Feature Article: Your First Days Working at a New Job: 20 Tips to Help You Make a Great Impression
Special Feature: Teen Business Do's And Don'ts
Quintessential Site: Featured Career Web Site of this Issue
The Career Doctor: Answering Your Questions
Q TIPS: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search
Notes from the Editor: About this Issue...
We dedicate an issue around this time of year to younger and entry-level job-seekers, but this
year's issue has wider appeal than most.
Our feature article on making a great first impression when you start a new job will be
of interest to entry-level workers, but is also of general interest to all readers.
And teens who want to make some money this summer (and family members and friends of those
teens) will want to check out our do's and dont's for teen businesses.
Want to get your resume, CV or cover letter critiqued right away? Want to be able to interact with
the person critiquing your documents and ask questions?
Our sister site, Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters now offers Same-Day Interactive
Resume, CV, and Cover Letter Critiques via Instant Messenger.
Your First Days Working at a New Job: 20 Tips to Help You Make a Great Impression
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D. and Katharine Hansen
You know how it is.
Early on in life you learn its importance.
As you learn about job-hunting, its value again gains prominence.
And now, as you are about to start at a new job, it reaches a critical state.
What is it?
It is the impact of first impressions. In categorizing people,
we all take shortcuts, and
first impressions about people often
turn into long-term perceptions and reputations -- which are good
for people who make positive first impressions (the halo effect),
but bad for people who make negative first impressions.
To maximize your job opportunities, you'll need to cover a lot of ground. One way to do that is to post your resume
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Within minutes you'll be seen on Monster, HotJobs, FlipDog, Dice, CareerBuilder and more, where 1.5 million employers
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And check out our Teen Business Do's and Dont's article
for great tips and suggestions to help younger teens earn some money and get work experience by starting their own
neighborhood businesses.
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Q TIPS: Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Part-time work, in moderation, is actually beneficial to
high-school students because the real-world skills they acquire
on the job make them more disciplined students, Statistics Canada
reported recently. A survey of more than 20,000 young Canadians
found that students who work up to 20 hours a week are less likely
to drop out than classmates who work excessively or not at all.
Statscan reported that in 2000 more than half of the students
surveyed worked between one and 30 hours a week in their final
year of high school. Slightly more than a third did not work
at all, and fewer than 10 percent worked more than 30 hours a week.
Different people leave their jobs for different reasons.
A recent survey conducted on the Web sites
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and at MBACareers.com
found that women aren't satisfied with their current job
because of lack of "fit" with company, while MBAs are
looking elsewhere due to lack of career advancement
opportunities. Diversity employees, however, state that
their working relationship with their boss is the most significant
reason for lack of satisfaction in the workplace. Overall, more than
50 percent of those surveyed were interested in seeking
new opportunities.
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QuintZine: Topics in Upcoming Issues
WATCH FOR feature articles on these topics in upcoming
issues of QuintZine:
* The interview as sales call
* Can earning a certification boost your career?
* Letters of recommendation
* 10 job-search reality checks
* Is job flexibility right for you?
* Dealing with a bad boss
* Making your case for telecommuting
* Don't wait by the phone: Following up on all job leads
* Dining etiquette
* The relationship between personality and career choice
* What employers are really looking for
* New series: 10 mistakes to avoid in: resumes, cover letters, interviews, salary
negotiation, career change, networking, job-search
* Quintessential Career Profiles of YOU, our readers
* Q&As with well-known career experts
* Book reviews
. . . and much, much more!
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