Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
Job-hunting tips from the November 2, 2009, issue of
QuintZine.
In recognition of Job Action Day 2009, we offer a Q TIP for each of our focus areas:
Green/Clean Energy Jobs -- QuintCareers regular contributor Joe Turner
interviewed Jim Cassio, author of Green Careers Resource Guide about green jobs, how to find
them and how to qualify for them. The new edition of Cassio's electronic publication now identifies 340
occupations that can lead to green jobs and green careers.
Hear the show.
The MP3 file can also be downloaded from Joe's iTunes catalog (search "Job Search Guy").
Stimulus Jobs -- The Obama administration (which prefers to use the word "Recovery" for these jobs)
offers a video showing Where the Recovery Jobs Are -- stories of Americans whose jobs have been saved
or created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
See the video here.
Entrepreneurship and career-reinvention opportunities motivated by unemployment --
Brian Kurth notes that many clients who have been laid off and are utilizing his site
VocationVacation, as a creative
way to explore a new career or entrepreneurial opportunity. VocationVacation enables users
to test-drive more than 125 unique careers, through almost 300 expert mentors. The
VocationVacations are one- to- three- day, hands-on, career-immersion experiences
under the tutelage of expert mentors.
One woman was laid off from her job as an assemblywoman at a Motorola plant and took a VocationVacation with
a dog daycare owner and then opened her own dog daycare facility. Other users have made a switch to
a different type of career still within the corporate sector. A laid-off music-industry exec now works for a major hotel
chain after her passion for the hotel industry led her to a hotel general-manager VocationVacation ... and then
subsequent employment in the industry.
Federal Jobs -- QuintCareers regular contributor Joe Turner
interviewed Kathryn Troutman, author of Ten Steps to a Federal Job, about how job-seekers can
use their private-sector experience to find and land a job with the U.S. government. Kathryn describes
how to locate jobs in your area that you might qualify for and how to successfully apply online
for these jobs.
Listen to the podcast interview. The MP3 file
can also be downloaded from Joe's iTunes catalog (search "Job Search Guy").
Green/Clean Energy Jobs -- QuintCareers regular contributor Joe Turner
interviewed Jim Cassio, author of Green Careers Resource Guide about green jobs, how to find
them and how to qualify for them. The new edition of Cassio's electronic publication now identifies 340
occupations that can lead to green jobs and green careers.
