Introduction
1.0 Introduction1.1 Are you a serious job seeker? Take the Serious Job Seeker IQ Test!
1.2 The Big Picture
1.3 Career Planning Challenges: the tasks that lie ahead ...
How to Organize Your Job Search
2.0 How to Organize Your Job Search with a Career Binder ... absolutely essential!
- Staying Organized with a Success Timeline
- Staying Organized with a Daily To Do List and Calendar
- Your Career Binder: the job search contact notes section
- Your Career Binder: the job applications and resumes sent section
- Staying Organized with a Daily To Do List and Calendar
- Your Career Binder: the job search contact notes section
- Your Career Binder: the job applications and resumes sent section
Awareness: How to Figure Out Who Is Hiring
3.0 Awareness: you need to know who's hiring!
3.1 Awareness: change happens!
3.2 Awareness: do this exercise!
How to Research Your Career Options
4.0 Researching Your Career Options: Introduction
4.1 Researching Your Career Options using Published Information on the Web
4.2 Research Strategy: Tasks and Summary
Focus: Self-Assessment
5.0 Self-Assessment: Don't leave home without it!
5.1 Self-Assessment: What is your career personality type?
5.2 Self-Assessment: Skills Assessment Introduction
5.3 Self-Assessment: Skill Assessment Exercises ... 3 tasks to complete
- Motivated Skills Inventory
- Tying Skills to Accomplishments
- Finding Skills in Your Accomplishments
- Tying Skills to Accomplishments
- Finding Skills in Your Accomplishments
Focus: More Self Assessment
6.0 More Self Assessment: Getting What You Want Out of Life!
6.1 Identifying Your Work Values and Your Work Priorities
6.2 Inventorying and Identifying Your Key Knowledge Areas
6.3 Finding Life Interests and Pursuing Your Passion
6.4 Identifying Your Ideal Life/Work Environment
6.5 Setting your Goals and Priorities
6.6 Procrastination Wastes Your Time and Your Life
Putting it All Together
7.0 Putting it All Together: Your Career Chart
7.1 Job Search Correspondence: The Essential Letters You Will Use to Get Hired
- Networking Email to Friends and Connections
- Letters of Inquiry
- Cover Letter
- Thank You Letters
- Recommendation Letters
- Follow-up Letter
- Job Offer Acceptance Letters
- Dear John Letters
- Volunteer Letters
- Letters of Inquiry
- Cover Letter
- Thank You Letters
- Recommendation Letters
- Follow-up Letter
- Job Offer Acceptance Letters
- Dear John Letters
- Volunteer Letters
How to Develop a Job Search Strategy
8.0 Introduction: Networking to Your Perfect Job
8.1 Researching Career and Job Options
8.2 What you will learn from an informational interview
8.3 How to find people to interview
8.4 How to arrange an Informational Interview
8.5 How to approach an informational interview ... questions to ask
8.6 After the informational interview ... tasks and follow-up
8.7 The Biggest Mistakes Job Seekers Make - Fear of Applying
8.8 Get Moving - Job Search Quick Organization Plan
8.9 Successful Career and Job Option Research Experience
8.10 Networking to Your Perfect Job is a Contact Sport!
8.11 Monster.com: a monster waste of time
How to Develop Perfect Resumes and Portfolios - The Essentials of Your Presentation - Part 1
9.0 Presenting Yourself with a Resume ... resumes explained
9.1 Resume Samples
9.2 Portfolio Construction: a presentation tool for advanced serious job seeking
9.3 Only Yahoos Lie on Their Resumes
9.4 Your Resume is Killing You
How to Prepare for Job Interviews - The Essentials of Your Presentation - Part 2
10.0 Interviews
10.1 What to do before, during and after interviewing
10.2 Typical Questions Asked During Interviews
10.2 Part B Interview Questions Study Guide
10.3 Quick Guide to Phases of A Successful Job Interview
10.4 Asking the Interviewer Questions Gets the Job!
10.5 Phone Interviews Done Right!
10.6 Interview and Dining Etiquette: You are being judged!
10.7 Costly Errors That Kill Job Offers
10.8 Slobs Don’t Get Jobs!
10.9 How Employers Evaluate the Candidates
10.10 Youthful Indiscretions
10.11 Does the handshake matter?
10.12 Polishing Your Interviewing Skills: A Word to ESL Candidates
10.13 Practical Strategies for Optimal English Communication During Interviews
10.14 Drug Testing
How to Negotiate a Higher Salary
11.0 Salary Negotiations: Getting Paid What You Are Worth
11.1 Is That Salary Negotiable?
11.2 Sources for Researching What you are Worth
11.3 What You Bring to the Table Determines What An Employer will Pay You
11.4 Computing Your Worth
11.5 Why is What You are Paid so Important?
11.6 Survival Job: Paying the bills while you look
11.7 Individuals and Society Suffer When People are Underpaid
11.8 What are your salary requirements? A Question You Should Never Answer!
References
12.0 What is a Good Reference and What Should You Give Your References?
12.1 Sample of What to Give to Your Reference
12.2 Can We Contact Your Current Employer?
12.3 Sample Reference Page
Which Offer Should You Take?
13.0 Which Offer Should You Take?
13.1 Assessing the Offer
13.2 Self Assessment for Offer Decisions
13.3 Quantitative Analysis for Job Offers
13.4 Making the decision
13.5 Evaluating the Offer
13.6 The Facts
13.7 Analyze the Offer: It’s OK To Say No
Surviving a Layoff
14.0 The Value of Positive Thinking
14.1 Keep Calm and Carry On
14.2 Leaving Gracefully: how to handle job termination and start setting a course for your future
14.3 What Have You Been Doing During for the Last two Years? The Dodge Durango Answer
14.4 Protecting Yourself After A Job Loss
Managing Your Career
15.0 Managing Your Career
15.1 Quitting is an Option
15.2 Thnking About quitting Your Job? Think Again
15.3 Got Balance?
15.4 Resilience
15.5 How Procrastination Wastes Your Time and Your Life
15.6 Managing Your Career During the Coronavirus Crisis
15.7 Your Job is Killing You and You are Letting it Happen!
