt Job Search News blog.

Career Spotlight: If you are knowledgeable about construction and the building trades and comfortable poking around inside buildings, you may want to consider a job as a Building Inspector.  The average salary is $50,000/year; 23% have college degrees; andexpected 10-year job growth is 18%. More information on this and other careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

Three new articles were published:

• Career Transition: Singer to Consultant
  Interesting interview with Heather Poduska, who transitioned from a successful career as a professional singer to a new career as an image consultant, article by Job-Hunt’s Career Change Expert Randi Bussin.
• Handling CIDS Interviews
  Chronological In-Depth Structured (CIDS) interviews are a new, and challenging, form of interviewing. Job-Hunt’s Job Interviewing Expert Laura DeCarlo helps you understand and prepare for CIDS interviews.
• Summertime: A GREAT Time to Job Hunt
  Blog post on how people can lose opportunities by taking the Summer “off” by Job-Hunt’s Online Job Search Expert Susan P. Joyce.

Good luck with your job search!

Four new articles this week:

• New Grads: Overcoming “Not Qualified”
  The standard “catch-22″ for new grads, getting a job without any apparent experience, is tackled by Job-Hunt’s Working with Recruiters Expert Jeff Lipschultz in this article.
• 5 Flexible Healthcare Careers (not Requiring 4-Year Degrees)
  Need a flexible job and interested in moving into the healthcare industry but don’t have any or an appropriate college degree?  Job-Hunt’s Lifestyle-Friendly Careers Expert Nancy Collamer.
• Mastering Marketing: Generating Leads
  Once you have identified your target market, your next major task is generating leads because some of those leads will become sales. In this article by Job-Hunt’s Self-Employment Expert B. Michelle Pippin, learn where and how to generate those leads.
• Heat Up Your Job Search: Avoid Job Boards
  Most job seekers spend way too much time “working” the job boards.  Learn why plus better ways to spend your time in this new post  by Job-Hunt’s Editor, Online Job Search Expert Susan P. Joyce.

Good luck with your job search!

Also, four great new articles this week from Job-Hunt’s Experts:

• Power Play: Brand to Land
  In this 2nd article in her 5-article series, C-Suite Career Plan Power Plays, Job-Hunt’s Executive Job Search Expert Deb Dib, Deb describes how executives can  move from a “personal brand” to an “executive brand” for greater opportunity.
• Beat “Apply Online” at Job Fairs
  The last thing you want to hear from the Fortune 500 company recruiter (or any other) at the job fair is, “Apply online.” In this article by Job-Hunt’s Fortune 500 Job Search Expert Laura Labovich, learn how to move beyond that and get some help with your job search at that employer.
• 3 C’s Personal Brand Test
  If you are still struggling with defining your own personal brand, don’t feel alone, but do read this article by Job-Hunt’s Personal Branding Expert Meg Guiseppi.
• Change Ahead for Working Women
  Job-Hunt’s Job Search for Women Expert Deborah Shane offers the results of her research into what is happening for women in the world – the demographics, the economics, and the politics.

Career Spotlight: Do you love (live?) to shop? This may be exactly the job for you.  Get paid to purchase!  It’s much more complicated than just hitting the malls and outlet stores, usually, but, on average,  Buyers earn $54,000/year, with expected 10-year job growth of 22%.  Most buyers have a college degree or some education after college, but 22% don’t. More careers in Job-Hunt’s Career Changers’ Guide.

Good luck with your job search!

Career Spotlight:

Four great new articles this week:

• All Jobs Are Temporary
  Article by Job-Hunt’s Fired-to-Hired Transition Expert Tory Johnson.
• Resume: Education Highlighted
  Article plus sample resume by Job-Hunt’s Resume Expert Susan Ireland.
• Resolving Conflict by Understanding Communication Styles
  Article by Job-Hunt’s Career Assessments Expert Susan Guarneri.
• Finding the Best Employers from the Job-Hunt Blog

Good luck with your job search!