Effective career marketing is more effective under a collaborative approach. For the student, don’t hesitate to contact your career services professionals. For those who have been in the workforce…
How much time and energy do you spend texting, twitting, linking, and face booking? If we accumulated the amount of time spent (or should I have said wasted) peering into monitors and punching keys over a full week period, do you think the minutes (hours?) would be staggering and perhaps eye-popping?
Once your informational interview is over, write the responses and review them as your career decisions may hinge on the impressions taken from this and other informational interviews. Send the person a thank you note as professional etiquette dictates that you treat the informational interview with the same standards as a job interview.
You might be asking, “What exactly are informational interviews?” And you might also be thinking, just from the sound of it, that informational interviews are going to take way, way too much time to research and conduct.
Unless you live under a large rock, you probably heard of the Law of Attraction or may have even read Esther and Jerry Hicks’ The Law of Attraction: The Basic Teachings of Abraham. You can apply the principles to any area of your life, including your job. In general, the theory involves harnessing the limitless power of the universe to manifest your own reality.
Taking the passive route will make potential employers wonder why they should even call you.
It did much to raise my battered self-esteem…and right after that, I gave my newly confident self a swift kick in the butt. If only I’d made one simple follow-up call!
Keep a pulse on the industry you are pursuing and mirror company needs to what you bring to the table. In today’s labor saturated market, packaging is almost as important as the product itself.
Ultimately, job seekers should aspire to take advantage of any extra edge that they can get. Capitalizing social media is an excellent way to get your name out there, to brand yourself, and also to potentially network with future employers or references. By taking the fullest advantage of social media, the world shall be your oyster.
Six core principles underlie the value of social-media solutions and serve as defining characteristics setting social media apart from other forms of communication and collaboration. Principles include:
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