4 Ways To Write Yourself To A Job From Someone Who Knows

4 Ways To Write Yourself To A Job From Someone Who Knows 25 Simple tips from a web content writer about how you can easily use your most basic skill to attract jobs online. This is a guest post by Marina Shemesh. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. What not to do online We have all heard the cautionary tales of being careful about what you post on the Internet. Recruitment officers like nothing better than Googling potential employees to dig up some dirt about why they should NOT hire you. If you are looking for work, it is better not to boast that you are one serious party animal on Facebook. Blog posts and comments should be fine-combed for the smallest grammar and spelling mistakes and you really shouldn’t Twitter a daily tip on how to grow awesome cannabis. Just one inappropriate photo of you with a can of beer in your hand and you can kiss that dream job goodbye darling! No wonder the most of us only have a boring, half-baked profile on LinkedIn.eval What to do online Start thinking of creating an online presence in the same way you would about handing out business cards. Or sending out the millionth resume. Or networking with strangers. Just think of it- an online presence can help you get a job while you are sleeping!eval And this is how to get the whole thing going: Create a great LinkedIn profile Add as much information as you can about all the wonderful jobs you ever had and what an asset you were to your company (don’t brag, be humble but thorough). Make sure that you have a nice friendly looking photo and that you are dressed appropriately. Business man should wear a suit, diver should wear a wet suit and a clown a clown suit â€" you get the picture. Start a blog It makes sense that you should blog about your profession, or the profession that you hope to be hired in. Let those recruitment people see that you are not a total amateur. Writers for example have blogs about grammar rules, gardeners blog about gardening and teachers often write about teaching. But if you want to blog about something else, why not? It only shows that you are an interesting and intelligent person. Leave comments It would be ideal to comment (intelligently) to the blog posts of people who are in the profession that you are looking to find a job in. Also, hanging around the blogs and websites of these professionals can give you insider information about job openings. Write web content Writing guest blog posts and online articles is another great way to build your online presence. Bloggers are always looking for fresh content and you will not have to look very far to find a blog that you can write for. Sites such as Helium.com, AssociatedContent, ConstantContent, eHow, and Hubpages all allow you to post articles. You will be able to enlarge that cyber footstep, build a writing portfolio and even make a few dollars. We have already reached a point where not having an online presence will be a disadvantage. If that recruitment officer Googles your name, you better make sure that she finds something to read. Make sure that it is good enough to get you a job. About the Author Marina Shemesh is a web content writer. You can read more about her online presence at Helium.com. This article is part of the 4th Annual JobMob Guest Blogging Contest, which was made possible thanks in large part to our Gold Sponsor, Jason Alba of JibberJobber. If you want Marina Shemesh to win, share this article with your friends.

How are you Sharing and Protecting your Assets - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

How are you Sharing and Protecting your Assets - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career You are what you share. You might as well protect it. It’s never been easier. Are you using Creative Commons yet? While the concept of copyright may be  common knowledge I’d like to offer a soft skills warm up on a way to protect your rights and copyright. Understanding the way to share information  â€" both of your own creation and that of others can help you stand out in your career. Knowing a bit more about sharing content can help you avoid a potentially career limiting mistake. Understanding copyright, sharing and usage rights can help you protect yourself, your employer and your customers. If you already know everything about copyright protection you can stop reading now. Or better yet take a moment and share what you know in the comments. There is a lot of information online  already available  â€" a few references are listed below for your reading pleasure. I don’t want to re-hash all the detailed work that has already been done. You can do your own research and reading and dive into the pieces that interest you. In the meantime let’s think about content  â€" whether written, spoken, or video. Whether it’s your content or content created by others. Content you create should be protected … and it is. Content you read on Social Networks is protected too. This is not a post on protecting and sharing content that is shared across Social Networks, but there have been a lot of precedents explored and a few new areas broached. This is more of a post to get you thinking about your content that you have created and thinking about how you may want to share it while protecting it. This is also a post to help you know what to look for and consider when sharing someone else’s content. Whether that content is written or in the form of some sort of recording  â€" picture, audio, video, etc. Pop Quiz  â€" If you find a picture you like do you feel it’s OK to include it in a blog post or social post? Do you provide attribution to the creator of the picture? A Real World Example What if you WANT your stuff to be shared? I recently received an invitation to read a business document. It was written by a few people I trust and respect. I liked it. I wanted to share some of the contents. I didn’t necessarily want to share the whole document, but I would have likely done that too. Here’s the rub. I asked one of the authors if the document was available to be shared under Creative Commons. The response I received was a no. So, I asked a follow-on question. I asked … May I share some of the content? The response I received was again a no. The end result. I didn’t share anything. I did NOT share their well developed research or any of  their creatively written and inspiring  thoughts. Why? Because I respect copyrights. What Could They Have Done Differently? First and foremost They should have considered sharing their content under Creative Commons. There are several options to consider here: Here is an  easy checklist to Choose which CC License to use. For all of the license options see licenses Share Your Way  â€" By selecting the Creative Commons license option that works for their needs they would have made it easy for me (the reader) to know exactly how THEY wanted their content shared. Share When I’m Ready  â€" Instead of forcing me to send them a note asking for permission I would have been able to quickly share their content … using their preferred option. What’s wrong with this picture? (pun sort of intended) The problem is by not making it easy to share they made it a more challenging experience than it should have been. If their intent was to share the content they should have made it easy, fast and predictable. The End Result Nothing! In the case of the content I mentioned in the example above NOTHING happened. I didn’t share anything. Why? Because I could not figure out how they wanted it shared. Then when I asked them they effectively told me they didn’t want it shared. So, their hard work lost one possible channel of distribution. The End Goal It’s up to you if you want  your content to go viral or if you  just want to get it shared out across a specific community of people. You goal should be to make it as easy as possible. Not doing so makes it too easy to ignore and allows the consumer of your content to move onto something else. Resources for your further Asset Protection Education and Sharing Use Rights: See the Creative Commons site this is the primary purpose of this post. Consider using  Creative Commons. Copyright.gov yes, the US Government site for all things Copyright. Check out the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) See the Digital Millennium Copyright Act  (DMCA) The EFF’s challenges against the DMCA are worth a read too. This is a tool  Volkswagen used to bypass emission standards for several years. Why Bother Doing Any of This? Remember, you are what you share. You might as well protect it. It’s never been easier. The same is true for the information you want to share.

Resume Best Practices

Resume Best Practices If you ever hear someone say ‘you have to’, or ‘you must’ when it comes to resume writing â€" proceed with caution. The very best resume advice is that there are no hard and fast rules involved in resume writing, just fundamentals, good strategy, and best practices. What are some resume best practices?   Well, to be fair these are continuously evolving and adapting (so once again nothing hard and fast here), but a basic list includes: Address the audience Start with the reader (employer) in mind and work to provide content and value in alignment with their needs. This will help keep your resume from running too long, or containing information that is not relevant. Remember, your resume may be all about you but it isnt meant for you. Use a format that works best for you, your career history, and your career target This may involve a standard reverse chronological approach or a more modern combination format.   For more information on the different resume formats, see my detailed post here. Include the basics Name, contact information, work history (employment titles, company names, and dates), education, and related professional development or skills sections. Keep resume content results-focused, not task-focused Employers are not interested in what the job required you to do; they want to know what specifically you achieved within each role. Remember, proof of skill lies within your results. Be succinct Think quality over quantity for all content, and unless you need to draw from earlier work history (because it is heavily related to your target), try and keep work history limited to the past 10 to 15 years.   Employers don’t need your complete ‘career obituary’, they want to be compelled to hire you by scanning a modern sales tool (succinct resume). Consider adding design components (bullets, color, charts, graphs, testimonials) or using a format that is not like all the rest Be more creative if your industry allows, and be more reserved if you are working in a formal occupation. Identify and incorporate your value proposition These days everything is about branding.   Your resume is no different. If you are the commodity and you want people to buy you how can you convince them to take you on? Consider branding yourself to stand out during a job search! It can be overwhelming keeping  up  with best practices or resume trends, and knowing what feedback to accept and what to discard so if you are struggling to write your own resume, seek help.Resume writing professionals (the certified and qualified ones) partner with clients to analyze unique  career histories and job targets and they apply the most appropriate best practices to get job seekers noticed. Certified resume writers  don’t use templates or draw from random rules; they have  their finger on the pulse of the recruiting world and they know what trends to apply when.

On the Job by Anita Bruzzese How to Negotiate a Salary

On the Job by Anita Bruzzese How to Negotiate a Salary If youve just been offered a new job, you probably feel very fortunate to be one of those people who will no longer have to spend endless hours surfing job sites or supplying perky Twitter updates to garner some attention from a recruiter. But now youre about to take on one of the most difficult tasks in this job search journey:Negotiating a salary. What? Youre willing to take whatever they give you? Yourenot good at negotiations? You dont want to risk the new job by asking for too much? Forget those doubts. If you dont negotiate, you may be jeopardizing your future with the company and the trajectory of your career in the decades to come. Thats because your skills at negotiating will not only impress your new employer, but its expected. If you dont haggle a bit, theyre going to wonder what sort of nincompoop theyre hiring. Also, the salary you negotiate now will be the one chance you have to set yourself up for better salary boosts at this company and your income at future employers. Bungle this now, and youre likely to pay for it in the rest of your career as no one is going to be willing to give you a huge pay boost to make up for undervaluing yourself now. So how do you negotiate the right salary for a new job? Follow these tips: 1. Do your homework.Before your first interview, you should have done research on comparable salaries. If you havent done so, do it now. Sites like Vault and PayScale offer salary information on thousands of jobs, but you should also use your network to ask about(read more here)

Writing Resume in Word 2020

Writing Resume in Word 2020If you are a beginner to the world of writing resumes, then I am going to tell you a couple of things that will make your resume easier to write. Before you start, you need to learn how to write a resume. This article will guide you through that process.In fact, the first thing you need to do when it comes to writing a resume is to get your education and work experience all organized so you can write down everything you have accomplished. When you are listing your skills, you should include your educational background. It is important to let people know how much education you have and what you have achieved. This is very important when you are writing your resume.The next thing that you should know when it comes to writing a resume is the first step of a resume. When you are completing this, make sure you include your contact information so the employer knows who you are talking to. You also need to have a place where you can put all your education, work ex perience, and proof of your accomplishments. This is part of your cover letter.Once you know what you need to include in your resume, it is time to put it all together. A professional will be able to help you with this and will make sure that everything is put together correctly. There is no reason to have an incorrect resume because there are several tools that you can use to help you out.In fact, I know some of you will use the computer to help you with this. You need to know that you should not try to edit your resume by hand. The first thing you need to do is find your own name and format the information into something that is logical. You need to include information about your work history. This is going to be your job title and your position.Another thing you should be able to do is format your job title. There are many programs on the computer that can help you with this and will even do it for you. If you need help then you can even use these programs to format the informati on so you can get it exactly the way you want it. That is something that cannot be done by a human.One thing that you should know is that your education and experience are going to be listed first, followed by your job title. This is what the employer wants. You do not want to try to fit everything into the first paragraph because this is just going to make your resume look like garbage.So if you have been trying to write a word resume in the past and could not finish it, then you should know that it is not impossible to write one now. It takes patience and hard work to write a good resume. Do not give up.

Vroooooom - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Vroooooom - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog One problem with electric scooters is that theyre just too silent other people have no idea youre coming. Fortunately, you can fix that problem, advertise your business AND make people laugh at the same time. Heres how: What would your companys motor-sound be like? Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related

Summary Sunday Strengthen Your Job Search

Summary Sunday Strengthen Your Job Search Job search (and your career) is a marathon, which requires you have the mental and physical stamina to endure over a long period of time. Ive always said that job search requires a different  set of skills, many of which you havent needed to use before. But even more important is having the right mental fortitude. In this weeks roundup, Im sharing articles to help you build skills and mental strength to reach your career goals! 4 Mentalities That Are Killing Your Career by J.T. ODonnell | Inc I love J.T.s closing paragraph. I think it will help you see the importance of the article and learning how to embrace the changing work environment. Studies by CAREEREALISM show that 88 percent of professionals feel unsatisfied with their career success. While you may not have a severe case of any of the mentalities above, even possessing one of them to a small extent can hurt your ability to move forward. JOB SEARCH How to Explain YOUR JOB at a Family Dinner by Lee LeFever If you struggle to answer the question  what do you do then please, read this article!  I shared the  link to Lees Explainer Academy newsletter this week in which  he re-told the story of how to explain your job so anyone can understand what you do. Its so important to be able to describe your work so people  understand and remember. Businesses face this same issue and that is why he built  his company, Common Craft. 8 Ways To Stay Well During A Job Search Dry Spell by Paul Strebe | Work It Daily (formerly known as CAREEREALISM) Whether you are actively job seeking or just burnt out by your job, it helps to rejuvenate your mind and body. This post has ideas on ways you can re-energize yourself. SOCIAL JOB SEARCH Job Hunting In the Digital Age [Infographic] by Vera Marie Reed |  Career Pivot I love useful infographics! This one is filled with tips on how to improve your digital job hunting skills- from using social media to how to do a great video interview. LINKEDIN 5 Insider Tips for Getting Noticed on LinkedIn by Donna Serdula |  LinkedIn Pulse If you are perplexed by how to get your phone to ring, then this will help. These expert tips will help amp up your understanding and use of LinkedIn. Have a great week!