Too often, companies emphasize hard work over experience, when instead they should put smart work ahead of hard work. Ever felt that kind of disdain? Then this list is for you.
1. CareerJournal.com: Start by deciding what you want to do next. Emily Allen, manager of the Workforce Initiative Program at AARP: for older workers, it’s often “the first time in life that they can consider what they want to do rather than what they need to do.”
From Forbes.com via YourHRGuy via Waypoint:
2. Midlife job seekers need a resume that looks forward, not backward. To quote from the article- “a résumé shouldn’t read like the testimonial at your retirement dinner.” Rather- “Change the perspective from “look at everything I have done,” to “look at everything I can do for you.”"
3. Don’t be defensive and don’t omit dates. You’ve worked hard to get where you are, so be proud of what you’ve accomplished along the way and be even more enthusiastic about what you have yet to accomplish.
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These were the most-read articles posted on JobMob over the month of March 2007 according to FeedBurner’s Site Statistics: 371 Reads – Jacob Richman’s 2007 CJI Salary Survey Results Now Available Every year, Jacob Richman polls the subscribers of his Computer Jobs in Israel (CJI) mailing list about their salaries. The 2007 results were released [...]
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The Dream Job. The one that you never want to end. The one that you would love. The one that you’ve never had and may never have. Until now.
In Theory
Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for doing it
Flashback. When I was a teenager growing up in Montreal, I loved baseball. A friend and I would try to see as many games as possible each summer, and every time we went to the stadium to watch our favorite team (the now-defunct Expos), we would rave about what work must be like as a batboy, the next best thing to actually being a player.
Being a batboy was our dream job at that time, a job we would have done for free paid to do. The fact is that we saw only one facet of that job – the batboy helping the players during the game – and that if we’d known his entire job description including all the time he spends cleaning, polishing and shining, we would have set our hearts elsewhere.
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Over at wait till I come!, Christian Heilmann recently wrote about how to write a proper CV and get hired as a web developer. He opens with a disclaimer explaining how his tips are really only for prospective web developers and that ‘they will probably not work for other professions involved in web development’ but [...]
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