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March 28, 2011

Taking Action

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Creating a personal marketing plan will give you more insight into the current job market and put the numbers in your favor.  Since job hunting is a matter of having the numbers on your side, your action plan should be targeted to produce 25 to 35 responses, resulting in a phone discussion. The goal is to have several offers maturing at the same time, and you have to be realistic about rejections in the interview process.

To begin with:

1. Surface the right information about yourself and set clear goals. Take all the ciritial information from your career past, making sure you highlight the strongest selling points.

2. Pinpoint what you should be marketing, especially your transferable skills. See what you can do as a professional that can crossover. Just because some of your skills are not sought for a specific job, doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be highly valued once discovered by the employer.

3. Identify industry alternatives to target. Read and see what else is out there. Are there new industries where you would fit well? Discover if you have the skill set to completely crossover into a different industry where you will become even more successful.

4.  If you have liabilities, you need strategies to neutralize them. Find out if there are liabilities on your resume that are holding you back. Examples are periods of unemployment and lesser degrees of job titles as you’ve moved forward, rather than the other way around.

5.  You need a step-by-step game plan — an action agenda —to get your story told to all the right people.  You want to lay out a step-by-step plan — a weekly agenda — that will guide your search. This is your complete track, a game plan. This includes a plan for interviewing and negotiating (your approach to these important matters) which should be decided on in advance.

It has been proven people who have an action plan have a much better chance of getting hired to that next big firm because they have all their assets at their fingertips. What’s more, they have found all their strongest selling points and were able to neturalize their liabilities, making them look like a dream candidate. In addition, while putting the plan together, you take a hard look at yourself and realize skills and other attributes you may not have thought of when valuing your abilities in the past. Have a plan of action, a personal marketing plan.

 

March 23, 2011

The Social Network

Filed under: Network — Tags: , , , — Admin @ 8:23 pm

It’s no secret everyone seems to be on a social network, such as Facebook, these days in order to keep in touch with friends and family. Yet, did you now businesses are taking full advantage of these pages, as are those job hunting? Social networking sites are only gaining momentum, so it’s time to jump on board if you haven’t already. To put it another way, Time magazine reported Facebook made nearly $800 million in revenue in 2010.

If you are looking for your next career opportunity, it would be advantageous to become a member of some of these networking sites. Another site used specifically for career networking is LinkedIn. LinkedIn reports more than 100 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Yeah, it’s become substantial.

Networking has become so much more than just meeting with people for a drink and talking business. Not to mention the fact plenty of people are still looking for work as the economy and market recovers, so it’s important to have as many assets at your disposal as possible.

Get on some of the social networking sites and see if your previous companies are on there. Odds are, they have pages. Now check out some of their followers, anyone you know? The Wall Street Journal recently did a story stating businesses, big and small, are doing more than ever with their social media pages as they have become more prominent than their websites.

So start connecting. First, you never know who you will bump into on these pages. You will find old friends and co-workers. That right there has just increased your chances of getting a lead on a job. There are also links to blogs on these pages, which will give you better insight on the changing of the market and what companies are looking for in applicants.  Any position that has to do with communications will required some amount of social media knowledge, so for some, these skills are make or break.

The biggest mistake you can make in your job networking is to underestimate the importance of social media. Add all you can to your repertoire and better you chances of landing a great job, quickly.

It works, and works well, as long as you treat this fashion of networking the same as you would networking in person. Once on, you need to be an active member. Also, just as networking in person, first impressions last forever, so make  sure your pages represent who you are and what you have to offer. You never know who might be looking at them.

March 16, 2011

CEO Job Network – The Best Information on the Best Jobs

Filed under: Uncategorized — Admin @ 8:00 pm

According to data from the IRS, only 9 percent of the total jobs available in the United States are in the $101,000+ range. As such, the competition for these highly coveted positions can be intensely competitive.

The CEO Job Network provides information, advice and strategies to aid any professional seeking a high-level position, developed through extensive research performed by our affiliates.

Our mission is to continually offer the best material we can gather in an effort to give executives and professionals the inside track into today’s job market.

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