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Actions Speak Louder Than Words
January 07, 2013 by William Frierson
The way you interact with people during your job search speaks about you as a potential candidate. Check out some tips in the following post to help you establish your personal brand with everyone in your search.When it comes to personal branding, you can invest all the time and effort you want in to creating well-worded profiles, resumes, cover letters, and “About Me” websites, but if you don’t back up your written communications with constructive interactions, all of that work will be for nothing.
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Say, Show, Repeat: Personal Branding Secret Sauce
December 21, 2012 by William FriersonDo you know the secret of making your personal brand more effective to other people? Learn more in the following post.The purpose of your personal brand is to communicate with your target audience — potential clients, employers and people who might be able to refer you to them.
And, doubtless, you’ve taken time to think long and hard about who your audience is, how you can help them and why they should choose to work with you specifically.
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How Do You Handle the ‘Low-Ball’ Salary Offer?
December 17, 2012 by William FriersonHave you been offered a great job, but given a smaller salary than you expected? The following post explains how to handle this situation.Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, Career Stalled? Publication is scheduled for late fall.
You literally breezed through all the preliminary “screening” steps in your quest to land a GREAT new job at a GREAT company that’s a recognized leader in your industry. And three months after beginning your quest, you have just completed your third face-to-face interview with the hiring manager. At every step along the way you clearly branded yourself as the candidate of choice. You feel absolutely certain that a job offer is imminent!
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Two Excellent ‘Job Finalists,’ But Only ONE Gets Job!
December 03, 2012 by William FriersonWhen applying for any job, there are likely to be many qualified candidates, but ultimately one person will land the job. Whether you’re running for the highest office in the land or another job, the following post tells us that the process is pretty much the same.Well, the presidential campaign is over—finally! It was a long, winding, sometimes torturous road for the two “finalists” for the job, Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama, both excellent candidates. But still, in the end, only ONE of the candidates was ultimately selected for the position, the President of the United States. It is ever thus for most “job searches.”
When you think about it (as I have done!), there are more than just a few parallels between how this, the most important of “job searches,” unfolded and how the typical, admittedly far more mundane, job search unfolds in the current job market.
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How to Target Recruiters Scanning Online Professional Profiles
by William FriersonFor recruiters to find you online, you need to catch their attention with the right title that accurately represents you. The following post has questions to help you determine your professional headline when using social media.Anyone who’s ever crafted newspaper headlines for most of an eight hour shift realizes a lot of mediocre verbiage precedes the stronger, eye-catching ones. The first ideas are rarely the best ones.
This holds true on professional networking sites, such as LinkedIn, where individuals write their own headline showcasing their career and their talents. Writers, for example, call themselves a “digital storyteller” or a “writer-producer,” a “prolific writer” or “LinkedIn profile writer.”
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Are You Branding Your Competencies, Characteristics and Intangibles?
November 26, 2012 by William FriersonI believe most of today’s employers are looking for the total package in potential employees. This combination consists of having the right personality, and the skills and qualifications for a specific job. The following post supports my point of view.The job post of today reads something like this:
20 year company seeking sales professional with 5 years of a proven sales success in increasing new business, expanding sales territory, categories of new business, increase existing account spending, displays a high level of loyalty, plays and works well with others, is a creative thinker, entrepreneurial thinker, has a sense of humor and can wear many hats”. Making a killer apple pie and loving canines a plus!
In this Harvard Business Review article, Hire for Personality, then Train for Skill, the case is made for hiring people with the right characteristics, then train them for delivering their skills better. Makes very smart sense.
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Acing the Job Interview, Coaching Tips
February 26, 2009 by surranna sandyFor most people, especially those job seekers with very little interviewing success, there is nothing more nerve-racking than preparing for a job interview. That unexpected call from a potential employer sends many job seekers into anxiety and increases their stress levels.
As the lead Certified Employment Interview Coach with, I always advise my clients to take an interview invitation as a compliment, as it shows that the employer considers them qualified for the job opening. An interview provides you with the chance to “close the deal” with an employer and to show that you are the right candidate for the job. There are common mistakes that job seekers make during and prior to an interview, however the following are things you can do to ensure that you align your key interview messages with the requirements of the role you are targeting.- Research the industry and organization you are targeting.
- Evaluate the skills and experience that you bring to this role – focus on selling or aligning those skills to the needs of the employer and be ready to support them with examples.
- Dress professionally to impress the employer – it is always best to be on the side of caution and give up the trendy clothing for conservative business wear.
- Be on time – better yet, try to arrive early.
- Make eye contact – this is paramount, think about all the negative feedback Senator John McCain received from the public for his inability to make eye contact with Senator Barack Obama during the recent US Presidential debate. Eye contact is critical.
- Demonstrate enthusiasm for the job and the company – this shows your self-motivation and fit for the role.
- Always ask questions – most job seekers treat the interview as an opportunity for the employer to learn about them, however it is also an opportunity for job seekers to learn about a potential employer. So engage the interviewer, and get as much facts as you can about the company and the role so you can make an informed decision if presented with a job offer.
- Demonstrate courtesy by saying “thank you” – remember to send a thank you note following an interview.
Finally, if you have difficulty conveying your strengths in an interview, I suggest working with a Certified Interview Coach. As the Head of Interviewing Coaching at Resume Solutions, I work with job seekers at all levels from students to CEOs, helping them identify their strengths and weakness. In addition, if you need help, do not hesitate to call on a professional interview coach at Resume Solutions . Your career may depend on it!
Surranna Sandy, a Certified Professional Résumé Writer and Certified Employment Interview Coach and former Human Resources Management Professional, is the Founder and President of Résumé Solutions . The company offers advanced résumé writing, career and interview coaching services for entry level, mid-career through to executive clientele in the global marketplace, and her team of client focused résumé writers and career coaches have helped thousands of job seekers meet their career goals. -
Indeed, Job Searching Just Got Easier
January 02, 2009 by Candice AThere seems to be some debate about whether recent college graduates will have a tougher or easier time finding entry level jobs in 2009. Most experts say the recession has definitely made things harder. But there are some who believe that because recent grads will be applying for entry level positions instead of higher ranking ones, they will fare no worse in 2009 than they did in 2008. Who knows? What is certain, though, is that finding the right job is tough and anything that simplifies that objective is always welcome. That’s probably why Indeed.com was voted the Hive Five Best Online Job Search Site of 2009. News of Indeed’s recent honor was also featured in U.S. News and World Report.
Indeed.com, a meta-search engine, gathers job postings from a variety of online sources – newspapers, job sites, and company career pages – to compile a list that’s fed to the job seeker on a Google-like results page. It makes online job searching a little simpler and a lot less time consuming. Job seekers can have job alerts sent to them via email or instant messaging.
Times may have gotten a little tougher, but thanks to Indeed.com, job searching – and internship searching – just got a little bit easier.
