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The Simple Dollar has a great post up about the value of investing in yourself. At the beginning of any career search, the most important thing I think anyone can do is take a personal inventory of what could be improved to make you the best candidate for the job of your dreams. Do you need an investment in yourself? Could you spend a little time, money, or effort and improve your chances? Not all investments are financial. Researching your field is free and could pay off big time. Taking the time to spend a little more effort on your appearance shows that you not only care about yourself, but about the impression you make. What investments could you make today to make yourself more appealing to a future employer?
In the coming weeks, I will be working through the latest edition of the career classic “What Color is Your Parachute?”. Look to the site for updates on my progress, glimpses into the useful tips and content from the book, and suggestions for further reading. In the meantime, have you used this book to help your career search? If so, what did you find the most useful? Anyone with a story of a major career shift brought about by reading the book?
Interested in using those skills you’ve developed in the for-profit world to do good for those in need? Finding jobs, volunteer opportunities, and internships in the non-profit world has never been easier with the advent of several web resources devoted to compiling these job opportunities. They include: Read more
Employers may receive as many as one hundred resumes for every one available position. Highly competitive, highly salaried, and niche positions can receive many more. So, when an employer is looking for any reason to weed out your application from the pile into the circular file (the garbage), it is important to be sure not to make that decision easy for them. For the next few posts I’ll discuss a few key errors I’ve seen time and again in application packages. Today: Read more
Much has been made of Hillary Clinton’s tearful outburst on the campaign trail. There are some pundits who argue that her tears made her more sympathetic to other women and may in fact have helped her career. But what about women (and men) in the workplace? How do those tears impact the future or reputation of the average employee? Read more
I admit, not everyone has a corporate job, and there are probably wonderful jobs out there that you can interview for in ripped jeans and a baseball cap. If you find one that I qualify for, please let me know! But for the majority of women interviewing for anything in a business casual to highly conservative environment, there are key pieces you can add to your interview wardrobe that will class up your image, and give you the confidence you need to get the job. Read more
It happens to the best of job seekers- that one past supervisor with nothing good to say about you. Whether you were having personal problems that made doing your best possible, the personalities just weren’t a match, or you hadn’t found your fit field-wise, inevitably your job search will bring you around to that perpetual question- “Can we call your last supervisor?” How do you field that question with delicacy without giving up on the new job? Read more
One of the easiest ways to make your resume’ seem outdated and irrelevant is to include that ol’ resume’ clunker- the “objective statement”. Generally listed at the top of a resume’, objective statements make sweeping goal-based, unnecessary objectives the first thing a prospective employer sees about you. Applicants returning to the job market after several years in a different field or with a single employer, often find themselves dredging up a dusty resume’ complete with its dated devices. So why are objective statements the 8-tracks of resume’ items? Read more
The news headlines are full of doom and gloom- to listen to the forecast, any day now we could be in the midst of full-blown recession. While the national economic advisers make plans about how to politically address the problem, Penelope Trunk on her blog, “Brazen Careerist,” discusses how to get your career ready for the recession. In addition to her valuable tips (specialize, achieve something quickly that you can quantify on your resume, consider graduate school, do quality work now and develop quality mentoring relationships), I have a few tips of my own on how to get your career recession ready. Read more
The standard model for career success has changed in our multi-tasking times. In the old model, you get your degree, apply for a job in your field, and work for the same company, doing relatively the same job, until you retire. Now, the whole picture has changed. How can you catch up to the new model with an old model resume’? Try a slash career. What is a slash career, you may ask? Read more |
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