In many cities and local communities, spring is career fair season. While these events often prove disappointing, job-seekers who understand how “work” career fairs use these events as powerful networking sessions leading to interviews with future employers. If you are considering attending a job fair soon, you’ll get more out of the event by following these three rules.
Practice Career Management to Avoid Career Crisis
Have you ever been caught in career crisis-sudden downsizing that finds you without a job, without prospects for a job, and without contacts who can refer you to jobs? Job seekers in career crisis make decisions based on fear and expediency rather than logic and clear planning. Career management helps one avoid career crisis.
Find the Career That’s Been Looking for You
Charles M. Schultz, (“Peanuts”) wrote: “I have always been grateful for the tolerance my parents showed for the ambition I showed for a strange profession. They never tried to discourage me, or point me in a different direction.”
The Annual Career Check-Up
As we are all aware, technical innovations, the globalization of the marketplace, increased competition and demands from consumers have all contributed to the necessity for flexibility and focus in meeting the needs of the rapidly changing, fast-paced workplace. Terms like “change management”, “life-long learning”, “multi-tasking” and “cross functional skill sets” echo these new demands made on employees at all levels.
Louise Garver Answers Career Questions
Is your job search stalled? Is your resume closing doors instead of opening them? Are you landing interviews, but failing to get the offer? Is your job unfulfilling? Do you know how to recession-proof your career? Louise Garver can help. Send her your career questions today!
The 6 Stages of Modern Career Development
Career experts say that people will change careers (not jobs) 5-7 times in a lifetime. This being true, career management is an important life skill to develop and cultivate. There are six stages of modern career development: Assessment, Investigation, Preparation, Commitment, Retention, and Transition. Learning the characteristics of each stage will empower you to navigate through each stage easily and with more confidence.
Meeting Seating – Where to Sit for Your Best Career Moves
Attending meetings is a lot like going to class. Where you sit in class can affect your grade, and where you sit in a meeting can affect your career.
Career To Do’s
The start of a new year is a common time when people talk about making changes, particularly when it comes to their jobs. Whether you are seriously ready to make a move or you are still thinking about it, these 5 “Career To Do’s” will help get your year started off right.
Gifts for Your Career: 10 Things Writers Can Give Themselves for a Prosperous 2002
What would make your writing life a little easier? A little empathy? A lot more assignments? A little organization? Here are 10 things you can give to yourself or pass along to somebody else to simplify, expand, and increase the growth rate of your writing career.
Consider A New Career As A Search Engine Marketer!
With the advent of the Internet, more and more people are looking for full or part-time jobs in Internet-related industries. Needless to say, being able to work at home is ideal for those who can’t find work in their location but who don’t want to relocate. It’s also ideal for those who need to work from their homes, such as mothers with small children or physically challenged individuals.