3 of the Most Popular Online Student Resources for Job Search

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Today the Internet is the ideal portal for students looking to make additional money while earning a degree. Most online temporary work opportunities do not have the demanding schedules of regular jobs and allow job seekers to hone skills that will come in handy after graduating from college or university. Here are a few top online student resources to look at when searching for extra income opportunities. Continue Reading

Securing Government Employment – Part 1: How Do I Find Government Jobs?

How can military veterans find jobs in the federal government?  The following post includes information and resources to get you started.

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Securing Government Employment – Part 1: How Do I Find Government Jobs?

Emergency Exit Only – Finding a New Job

“Fortune favors the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur

Sometimes, against all odds and due to no fault of your own, you find yourself either out of work or about to be out of work. Maybe your company has gone out of business or is taken over by another company. Sometimes a product line is eliminated or some other catastrophe has occurred.  Whatever the reason you are (or will be) out of work is really not important. What is important is that this unfortunate turn of events took you by surprise. You don’t have a “Plan B”. You are not ready to look for a job because you had no plans to make a career move. Your whole world has been turned upside down, now what? Continue Reading

5 Ways to Get a Job

Mary Sevinsky

Recently, when explaining to a client that it was important to vary his approach to finding and applying to jobs, I stumbled upon the “Five Fingers of Job Search.”

In general, you are going to have the best results by spreading out your “hand” and tapping into more jobs.

Certainly other ways to get a job, but if you follow these recommendations, you are bound to be successful.

To find the most jobs, you will want your fingers to spread over the following job search resources: Continue Reading

Job Search – 7 Career Links Hot off the Presses!

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary” – Donald Kendall

I get a lot of email suggesting websites to review, articles links to post and apps to review. I save most of these suggestions and then periodically dedicate a post to reviewing and listing the links. So, not much to say in today’s post other than I hope you enjoy the following job search resources. Continue Reading

Filling the Void

“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”—Bobby Unser

When I was in college I worked part time as a teller in a bank. The Head Teller (which is only like one level above teller) had been working in the bank for 40 years and was about to retire (at 65 years old). So if you are thinking that it seems like a really long time for a person to be in mostly one job (without promotions), you are not alone. Anyway, at the retirement party, one of the bank employees asks the branch manager “How come John was never promoted?”, to which he answered “Because he never asked”.  Now I know it is never as easy as just asking to be promoted, but there is a point here (as usual). Doing a good (or even a great job) may not not be enough to get promoted. You need to be ”out there”, push the envelope, you need to fill the void. What is the void? The void is all of the space left by people who will wind up retiring at a fairly junior level (not that there is anything wrong with that). So this post is a bit of a mix and match, a little about filling the void in your career along with a few job search tools that fill the void. Continue Reading

The Right Stuff – The Gear You Need For Job Search – Part 1

“I don’t know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.” – John Glenn

I was watching some clips about the amazing John Glenn who was not only a WWII and Korea War hero, piloted the first manned orbital mission for the US but then returned to fly on the Space Shuttle 36 years later at the age of 77! Talk about the “right stuff”. So I got to thinking, what is the “right stuff” required for job search? If you had the perfect package (all the right tools in your job search toolkit), what would it include? As I thought it through, I realized that this is too big of a topic to cover in one post. So today’s topic is a “multi parter”. Today’s installment will focus on some job search  and document management apps for your smartphone while future installments will will focus on other gadgets, resume, interview skills, etc.

Now while you won’t need anything as complicated as the Space Shuttle for your job search, the shear volume of tools available can be overwhelming. Following are a few apps to help you get started. Continue Reading

Resume-Writing Secrets: Target Employers Using These Little-Known Tools

Jessica Holbrook Hernandez of Great Resumes Fast

One major component of an effective job search is writing a resume that successfully targets the employer you’re applying with. This involves researching the employer’s goals for the position you want—as well as its overall mission as a company—to determine how you can make a difference.

There are a number of tools available that can help job seekers to research companies. Some common tools are the company website, the Google search engine, LinkedIn, and Twitter. But there are other options many seekers don’t know about. As you conduct your research, consider utilizing the following tools: Continue Reading

You Can’t Always Get What You Want in Job Search

“You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometime you find
You get what you need ” – M. Jagger/K. Richards

If you are a member of that very rare group that is already working in their “dream job”, then there is no need to read on (although you would probably not be reading CareerAlley in the first place).  In your deepest darkest secrets, if you could have anything you wanted, what would be your “dream job”? This is the job that you may (or probably have not) expressed to others (but certainly have thought about). I know what mine is. It’s changed over the years based on prior experiences and, if you are anything like me, you probably have varying “degrees” of the dream job. Maybe it starts with being a movie star (your dream job) and slowly works its way down to working in the Accounting Department of a movie studio. But just because your dream job may seem unattainable does not mean that it is unattainable. So, just like today’s quote, while you might not always get your dream job, you should get a job that meets your needs. Continue Reading

The Best-Kept Secrets of Successful Job Seekers

Jessica Holbrook Hernandez of Great Resumes Fast

Do you ever wonder why other candidates are bombarded with calls for interviews and are fielding offers for jobs left and right … while you’re struggling to garner any attention at all from hiring managers? It could be as simple as the resources these candidates have available to them and how they utilize them.

When you need your taxes done you hire a tax preparer, and when your car is broken you take it to a mechanic, right? So when your job search is busted and isn’t working right who do you go to? Continue Reading