Attract Your Dream Job: What’s Holding You Back? “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein Too many people settle for mediocrity, ending up stuck in a rut and working in a spiritually and mentally unfulfilling job. Rather than going for what [...]
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Sample Resume Proposal Letter
Date Mr. James Jones Jones Restaurant 2197 E. 8th Street City, CA 90000 Dear Mr. Jones, I would like to make a proposal to you – regarding the advertised position of [insert title]. As firm believer in delivering results first, I would be delighted to assume the role of manager on a trial basis, and [...]
Apply Marketing Strategies in Your Job Hunt
“Nothing can stop a person with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; but nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson The economic crisis has bitten deep, and a growing pool of talented individuals is chasing an ever-diminishing number of jobs. Pushing to the head of [...]
How to Use Postcards for Marketing and Self-Promotion
How to Use Printed Postcards for Marketing and Self-Promotion In today’s market, most are focused on using websites and articles to promote their business online. As the internet continues to expand, failing to cultivate an online marketing strategy could prove fatal. However, building a business online should not distract you from traditional marketing methods, because [...]
Making the Most of Linkedin for Professional Networking
Making the Most of Linkedin for Professional Networking When we think of social networking, we tend to think of the FaceBook and MySpace sites, where people from all corners of the earth can meet, chat and share pictures. The problem with using these sites for business is that they attract a lot of clutter and [...]
Freelancing – Striking Out on your Own
Freelancing – Striking Out on your Own “Champions know that their success is inevitable and that the best way to forecast the future is not to follow the benchmark but to create it.” – Michael Gelb, Author, How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci During the current economic crisis, many people have fallen into the [...]
Building Your Brand with a Blog
Blogging has taken the internet by storm, as a way to share thoughts and information and market individuals and businesses online. Blogs have many uses, from acting as an online diary for individuals, to driving business to a website. Marketing yourself, or your company, is the key to success, and setting up a blog creates [...]
Apply Marketing Strategies in Your Job Hunt
Apply Marketing Strategies in Your Job Hunt “Nothing can stop a person with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; but nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson The economic crisis has bitten deep, and a growing pool of talented individuals is chasing an ever-diminishing number [...]
FINDING A JOB: 10 Tips
FINDING A JOB: TEN TIPS FOR GETTING AHEAD As unemployment creeps towards 10% and businesses close all across the country, finding a job is becoming extremely difficult. Every company advertising a vacancy receives a flurry of applications from desperate people trying to escape the unemployment trap and pay the bills. To find a job in [...]
Success Tips: Your First 90 Days
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, [...]
7 Steps to Becoming a High Performer
7 Steps to Becoming a High Performer What is a high performer? — A self-starter who takes the initiative to “make things happen.” High performers deliver results consistently. They initiate new projects and make improvements, and “make things happen.” When you earn a reputation as a high performer, you increase your value and become recognized [...]
Top 5 Employer Buying Motivators
The baby boomer generation is leaving not only fewer workers to replace them, but workers with less education and training. The U.S. Dept. of Education predicts that 60% of new jobs in the 21st century will require skills possessed by only 20% of the current workforce. By 2008, the number of young adult workers (ages [...]
Skills Most Needed – NY Times
NY Times Survey of Desired Skills On behalf on the New York Times Job Market, Beta Research Corporation interviewed 250 hiring managers in the New York metropolitan area. They asked the hiring managers, what skills were most in demand. Here’s how they responded: 89% Ability to work in a team environment 84% Ability to learn [...]
Career Resources on the Internet
“The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.” – Milton Friedman “The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.” – Rupert Murdoch The internet contains a wealth [...]
Are You Using Your Strengths?
“Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.” – Peter Drucker At work, do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day? This is the [...]