“Shutting down your job-search operation” plus 2 more |
- Shutting down your job-search operation
- Libraries link into job search
- Author Pamela M. McBride, Military Spouse Job Search Expert, Joins Job-Hunt.org's Select Team of Job Search Experts
| Shutting down your job-search operation Posted: 14 Jan 2011 07:07 AM PST If you've been in the job hunt awhile, you might be suffering from job search advice fatigue. Too many tips on resumes, interviews and networking can make a person crabby. I'm offering something different: Advice for returning to work, in two parts. Today's column focuses on shutting down your job search, while next week we'll look at tips for returning to work and succeeding in your new job. Part 1 – Ending job-search effortsCongratulations! You've got a new job. But is there a little foreboding mixed in with your celebration? If you're like many people, you might be wishing for more time before the first day back at work. Don't forgo the process of capping off your job search. While it used to be that you could simply tell a few friends about your success and set your focus on the future, these days there's more post-job-search cleanup involved. You've spent several months or even years building a veritable job-search machine; it's time to decommission that machine or risk having it operate on its own, with sometimes unfortunate results. Here are some steps to take: Immediately upon accepting an offer (in writing, of course):♦Withdraw your candidacy from searches in which you've been invited to interview. While you may be tempted to complete these processes to see if a better offer can be garnered, this is not usually a good idea. ♦Sort and file your networking contacts, job leads and job-search materials. Within one month of accepting the offer, tell everyone you can think of: ♦Friends and family members. ♦Job-search support groups you've participated in. ♦Networking contacts, career coaches, accountants, instructors and others who have advised you. ♦Counselors from nonprofit or government programs who have helped you. Within two months of accepting the offer, tend to your documentation:♦Add your new job to your LinkedIn profile and any other social media you use. ♦Add your new job to your resume. ♦Remove your profile and resume from all job boards, including websites. Within three months, lay the foundation for new networking by:♦Updating your status in professional association directories and with organizations where you hold membership. Once you have cleared away the remnants of your job search, your last assignment will be to stop thinking of yourself as a job seeker. I know the more common advice is to consider yourself a perpetual seeker so you can manage your career more assertively. That advice has merit but in most cases it's tough to apply. Instead of being career-savvy, many end up mistrusting current employers while constantly scoping out other options. No, you found a team and you joined it. Give yourself permission to enjoy your new job; next week's column will help you get a good start. Amy Lindgren owns Prototype Career Service, a career consulting firm in St. Paul. She can be reached at alindgren@prototypecareerservice.com or at 626 Armstrong Ave., St. Paul, MN 55102. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Libraries link into job search Posted: 14 Jan 2011 01:53 AM PST Job-skill trainers will help out-of-work Delawareans one-on-one in Georgetown and field questions -- live -- from downsized, laid-off or under-employed residents in Wilmington or anywhere else in the state with a local library. Such scenarios are just one aim of a three-year project launched Thursday to expand broadband access and focus on needs of the state's unemployed. The $2.8 million project, Opportunity Online, also is to add computers and increase access speed at libraries in Wilmington, Dover, Seaford and Georgetown -- chosen for having the state's highest unemployment. Annie Norman, state librarian and director of the Delaware Division of Libraries, said the project has $1.9 million in federal stimulus funding from the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program and $900,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Volunteer and community business partnerships, many still to be formed, will be vital to its success, she said. While creating specialized job-oriented centers at the four chosen sites, financial-empowerment education and help for entrepreneurs will be accessible electronically -- free -- at all 32 libraries in the newly established Delaware Library Network. "Anyone with a library card will be able to use it," Norman said, adding the project will aid uncounted thousands of residents who lack computers or Internet access at home and rely on public library computers. "As more and more people are relying on the Internet to do almost everything in life and we have so many people who are out of work, people may not realize how many of them don't have access to the Internet or don't know how to use it," Delaware Secretary of State Jeffrey W. Bullock said. "This project will help empower people from all walks of life to look for employment and get some of the job skills they need and find those services at their local libraries." Library leaders from all over the state met Thursday at the Hilton Wilmington/Christiana in Stanton for a working meeting and the project's launch. (2 of 2) R. David Lankes, director of the Information Institute of Syracuse, N.Y., and an associate professor in the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, spoke about the evolving modern role of libraries and librarians. Norman, whose just-finished Ph.D. thesis reflected that topic, said librarians' mission of fanning readers' love of books has shifted to facilitating lifelong learning in areas from hobbies and civic engagement to employment. "Now we need to ignite a passion for learning," she said. "What underlies it all is empowerment." The project now has partners, including 32 libraries and agencies such as the Department of Health and Social Services, Department of Information and Technology and Delaware Economic Development Office. Other partnerships involve volunteers in literacy and county-level RSVP Programs. Dean Day, one of the project's five new staff members to start in February, said a videoconferencing capacity to be added in the project's second year will bring unprecedented opportunity for job-skill training, individualized help, adult education and volunteer support. Gates Foundation official Karen Archer Perry, senior officer of its U.S. Libraries program, said Delaware is one of 12 states -- the only other in the region being New Jersey -- to get its Opportunity Online grants after winning federal Broadband Technology Opportunities Program funds. The library program is the foundation's oldest, she said, because Bill and Melinda Gates realized more than a decade ago what lack of computer access would mean and saw libraries as "the perfect partners" to help bridge the access gap because they "have librarians who are the professionals at helping people get the information they need." At one level, she said, Opportunity Online is about computers, Internet access and training, she said. She praised the "depth, personal nature and sincerity" of support partnerships already established in Delaware. "This advantage is showing up early in the project," she said, adding, that personal-level connection is "the greatest asset" of such a small state. After the planning stage, Norman said, implementation will start later this year. More computers will help at at Wilmington Library, Director Larry Manuel said. "Our computers get heavy use and, often, we have lines of people waiting to use them," he said. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Posted: 11 Jan 2011 05:18 AM PST Marlborough, MA (PRWEB) January 11, 2011 Since 1996, Job-Hunt.org (http://www.Job-Hunt.org) has helped millions of job seekers connect with the resources and information they need for a safe and successful job search. Over 40 career and job search experts currently help Job-Hunt's visitors keep up with the latest developments in job search and careers, including well-known authors and career experts Susan Ireland, Tory Johnson, Liz Ryan, Nancy Collamer, and Jason Alba. As with all Job-Hunt Experts, Pamela M. McBride is a recognized expert in her field. Pamela's first-hand experience as an Army wife, combined with her education (Master's Degree in Community Counseling) and additional certifications and training in the career management field enable her to offer solid advice, grounded in the daily reality of her life as a military spouse. With more than 20 years experience as a career and personal development expert and a military family life expert, Pamela has co-authored two books, Work It, Girl! and The Mocha Manual to Military Life. Find Pamela's articles in the Military Spouse Section of Job-Hunt: http://www.job-hunt.org/military-spouse-job-search/military-spouse-job-search.shtml. In addition, Pamela runs the Pamela McBride Website, the Work-Life Diva blog (http://www.pamelamcbride.net/blog) and Tweets as @PamelaMMcBride. She is the owner of P.M. McBride Enterprises, LLC. An award-winning employment portal Website (Forbes Best of the Web and U.S. News and World Report top site for finding work), Job-Hunt.org offers job seekers links to over 18,000 carefully-selected links to employer recruiting pages, networking groups, professional associations, and other job search resources. Follow Job-Hunt on Twitter @JobHuntOrg and join Job-Hunt's LinkedIn Group, Job-Hunt Help. Meet the rest of Job-Hunt's 40+ Job Search and Career Experts at http://www.job-hunt.org/job-search-experts/job-search-experts.shtml. And, don't forget that darned hyphen, it puts the dash in every Job-Hunt! # # # This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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