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Career 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...
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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 moreLinkedIn Key Word Optimization – Part 2
In our last post we talked about the importance of having a LinkedIn profile and customizing your Headline and About sections. In this post, we will focus on what you should do to attract attention via your Skills and Endorsements section and with creating content. With up to 50 specific skills available to list, the Skills and Endorsements is one of the biggest key word rich areas on your profile you can use to attract hiring managers to your profile. The top two things you need to do in this section is list common descriptive words that your industry and job title utilize. For...
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If you could have a recruiter working for you 24/7 with a little effort on your part and find the job you’ve been wanting, would you say YES? Well, I’ve got great news for you. That 24/7 recruiter is your LinkedIn profile and in this two part blog series, I’m going to tell you the best strategies to use on your profile so real recruiters and hiring managers can find you! Currently there are 575 million users of which 122 million have interviewed for potential jobs and 35.5 million say they have been hired. But what makes LinkedIn so important? Studies show that over 90% of recruiters...
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...
read moreGet Your Hands Dirty to Find Out if Your Career Change Idea is Truly Right for You.
Several years ago, I got a bit burned out on my job. I started daydreaming that what I’d really rather do is get a PhD and train other career counselors about how to be successful. I mentioned this idea to a mentor and professor at the university where I’d gotten my master’s degree, and he said, “Perfect timing! I’m going on sabbatical and you can teach my graduate class in career counseling.” Whoopee! I thought. The Universe was aligning to support me! And it was, but in a way different from what I’d expected. I dove in and taught the semester-long course, and by the end was ready to run...
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