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.
Continue reading >> 40 Tips for Job Seekers Over 40
--Jacob Share
Everyone has work or job search horror stories to tell. Here are 10 of the funniest job horror stories from around the web.
10. Concerned Employer
From Workrant.com:
“Firing a married couple who had just bought a house and were expecting their first child. The husband was simply fired because they (upper management) figured he’d be mad that his wife was fired.”
9. Honesty is the Best Policy
From The Real World:
“I instantly realize, of course, that there had indeed been a dollar on that table and I tell them that, and that I know that dollar is somewhere deep in the bucket, since that was the first table I had bussed and the bucket was now full, and since I don’t empty the buckets, I obviously wasn’t stealing… They say if it isn’t in that bucket I’m fired.”
Continue reading >> Top 10 Funniest Job Horror Stories
--Jacob Share
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.
Continue reading >> The Secret To Finding Dream Jobs
--Jacob Share
Over on Secrets of the Job Hunt, Chris Russell refers to an interesting anecdote told by Harry Joiner on his blog the Marketing Headhunter recounting the tremendous efforts of a job seeker to understand the company he would be interviewing for. Chris calls it an “amazing story of true dedication to the job search process”. It’s a quick but fascinating read.
Continue reading >> How Much Company Research is Too Much Research?
--Jacob Share
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