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Norwood Career Advisors, LLC |
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Are you still playing hide'n seek in the "hidden" job market? Do you have a long-term career path mapped out--one that you're really excited about? Does your job search strategy include the latest and most effective techniques? Or are you stalled in Park? Do not pass Go. Do not collect $100. Are you part of a great networking group that's eager to hear from you and keeps you top of mind, or do people's eyes glaze over when you give your elevator speech? When you walk into an interview, do you have great questions and answers at the tip of your tongue? Answers that leave you brimming with confidence? Or are you sitting there thinking of all the things you woulda, coulda, shoulda said? Don't you wish you could persuade someone to create a job for you? Well, you can! Just learn to market and sell yourself; develop great oral and written presentation skills; learn to use social media and the Internet; figure out what the competition is doing, and create your own opportunities. Sound a bit overwhelming? Why is that when people take up a sport or a musical instrument, they take lessons, but when it comes to the most important task of their lives--a complex, multi-disciplinary task, they try to do it all by themselves? Norwood Career Advisors can't make your job search easy, but we can improve your game. And remember, even Tiger Woods has a coach. Give us a call today to hear more about our customized program, or learn about our seminar on the job search process. In order to give as much individual attention as possible, these two-day, information-packed events are limited to six participants. |
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10 Daily Commandments for Job Seekers |
| 1. | Read something inspirational. | | 2. | Plan your day, and work your plan. | | 3. | Stay physically fit. Eat healthy, exercise, and get 7 hours of sleep a night. | | 4. | Stay mentally fit. Get stress relief. | | 5. | Stay positive: count your blessings, not your complaints. | | 6. | Keep up with the news and your industry. | | 7. | Network online, on the phone, and face-to-face. | | 8. | Research a prospective company or contact. | | 9. | Make an effort to fill a competency gap: by reading, attending an educational class, listening to an instructional CD. | | 10. | Hold yourself accountable. Grade your efforts. |
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Finding the Right Opportunity |
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Fifty-four percent of the people answering our Poll say that finding the right opportunity is the hardest part of the job search. Here are some of the reasons we find people have that difficulty. Reason #1. People blast their resumes and expect employers to discover them. Picture this. You’re an employer. You receive hundreds, perhaps thousands, of resumes in a month. After you throw out the ones that have typos, you still have 10% left, but they all look alike. What are we taught in America? To belong. To fit in. To look like everyone else. Not to rock the boat. The nail that is sticking up gets pounded down. Solution. You need to change your mindset. You have to learn how to differentiate yourself. What makes you different? What makes you special? What makes you unique? What makes you better than other people with the same resume? This isn’t easy. It takes a lot of thinking and analyzing. |
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Benefits of Career Counseling Everyone can benefit from counseling, but if you have certain handicaps, you can benefit more than most. For instance, if: You’re over 50. If you look as if you’re approaching the half century mark, you need to be proactive in countering negative perceptions about being older. There is always age bias in the work place, but it increases with the unemployment rate, which dipped to 9.5% nationwide in June and is currently hovering around 11% in the Charlotte area. |
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Job Search Mistakes - Part II |
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Sales Call Reluctance. Many people have an extremely difficult time networking, either on the phone or face-to-face, or both. Some people can network among those they know, such as family and friends, but not with people they do not know well. Others are able to network among business contacts, but shy away from family and friends. In sales, this is known as sales call reluctance. To learn more about this roadblock to a successful job search, read Dudley and Goodson’s The Psychology of Sales Call Reluctance. The following questions will help you to link the twelve sales call reluctance types described by the authors, with typical job search networking and call reluctance behavior. Doomsayer. Do “what if” catastrophe and worst-case scenarios keep you from picking up the phone? For instance, worrying about going to an event in which everyone is more casually dressed than you are or vice versa. Do you avoid taking social risks, such as going to an event where you don’t know anyone or you might not “fit in”? Over-Preparer. At Norwood Career Advisors, we emphasize the fact that without careful planning, research, and preparation, your search is more than likely to go nowhere fast. At the other extreme, however, is “Failure to Launch.” It’s possible to spend so much time organizing your office supplies (or writing the perfect resume) that what you’re really doing is simply stalling to avoid making calls.
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