Feature Article: Tips for Teens: How to Find Your First Real Job
Special Feature: Job-Search Readiness Quiz for Teens: Are You Ready to Get Your First Real Job?
Bonus Feature: Thinking Prep School? Here are Eight Tips on How to Ace Your Prep School Interview
Extra Feature: Building Your Online Career Brand: Five Tools 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
Editor's Note: About this Issue...
This is not the first QuintZine we've brought you from the road, but it is the first one
we've published from our summer West Coast headquarters in Kettle Falls, WA. Your QuintCareers
team is loving life and work in this beautiful corner of the United States.
As we've done many times over QuintZine's nine-year history, we bring you a late-spring
issue largely directed at young people. It's a difficult time for teens to find jobs, but good
job-search skills can certainly boost your chances. Dr. Randall Hansen's article and quiz on finding
that first job are here to help. Dr. Hansen also directs his attention to those young people who
are considering attending prep school and guides them in excelling in the interview. For all job-seekers,
he offers a set of five tools for online branding.
--Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., Master Resume Writer, Credentialed Career Master,
Certified Electronic Career Coach, and editor at
kathy@quintcareers.com
Feature Article: Job Tips for Teens
Tips for Teens: How to Find Your First Real Job
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
So, you want to find a job? Maybe you're tired of begging your folks for money, or perhaps
you're saving up for a car or college. Could be your family has been hit by a layoff and you want to do
your part by contributing to the family income stream.
Whatever your reasons for wanting a job, this article will take you through the steps to how to find your
first real job -- whether that's a summer job or a part-time after-school position.
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Job-Search Readiness Quiz for Teens: Are You Ready to Get Your First Real Job? A Quintessential Careers Quiz
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
You've decided (or perhaps someone has decided for you) that it's time for you first real job. No more
babysitting or mowing lawns -- it's now time to find your first real job. But are you prepared to find a job?
Thinking Prep School? Here are Eight Tips on How to Ace Your Prep School Interview
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Once you've decided that attending a college preparatory school is the right thing to do
to advance your educational goals, the next step is choosing the best prep school. Once you have
narrowed your choices to a select few, the final step -- for both you and the prep school -- is the
interview. The interview is a chance for you to shine, to showcase your fit with the school, or
explain weaknesses in your academic record.
Building Your Online Career Brand: Five Tools for Job-Seekers
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Are you still using Monster or CareerBuilder to post your resume or search for jobs? Are you
wasting countless hours each day searching for jobs online -- with little or no results for all
your efforts? Are you searching for a better way to find a new job or career? If you answered yes
to one or more of these questions, this article will provide you with the tools to proactively take
control of your job-search while using the Web to build your career brand.
What is your career brand? It's a combination of your reputation as a worker combined with
a promise of your potential and impact on future employers. Your career brand can start with a
resume (if it's a good resume), but goes far beyond traditional job-seeking methods to
include a plethora of tools.
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.
This site focuses on part-time jobs, teen jobs, and summer jobs for teens and adults, and
offers a nice collection of articles to assist in this type of job search. It also offers a job board
for finding jobs through SnagAJob.
The site ran a Worst Summer Job Contest for which hundreds of teens told stories about their
worst summer jobs. "It was pretty brutal," the site Said. "You told us about working with meatball-throwing
kids, filthy dishes, weird bosses, screaming customers and even scam artists."
jobnob -- a great tool for job-seekers
seeking salary information, where you can find actual salary information by job title
or company -- rather than the industry averages you receive at other salary sites.
You can also then browse jobs (by company or profession). Data is employer-reported.
No cost to job-seekers.
MyCollectionJobs.com -- a job site for
job-seekers searching for debt collections, credit, and financial employment jobs, where you can search job listings
(by location, job type, career level, and keywords) as well as post your resume. No cost to job-seekers.
Renewable Energy Jobs -- where
job-seekers searching for jobs in solar power, wind energy, hydro, geothermal, wave, tidal,
biomass and biofuels, as well as many other emerging clean energy technologies and subsectors
can search job listings (by keyword, sector, job function, location), as well as post
your resume or CV. No cost to job-seekers.
SEO Job Finder -- a job site for
Web professionals with an interest in SEO, SEM, PPC, Web development, Web copywriting,
and social media jobs. You can browse job listings by category or search by keywords,
as well as sign-up for job email alerts. No cost to job-seekers.
Find even more career and job site additions to Quintessential Careers by visiting our
Latest Additions section.
Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
Although the sagging economy has made this a particularly tough time for young people to find
part-time and summer jobs (exacerbated by jobless older people pursuing jobs typically filled by youth),
the federal government's economic stimulus is creating opportunities for teens in many states. Check local
news outlets and try googling "teen jobs" and "stimulus" periodically to learn of programs in your area -- or
check your local congressional office.
The user pastes in job postings of interest from job boards.
The tool then finds and displays the keyword combinations
common to the job descriptions you entered. When you see
keywords repeated in several job descriptions, they may be
good candidates to add to your resume.
Although the economic downturn has proven tough for workers, those who are still employed
say they're gaining more from the experience than just managing to keep their jobs.
Seventy-seven percent of professionals interviewed cited at least one positive effect the
recession has had on their jobs, including the ability to tackle new projects (53 percent),
assume additional responsibility (52 percent) and take on more challenging work
(52 percent). But according to most respondents, the extra work has yet to be
formally rewarded: Only 12 percent said they have received promotions.
The national survey included responses from 457 workers 18 years of age or older and employed
full- or part-time in an office environment. It was conducted by an independent research firm and
developed by Accountemps, a specialized staffing service for temporary accounting, finance and
bookkeeping professionals.
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
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:
* How Job Search is Like Online Dating
* The Confidence Factor
* Green Jobs
* De-Stressing Before an Interview
* More Cover-Letter Components
* Finding Your First Real Job
* Empty Nest Job-seekers
* Top Presentation Tips
* Quiz: What Kind of Co-Worker Are You?
* 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...
