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  • Your 2008 Job Search Checklist
    Do you have a job search planned in 2008? If you do, and if you are looking forward to your next job search with dread, you are definitely not alone! Job searching can be incredibly stressful. But, with some planning, genuine effort, and sincere commitment, you can minimize that stress and land a new job - one that is personally, professionally, and financially rewarding - faster than you may have thought possible.
  • Top Tips For Incorporating Your Personal Brand In Your Job Search
    What are the benefits of personal branding in relation to your career and how do you incorporate your personal brand into your resume cover letters and other career marketing documents? Read this article to find out and to learn five ways to conduct a branded job search.
  • Top 5 Tips for Handling References Professionally During Your Job Search
    Tips for handling the references request process during the job search. Never submit your references with the resume. You want to have a face-to-face meeting with the employer, or at the very least, a telephone interview, before providing references.
  • Top 5 Resume Writing Myths & Mistakes To Avoid
    Don't succumb to these resume writing myths! Here are five of the most common mistakes for you to avoid when writing your resume.
  • The Crucial First Step In Resume Writing: Establishing Your Focus
    What is the essential first step you must take to ensure your resume generates results? You must establish and clearly convey your job target and focus. This article explains how to clearly define your job target and provides resume writing tips to ensure that your focus is immediately obvious to the recipients of your resume.
  • The 12 Hour Workday! Enough is Enough! How-to Create More Work-Life Balance Now.
    Are you tired of working 10 and 12 and 14-hour days? Do you want more time for yourself or your family? It's okay to admit it! And, admitting that you need more time for things other than work does not mean you are any less professional or any less committed to your work. It simply means that you are setting healthy boundaries to protect your priorities and avoid becoming depleted. Here are some tips to accomplish that.
  • Should You Lie On Your Resume?
    Have you ever considered exaggerating your qualifications on your resume? No matter what the temptation is to lie on your resume, not only is it not worth it but it isn't necessary. Padded resumes are often the result of insecurities about some perceived weakness. But, by using a few simple resume writing strategies, you can easily frame the credentials that you do have in the most positive light, rather than faking those that you don't have.
  • Organizing For Top Results: The Foundation of a Fast, Successful Job Search
    Keeping accurate, up-to-date records of your job search activities, logs of contacts you have made, and step-by-step, calendared plans of the activities you must complete in order to reach your job search goals will pay you back for your effort multiple times over through a faster and more successful job search. By creating a plan and system for your job search, you will always know where to focus your attention and what you should be doing next.
  • Networking Made Easy: Tips for a Fast, Successful Job Search
    Networking is an essential job search activity required to access the 80% of all jobs found in the unpublished, hidden job market. Here are some tips to make networking easy for everyone.
  • Is Your Job Search Stressing You Out? How-to Set Realistic Goals.
    Have you been in the job market longer than you expected? Job searching may be stressful, but by resetting faulty beliefs and following some basic, proven goal-setting techniques, you can make it much less so.
  • Informational Interviewing: The Best Kept Secret to Cracking the Hidden Job Market
    Even if the concept of networking is uncomfortable for you, informational interviewing provides you a fast and easy way to expand your network faster than you ever thought possible. Of course, the ultimate benefit is that the more you network, the faster your current job search will come to a successful conclusion and the faster and more successful any future job searches will be.
  • How-To Negotiate Your Salary & Get Paid What You Are Worth
    Understanding the process of salary negotiations and following these five simple steps can pay you back many times over with higher compensation in your next position. Know your value and be able to clearly articulate the returns that an employer can expect from hiring you. Never forget that as an employee you are investment.
  • How-to Create a Compelling, Branded Elevator Pitch for Your Job Search
    A powerful elevator pitch is essential in your job search. With precision-like focus, an effective elevator pitch will immediately convey to the listener who you are as a professional, and will do it in a way that addresses not only your unique value proposition, but in a manner that addresses the concerns of your listener. You will use your elevator pitch frequently, in networking situations and during interviews.
  • How To Write Your Resume to Overcome Age Bias
    Learn creative resume writing tips to help you overcome age discrimination and bias in the job search. If you have experienced or are concerned about experiencing age bias in the job market, this article will help you overcome it.
  • How To Write Your Resume and Market Yourself for an International Assignment
    Are you interested in building an international career and working overseas? Read this article to learn everything you need to know about writing a resume or CV for an international job search.
  • How To Revive A Stalled Job Search With High-Payoff Activities
    Has your job search come to a halt? Implement these 5 high-payoff job search activities to jump start your job search and get back to work fast.
  • Career Design: Identifying and Defining Your Ideal Work
    Would you like to work in a job that is personally, professionally, and financially rewarding? Would you like to feel like you are doing work that really matters and that you are making a positive difference in the world? It is possible to identify your unique "calling" and design a career that will achieve all these things.
  • Benefits of Using LinkedIn for Your Job Search and Career Networking
    LinkedIn is an excellent and very effective networking tool to use in your job search. Here are some simple-to-follow tips to help you make get the most out of your LinkedIn account, generate job leads, and make important connections with hiring authorities and referral sources.
  • Accomplishments - The Foundation of an Effective Resume
    It is absolutely essential that your resume immediately capture the attention of your reader. But how do you do that? When your resume is sitting on a desk with hundreds of other resumes, how do you ensure that your resume rises to the top, making the cut to be placed in the "keeper" file rather than the circular file? This article tells you how and provides tips on writing an accomplishment-focused resume.
  • 9 Keys to Job Search & Career Success
    In recent months, the job market has become increasingly competitive. But even as the economy slows, and there are increasing numbers of job seekers in the job market, there are many professionals who have been incredibly successful in conducting fast, effective job searches. What do they have in common? How are they doing it? Here are nine tips to speed your own job search and drive it to a fast, successful conclusion.
  • 7 Tips to Speed Your Long-Distance Job Search
    Are you relocating? Are you looking for work in a new place? Here are seven tips to simplify and speed your long-distance job search.
  • 7 Steps to Writing a Door-Opening, Job-Winning Resume
    If you are currently in the job market or expect that you may be in the not-too-distant future, you are almost certainly aware that the job market is fierce. Now, more than ever, you MUST find a way to stand out from your competition Your resume--your first introduction to those with the power to hire you--doesn't merely have to be good, it has to be incredible. Here are seven steps to help you write a job-winning resume.
  • 3 Essential Interviewing Secrets You Must Know to Quickly Land Your Next Job
    With an understanding of these three insider interviewing secrets and the preparation that goes along with them, you will have the ability in your next interview to engage in a conversation and paint a picture in the interviewer's mind of exactly how you are the best qualified candidate to meet their needs and help them solve their problems - ultimately winning the job offer.
  • 21 Tips to Speed Your Job Search Even In a Recession
    Even as the economy slows and the job market becomes increasingly competitive, there are many who are incredibly successful in conducting fast, effective job searches. Even in a recession and rising unemployment you CAN build your career and secure a job that is personally, professionally, and financially rewarding. Here are 21 tips that you can put into action today to speed your own job search and drive it to a fast, successful conclusion.
  • 10 Classic Resume-Writing Mistakes to Avoid
    Is your resume generating disappointing results? Have you been sending your resume for positions that you know you are qualified for, but the phone remains silent? If so, you might want to check it and revise it against these ten common errors.
  • "Must Knows" for Working With Recruiters During Your Job Search
    For most job seekers, conducting a comprehensive job search includes—at least to some degree—interfacing with recruiters (a.k.a., headhunters). But, for many people, this is also one of the most misunderstood aspects of a job search. Here are some quick tips and "must-knows" to demystify the process of contacting and working with recruiters.

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