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Preparing for tough interviews
You just got the call inviting you to interview for your dream job. You are the perfect candidate, the pay is right and you are excited to have the opportunity. And then it strikes. That lurking monster called FEAR. All of a sudden you are not sure if you have the skills they are looking for. What should you say? How do you convince your dream company to choose you? These are common questions asked by many job seekers when faced with issues and the key to performing well and leaving a lasting impression with potential employers is preparation. As you begin planning for your upcoming...
read moreCareer Growth Secret – Part 3
You’ve got career growth on your mind, and you’ve identified and developed some success stories to help you achieve it. Kudos to you! Now I’ll share with you how to put those success stories to work. PERFORMANCE REVIEWS: Let’s say you’ve got a performance review coming up and you want to be able to apply your success stories in that kind of application. You want to track your successes for the entire time period that you are being reviewed for. I think it’s a great idea to keep a success journal. We already talked about how you can go back over your status reports or a...
read moreCareer Growth Secret – Part 2
In my last blog I outlined ideas for where to find your success stories, and how to determine which would be best for you to emphasize to support your career growth goals. Now we’re going to discuss how to develop them into powerful career growth tools! And you’ll want to start by asking yourself, “What are the skills most important to succeed with where I want to grow?” For example, if you’re interested in a promotion to a team supervisor position in an accounting department you would ask yourself, “If I’m aiming for this type of job, what are the key skills they seek?” If...
read moreCareer Growth Secret – Part 1
Want to grow career-wise, but feel stuck without a strategy or tools that will help you progress? If you want to advance in your present work, be noticed for other positions, or just feel more confident in your career, then I have to share with you what I discovered is a very little known career growth success secret that can help you accomplish all of these. I know from speaking with over 20,000 career-minded people over the last 20+ years that fewer than 5% know about this secret. So, what is this secret that I’m talking about? Success stories! The ability to define your successes...
read moreHelpful Career Data Resources to Help You Dig In On Your Career Change Ideas
Career data available online can be helpful in determining if the career change options you’re considering will work for you. I recommend digging in on these resources after you’ve executed the career research interviews and career experiment strategies I discussed in the previous 2 blogs, for this reason: When you identify an area that intrigues you and pull up some statistics or specifications on it, often you’ll see too many roadblocks right away. Like, “Oh, I don’t have that training” or “Oh, it’s not going to pay enough.” Yet when you explore...
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