10 Ways to Make Sure You Are Never Unemployed
1. Continue Learning Take advantage of opportunities for training both within your company and outside.
2. Keep Current with Technology Look at job postings in your field to see what technology skills are currently being sought after and stay abreast of these areas.
3. Dress for Success. Always dress for the next job above yours but keep it conservative and don’t try to outdo your boss.
4. Be Diversity Friendly Show that you are comfortable in working with people from all backgrounds and that our differences are what makes us unique and strong.
5. Have a Mentor Stay close and solicit operational feedback from one or more key people in the organization who can give guidance to your career.
6. Welcome Feedback. Do not fear feedback but rather embrace it as a way to look objectively at your performance and strategize ways for improvement.
7. Find Your Path Look around you to see what areas in the company provide a conduit for growth and steer clear of the ones that seem to be deadends.
8. Stay Flexible Take on additional responsibilities and make yourself valuable to different departments by expanding your role wherever possible.
9. Offer to help Take opportunities to help your boss with special projects even if it doesn’t mean immediate financial reward. It will pay off in the long run with patience.
10. Join Professional Groups Look for opportunities to connect with others in your field through professional organizations or local and online community groups. This provides a great way to meet others in your field and establish future networking bonds.
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Making Your Resume “Findable”
One of the many missed opportunities when writing a resume is leaving out the key words that help it to get found. Many people don’t realize that their resume goes into an electronic database where it competes with thousands of other resumes for visibility. By looking carefully at the job description, you can choose key words and insert them into your resume so that the HR search bots will “pull” your resume for review by a human.
Remember to include key words that are relevant to your experience. Don’t fall victim to the temptation to just pull and place words so that you will be found. Keep in mind, that you will be asked to back up your job experience in an interview and you don’t want the hiring manager’s BS meter to go off.
This approach will take more time at first, but if you are looking for work in a specific area, chances are your updated resume will have the right “key” words for many job postings.
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LinkedIn To Go Public
The popular business networking site “LinkedIn” has filed for an IPO worth an estimated $175 million dollars. Co-founder and billionaire in the making Reid Hoffman, made the announcement yesterday, but did not indicate how many shares or at what price range they would be offered. The company has approximately 90 million users and is currently free to use, but represents great potential in different monetizing strategies for its mostly well heeled members. The LinkedIn IPO will set the stage for social networking giant Facebook whose IPO will likely occur in calendar 2012.
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