Main Feature: Job Shadowing Tips Checklist for Teens, Students
Special Feature: Questions to Ask While Job Shadowing
Bonus Feature: How to Get the Best Present of All: Job-Hunting Tips for the Holidays
Extra Feature: 10 Best Job Interview Tips for Job-Seekers
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 and Work Life
Editor's Note: About this Issue...
We're offering quite a holiday grab bag in this issue ... And when I say "we," I mean publisher Dr.
Randall Hansen, who authored every article in the issue.
For younger readers, Dr. Hansen provides a compendium of tips for
conducting a job-shadow experience -- plus a list of questions to consider asking
when you're job shadowing.
For everyone, he offers wise words on how to make the most of holiday job-hunting --
and tells why your job search at this time of year may be more productive than you expect.
If you land some interviews this season, you'll want to familiarize yourself with Dr. Hansen's
10 best job-interview tips in his final article of the issue.
As we head into Thanksgiving in the U.S., we are, as always, grateful for you, our readers.
--Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., Master Resume Writer, Credentialed Career Master,
Certified Electronic Career Coach, and editor at
kathy(at)quintcareers.com
Feature Article: Job Shadowing Tips Checklist
Job Shadowing Tips Checklist for Teens, Students
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
While she was in high school and college, Sarah took every opportunity to shadow a variety of professionals
in her quest to narrow her career choice. Job shadowing gave her a small, but critical, window into the day-to-day operations
of a number of different careers. In a few instances, she also gained a key person she could add to her network to seek further
advice, career tips, and internship and job information.
Job shadowing simply consists of a day (or part of a day) spent observing a professional as she or he goes about his or her job.
It's a great opportunity to learn more about a career and a chance to practice interacting with adults on a professional level.
Many high schools and colleges help their students get placed in a job shadow, but you can also be proactive and set up your
own job-shadowing experiences.
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Job shadowing offers students a great opportunity to learn more about a career by spending at least
part of a day with a professional -- observing, participating, and asking questions.
Students can enhance their shadowing experience by preparing a list of questions to ask. While you may
get to only ask a handful of your questions -- you do not want to bombard (and distract) the people you are
shadowing with too many questions -- it's a good idea to plan for more questions in the event you shadow on a slow day.
What types of questions can and should you ask during your shadowing? Think of all the information you would
like to have to help you better understand and decide whether the career field you are considering is right for you.
How to Get the Best Present of All: Job-Hunting Tips for the Holidays
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
As cooler weather arrives and stores fill aisles with holiday items, it's easy to get distracted -- even
discouraged -- about the holidays and your job-search. Many job-seekers believe if they are in the middle
of a job-search and Thanksgiving is on the horizon, that they might as well give up finding a job until the new year.
Thinking that job-hunting, networking, and hiring stop because of the holidays is perhaps one of the biggest
misconceptions of job-seekers -- and that could be good news for you since you're reading this article. The simple
truth is that while the holidays do cause business to slow, employers are still interviewing and still hiring -- and deep
into planning for the following year. Plus, because many job-seekers suspend their job-hunting activities during
the holidays, there is simply less competition for open positions.
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
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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.
When you have successfully mastered cover letters, resumes, and job applications and are receiving requests
for interviews, it's time to understand how to succeed in the job interview so that you are ever closer to your goal of
obtaining one or more job offers.
Using Student Mentor, college students can sign up as mentees, while professionals can sign up as mentors.
Mentees and mentors are each presented with a list of possible matches. Mentees and
mentors choose their ideal mentorship match and decide how and where their mentorship takes place.
Mentees and mentors are then on their way toward achieving their goals.
Find a Job, Post Your Resume -- on our Job Portal!
Even in a bad economy, there are still job postings and career opportunities!!
Go now to search for jobs, post your resume, build an online portfolio, receive career consultation,
and learn about continuing education opportunities.
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SeasonalEmployment.com --
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Job-seekers can search for jobs (by keyword, industry, and location), as well as browse listings
by job type (winter jobs, summer jobs, cruise jobs, etc.), as well as find some basic career
information. No cost to job-seekers.
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part-time jobs, freelance work, and contract positions in handful of major U.S. cities (but also includes virtual work).
Search for jobs (by location, tasks, industries, availability) and post your profile.
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Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
Our friend Alexandra Levit was part of a committee that advised the Obama administration how to improve
the competitiveness of American employees. Based on the committee's recommendations, Alexandra
helped the Business Roundtable develop a 90-minute online course that aims to better prepare
young people for the workforce. Alexandra describes
the course, JobSTART 101,
as fun and interactive, focusing on skills like developing a professional reputation, communicating effectively
with managers and colleagues, and solving problems autonomously. The course is available to all American
college students and recent grads at no cost.
Brazen Careerist has launched Network Routlette, which COO/Co-Founder Ryan Healy describes as
"a dead simple online speed networking service that helps you build a network in your pajamas
or from your cubicle, and lets you have fun while youčre doing it. Healy explains how Network Roulette
works: "After answering two simple questions: 'What are you looking for?' And 'What are you
providing?' Youčre randomly matched for a 3-minute conversation to determine if the person on the other
side can help your network. After the networking session, you can then choose whom to follow up with through
your network dashboard. Go to Network Routlette to learn more.
Young people preparing to enter the job market during one of the toughest times to find a job in decades
will find that getting a little career advice and information ahead of time can be a big help in easing the transition
into the real world. Online Colleges offers a list of its picks for the 50 Best Career Books for College Students
to illuminate the ins and outs of the working world and how to make the most of a college degree.
See the list.
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
revolution in online job search, should still be part of the job-seeker's toolkit, this
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in the job search, guides you in creating a digital presence, suggests you consider blogging,
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QuintZine: Topics in Upcoming Issues
WATCH FOR feature articles on these topics in upcoming issues of QuintZine:
* Entrepreneurship Quiz
*Cover Letter Closers
* Polish Your Resume Like a Pro
* 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...
