You often think about career change when you are out of work and your job search isn’t going well, but this often isn’t the best idea, especially during or coming out of a recession. A career change is much more of a challenge than a simple job change, and a job change is no walk in the park these days.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Knock 'em Dead Secrets & Strategies Hailed as Career Book of the Year!
The following review is by Joyce Lain Kennedy, for 30 years the dioyenne of career columnists. You’ll be seeing this review in the 125+ newspapers , including LA Times, Chicago Tribune.
GROW WITH CAREER BOOK OF THE YEAR
By Joyce Lain Kennedy
Tribune Media Services
GROW WITH CAREER BOOK OF THE YEAR
By Joyce Lain Kennedy
Tribune Media Services
Consider this unvarnished advice: “If you are going to survive and prosper as a professional over the long haul, you have to pull your head out of the sand — or wherever else you had it stuck — and start getting actively involved in the management of your life.” Read that again.
In these uncertain times, truer words were never spoken. They flow from the keyboard of one of the most influential authors in the career space: Martin Yate, creator of the popular Knock ‘em Dead books.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
The Key To the Inner Circle, Promotions and Success
If you hope to win in life, you must survive long enough to reach your rewards and you won't do this entirely alone.
Yes you'll make the effort and sacrifices that others may not, but you will never be successful without being a respected member of the teams in which you work. It's how the anointed first get noticed.
You do the best for your career when you commit to the success of every project, every team and every department with which you are involved. You get behind every leader and you give your best on every assignment because you know the rough comes with the smooth. The real players know this and respect it in others. So you are selfless for the team and for the boss because it is in your own selfish best interests. Companies have inner circles, and those in them get the plum assignments, the promotions and the biggest raises. The inner circle will notice your commitment and welcome you in as you take another step closer to success. Nietzschean teamwork, what a concept.
Join Martin every week to learn more about writing a killer resume, getting more job interviews and turning job interviews into job offers at his free weekly webcast, Mondays at noon central. Details: http://my.knockemdead.com
Yes you'll make the effort and sacrifices that others may not, but you will never be successful without being a respected member of the teams in which you work. It's how the anointed first get noticed.
You do the best for your career when you commit to the success of every project, every team and every department with which you are involved. You get behind every leader and you give your best on every assignment because you know the rough comes with the smooth. The real players know this and respect it in others. So you are selfless for the team and for the boss because it is in your own selfish best interests. Companies have inner circles, and those in them get the plum assignments, the promotions and the biggest raises. The inner circle will notice your commitment and welcome you in as you take another step closer to success. Nietzschean teamwork, what a concept.
Join Martin every week to learn more about writing a killer resume, getting more job interviews and turning job interviews into job offers at his free weekly webcast, Mondays at noon central. Details: http://my.knockemdead.com
Monday, May 23, 2011
Reaching Out, Making Contact
When you use social networking sites in your job search, the people of most interest to you will likely fall into two basic categories:
- Those who might hire you
- Those who have common professional experience and are consequently high-value networking contacts
Friday, May 20, 2011
No One Owes You a Job, Tough Love For a Recent Grad
"After nearly three months on the job, I feel the position should pay more. I keep taking on more duties, but am afraid I won't be able to handle them all. I would even like to give back some of the extra duties and cut my hours. How do I tell the employer this and ask for a salary increase? Someone else, hired a week before me, has been given two raises already."
Your employer is going to hear, "I've just finished my probation period, can I stop working so hard now? And, while you are at it, how about a big fat raise?" It won't work. Instead of whining, make a study of that colleague who got two raises in 90 days. You would be well advised to copy his or her approach by making a difference with your presence. Good advice, even if it wasn't what you wanted to hear.
Join Martin every week to learn more about writing a killer resume, getting more job interviews and turning job interviews into job offers at his free weekly webcast, Mondays at noon central. Details: http://my.knockemdead.com
Your employer is going to hear, "I've just finished my probation period, can I stop working so hard now? And, while you are at it, how about a big fat raise?" It won't work. Instead of whining, make a study of that colleague who got two raises in 90 days. You would be well advised to copy his or her approach by making a difference with your presence. Good advice, even if it wasn't what you wanted to hear.
Join Martin every week to learn more about writing a killer resume, getting more job interviews and turning job interviews into job offers at his free weekly webcast, Mondays at noon central. Details: http://my.knockemdead.com
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
An In-Depth Look at Personal Branding - Building Me, Inc.
Sometimes you have to make your own thunder, and you can’t count on the gods.
Customers are fiercely loyal to the brands they like, and those brands become wildly successful. Just as an established corporation needs brand development to sustain growth, so you need to look at MeInc’s leading product and develop ways to differentiate it from the competition.
Where You Stand Now
You have decided to take control and change the trajectory of your career in other ways—by developing new transferable skills and polishing existing ones—and have vowed to more consciously integrate professional values into how you think about and conduct your professional life. After considerable self-analysis, your resume is finished and a plan of attack for your job search is coming into focus.
Join Martin every week to learn more about writing a killer resume, getting more job interviews and turning job interviews into job offers at his free weekly webcast, Mondays at noon central. Details: http://my.knockemdead.com
Customers are fiercely loyal to the brands they like, and those brands become wildly successful. Just as an established corporation needs brand development to sustain growth, so you need to look at MeInc’s leading product and develop ways to differentiate it from the competition.
Where You Stand Now
You have decided to take control and change the trajectory of your career in other ways—by developing new transferable skills and polishing existing ones—and have vowed to more consciously integrate professional values into how you think about and conduct your professional life. After considerable self-analysis, your resume is finished and a plan of attack for your job search is coming into focus.
Join Martin every week to learn more about writing a killer resume, getting more job interviews and turning job interviews into job offers at his free weekly webcast, Mondays at noon central. Details: http://my.knockemdead.com
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Tips from Knock 'em Dead Secrets & Strategies
The most important book Martin has written in twenty-five years. Secrets & Strategies for Success achieves the completely unexpected by weaving everything you need to know about navigating the twists and turns of a successful career into the latest cutting-edge strategies for job search and turning job interviews into job offers.
Throughout the book you learn to apply invaluable lessons to make your professional life more successful and more secure.
Throughout the book you learn to apply invaluable lessons to make your professional life more successful and more secure.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
How to Build a Social Network for Your Job Search
The big problem with any job search is finding job openings, and a good percentage of the ones you come across won’t be quite right for you. Instead they will be right for someone 1-3 levels above you, beneath you, or in the department right next to yours.
But this big job search problem can be the solution to your biggest networking problem: the fact that you always have your hand out and never have much to offer in return. Those jobs that aren’t quite right for your needs are often going to be a match for exactly the people you reach out to in your networking efforts. Suddenly, you have something of real interest to offer networking contacts who could be in a position to help you.
This helps with another networking challenge: developing mutually rewarding relationships. When you bring something of value to a colleague in need, you are doing the right thing at no cost to yourself, and almost certainly increasing valuable leads for your search and building a reliable network for the future.
Join Martin every week to learn more about writing a killer resume, getting more job interviews and turning job interviews into job offers at his free weekly webcast, Mondays at noon central. Details: http://my.knockemdead.com
But this big job search problem can be the solution to your biggest networking problem: the fact that you always have your hand out and never have much to offer in return. Those jobs that aren’t quite right for your needs are often going to be a match for exactly the people you reach out to in your networking efforts. Suddenly, you have something of real interest to offer networking contacts who could be in a position to help you.
This helps with another networking challenge: developing mutually rewarding relationships. When you bring something of value to a colleague in need, you are doing the right thing at no cost to yourself, and almost certainly increasing valuable leads for your search and building a reliable network for the future.
Join Martin every week to learn more about writing a killer resume, getting more job interviews and turning job interviews into job offers at his free weekly webcast, Mondays at noon central. Details: http://my.knockemdead.com
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
”What do you think it takes to have a successful career?”
How should you respond when an interviewer asks, ”What do you think it takes to have a successful career?”
A: Your answer should show that you understand that success takes deep knowledge of and commitment to your profession and industry, plus a personal commitment: to the job, to the team, and to the mission. Your answer should also stress your long-term investment in making a difference with your presence, so this is the place to mention activities in professional associations, as well as any ongoing education and classes you’ve taken that demonstrate continued commitment to skill development.
Join Martin every week to learn more about writing a killer resume, getting more job interviews and turning job interviews into job offers at his free weekly webcast, Mondays at noon central. Details: http://my.knockemdead.com
A: Your answer should show that you understand that success takes deep knowledge of and commitment to your profession and industry, plus a personal commitment: to the job, to the team, and to the mission. Your answer should also stress your long-term investment in making a difference with your presence, so this is the place to mention activities in professional associations, as well as any ongoing education and classes you’ve taken that demonstrate continued commitment to skill development.
Join Martin every week to learn more about writing a killer resume, getting more job interviews and turning job interviews into job offers at his free weekly webcast, Mondays at noon central. Details: http://my.knockemdead.com
Monday, May 9, 2011
Reference Check Costs Woman Job Offer
In our ever more security conscious world reference checks are an accepted part of the selection cycle. You can be asked for references at any time but time constraints mean that, practically speaking, your references usually only get checked immediately before or after an offer, or sometimes within the 90 day probationary of your having started the job.
Unfortunately it wasn’t the first time I’d faced this nasty little problem, so I asked two questions, “ have you been divorced, and do you now work under a different name?”
Unfortunately it wasn’t the first time I’d faced this nasty little problem, so I asked two questions, “ have you been divorced, and do you now work under a different name?”
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Personal Branding Is Integral to Career Success
In a less secure professional world than anyone has ever known, you need a tougher, more pragmatic approach to managing your professional life. It’s time to stop thinking of yourself simply as a professional job title and an employee, because this point of view has you psychologically shackled to entities that can, and will, dispose of your services at short notice.
Instead, start to think of yourself as Me, Inc., a corporation that operates in the best interests of its shareholders for their (i.e. your) long-term economic success. When you use a more corporate mindset and replicate the operational behavior of a corporation, you will dramatically improve your odds of reaching life goals.
Instead, start to think of yourself as Me, Inc., a corporation that operates in the best interests of its shareholders for their (i.e. your) long-term economic success. When you use a more corporate mindset and replicate the operational behavior of a corporation, you will dramatically improve your odds of reaching life goals.
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