5 Personal Branding Resume Techniques You Must Try

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• 5 Personal Branding Resume Techniques You Must Try
• The Best Time to Write a Resume
• Everything You Need for a Career Change is Inside You
• 7 Ways Your Resume is Just as Boring as Everyone Else’s
• 7 Small Business Strategies for Your Career

5 Personal Branding Resume Techniques You Must Try Posted: 27 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT Always highlight your unique traits. To help you get started, here are five personal branding techniques to try when working on your resume. To get this useful advice and many other helpful career resources, visit us now at CAREEREALISM.com.

The Best Time to Write a Resume Posted: 27 Jul 2011 10:00 PM PDT Writing an effective resume and cover letter requires analytical thinking and confidence in your abilities. So let me tell you a little secret... To get this useful advice and many other helpful career resources, visit us now at CAREEREALISM.com.

Everything You Need for a Career Change is Inside You Posted: 27 Jul 2011 10:00 PM PDT Remember, everything you need for a career change is already inside you. Start the transition process by looking there. You can't go wrong. To get this useful advice and many other helpful career resources, visit us now at CAREEREALISM.com.

7 Ways Your Resume is Just as Boring as Everyone Else’s Posted: 27 Jul 2011 09:30 PM PDT Here are seven ways your resume isn't quite cutting it. So take it out, brush it off, and let's kick it up a notch. Start with this tip... To get this useful advice and many other helpful career resources, visit us now at CAREEREALISM.com.

7 Small Business Strategies for Your Career Posted: 27 Jul 2011 09:30 PM PDT Almost daily, I watch new grads fail in their job searches just like a start-up company fails to launch it's product or service. I've also seen plenty of seasoned pro's fail to keep an eye on the changing market and end up out-of-business like a company that stopped paying attention to it's... To get this useful advice and many other helpful career resources, visit us now at CAREEREALISM.com.

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Career Networking Do’s and Don’ts

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Career Networking Do’s and Don’ts Posted: 27 Jul 2011 07:32 AM PDT Here are the keys to successful networking for your job-search. Follow these simple rules and you should achieve success in this important strategic tool of job-hunting. Do realize why networking is so important. Only 5 to 25 percent of jobs are advertised, so you can find out about all the unadvertised openings only through talking to as many people as possible and telling them you are looking for a job. Do read our article, Networking Your Way to a New Job. Do think creatively about where to find network contacts. You can find people to add to your network almost anywhere. Don’t go anywhere without copies of your resume and business cards or networking cards. You can keep your resume in your car or briefcase, but be sure you can access it easily if you meet someone who could pass your resume along to a hiring manager. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Most people are flattered to be asked for assistance and advice with your job search. It makes them feel important. Do join a professional organization related to your field. In a survey conducted for A Foot in the Door: Networking Your Way Into the Hidden Job Market, professional organizations were cited as the top venue for networking. See our General Professional Organizations and Associations. Do volunteer. Volunteer work was cited in the survey as the No. 2 way to make network contacts. Do find a mentor. A mentor — that one person who can guide you, help you, take you under his or her wing and nurture your career quest — can be the most valuable kind of network contact. Do come up with a system for organizing your network contacts, whether a spreadsheet on your computer, a file box of index cards, a three-ring binder, or whatever works for you. Do consider conducting informational interviews, the ultimate networking technique. See our Informational Interviewing Tutorial Don’t forget to thank everyone in your network who has been helpful to you, preferably with a nice thank-you note. It’s just common courtesy to show your appreciation for peoples’ time and assistance, and your contacts will remember your good manners. Do keep networking even after you’ve found a job. You never know when you might need your network contacts again. Questions about some of the terminology used in this article? Get more information (definitions and links) on key college, career, and job-search terms by going to our Job-Seeker’s Glossary of Job-Hunting Terms. Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., creative director and associate publisher of Quintessential Careers, is an educator, author, and blogger who provides content for Quintessential Careers, edits QuintZine, an electronic newsletter for jobseekers, and blogs about storytelling in the job search at A Storied Career. Katharine, who earned her PhD in organizational behavior from Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, OH, is author of Dynamic Cover Letters for New Graduates and A Foot in the Door: Networking Your Way into the Hidden Job Market (both published by Ten Speed Press), as well as Top Notch Executive Resumes (Career Press); and with Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., Dynamic Cover Letters, Write Your Way to a Higher GPA (Ten Speed), and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Study Skills (Alpha). Visit her personal Website or reach her by e-mail at kathy(at)quintcareers.com.

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The Work Buzz's Latest News: Companies hiring this week

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Companies hiring this week Posted: 26 Jul 2011 01:19 PM PDT The last Tuesday in July already? Where does the time go? Back-to-school sales are already popping up and your local big box retailers have school supplies on sale. Yet we’re still two months away from the return of our favorite primetime shows. To fill that void and help ease the pain of school zones returning to our streets, why not take a gander at the following list of 10 companies hiring this very week and see if anything suits you? You’re already here, there’s no “Real House Wives of” anywhere on tonight, and it’s hot outside. Take a look, click and apply1 AlliedBarton Security Services Industry: Security Sample job titles:  Security officer, area manager Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems Industry: Commercial vechicles Sample job titles: Learning and technology specialist, financial/import and export manager Crowe Horwath Industry: Public accounting and consulting Sample job titles: Credit risk specialist, federal tax senior staff Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Industry: Health care Sample job titles: Pharmacist, exercise physiologist Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market Industry: Grocery Sample job titles: Finance manager, team leader Scholastic Industry: Publishing and media Sample job titles: Part-time seasonal warehouse order selector, outside sales representative Scotts Industry: Lawn and garden Sample job titles: Sales representative, region human resource lead SeniorBridge Industry: Health care Sample job titles: Care manager, director of professional relations State Street Bank Industry: Banking Sample job titles: Senior project manager, junior institutional salesperson Tyson Foods Incorporated Industry: Food products Sample job titles: Senior pricing manager, operations associate

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