LinkedIn for Job Seekers, almost all videos are up!

LinkedIn for Job Seekers, almost all videos are up! Last week I announced that I was about to release the fifth edition of the LinkedIn for Job Seekers video course. Its all up now, with the exception of two bonus videos, a short introduction, and a video on how to import into JibberJobber. None of those are too critical, but they will be uploaded as soon as I get them done. For now, enjoy the real meat of this training simply mouse over Tools, then click on JibberJobber Videos, and then youll see the 5th Edition at the top. Here are some of the videos: As I mentioned, this is part of the premium bundle that includes the entire JibberJobber Video Library.  Its a great deal, at only $60 for a year of JibberJobber premium and the video library! LinkedIn for Job Seekers, almost all videos are up! Last week I announced that I was about to release the fifth edition of the LinkedIn for Job Seekers video course. Its all up now, with the exception of two bonus videos, a short introduction, and a video on how to import into JibberJobber. None of those are too critical, but they will be uploaded as soon as I get them done. For now, enjoy the real meat of this training simply mouse over Tools, then click on JibberJobber Videos, and then youll see the 5th Edition at the top. Here are some of the videos: As I mentioned, this is part of the premium bundle that includes the entire JibberJobber Video Library.  Its a great deal, at only $60 for a year of JibberJobber premium and the video library!

Is it Time to Break Up with Your Job

Is it Time to Break Up with Your Job Let me tell you about the worst job Ive ever had. (Spoiler alert: Its not the one where I got paid to babysit  an elderly womans seven cats.) I was waiting tables, bright-eyed and bushy tailed, and brand spanking new in the big city. As in, far away from my support base, and feeling crazy lonely and unsure of myself. I got the job quickly, and was using it to save up money while I looked for more permanent work writing. (Ta da!) For a month or two, it was pretty much rosy. The owner more or less ignored me, and I made a lot of mistakes, as Id never waited tables before, but I love, love, loved bringing cash home, every day. There are few things in this world that feel as badass (or make you look as suspicious) as pulling out a wad of fifty singles to pay for gas. But, that all came to halt the first time I spilled a few drops of water on the floor from a wet bus pan and the owner cursed me out in front of the whole dining room. It went downhill from there.   His moods swung quickly, and he would be joking with me and showing me dumb (and often inappropriate) pictures on his phone, and the next hed be screaming for almost no reason at all. When he was in a good mood, hed follow me around and flick me hard on the arm, sometimes leaving marks. If I got annoyed or asked him not to do that, he went into punishment mode, flying off the handle, following me around and nitpicking every tiny thing I did, and generally making it clear that either I played along with him, or my life at work would be hell. Well, guess what? Turns out, all of those things are illegal. While there was nothing in the law books against his crappy attitude and terrible personal skills, physically hitting me, even playfully, definitely is. Im not a dumb girl. I knew that he was overstepping his bounds as an employer, but I stayed, because I needed the money, and I was afraid I wouldnt be able to find work anywhere else, and I wasnt even sure whether there was anything I could do about it. I know better now. As women, sometimes we feel pressure not to be that girl. No one wants to be the one seen whining about our work conditions. Sometimes, you just want to get in there and prove yourself, regardless of how crappy or unfair your treatment is. After all, were here to get the job done. Right? Now, mine is a pretty extreme example. You dont see a lot of that stuff outside of the minimum wage pay grade. But, have you been overlooking some sketchy things at your work because you want to prove yourself? Are being given the breaks, benefits, and time off that the law requires? You can read up on NZ employment law, or wherever you happen to be working. It changes state to state, but a smart career girl is familiar with the local laws governing her place of work, and she knows that putting up with harassing or prejudicial treatment does not make her a good employee. After all, were building our careers here, not just trying to grab a few bucks regardless of what we have to put up with to get them. In the end, I left that place behind, and secretly imagine that Taylor Swift wrote Mean about that cranky boss every time I hear it on the radio, but when I look back, the time I spent and the money I made were not nearly worth it.

Improve your performance by lying to yourself

Improve your performance by lying to yourself Maybe its time to set aside all those know yourself advice books, and try lying to yourself about who you are. You are a finance wiz. You are a sales guru. You are a genius writer. Any successful careerist needs to be these things. But most of us are not really all of these things. The skills are too diverse even for the mind of an overachiever like you. But why not try telling yourself you are all these things and see what happens? After all, the first step to being great at something is to believe that youre great at it. Then you will attack the task at hand expecting yourself to succeed. Sales You can say you dont like selling. You can say youre above it. But you may never get the chance to know, because people who cant sell themselves cant get jobs. So, okay, you dont have to sell cars (though you should study the people who do the best are incredible sales people and could sell anything to anyone.) But you do have to sell yourself to get a job, and you have to sell your ideas in order to keep your job interesting. (Singles, take note: Dating is, in fact, the most important sales game of your life.) The hardest thing about sales is taking the time to understand what the person youre selling to cares about, and under which scenario that person is a good listener. People who say, Im bad at sales, are people who, for the most part, refuse to take the time to understand people. How embarrassing. So even if you are bad at understanding people, dont announce it to the world by saying you cant sell. Call yourself a salesperson and practice all the time. Finance I first learned the importance of faking it when I had to present financials to my angel investors. I had to pretend that I did not score in the bottom 20% of the math section of the GRE. I had to say confidently, Oh, I have everything explained in an Excel spreadsheet. And then I had to hire someone to teach me to use Excel. Today, I dont run numbers as fast as a real finance wiz, but I have confidence because I told my investors I knew what I was doing thereby forcing myself to learn. Thank goodness, because each of us needs to be a finance wiz. You need to understand broad corporate financial goals in order to place your own projects in context. You need to understand how to manage a dynamic budget without tripping on the question, How did you get to the number on line six? Most CEOs did not move up the ladder via financial positions, but you never hear a CEO say hes bad at finance. In an ambitious career there is no room for financial weaknesses. So dont ever say you dont do numbers. Writing Heres a scenario: you write an e-mail that consists one, 25-line paragraph with no breaks. No one reads it. At best it looks unintelligible because its too long a paragraph for email. At worst, it *is* unintelligible. But still, in this case you are a writer, you are just a terrible writer. The list of scary scenarios is endless: If you send a disorganized report to your boss, she wont understand it; If you have typos in your resume youll lose interviews. Everyones career is dependent on their talent for communication. And in the age of email everyones a writer. So take responsibility for your own communications and function like you are a top-tier writer. This means outlining first so that you are organized, writing to the point, and proofreading. A few of you will need to take a grammar class. Some of you, who have made some of my past projects miserable, will need to take ten grammar classes. So lie to yourself. Tell yourself you are great at sales, writing and finance, and you might not be great, but you will get a lot better. And even a small improvement in each of these skills will add up to a large improvement in your career trajectory.

How This Busy Mom Made a Plan To Quit Her Job and Become a Life Coach - Classy Career Girl

How This Busy Mom Made a Plan To Quit Her Job and Become a Life Coach I would like to introduce you all to one of my friends and mastermind partners and one of our speakers at our PLAN Live event. If you were at our in-person workshop, you got to hear Amanda speak. Amanda Flisher www.amandaflisher.com IG: @amandaflisher Amanda Flisher is a self-leadership coach and a mama boss along with me. She has three little kiddos and works from home. As a leadership coach, she works with individuals on their personal and professional lives, between who they are and what they do. So she works a lot with county workers and our government here in San Diego. She also works a lot of one-on-one with women in a coaching program that they kind of created together. Also, she does the Strengths Finder assessment. Subscribe  on  your favorite platform below: iTunes Google Play Music Stitcher Radio TuneIn iHeartRadio Sound Cloud Some of the questions I asked: How did you break out from the Corporate grind? How did you make your dreams and goals happen as a busy mom with a successful business? When you had the first baby, how did you plan out your dream of growing your business and making it work? How are you planning for next year? How do you plan your days out? What was the effect of having that community for you? And why was that important to have other people to do this with? When it comes to creating your plan, whats really important to do when you create your plan? What did you do when you felt like you should be something else for other people? Other Podcast Episodes You might Like: The First Step in Creating Your Plan That Most People Miss 5 Ways I Am Getting More Organized To Reach My Goals Next Year 5 Business Lessons I Learned in 2019

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Transitioning Military Leaders Differentiate Yourself in Executive Job Search

7 Common Mistakes That Can Kill Your Promotion Chances

7 Common Mistakes That Can Kill Your Promotion Chances Is this a promotion year for you? Or maybe you have a big “milestone” promotion coming up next year that you don’t want to miss? Working towards your next promotion is both exciting and nerve-wracking. There’s so much to play for, yet the result is uncertain and it’s not in your control. If only we could give ourselves our promotions! I’ve been through many promotion cycles in my career. Some for me, others for my team members, and now with my executive coaching clients. When I think back on my 10 promotions during a 24-year career, on the way to Managing Director and COO for Europe, I can see patterns of how it’s done well. And the many ways people do it badly. It’s Easy to Screw Up Your Chances of Promotion Every promotion is a milestone in your career. It’s a sign of progress, recognition and reward. So, you can’t help but work hard and give it your best shot. But what if all your hard work isn't enough to get the promotion you deserve? What if you’re not doing the right things? Worse yet, could you be doing the wrong things without knowing it and killing your chances of promotion? While these are natural fears, they’re also worth thinking about… in a calm, strategic manner. In fact, it’s easy to go about getting promoted in the wrong way despite good intentions. That’s because no one shows you how to do it. Sure, you get told the “facts”, like key competencies and important deadlines. But that’s just the official part and it’s only the tip of the iceberg. What are the unofficial, unspoken truths to getting promoted that they don’t tell you? One of the keys to success is simply to avoid going about it in the wrong way. If you stay away from the “killer mistakes”, you’ll improve your chances of getting promoted significantly. 7 Common Job Promotion Mistakes to Avoid Here are seven common mistakes I’ve observed over my 24-year career and now as an executive coach. Any one of these can sink your chances of promotion. Worse yet, they’re easy traps to fall into. I know I did! See if you’re making some of these mistakes. Then start thinking about what you can do instead to have a better chance of winning your promotion. MISTAKE #1:Relying on your work to get noticed I used to think that if I kept my head down, worked hard and produced excellent results, the rest would fall into place. Maybe it’s just a “nice Chinese girl” approach, but I can tell you it doesn’t work beyond your very earliest years on the job. Unfortunately, your work can’t speak and good news doesn’t travel nearly as fast as bad news. So, don't be lulled into the belief that doing great work is sufficient. Don’t think that it alone will get you noticed and promoted. Make sure you keep people updated on your accomplishments. MISTAKE #2:Being invisible This mistake is about not speaking up and not showing up. In my case, I was always “too busy working” to attend anything that wasn't directly related to producing excellent work. And for those meetings and events I had to attend, I was too self-conscious to say anything. I would sit on the side and only speak when asked. This combination made me less visible to senior people and I missed out on a promotion that year. When no one knows who you are, it’s hard to form a positive opinion about how deserving you are of promotion. Make the time to show up and learn to speak up. MISTAKE #3:Being indispensable I realize this runs counter to advice you’ve been given but being indispensable for what you’re currently doing is a real mistake if you want to get promoted. I remember sitting in a senior planning meeting when someone suggested, “Steven could be promoted to fill that open slot”, and Steven’s boss jumping in to say, “Don’t touch Steven. I need him in his current role.” If you’re so valuable in the role you’re doing, you may be too valuable to promote into a new role. After all, they can’t possibly find someone as good as you to do it. It’s fine to be seen as indispensable in the short term, but don’t leave it so long that you get stuck because you’re seen as the only person who can do the job. Make sure there’s someone else who can step in behind you. MISTAKE #4:Leaving it too late Don’t be like my team member, Carlo, who waited until two weeks before promotions were going to be announced before he came to my office to make his case. By then, decisions had been made and new information wasn’t going to help. And don’t be like Nick, who spent the first half of the year operating at half effort. Then, he kicked into high gear a month before performance evaluations. While it was great that he was calling on clients more actively and participating in our internal meetings more proactively, it was too little too late. Start thinking early, know what promotion you’re aiming for, and carve out time to make a plan. And if you’re worried it’s too late, there’s no better time to start than right now. MISTAKE #5:Playing it safe As one of just a handful of Chinese kids in my town, I spent most of my growing up years wishing I could be just like everyone else. That desire to conform, to be liked and to blend in with the group became an instinct for going along with the crowd and not rocking the boat when I started to work. But that’s follower behavior, and we’re in a world where leaders are the ones who get promoted. It took me too long to realize that playing it safe and being just like everyone else meant I didn’t stand out. Instead, it’s the time to bring out what makes you special and worthy of recognition. MISTAKE #6:Being in the wrong job Some jobs don’t lead to promotion to a higher level or greater responsibilities. The key is to know this before you pin your hopes on getting promoted. When my boss moved up to run a bigger unit, he asked me to be his operations officer or “right hand person”. I was thrilled to move with him to this new role. Better yet, the star performers of the firm had gone on from operations officer positions to bigger and better things. When the time came to look at the next step, I learned that the operations officer role I was in wasn’t seen in the same light. Our unit was much smaller and less complex. It wasn't the training ground that led to immediate superstardom. I ended up having to move to a revenue producing role and take an extra year to demonstrate my value. If you’re in a role that doesn’t lead to promotion, then take everything you can from it and use it as a stepping stone to a role that you can get promoted from. MISTAKE #7:Not having your boss onside Laura loved her work, was doing well with her clients and had great relationships with her colleagues. She had just one problem: she and her boss didn’t get along. No matter who’s at fault, the result is the same. Without her boss’ support and advocacy, Laura wasn’t about to get promoted. Unless your boss is about to be fired, I’ve never seen anyone get promoted when their boss doesn’t rate them. If you haven’t figured out the care and feeding of your boss, this would be a great time to do it. This is the time to be doing your job well, which includes making your boss look good and making their life easier. How to Position Yourself to be Promotion-Ready When you miss out on a promotion, it’s hard not to take things personally because it feels like you’ve been rejected from the club. And it’s all very public. That’s why I’ve shared these common mistakes. I don’t want you to go through the trial and error (lots of errors!) that I did. I want you to have a smoother time of it. I want you to have the best chance of setting yourself up to succeed. So, now you know the common mistakes to avoid, you may be thinking: “How do I put myself in the best possible position to be promoted?” It’s simple. There are five key areas to pay attention to. In a few days, I’ll go through each of these five key areas and why they’re important when you want to get promoted. In the meantime, I’d love to hear from you. When is your next promotion and which of these common mistakes can you identify with? Leave a comment below and let me know.

Reviews of Resume Writing Professionals - How to Find the Best Reviews of Resume Writing Professionals Online

Reviews of Resume Writing Professionals - How to Find the Best Reviews of Resume Writing Professionals OnlineIn order to get the most out of your resume, the first thing you should do is to find a review of resume writing professionals. Although some may say that you don't need reviews, others may tell you that they can give you good advice. In either case, make sure you have a very thorough read on the pros and cons of resumes and how they can be used to get a job over the Internet.If you are new to this job, you would be surprised at how many people ask for the resumes of writers so they can hire one. Many more would be interested in this because they are not aware of what it takes to be a good resume writer. You should be able to write well and can also sell yourself in an interview. It will also help you find jobs faster and easier since the resume that you submit will stand out compared to someone who is bad at writing.People who try to use the resume to get a job will notice wh ether or not it is in style or if it is very generic. Many will be impressed with your work. But if the reviews of resume writing professionals are wrong about you, you might end up in the same position as before.There are a lot of different reviews of resume writing professionals so you will be able to find out if they are right or not. By knowing this information, you will know what information you should include in your resume in order to get a job and in what order.The first thing you should do when writing your resume is to write the basics. You must make sure that it is well formatted and you know where to place the information. Don't write it all in the first paragraph because you will get overwhelmed and the person reading your resume will not read it all.The most important part of your resume is the cover letter. It will allow you to make a good impression and have the resume submitted. This is why it should be well written.The next part of your resume is your job history a nd skills. You want to focus on these as these will be used in your cover letter. Be brief and accurate with your resume and always remember that a resume is only as good as its cover letter.Make sure that you give yourself plenty of time to edit your resume. You don't want to have to rush to finish it and then send it back to the review because it isn't done. A strong resume is a great thing to be proud of and you should use it to get the job you want and land the job you want.