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Career Cruising
How to Turn a Job Search into a Career Find
Below, you'll find extensive information on leading career cruising articles and other information to help you on your way to success.
Below, you'll find extensive information on leading career cruising articles and other information to help you on your way to success.
Ever watch a hamster running mindlessly on a wheel and think 'Yeah that about sums up my job search''
There is a better way to uncover a great career with more intensity of purpose. You need a focal point. You must have a game plan and a destination for your initiatives or like the hamster you'll be pointlessly running in circles.
The only way to find a new career is to stop looking for a job Career success requires the identical effort and targeting as setting a course for continuous professional development.
Job opportunities are found through the strategic use of the same steering mechanism that successfully sells products and services: Positioning, Exposure and Marketing.
Seek employers needing solutions to their problems Change your career search strategy from hastily blasting resumes extolling your attributes to more thoughtfully approaching an employer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal. By doing so, you'll leverage your competitive advantage. You'll then always invest your energies where you can obtain the highest return of time and energy because your initiatives will have a target or an 'intensity of purpose.'
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Hot career tip: Deliberately design your career management campaign for success.
There are nine angles to engineer a successful marketing strategy in a competitive hunt and each brings focus and clarity. These benchmarks more effectively drive a career transition because they concentrate on identifying problems, differentiating solutions and maximizing exposure to career resources.
POSITIONING
Position yourself as a consultant rather than a salesperson regardless of your field. Do this first in your own mind and then in the mind of your 'customer,' the targeted employer.
Be a Problem Detective. Approach each employer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal. Describe what you can do, not who you are.
Analyze the benefits you will provide an employer from the employer's point of view then define the nature of your contribution as it relates to his or her need.
EXPOSURE
Keep your 'sales' pipeline full by continually prospecting for targeted employers. Always have more people to see than you have time to seem them, but put off calling on low-value, low-probability prospects.
Maximize your exposure-to-opportunity by using multiple ......
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