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Focus: How to Structure Your Job Search

Posted On: Monday, April 20th, 2009 - Posted By: Adam C.

Know What You Want:

Know what you want, specifically, in terms of job titles, industries, locations, work environments, and salary. Know the difference between what you WANT and what you NEED; know your deal-breakers. By knowing what you want, you can focus your search efforts. Better focus means clearer targets. This allows you to better manage your search.

Know Who Hires:

Make a list. At the top of your list, indicate one desired job title upon which to focus. Your list should be ever-evolving and contain the name of every company in your area that hires for the job title in question that also fits as least one more variable such as: industry, miles from home, accessible by bus line, etc. Do your homework on each of these companies. Then make contact, network, send targeted resumes and cover letters, request brief informational interviews – you have many avenues to pursue. Once you exhaust your list, widen your search circle. Repeat. Continue to follow up with all companies on your list.

It’s Your Search!

Know what you want, and be specific. Generic, vague resumes will not serve you well because prospective employers and recruiters will not play career coach on your behalf.

Your next job is likely to be found because of WHO you know more than WHAT you know.

Do not apply generically for currently open positions like everybody else is doing. Network and do your homework on the position and the company first. Then send a highly targeted resume and cover letter based upon what you learn.

Sending out 10-20 highly targeted resumes and cover letters each week is far more effective than blasting out 100 generic resumes.

Lisa has 14 years of résumé coaching experience.
She currently directs day-to-day operations and programming of a career center at a two-year technical college. From 2006-2008, she served as State Chair of a national organization to support women leaders in higher education. She remains on the Board. Previously, she served as HR Director of a legal services firm and specialized in worker’s compensation issues. From 1996-1998, she worked as a graduate assistant in the career services office of a large four-year college.

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Resume Writing Forum and Community

Posted On: Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 - Posted By: GigTide

Our new online community gives job-seekers, employers, head-hunters, resume writers and anyone else in the job-search industry, a place to connect, share information, ideas, knowledge and feedback.

The new GigTide Community has been developed to help job-seekers connect to other job-seekers and potential employers for peer reviews, feedback, idea generation, and simply to stay connected to the best ways to get noticed and land that dream career. Information such as interview tips and secrets to resume writing can be found in the GigTide Community. Peer support and job-searching advice and feedback helps job-seekers create resumes that demand results and succeed through group knowledge and communication. By sharing experiences during the job search, job-seekers can learn from others’ challenges and successes.

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Resume Builder, Resume Templates and How to Write a Resume

Posted On: Thursday, December 20th, 2007 - Posted By: GigTide

GigTide.com is an online resume builder containing resume samples and writing tips – A complete online resume development and job-seeker solution. Users can build, post and manage resumes, contacts, cover letters and portfolios online. GigTide’s intuitive, easy-to-use interface, resume writing tips, resume examples, resume samples, spell checking, tracking features and stunningly designed resume templates help job-seekers prepare unique employment resumes and stand out from the competition. Users can build and store unlimited resumes, contacts, cover letters and web links for a monthly subscription fee as low as $8.25. GigTide.com is offering free subscription until January 1^st, 2008.

“There are reportedly at least 40,000,000 resumes floating around out there on the Internet today,” said Micah Johnson, Founder and CEO of Chief Ingredient (the developer on the online resume builder). “Recruiting and hiring managers are inundated with online resumes and cover letters. Our goal is to provide job-seekers with the means to develop professional, well-designed, unique resumes that will differentiate them from the competition and help them land their dream job.”

GigTide’s interface takes users through a simple resume development process of choosing a resume template, entering in information such as a professional objective, work history, education, etc., previewing and saving. Throughout the process, users can review formatting information to evaluate whether a chronological, functional or combination format is most appropriate for them. Resume writing tips, a reference list of action verbs, resume examples and suggestions throughout the process help users create professional, well-written resumes and cover letters. Users can also create and manage an online portfolio which is automatically integrated into the resume. Online resumes can then be distributed to prospective employers who can access the resume online, download a PDF or Word version, view a portfolio and contact the applicant with one click of a mouse.

The tracking and dashboard reporting system allows users to enter and manage unlimited contacts, track how many people are viewing their resumes and where the visitors are coming from. “Job-seekers taking advantage of GigTide’s services no longer have to wonder if anyone is paying attention to their applications,” said Johnson. “GigTide is the next generation of resume development and the first place job-seekers should go to jump-start their career search in 2008.”

About Chief Ingredient:
Chief Ingredient, LLC is a Social Media Marketing firm located in San Diego, CA. Using today’s most innovative technology, Chief Ingredient incorporates effective business strategy and marketing initiatives into their solutions for social media marketing and quality traffic generation. Implementing the tools necessary to employ online word-of-mouth advertising, we provide cost-effective marketing strategies that compliment existing marketing methods while allowing our clients to control their brand image and position across the social web. Chief Ingredient embraces Adobe Flex Technologies for rapid application development which allows us to build custom web and desktop applications; providing additional innovative business solutions for our clients.