Career, College, and Job-Search Success Strategies

Career, College, and Job-Search Success Strategies

Quintessential Careers provides you with concise articles filled with the 10 essential strategies you need for career, college, and job-search success.

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Avoid These 10 Resume Mistakes -- Job-seekers: A professional resume writer shows you how to avoid/fix the 10 most common resume mistakes that can hurt your job-search job success.

Avoid These 10 Interview Bloopers -- To get the job offer, job-seekers need to excel in interviews and avoid these typcial bloopers. Learn how to overcome these interviewing mistakes.

Don't Make These 10 Cover Letter Mistakes -- Job-seekers need to strive for perfection in all aspects of your job-search materials. Here's how to avoid making these 10 cover letter mistakes.

Fighting the Overqualified Label: 10 Tactics for a Successful Job-Search -- Mid-career job-seekers fear being seen as overqualified. Here are tactics for overcoming perception of being overqualified -- for job-search success.

Job-Hunting in a Weak Job Market: 5 Strategies for Staying Upbeat (and Improving Your Chances of Success), by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Moving Up the Ladder: 10 Strategies for Getting Yourself Promoted -- Employees today have to create and manage your own career paths -- through one or multiple organizations. Here are 10 strategies to get you promoted.

10 Career Change Mistakes to Avoid -- If you are considering changing your career, you should review these 10 common career-change mistakes so you can avoid them as you change careers.

Ten Easy Ways to Improve Your Resume -- These ten tips will help you tweak your resume into a nicer, cleaner, more readable resume, thus clearing the path to more potential job interviews.

10 Essential Tips for Landing a Job Overseas -- Do you want to work internationally in a foreign country? Get expert advice and resources about the 10 essential steps for finding a job abroad.

10 Portfolio Career Tips -- Here are 10 portfolio career tips designed to help job-seekers manage a portfolio of part-time jobs, the equivalent of full-time employment.

10 Powerful Career Strategies for Women -- Examines 10 key career strategies women job-seekers can and should use to shatter the glass ceiling and lack of pay equity. Must-read material!

10 Reality Checks of Job-Hunting: Overcoming Common Job-Search Mistakes -- If you've been searching unsuccessfully for a new job, or if you're about to start a job-search, you'll want to review the 10 job-hunting concepts.

10 Sticky Job Interview Situations and How to Handle Them -- Job interviewing can be an unnerving experience, but if you know how to handle some of the stickiest situations, you can be that much more confident.

10-Step Career Tune-Up -- Job-seekers: Has it been too long since you took a hard look at your job and career path? Use these steps to tune-up your job and career planning.

The 10-Step Plan to Career Change -- Most people will change careers several times over your lifetimes. This article takes you through a 10-step plan to successful career change.

Top 10 Tips for Attending Career and Job Fairs -- Attending a career fair? Ten quick career fair tips designed to help job-seekers be better prepared and have better success at career fairs.

10 Tips for Getting Good (or Better) Grades -- Struggling with grades? Dr. Randall Hansen, a repected college professor, offers college students 10 tips for getting good -- or better -- grades.

10 Tips for Getting Your Work/Life in Balance -- Feeling a bit overwhelmed or stressed out? Here are 10 tips for helping you gain control of your life; to get it balanced with work responsibilities.

10 Tips for Successful Career Planning -- Career planning is an activity job-seekers of all ages should do on a regular basis. Here are 10 tips to guide you to successful career/job planning.

10 Ways to Develop Job Leads -- One of the hardest -- and most important -- aspects of job-hunting is developing solid job leads. Here are 10 excellent sources for all job-seekers.

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