3 Necessary Follow-Ups to Get the Job – Arnie Fertig

Jan 302017
 
Make an impression without being a nuisance.

Use a company event as a networking opportunity to meet people in your field.

If you know anything about sports, you know that follow through is key to success. No good golfer stops the swing as the club hits the ball, no baseball batter freezes at the split second when the bat hits the ball, and the lesson carries through in sport after sport.

[See: How to Follow Up on a Job Application Without Being Annoying.]

Similarly, in your job search it is important to follow up at every stage if you expect to be the stellar candidate who gets the job offer. Here are some key things you need to do to keep your job search up to date and moving forward.

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This 60-Year-Old Theory Can Help You Nail Your Next Job Interview – Liz Alexander

Jan 232017
 
You need to showcase the higher-order thinking skills computers haven’t mastered and your peers aren’t highlighting.

This 60-Year-Old Theory

Day by day, year by year, machines are taking over basic tasks like data collection and processing, leaving the higher-order stuff to humans. The more automation eats away at the edges of our jobs, the more we’ll need to show we’re still masters of the type of thinking skills robots can’t yet do.

That trend is pushing a framework developed more than six decades ago back into the fore. In 1956, the education theorist Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues developed what’s since become known as Bloom’s Taxonomy, a hierarchy of six types of cognitive goals they believed education should address. In 2017, it’s looking more relevant than ever.

Bloom's Taxonomy

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Take Bloom On Your Next Job Interview

The framework makes it easy to identify the differences between knowing, understanding, and applying information—and, subsequently, to pinpointing the type of contribution that’s most important to companies and hiring managers. Get your head around Bloom’s Taxonomy, in other words, and you’ll stand a better shot at discussing your skills and experience on a job interview in terms that can set you apart.

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It’s Time for Interns to Stop Hating on Coffee Runs – Samantha Subar

Jan 172017
 

The Leadership Insiders network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership. Today’s answer to the question, “How do you turn an internship into a full-time job?” is written by Samantha Subar, global public relations manager at Spredfast.

On the first day of my internship, I was handed a laptop, emailed a contract, and shown to my desk. That’s all—no new-hire orientation, no manual. The rest was up to me.

That was nearly three years ago. The trajectory of my eight-month internship relied entirely on my own ambition, and quite frankly, my desire to land a job. I found that there are three basic practices that interns should adopt in order to land a full-time offer:

Follow the leader

It won’t be difficult to identify the individuals you admire at your company. Do some calendar stalking and you will find the leaders—their schedules will be packed with meetings. Ask to join those meetings—as many as they will allow you to attend—and then sit in and listen. Try to absorb the dialogue taking place inside the room, understand what’s working, and note what isn’t.

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10 Job Skills That Will Get You Hired in 2017 – Megan Elliott

Jan 092017
 

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If you’re in the market for a new job, you’re not alone. More than 75% of full-time employees are either open to new opportunities or actively looking for work, according to CareerBuilder’s 2016 Candidate Behavior Study.

You might be more than ready for a career change, but you may not have the skills it takes to get noticed by recruiters. LinkedIn recently combed through its database to find out which skills employers were looking to hire for in 2017, both in the United States and around the world. They found you’re in good shape if your talents lie in statistics, cloud computing, and mobile development, while other job hunters might have to work a bit harder to catch the eye of hiring managers.

To develop lists of the top 10 in-demand job skills, the professional networking site looked at trends in hiring and recruiting from January through September 2016. LinkedIn predicts these skills will also be in high demand in the first part of 2017.

“While some skills expire every couple of years, our data strongly suggests that tech skills will still be needed for years to come, in every industry. Now is a great time for professionals to acquire the skills they need to be more marketable,” LinkedIn career expert Catherine Fisher said in a statement.

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This Is the Easiest Way to Expand Your Job Search Network Instantly – Abby Wolfe

Jan 032017
 

the-easiest-way-kpgMy partner, Chris, is a huge beer nerd. For a long time, he’d get together every few weeks with fellow craft beer fans to try bottles from all over the world. For years, beer was just Chris’ hobby. Because when he wasn’t hanging with the crew or concocting his own homebrews, he worked full-time at a criminal justice facility.

And while he loved the field he was in (he could—and still does—talk my ear off about incarceration theory and statistics), he hated the bureaucracy and was miserable. He dreaded going in each morning and returned home more bitter than when he’d left.

Then, a year ago, one of his closest beer buddies, Niall, came to the rescue. He had two friends who owned a market in his neighborhood, and they were looking for a new supervisor and beverage director. And because he knew Chris was so unhappy at work, he put them in touch.

They decided to give Chris a chance, even though his food service experience was limited to an ice cream shop. Fast-forward to today, and he just helped them open up a new store—at which they asked him to be the general manager.

Why am I telling you this? No, it’s surprisingly not because I enjoy saying, “My boyfriend is a beer and wine director.” (Which I do—the free samples are awesome.) It’s because this experience taught me two big things about one of the activites I used to dread most—networking. And now, I want to share them with you.

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