Build a resume that showcases your achievements and tells a story
The job market is flooded with resumes, and many of them are poorly written, hard to read, or overly designed. A resume like that is easy to ignore. A resume that is clear, focused, and aligned to a specific role is much harder to overlook.
Are you ready to job search?
Most people start a job search by updating a resume and firing off applications. A few weeks later, they feel stuck and discouraged. Often the problem is not effort, but readiness.
Accessing The Hidden Job Market
In today’s market, up to 80% of job openings are never posted publicly. These “hidden jobs” get filled by connections who network, build relationships, and ask questions before positions officially exist. Want to access this huge segment? Learn how to reach beyond the job board and get noticed before the listing goes live.
Your Work-Related Values
Your personal values play an important part in your job search and eventual job choice. Reviewing your work-related values now and throughout your search can help you make the best decisions.
Finding Work That Fits
In today’s competitive job market, success isn’t just about what you know or the experience you bring. It’s also about how you work, your communication style, and approach to challenges. Understanding your natural behavioral style can be a powerful advantage in finding and securing work that truly fits.
Developing A Constructive Attitude
Your attitude is your most important asset in the job search campaign. Unfortunately, your attitude is also your most vulnerable and obvious feature. If you are in a negative space, you’re competing against yourself and other job seekers. Also, other people are quick to detect any signs of negativism or defeatism and may feel reticent in helping you.
Treat Your Job Search Like A Campaign
Until you get your next job, consider yourself a full-time marketer. Your product is you, the most important product in the world at this point. Finding a new job requires a major effort on your part—an effort large enough to call it a campaign, such as a military, sales, or political campaign.
Connecting, Not Applying: How Most Jobs Are Landed
Individual contacts are the best source of job leads. Most jobs (nearly 80 percent) are found in some way through contacts. Also, better jobs are found through contacts and the best jobs, the ones with the highest pay and affording the greatest satisfaction, are most apt to be surfaced in this way.