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5 Top Tips to Make BIG Things Happen in Your Career

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Want to know the 5 top tips to make big things happen in your career?

The biggest mistake you can make, is only taking care of your career when your back is against the wall! Career maintenance should be taken care of on an ongoing basis!

In today’s current job climate, the competition can be fierce. That’s ok. We are resilient beings. Here we provide 5 top tips to make big things happen in your career — quick & easy tips on managing your career and finding new opportunities to improve your profile to hiring managers.

How to get a job

Easy tips on how to put your best foot forward in determining your career

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Career Perspective: Where is your head at, when it comes to your career?

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Where’s your career head at, really?

It’s healthy to get some career perspective: Your career is a life-long process… and it really is all about you. A successful career is a long-term trajectory that (with a little care and homework) will lead you to make the best of your values, your gods-given skills, your unique talents and your personal drive… let alone where and how you want to apply them…

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Job Trends!

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…The job market isn’t what it used to be! By following these job trends, you can learn how to make it through the applicant tracking system, and onto the “call for interview” list…

Most people don’t know how to find job trends: They think they’re following job trends by cruising websites (like Indeed and Workopolis), looking for job postings that match their skills and knowledge.

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Give hiring managers the right impression with these tips

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Managing your message is critical to ensure you give hiring managers the right impression. I’ve blogged at length about how to set up your professional marketing materials to ensure that they represent you properly, and that they are in keeping with 2023 best practices.

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How to get hired from a cold call

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How to Go From “Stranger” to “Hired!”

Job Search is a process: it’s hard to break through to people you don’t know, and it’s harder still to get past applicant tracking systems. But there are practical ways to improve on your outreach and get hired… 

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How to build your network and maintain career relationships

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It’s not just “all about who you know”, it’s equally about “how you work it”…

It’s very important to build your network –- and managing and leveraging those contacts  consistently, over time, through online and offline networking, is also mission critical. And unless you’re retiring anytime soon, networking is a lifelong process.

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How Important is Personal Branding?

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…Now that you’ve got a career plan, it’s time to begin your personal branding…

We probably wouldn’t be human if we didn’t worry about how we are perceived by others. In this blog, I’m addressing personal brands: how we appear to others; how (well) we are received; and most importantly, take our marketing pieces to the next level…

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How to Rock Your Job Search and Create a Contact Database

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Job Search …There’s more to life than job postings! 

There are many strategies you can use, to help you become employed. Most people rely on job postings, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg in job search … read on…

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Build Your Brand with Marketing Materials

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NEVER ever ever lose an opportunity to promote your full name, and contact information when you build your personal brand.

In job search, it’s “mission critical” to brand your name and to list full contact information on all of your business correspondence and all of your personal marketing pieces.

Last week I wrote about gathering all your marketing pieces (or “tools” as I like to call them), lining them up together, and doing a full review of them for content, consistency, digital currency, and formatting/design. Now we’ll take a closer look at the most important ones.

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Does a cover letter still matter?

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Why write a cover letter?

A lot of people ask me what is the point of writing a cover letter anymore? Do they even get read? Can’t I just send a resume?  …and be done with it? Well, short answer is yes, you can just send a resume. But why miss out on the chance to show them that, not only do your skills match the job description (…making you short-listable – scroll down to earlier blog: “Are You Short-listable”) but also show them that your career aspirations and intentions are also a match.

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