Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Job-hunting tips from the October 9, 2000 issue of QuintZine.
Not sure what you want to do? Consider one of the
jobs listed among the top five best overall jobs by Jobs Rated Almanac:
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Financial planner
Web site manager
Computer-systems analyst
Actuary
Computer programmer
Next step up from simply marketing yourself
to get a job? Becoming a "career activist."
An activist is, according to career counselor
Barbara Moses, "vigilant, sometimes cocky,
maybe even a little paranoid."
Fast Company magazine quotes Moses as characterizing career
activists this way: "They define themselves independently
from their organizations and take charge of their own career
choices." Some tips to help you become a career activist:
Engage people by expressing who you are. Don't be phony
or play a role -- just be dynamically yourself.
Network!
Don't rule out your current company as the source
of your best new career opportunity.
Moses's own Web site mostly describes her
paid services and books, but a few interesting
articles also are available.
Business Week reports a job-seeker trend
toward using smaller, niche job-seeking sites
to find jobs better tailored to the the
job-seeker's skills than the vast array of
listings at sites such as Monster.com.
"Many savvy job-seekers...find their time is better
spent zeroing in on job boards with more focused listings.
There they don't go through cumbersome procedure
to post a resume, and they have more control over what
their resume looks like...Another attraction: Niche sites seem
to have a higher percentage of mid- and upper-management
jobs than the giant job boards," writes Alex Salkever in Business
Week.
Not sure what you want to do? Consider one of the
jobs listed among the top five best overall jobs by Jobs Rated Almanac:
