What if I told you that 80% of what you’re doing every day in your job search is a total waste of time? Well, it’s true, according to the Pareto Principle. Let me explain … Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) was an Italian economist who found that 20% of the Italian people owned 80% of that country’s …
Do you love your cover letters? Who cares! Because you don’t hire yourself. Someone else does. And you can’t bore that someone into hiring you. So, why do so many cover letters do just that — bore the pants off readers? The following excerpt — we’ll call it Exhibit A — is from a cover …
Find a Job by Asking Better Questions To Your Prospective Employer What if you could train your brain to pull job leads almost out of thin air, and see employment opportunities where before there were none? Well, you can. The secret is found in your brain’s Reticular Activation System, or RAS. Here’s the story … …
Problems Executive Candidates Have in Follow Up Resumes or Applications Sent Online … and How To Solve Them I sent my résumé to the company by e-mail,” said Jack, an operations manager in the financial services industry. “I got an automated response … and that’s it. I never knew whether or not a decision maker …
Your Job Search Network That Can Save You Some Time! In this economy — or any other — all my research and experience points to one fact. It’s this. Up to 70-80% of your success in finding a job hinges on your ability to build and use a network of contacts — people who can …
Get Hired with These Steps! Want to get hired faster than up to 97% of other job seekers? Well, you can. By doing two simple things almost nobody else is doing: 1) write down a job search goal and 2) read it out loud 10 times a day. Do this and you’ll find a job …
What You Need to Know and Why You Need 3 Resumes Would you go golfing with only one club? Of course not. You need a driver to get off the tee, an iron for the fairway, a putter, etc. In short, one club won’t work in all situations. It’s the same with your job search. …
Why Some People Almost Always Succeed At Work Some people always seem to get hired faster, get more promotions and make more money on the job, in any economy. Why is that? While there’s no one thing that will guarantee career success for everyone, there are 3 things you can start doing today to make …
Job Search Pain We All Know As a child, did you ever touch a hot stove or stick your finger in a light socket? If so, you likely never did so again, right? Pain is a powerful teacher. A poorly executed job search can be painful, too. And it can offer powerful lessons, if you …
The Most Common Job Search Problems Solved Last week I surveyed 159 job seekers by email to get their answers to this question: “What one thing could I do to make your job search easier?” The responses were intriguing and I will share with you my answers to the most relevant ones in this and …