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By Krista MitchellRecently published1 topic

Layoff Survival 101

Losing your job is stressful, even traumatic. If you suspect an impending layoff and can stay one step ahead of the game, you are less likely to panic when the time comes. Even still, the first few weeks may feel like culture shock. The structure of your daily life has changed and may have left you feeling helpless in despair. Following these steps can help you to retain a sense of power over your situation, the optimism of hope, and sound structure in planning your future career decisions.

Primary topic: Resume Writing

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By Krista MitchellRecently published1 topic

How to Get the Hiring Manager's Approval

Although employers may ask you all kinds of questions in interviews, there are really five main things they want to know about you, and all of their questions are geared around them. Your resume may even be screened out for red flags that call into question your ability to provide these five qualities. Here is what they want to know: 1. Be reliable and dependable.r

Primary topic: Resume Writing

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By Krista MitchellRecently published1 topic

5 Reasons Your Resume Isn't Getting Read

Have you applied for countless job vacancies only to receive silence in return? There are a few common blunders people make that cause employers to toss their resumes after only the first few sentences. Read on to be sure you aren’t committing these resume crimes:

Primary topic: Resume Writing

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By Krista MitchellRecently published1 topic

Finding Job Opportunities and Accessing the Hidden Job Market

The way candidates find work has changed drastically from the way they have historically. No longer can you walk into a business off the street and have your application or resume reviewed on the spot. With the flooded pool of applicants in the market, learning to access “the hidden job market” is key to decreasing your competition. Monster and CareerBuilder jobs are viewable by anyone with Internet access and the number of job seekers is in the millions. That is unreasonable competition. The following steps can boost your success in finding a job:

Primary topic: Resume Writing

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By Krista MitchellRecently published1 topic

Adapting to the New Face of Employment

companies are more and more often using innovative strategies to cut costs with employees. Businesses remain insecure about the economic market, and the costs employers are skimping on are benefits packages and salaries. In order to do this, they have devised several tactics, and if you close off your job search to include traditional full-time with benefits jobs, you may be unemployed for a very long time. These are the new faces of employment:

Primary topic: Resume Writing

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By Krista MitchellRecently published1 topic

How and Why to Be an Employer Focused Candidate

With so many candidates in the applicant pool in the sluggish economy, employers have the pick of the litter. Therefore, you have to work extra hard to impress and prove that they need you. Frankly, they don’t care whether you are seeking a “growing company” or “opportunity for advancement”. What they are conce ed with is their bottom line and whether you can enhance it. What you need to do is tailor your skills, experience, and education on your resume to make you precisely the candidate they are seeking.

Primary topic: Resume Writing

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By Krista MitchellRecently published1 topic

How To Update Your Resume Without Outdated Features

Resumes no longer have rules. They are marketing tools, and they are selling you to potential employers. They can be as individual as the people they represent. Resumes in today’s highly competitive job market should be employer-driven, all about how you fit the employer’s needs and bring value to their company.

Primary topic: Resume Writing

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By Krista MitchellRecently published1 topic

How to Network Most Effectively

Research says that about 80% of people employed got their job through networking. Often, these jobs were never even advertised, making them part of the “hidden job market”. You know how so-and-so knew about a job at his sister-in-law’s brother’s friend’s company? That’s how networking works. It’s strictly word-of-mouth information. It’s all about who you know. Sometimes, companies receive applicants for a position before it even becomes open, because other employees knew the job was going to become available and they let their network people know.

Primary topic: Resume Writing

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By Krista MitchellRecently published1 topic

Accelerate Your Job Search with a Portfolio

Let’s pretend we’re not in a recession and imagine you are going to shop for a new car. You’ve got dozens of models and makes of cars in front of you on the car lot, each with a paper in the window citing its specifications. If that’s all the information you have, then aside from personal preferences in color and such, how will you decide which car is worthy of your thousands of dollars? You want to see some consumer reviews or ratings, right? You want know how it drives, how it performs compared to its commercials on television.

Primary topic: Resume Writing

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By Krista MitchellRecently published1 topic

How to Deal with Gaps in Your Work History

Maybe you took time out from your career to raise children. Maybe you resigned your last job to commit yourself full-time to your college studies. Perhaps you have been ill or caring for an ill parent who no longer needs your help. Whatever the reason, you’re now ready to throw yourself back into the working world but are not sure how to address the gap in your work history. If there is a gap, you must be prepared to discuss the reason with potential employers.

Primary topic: Resume Writing

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By Krista MitchellRecently published1 topic

5 Ways to Solve the Age Issue in Interviews

Do you think employers are shying away from hiring you because of your age? Have you been told you’re “overqualified”? You may not be able to hide your age, but there are ways to make hiring you appealing. There are five main reasons why employers don’t want to hire older applicants, and here is what to do:

Primary topic: Resume Writing

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By Krista MitchellRecently published1 topic

Make Yourself Employable

There has been a lot in the news lately about the long-term unemployed and how employers are discriminating against them. Why are they discriminating? They believe you are “unemployable”. They assume that if a hundred employers have already looked at you and passed over you for other more appealing candidates, there must be a good reason. They assume you must lack the skills, experience, education, or stability to be successful. Is it true? Maybe you need to reassess your job search techniques and see if there is an aspect that is shooting down your chances.

Primary topic: Resume Writing

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By Krista MitchellRecently published1 topic

Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Resume Questions

1. Does my resume really need to be one page? No. The length should be as long as it takes to briefly describe your skills, education, and experience, and accomplishments which are relevant to the job for which you are applying; however, try to keep it two pages or less or you risk not having it read in its entirety. Hiring authorities are busy people and don’t want to read a bunch of unnecessary or irrelevant information. If you are still fairly early in your career, try to condense it on one page, but don’t feel restricted to it. 2. What is an objective statement?r

Primary topic: Resume Writing

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By Krista MitchellRecently published1 topic

Improve Your Interviewing Body Language

Are you communicating a positive attitude and interested demeanor to your interviewers? Body language (kinesics) is a significant part of communication and psychologists say that over 50% of the meaning of communication is non-verbal. Some say up to 90%. Much of the way we interpret the body language of others is subconscious so we're not always aware we're doing it but it is constantly happening in conversations.

Primary topic: Resume Writing

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By Krista MitchellRecently published1 topic

3 Ways to Maximize Your Internet Job Search

You follow instructions completing online applications, faxing resumes, emailing resumes, and you never hear a word. It is frustrating and even depressing submitting resumes and getting no responses. Unfortunately, technology has the potential to make you feel like your job search is completely impersonal. You may feel lost in cyberspace. The media has even recently been reporting about people who have simply given up the job search in despair.

Primary topic: Resume Writing

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