Finding your best next opportunity

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Finding your best next opportunity

I need a job,

How do I get started?

Who can I call?

Anything on the Internet?

IntroductionDoug Caldwell, meeting facilitator

Future Focus

Resources

Schedule your week

Networking go-around

Free-for-all

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Place an ad

“I want to hire someone whose work is already known to me.”

“I want to hire someone who walks in the door and can show me samples of previous work.”

“I want to hire someone from another organization using a recruiter.”

“I will look at resumes.”

“I want to hire someone from a stack of potential candidates that some agency has screened for me.”

Typical job-hunter starts here.

Employers start here.

Copyright 1996,2002 by Richard Bolles, What Color is Your Parachute?

Copyright 1996,2002 by Richard Bolles, What Color is Your Parachute?

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For a resume to achieve results online, some employer:

has got to be desperate to find someone like you; and has got to be at the point, in their search for someone like you, that they are reduced

to reading resumes (many employers' least favorite way of filling a position; they'll try anything else, first, since they regard the task of reading resumes as just this side of having a root canal); and then this employer

has got to go online looking for a resume-posting site (and remember, there are at least 10 million U.S. employers – not to mention other countries – who don't even think of the Internet when it's time to hire); but if they do, then this employer

has got to stumble across the site where you posted your resume – and there are hundreds of such sites on the Internet; and then this employer

has got to accidentally stumble across your resume on that site; and then this employer

has got to take the time and trouble to read it; and then this employer has got to take the time and trouble to print it out, in all its blah ASCII sameness;

and then this employer has got to decide, after studying it, that they like it enough to invite you in.

Copyright 1999 by Richard Bolles, Job-Hunting on the Internet, pg 55.Copyright 1999 by Richard Bolles, Job-Hunting on the Internet, pg 55.

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Future Focus of Your Career

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Two part question; work on the what you want to be.

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Which path to pick? Plan A – Quest for the Best

career track Fulfillment Preoccupation Making a difference Striving strategy Ideal Prevailing winds

Plan B – Allure of the Available Job track Finances Occupation Making a living Surviving strategy Get real Contrary currents

Valued Source:

Thanks to CTW for strategy

Valued Source:

Thanks to CTW for strategy

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Schedule Your Week

Weekly & monthly events Shop around for best-fit for you Don’t forget to look for a job

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Free-for-All Your questions Elevator speech Two-minute verbal resume Resume

Eyeballs Scanned E-mail

Niche networking CCCs Interviewing Negotiations

compensation

career

community

Thanks to CTW for key issues

Thanks to CTW for key issues

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What are you going to do next by when?

04/12/23 9Thanks to Career Transition Workshop for this concept.

Thanks to Career Transition Workshop for this concept.

compensation

career communityYour top choice can change during your career search.

Your top choice can change during your career search.

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Four F’s of Job Search

Financial resources to the end

Focus, what do you want to be when you grow up?

Fellowship is beyond networking

Faith in yourself, others and a higher being.

