Feature Article: Women Are the New Men: Reviewing and Leveraging Women's Bold New World of Work
Special Feature: How Teen Girls and Young Women Can Leverage Gender Trends in the Workplace
Special Feature: How Established Career Women Can Leverage Gender Trends in the Workplace
A Quintet of Quick Questions: QuintZine's Q&A with a Career Expert
Quintessential Reading: QuintZine's Review of Career Books
Quintessential Site: Featured Career Web Site of this Issue
Latest Additions: What's New on Quintessential Careers
Q TIPS: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search
Editor's Note: About this Issue...
Highlights from this issue coming up, but first a bit of business from our previous
issue ... In our feature article in last month's issue,
Is the Hidden Job Market a Myth,
we noted that the origins of the concept "hidden job market" are unclear. But Martin Jaffe,
career counselor at Jewish Family Services, Beachwood, OH, sent me his PowerPoint
presentation that reveals these mysterious beginnings:
In 1973, the U.S. Dept of Labor conducted a huge survey of 10 million job-seekers,
asking what job-search activities they had undertaken that resulted in
landing a job. Sixty-three percent of respondents said they had landed a job through
"informal" methods. "Informal" got misinterpreted as comprising only
networking, when in fact, "informal" also encompasses other ways in which
job-seekers take their own initiative in building on personal contacts and
making themselves known to potential employers (such as by directly contacting
employers.) Great information; thanks, Martin!
Now to this issue: Not since 2002 have we published a major article on women's world
of work. It was about time we updated that article with a significant new look at how the
workplace stacks up for women. We looked at five trends in our main feature and then provided
two sidebars on how women can leverage these trends -- one directed at teen girls and
entry-level women, and the other targeted at established career women.
We also review two books aimed at career women and offer a Q&A with the author of one of them.
--Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., Master Resume Writer, Credentialed Career Master,
Certified Electronic Career Coach, and editor at
kathy(at)quintcareers.com
Feature Article: Women Are New Men
Women Are the New Men: Reviewing and Leveraging Women's Bold New World of Work
by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Recent research suggests that companies helmed by women outperform other companies.
Several experts have asserted that too much testosterone-driven risk-taking behavior may
have been behind the financial meltdown of 2008.
And one consulting firm that helps organizations execute gender-balance initiatives speculates
that if a number of senior-level women had not left BP, the spring 2010 Deepwater Horizon
oil spill might not have occurred.
While the implications behind these observations don't provide definitive evidence of women's dominance
in the workplace, some irrefutable facts point to significant gains by women that are reshaping the gender scene in
the world of work.
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How Teen Girls and Young Women Can Leverage Gender Trends in the Workplace
How Established Career Women Can Leverage Gender Trends in the Workplace
by Kathrine Hansen, Ph.D.
The trends and other research -- featured in our main article above -- on women at work and in school
point to opportunities that women can leverage to advance their careers.
QuintZine's Q&A with Career Expert:
Selena Rezvani
Selena Rezvani, author of The Next Generation
of Women Leaders: What You Need to Lead but Won't Learn in Business School
"Be careful about being self-deprecating around men," Selena Rezvani cautions career women.
"For example, resist the urge to qualify your ideas with phrases like, 'I'm sorry if this is a silly idea...,'
'Someone else may have already said this...' or 'This might be off-topic...' The women I interviewed
emphasized that men will often take you at face value, so if you tell them your idea is silly, they will probably
believe you. For most of us, this is the opposite message we want to promote about ourselves.
When sharing your ideas with men, stand behind your opinions affirmatively,
knowing they may not be embraced every single time."
Read more of Rezvani's advice, including how women can aspire to be indispensable, how they can communicate
accomplishments to supervisors, and how they can be CEOs of their own careers,
in our full Q&A with her.
A steady stream of books on women in leadership and management has emerged
since the feminist movement began in the 1970s, so separating the wheat from the
chaff can be difficult.
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Wing to Wing Women's Mentoring Project is a global volunteer movement that aims to
inspire women to reach out to other women and, through the simple act of offering guidance and
insight, help them achieve their personal and professional aspirations.
The goal of the program is to eliminate negative competitiveness and encourage positive assistance,
woman to woman, one woman at a time. You'll find lots of tips for mentors and those they mentor on the site, as
well as links to additional mentoring resources.
The site offers a no-cost Mentoring Guide that can help get users started as either a mentor or a mentee.
The site also present stories by mentors and mentees, along with the opportunity to submit your story.
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Find even more career and job site additions to Quintessential Careers by visiting our
Latest Additions section.
Find Your Career Future. Learn More About Yourself
Career Maze is designed to help every job seeker, at every level, make smarter
career choices. Individualized to reflect your unique personality and written in
"plain English," it is thorough and easy to complete.
Once completing the assessmemt, your 2-part report includes:
A specific, career-relevant discussion of your workplace personality
A list of job types compatible with your personality
Career Maze encourages you to think about tapping your full potential to find your future.
Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
In a recent interview, feminist attorney Gloria Allred talked about those who remark on how far women have come, marveling
at women's great progress. "As a progressive person," Allred says, "I don't look to see where we've come from.
I look to where we should be. And so no, I don't think we've come far enough, because I'm judging by the
gold standard, and that is equality. And we should be at the level of equality political, economically, legally,
emotionally, socially. We're not there. And so we still have a long, long way to go. And we need more activism.
"Legally, politically, in the streets, everywhere, to
make this happen," Allred continues. "... No one ever
gave us our rights, including the right to vote. We had to
fight to win it."
Focusing on advertised positions. At least 80 percent of the employment opportunities are
never advertised. Learn how to do basic research and sniff these out.
Too much emphasis on jobs. If the only option you give employers is to offer you a job,
you're making it hard for them to hire you. This is especially true for small businesses, where most of the action is.
Willingness to accept part-time, temporary, or contract work -- without reservations -- is essential.
Ignorance about marketing. We're a society that knows how to apply for a job.
The challenge for employment seekers today is to become proficient at finding work. Anyone lacking
this skill will be unemployed for a long time.
Too much focus on resumes. Employment-seekers must learn how to create a
variety of tools that are marketing oriented and focused on the needs of the employer.
Living in the past. We keep waiting for the Great Recession to be
over and lots of jobs to come back. It's not going to happen. For a growing number of workers the
era of the traditional job and all the stability that came with it is over. In trend-setting California,
only about 30 percent of the workforce have traditional jobs. That's where we're all headed.
Career Rocketeer is offering a no-cost, downloadable version of Launchpad: Your Career Search Strategy Guide
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This offer is intended for individual use to provide a sample of what the Launchpad series has to offer
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Quintessential Careers Press Announces Our Latest Book: The Quintessential Guide to
Job Search 2.0: Advancing Your Career Through Online Social Media.
The
Quintessential Guide to Job Search 2.0: Advancing Your Career Through Online Social Media,
by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., and Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., provides six chapters to guide you
through the next revolution in online job search. Since job boards, vestiges of the first
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book helps you navigate those while also considering the future of job boards. The book
looks at building your personal brand, teaches you to make the most of social-media venues
in the job search, guides you in creating a digital presence, suggests you consider blogging,
and discusses ways to integrate multimedia elements into your job search.
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QuintZine: Topics in Upcoming Issues
WATCH FOR feature articles on these topics in upcoming issues of QuintZine:
* Entrepreneurship Quiz
* Warning Signs You Won't Like Your Next Employer
* Contrasting Good and Bad Job-Search Techniques
* New Grads: Roadmap to Work and Play
* Working Night Shifts/Odd Shifts
* De-Stressing Before an Interview
* More Cover-Letter Components
* Empty Nest Job-Seekers
* How to Stay Motivated at Work
* Quintessential Career Profiles of YOU, our readers
* Q&As with well-known career experts
* Book reviews
. . . and much, much more...
