The Five O’Clock Club’s book Shortcut Your Job Search has a great technique for getting interviews. My clients have used it to land interviews in organizations they are interested in. A prerequisite is that you have a list of target organizations ready, i.e. your “job-search marketing plan”. Then, send an e-mail out to everyone you know– family, friends, former business associates, old Read more …
Categories: Getting Interviews |
In our dealings with people, most of us will adapt our style to the particular audience and the context we’re operating in. For example, we might communicate differently with an employee depending on their level of motivation, or whether there’s a severe time crunch or not.
As a rule of thumb, look first to adopt an influencing and delegating leadership style to enlist others to help you achieve your Read more …
Categories: On-the-job Success, Org. Effectiveness |
Indeed.com, an online job-search engine that aggregates job postings from across the web, released an analysis of employment trends by industry and geography. Their findings could be helpful to those of you who are looking to develop job targets– I recommend checking it out. My observations from their data:
- The health care sector shows the largest opportunity by far, with a total of 813,000 job-postings, followed by Retail Read more …
Categories: Career Change, Getting Interviews, Job-Search Strategy |
Many (or most) of you are probably on LinkedIn to some extent (if you’re not you should be– www.linkedin.com). LinkedIn is an awesome tool for getting results in your job search. But are you really getting the value out of it that you could be? Use LinkedIn to advance your search in three ways: Read more …
Categories: Career Change, Getting Interviews, Interviewing, Job-Search Strategy, Social Media |
In Part 1, I shared with you how a seasoned executive was able to succeed early in her new position by demonstrating leadership. Sometimes more junior employees, or those without staff to manage, don’t realize how much real leadership they can demonstrate in their jobs as well. Read more …
Categories: On-the-job Success, Org. Effectiveness |
When you answer an online ad, you are competing with hundreds, or often thousands, of other applicants. In fact, I was recently talking to an HR Executive at a Fortune 500 company who shared with me that they received 6,000 resumes for one Customer Service Manager opening! Because of this situation, the filtering process (either human or computer) looks for as close to an exact match as possible. So, you could have a great resume and cover letter, but statistically speaking the odds are still against you making the cut. Read more …
Categories: Getting Interviews |
Bringing a leadership mindset to your job (a compelling vision that you can influence others to support), no matter what your level, is a key to helping you stand out and move up (or stay employed) in an organization. Recent client experiences have once again reinforced this point for me. In this first of a two part blog entry, I’ll share with you how an executive-level client’s leadership mindset was key to her early success in a new job. Read more …
Categories: On-the-job Success, Org. Effectiveness |
In Part 1, I summarized how performance reviews can help individuals and the organization as a whole. In this blog entry, I’ll share with you some of the key details that can help you to conduct the actual review and get the most out of the process Read more …
Categories: On-the-job Success, Org. Effectiveness |
In LinkedIn’s blog and a recent Wall Street Journal article, a new LinkedIn capability was described. Career Explorer is designed to help college students use LinkedIn’s network to make career decisions; it’s now being tested in 60 schools. Read more …
Categories: Career Centers, Career Change, Job-Search Strategy, Social Media |
The Five O’Clock Club has a four-step approach to salary negotiation that I have used to help clients (and myself!) negotiate thousands more in compensation. Thought I would mention a few highlights from this approach. Read more …
Categories: Interviewing, On-the-job Success |
