Feature Article: One-Week Job-Search: How to Lay the Foundation for a New Job in Just Seven Days
Special Feature: 9 Secrets to Getting the Job You Really Want
Quintessential Site: Featured Career Web Site of this Issue
The Career Doctor: Answering Your Questions
What's New on Quintessential Careers: Latest Additions
Q TIPS: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search
Notes from the Editor: About this Issue...
Welcome to our first issue of 2005, our fifth year of publication (which we'll officially mark in March).
If you'd like to start the new year by getting a new job, this issue
offers two articles that may yield fast, effective results. Publisher
Dr. Randall Hansen describes a One Week Job Search, while contributor
Bill Dueease reveals nine secrets for getting the job you want.
You may want to start looking for that New Job for the New Year through
our job portal.
--Katharine Hansen, Credentialed Career Master, Certified Electronic Career Coach,
and editor at
kathy@quintcareers.com
Feature Article: One-Week Job-Search
One-Week Job-Search: How to Lay the Foundation for a New Job in Just Seven Days
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
One of the hardest parts of job-hunting is often putting in enough effort to get the results
you seek. You may respond to a few job ads, perhaps talk with a couple of people in your network, and
possibly post your resume on a few job boards ... but then you wait and nothing really happens.
If you are serious about finding a new job, you need to put more time and dedication into
the process -- and one way to accomplish this feat is to set aside a week to focus solely on
your job search. This process involves starting each day with a set of goals to accomplish --
and then spending the day doing your best to achieve them.
Interviewing for a job is a very stressful and difficult process -- made more intense
today because so many companies are reducing their workforce, thus increasing the number of
applicants for a shrinking number of jobs. The competition for available jobs is fierce.
Yet, you can beat the competition and actually get hired in the job you really want.
HeadhuntersDirectory.com is a great source for job-seekers searching for geographic-specific
headhunters, recruiters, employment agencies, and staffing companies in the U.S., Canada,
and the U.K. Browse agencies by country and then state/region. No cost to job-seekers.
Get the latest career, college, and job-search news you need!
Have you read the Quint Careers Weblog (Blog)?
It consists of career and job-search news, trends,
and scoops for job-seekers, compiled by the staff
of Quintessential Careers.
The blog is a great way to stay posted on the most
recent events occurring in the career and employment fields.
Jenny writes: "I'm trying to set some goals for myself in the new year -- in terms of my career. What advice
can you give me to reach my goals in 2005?"
Amy writes: "I have been working for the same company for over five years and am currently starting an active
job search because of a downturn in business. I cannot give anyone in my current company as a reference
because of the need to keep the job search completely confidential, and the company I worked at previously is a key client
of my current company, so giving a reference from there is not possible either. Neither company has had turnover
to the point I could use someone as a reference that is now at another company. The place I worked at (for nine years)
prior to my last two employers was sold, and I do not have contact information for previous co-workers or managers
there. I am interviewing with a state agency that requires that I provide three references that they will contact.
How should I approach the reference situation in this circumstance?"
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Job-seekers can search (by industry, location, keywords), as well as build and post
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Find even more career and job site additions to Quintessential Careers by visiting our
Latest Additions section.
Q TIPS: Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
It's almost time for Job Shadow Day 2005. On February 2, 2005, more than 1 million young
people will have a chance to explore their futures when they "shadow" workplace mentors as part of
the eighth annual Groundhog Job Shadow Day initiative.Job shadowing is a yearlong national effort to enrich
the lives of students by acquainting them with the world of work through on-the-job experiences and
a carefully crafted school curriculum that ties academics to the workplace.
Last year, students experienced more than 100,000 workplaces throughout the nation. For additional
information, including a How-to Guide, brochure, and an online training presentation on how to
coordinate job shadowing, visit JobShadow.org.
For more information contact mailto:info@jobshadow.org.
When you visit a corporate Web site looking for a job, do you know what kind of candidate that employer wants to hire?
Does the site demonstrate to you why anyone would want to work for that company?
The folks at CareerXroads recently researched the corporate sites that do the
finest job of putting their best foot forward to job-seekers:
CareerXroads 2004 Fortune 500 Top 25 Corporate Staffing Sites:
1. Aetna
2. Apple Computer Inc.
3. Bear Sterns
4. BellSouth Corporation
5. Computer Sciences Corporation
6. Coors (Adolph)
7. Disney (Walt)
8. DuPont De Nemours (E.I.)
9. Eastman Kodak Company
10. Exxon Mobil Corporation
11. Federated Department Stores Inc.
12. Ford Motor Company
13. General Electric Company
14. Intel Corporation
15. Johnson & Johnson
16. Lehman Brothers
17. Microsoft
18. Northwestern Mutual Life
19. Procter & Gamble
20. Robinson (CH)
21. Rockwell Automation
22. Sherwin Williams
23. Sprint
24. United Parcel Service of America
25. United Technologies
In many parts of the world, January is a nasty weather month. It therefore can be a good time to make a case to your boss
for telecommuting. Pat Katepoo, founder of WorkOptions.com, says timing is an important factor in getting approval of
a request to telecommute. "Unlike work/life balance conflicts related to children or elder care, weather and road conditions
are something every manager in your office can understand. Pitching a well-crafted telecommuting proposal during the winter,
especially while weather conditions are making headlines, boosts the chances of getting the boss to say 'yes' to your
work-from-home request."
WorkOptions.com offers weary commuters a planning tool at no cost for restructuring a current job into a telecommuting arrangement,
a popular work option made more desirable during foul weather.
The worksheet, Redesign Your Job into Telecommuting, is crafted to help the user answer the boss's query,
"Exactly how will your work get done while telecommuting?"
Download the no-cost planning tool.
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entity has a Web site, we welcome you to link to Quintessential Careers.
If you already have a link from your site, we want you to know we
appreciate it. If you don't have a link to us, please
send a request to your site's Webmaster to establish a
link to Quintessential Careers. Thanks so much!
For more details (including sample HTML copy), see our
Link to Us page.
QuintZine: Topics in Upcoming Issues
WATCH FOR feature articles on these topics in upcoming
issues of QuintZine:
* Portfolio Careers
* 10 Portfolio Career Tips
* Career Fairs: Shortcut to Interviews
* Your "Elevator Speech"
* Job Burnout Quiz
* Job Burnout Remedies
* The Value of Internships Abroad and Study Abroad
* Quarter-Life Career Issues
* Career Success is Within Your Reach
* Tips of Liberal-Arts Grads
* Top 10 Fears of Job-seekers
* For Job-hunting Success, Develop a Detailed Job-Search Plan
* How to Build a Personal Advisory Board
* Keep Your Career Dreams Alive
* College-Prep Summer Camps
* 10 Teen Summer-Job Tips
* MBA Career Portfolios
* Trends/Tips in Career Portfolios
* Pre-Hire Background/Credit Checks
* Noncompete Clauses
* Entrepreneurs
* Get a Job in Sales/Pharmaceutical Sales
* Critical Elements of the Job Search
* Managing Job Stress
* Telecommuting Ranks High
* Sticky Job Interview Situations
* Situational Interviews
* 10 Resume Tips
* Why Hire a Resume Writer?
* Is Your Resume Lost in the Internet Void?
* Career Activist Quiz
* Practice Career Management to Avoid Career Crisis
* The Changing Landscape of College Admissions
* Offbeat Ways to Pay for College
* Financial Aid/Scholarship Timetable
* Build Confidence and Avoid Insecurity in Job Interviews
* Empty Nest Job-seekers
* Baby Boomers Beware
* Are You Sabotaging Your Job-Search/Career?
* Quiz: Marketing Yourself
* Marketing Yourself with internal/External Promotions
* Lifelong Networking
* Networking for the Shy
* Converting a Seasonal Job to a Permanent Position
* Working Night Shifts/Odd Hours
* Quintessential Career Profiles of YOU, our readers
* Q&As with well-known career experts
* Career, College, and Job-Search Book reviews
. . . and much, much more!
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