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Write You - Professional Moms: How to Get Ready to Re-Enter the Workforce
Do you know where your career is going? As staying with the same company for life becomes rarer, more and more people aren’t sure. If you’re one of them, then maybe it’s time to take time out, sit back, and have a think.It’s all too common to find that you’ve got into your job through a series of coincidences, each one taking you a little further away from where you were aiming to go when you started. There is simply a huge gap between the jobs that people get and the jobs they wanted. No-one aspires to work at a paper company, but someone’s got to do it. Once you’ve been there a few years, you suddenly realise that your only options are to
We see lots of companies that skip reference checking at the last stage of their recruiting process, before they hire sales candidates. As a result, they make mis-hires. We also have witnessed companies that realize their reference checking is inadequate, because they didn’t get to the right types of references as they made their final hiring decision.Here’s a couple of suggestions to follow when it comes to checking references on sales candidates, before you actually make a job offer:First, make sure that the candidate’s references are all direct supervisors whom he/she worked for in previous sales positions. Why is this importan
• Your network has gone stale
• Your industry contacts have moved on
• You are not in the loop anymore.
Face the facts: you are at a disadvantage compared to those who have been in the job market continuously. You need a winning job search methodology to jump-start your career. Most job seekers use only one or two methods to cover the marketplace, and miss 75% of available opportunities. In order to get maximum exposure you will need to use multiple job search methods simultaneously. Let’s get started!
First, assess what you have to offer. Take a personal inventory of your:
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Accomplishments
If you can’t think of many accomplishments, ask those around you to give you feedback on your talents and abilities. Often those close to us are more aware of what we have to offer than we ourselves are. When you have completed your skill and accomplishment review, use the results to write a compelling resume that clearly shows your value to a potential employer.
If you have been out of work for a while, you many be wondering if your skills are still relevant. You can burnish your resume by taking on some volunteer work in your area of expertise. Here’s a great example. Is your niche public relations? There is bound to be a community group or local non-profit that would really benefit from having a professionally designed newsletter. Or, you coul
Stay with me on this, the ‘penny may drop’ about half-way into the article!Target - in very general terms, this article is targeted at anyone involved in business, whether it be offline ‘real-world’ business, or online ‘cyber’ e-business.Let’s define the title.“jigsaw” - a puzzle with multiple parts which requires some element of skill to correctly piece them all together in the right way, making one complete ‘picture’.“virus” - an infection which grows, replicates and spreads.Make sense yet? No!One of the key fundamental basics in business starts with this. Business is based on the law of ’Sup
Face the facts: you are at a disadvantage compared to those who have been in the job market continuously. You need a winning job search methodology to jump-start your career. Most job seekers use only one or two methods to cover the marketplace, and miss 75% of available opportunities. In order to get maximum exposure you will need to use multiple job search methods simultaneously. Let’s get started!
First, assess what you have to offer. Take a personal inventory of your:
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Accomplishments
If you can’t think of many accomplishments, ask those around you to give you feedback on your talents and abilities. Often those close to us are more aware of what we have to offer than we ourselves are. When you have completed your skill and accomplishment review, use the results to write a compelling resume that clearly shows your value to a potential employer.
If you have been out of work for a while, you many be wondering if your skills are still relevant. You can burnish your resume by taking on some volunteer work in your area of expertise. Here’s a great example. Is your niche public relations? There is bound to be a community group or local non-profit that would really benefit from having a professionally designed newsletter. Or, you cou
If this sounds ridiculous to you then chances are you really should read this article.Fact is that print is one of the biggest areas of unregulated expense within an organization. In fact, most companies ignore expenses associated with printing. This typically results in un-metered costs, escalating waste and increased obsolescence from this business necessity. Just like any resource area, an audit will help you identify areas that can be optimized and improved.How Can You Start?Companies can begin to streamline their printing expenses by enlisting the help of an organization skilled in corporate printing audits. Printing audi
First, assess what you have to offer. Take a personal inventory of your:
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Accomplishments
If you can’t think of many accomplishments, ask those around you to give you feedback on your talents and abilities. Often those close to us are more aware of what we have to offer than we ourselves are. When you have completed your skill and accomplishment review, use the results to write a compelling resume that clearly shows your value to a potential employer.
If you have been out of work for a while, you many be wondering if your skills are still relevant. You can burnish your resume by taking on some volunteer work in your area of expertise. Here’s a great example. Is your niche public relations? There is bound to be a community group or local non-profit that would really benefit from having a professionally designed newsletter. Or, you cou
Listed below in order of importance:Ask for job leads from your family, friends, people in your community, staff at job centers especially at your local community collage or the collage or school where you graduated form.Ask them one simple question: do you know any jobs at the place you work or do you know of any other place hiring? Searching for a job using this method has a 33% success rate, which means out of every 100 people using this method, 33 will find a job and 67 out of 100 people will not find the jobs that are out there if they use only this method to search for a job. This is one of the five best ways to look for a job
If you have been out of work for a while, you many be wondering if your skills are still relevant. You can burnish your resume by taking on some volunteer work in your area of expertise. Here’s a great example. Is your niche public relations? There is bound to be a community group or local non-profit that would really benefit from having a professionally designed newsletter. Or, you cou
Knowledge capital and best software destinationBangalore famously known as the Garden City of India is also the fastest growing city in Asia and is christened as 'India's Silicon Valley'. This capital city of the state of Karnataka is home to over 6 million people and is the fifth largest city in India situated half way between the coasts in Southern India. Known for its peaceful and cosmopolitan ambience, the city of Bangalore is more famously acknowledged as the knowledge capital and best software destination in the country. With IT professionals making a beeline for the most covetable jobs in the sector, Bangalore is fast developi
Think you don’t have a network? Think again! Start with any people you know. Here are a few places to start:
• Organizations to which you belong
• Church
• PTA
• Sports leagues
• Voluntary associations
Make a list of everybody you know. Ask those people whether they know anyone who has re-entered the workforce after a long absence. Talking to people who have done what you want to do will increase your confidence that you can do the same.
Now you’re moving! Next, you need to start thinking about where you would like to work. Mass mailing your resume is a waste of time and postage. What you need is exposure to the companies that can make the best use of your skills. Identify five of them and research them thoroughly.
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