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How to craft accomplishments for career growth success!
According to a study conducted by Everest College, a whopping 92% of Americans fear job interviews. Why? One of the most cited reasons is performance based. Candidates are unsure of what to say to answer those perceived complicated questions. But what if we told you there was a simple and effective way to reduce your interview anxiety, leave a positive lasting impression and increase your chances of getting the job? The answer is in Success Stories! What do interviewers look for in candidates? Most often, they attempt to gauge your listening skills. They want to establish a base line...
read moreStrengths: How to apply them for greater career satisfaction. Part 1.
In this article I’ll be talking about your strengths and how to apply them for greater career satisfaction. To get the most out of this information, be prepared to jot down some thoughts as we go along. First, I’ll help you get clearer on your strengths and then I’ll give you an initial plan of action for how to apply them for greater career satisfaction. Let’s dive in talking about how to define your top three strengths. You probably have more than three but we’re just going to focus on three to have a manageable number. If you want to add more to your list you’re certainly...
read moreWhat’s your career status? Part 1
What’s your career status? Thinking this through is a valuable starting step to help you work through identifying what you need to do to you achieve greater satisfaction in your career. In this discussion, I’ll be covering six categories of career status. I first want you to take a guess at where you stand, and then we’re going to go a little deeper into examining what those statuses look like. In a later blog, I’ll give you an energizing plan for each of those status areas. This is important because the better you’re awareness, the better your choices. And as you make better...
read moreDo you love your job?
This being the week of love, it may be interesting to know that on average, only about 15% of people love their jobs. Yet overall, only 33% of people love their lives. And while aging can be a downer for many, turns out that the older we are, the happier we’ll likely become: 36% of those ages 50-64 are happy, as are a whopping 41 percent of adults ages 65+. This could be because they don’t have to go to work! But if hi-ho, hi-ho, it’s off to work you must go, Meg Selig, MA-Ed., author of Changepower and a regular writer for Psychology Today, offers tips on how to up your on-the-job happiness...
read moreUsing Rock Star Success Stories To Land Your Next Job!
Lucky you, you’ve been selected to interview for what may be your dream job. But then you discover you’ll be up against nine other hopefuls, and you ask yourself, “How can I be the chosen one?” My favorite strategy for standing out to is arm yourself with a handful of rock-star success stories relevant to the position you’re targeting, and be ready to share them in the interview. For example, talking with a machinist on the hunt for a new job, I asked him to describe a time when he’d demonstrated his expertise in that specialty. Soon he was recounting a situation where he’d pushed purchasing...
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