8 Valuable Tips For Navigating Military Job Fairs

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8 Valuable Tips For Navigating Military Job Fairs

Distribute Your Resume More Widely

As a job seeker, it is not only important to create a quality resume, but one that reaches the most employers concerning the job you want.  Learn how to get your resume to them in a more broad fashion.

Having a great resume is only a part of the equation for succuess when searching for a job. You also need to ensure your resume reaches the widest distribution possible for the type of job that you are looking for.

Employment recruiters are professionals who connect employers with job seekers. They usually have a database of employers who are actively seeking new recruits, as well as have established relationships with employers who are looking for specific types of candidates.

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Distribute Your Resume More Widely

1/3 Work in Fields Related to Their Childhood Dream Jobs

Nicole Williams, LinkedIn career expert

CollegeRecruiter.com partner LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network with more than 187 million members, today released data about the most popular childhood dream jobs and the number of professionals on LinkedIn who have some of these cool careers.

As part of its “Dream Jobs” study, LinkedIn surveyed more than 8,000 professionals globally to find out the most common childhood career aspirations and how many professionals currently have their dream job.

The survey found that the top childhood dream jobs for men in the United States were: Continue Reading

Interview With a Technical Writer

I am a freelance writer of both technical articles and more creatively worded fare such as movie reviews. I have been working in this field to some degree for the past 12 years.

The work that I do is mostly done from home. I set my own hours and don’t go to an office, and as a result, people do not always perceive me as having a “real job,” and it’s difficult to impress upon them that just because I’m at home doesn’t mean that I can talk to them. My job involves being assigned articles and writing them with as quick a turnaround as possible. I need to be speedy and accurate in my work, and I have to be disciplined since I am paid by the article. Continue Reading

Interview With a Writer

Depending on the market, my job title has been ‘writer,’ ‘contributor,’ and ‘author.’ I have worked in the speculative fiction industry as well as the romance industry, with five years of experience in the former and four in the latter.

For me, writing is a mix of sitting down to get the words out and looking around for the information that I need. Even when writing something set in the present day, I find that the more research I bring to the scene, the better it goes. One of the most common misunderstandings about my job is that it is a hobby, and not something I can do to pay the bills. Continue Reading

ROCK N ROLL PALEONTOLOGIST

When my niece was four-years old, she said, “I want to be a Paleontologist when I grow up.”
Thirteen years later, she’s playing bass guitar, learning Japanese and will probably be pursuing an Art Major. It’s not surprising considering her family’s history of career changes. There’s no lineage of an occupation that’s lasted generations other than a ‘struggling artist’. Artists always find themselves at odds with money and work. Some wind up on a stagnated path of a job, mimicking their talent. Others may find themselves far from home base, eventually making a career change to get back on track.
If pursuing a career in the arts could only be as evident as studying Business or Communications. Artists wouldn’t have to hear the old clich√©, “you should have something to fall back on”, as if that would come to fruition. Not to prove them right, but why is it so hard to find a steady paying gig as an artist? Is it really egotistical or selfish for an artist to be non-conformist? I thought it was just the mindset of an artist? For example, if I were to have a bullet point list of how an artist could make money, the first thing an artist would do is, ignore it.
Eventually, after heartache, wisdom with age and debt to match, the artist will find an outlet to their talent. Maybe the well wishers are right. You should have something to fall back on. Among the re-directed artists, Art and Music Therapy offer importance and a respectable income. Both target different groups for therapy. Art Therapy is psychotherapeutic and psychological. Patients can range from children to adults dealing with trauma. Music therapy deals with motor skills and expressive therapy and is given for occupational or arthritic conditions. Certifications and degrees are required and varied. Detailed information can be found at the American Art Therapy Association and the American Music Therapy Association websites.
Now I’m sure there are artists who are saying, “I’m an artist because I want to avoid people, not help them”, to which I may suggest an alternative career in writing. I’ll admit, a high paying job as a writer usually requires a Bachelor’s degree in English. But there’s plenty of fun stuff that can be found in freelance work. Paying jobs can be found in Web site content writing or freelance articles submitted to magazines and newsletters in circulation in print or on the web. The important thing to remember is that all a good writer needs is material and practice. Life as an artist surely covers that.
Artists definitely have their work cut out for them. After all, who can forecast the dollar value of music, art or dance like they can for computers, communications or commodities? It’s all about demand. So, as long as there is a brain that needs help and others that feed on information, you can be assured you have something to fall back on.

Catching Entry-Level Writing Gigs

As all us writers engage in our necessary research first, I suggest looking at the US Department of Labor and its section on writers and editors. This site provides information on the nature of the work, job outlook, training and qualifications necessary, earnings and much more useful information for the budding entry-level writer. I definitely bookmarked that one!
Now that you are even more convinced that you want to become a writer check out career builder.com and put “entry-level writing jobs” and the search term and a bunch of jobs should jump out at you. I did the very same thing, today actually, and was pleasantly surprised to see a really diverse mix of entry-level writing jobs that are currently available out there!! Writing is just SO interesting and coveted, and it is easy to dabble in a variety of domains writing about a variety of topics. As someone who gets bored easily, this is incredibly appealing, and so got bookmarked too!! (I promise, I’ll leave some jobs out there for the rest of you).
What else did I find…okay, I found a website called sologig.com for all the freelancers out there. You create your “freelance profile” consisting of your contact information and your job category (for our purposes that would be “writing/editing/translating”) and theoretically the employers find you. I’m not sure how many entry-level writing jobs there are through this site, so do some more researching into it. This site also features helpful hints and articles and current “gigs” to look into.
Another two ideas I’ll mention are Craig’s list (always a good tool to remember) and search sites sponsored by universities, if you can find them. Doing my own quick preliminary search I found one such search site on the UC Berkeley graduate school of journalism site. It lists some pretty interesting entry-level writing jobs! Just be sure to pay attention to the deadlines listed and the people to contact. Now, go get ‘em you writer you!!!
Resources:
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos089.htm#top (Department of Labor)
http://jobs.aol.com/?sem=1&ncid=AOLCAR00170000000004 (careerbuilder)
http://www.sologig.com/?source=google&gclid=CJL2jpOS9oYCFSwaFQodGF23fw (Freelancers)

http://www.craigslist.org

http://journalism.berkeley.edu/jobs/listings.php?view=job (UC Berkeley)