It can be extremely difficult to secure a job in a city across the country when you’re competing against local talent. So how did Emily, a 30-year old marketing professional living in New York City, manage to secure an events/marketing role at a successful media start-up in San Francisco this summer? After four years at
LYJ friend Vicki Salemi is a career expert with 15 years of corporate recruiting experience. She is a national public speaker and the author of Big Career in the Big City. Here are Vicki’s tips for creating a stand out resume:
1. When revising a resume, what do you tend to focus on most?
Clarity. I
In my LYJ (Love Your Job) Search Class, I like to provide participants with a list of affirmations to choose from while we’re working together. Affirmations can be powerful tools to make sure your inner mindset matches your external actions. If the voice in your head is telling you it’s a terrible economy, there are
Women love to help others, but often find it difficult to ask for help themselves. But if you’re looking for a new job, it’s time to get over that fear: Enlisting others in the hunt is much more effective than going at it alone.
The easiest way to begin is to send a friendly (read: not
Elizabeth, age 25, moved to New York City in 2010 after working in the health care field, hoping to break into non-profit, social justice work. After almost a year of under-employment and freelance work, she landed a full-time job in her field of choice thanks to a lot of networking, self-care and persistence. Here are
Emily May is co-founder and Executive Director of Hollaback!, an organization dedicated to ending street harassment using mobile technology. Started in 2005 in NYC, Hollaback has grown to eight affiliate sites worldwide and has been featured on Good Morning America, MSNBC and in the New York Times. I met Emily on a panel on
When my LYJ (Love Your Job) Search class starts on Monday, I will be asking participants to draft a description of their ideal job. The clarity that results from this exercise can be extremely helpful. It allows people to better articulate what they are looking for and creates a level of focus for their searches.
If
A friend of mine is close to a job offer that would increase not only her salary but also her management and leadership responsibilities. However, the job would require her to relocate across the country and is not fully aligned with her longer-term career goals. She’d be leaving behind her relationship and creative side projects
Will 2011 be the year of your new job? After working with 7 cohorts of women jobseekers and dozens more individually, I’ve come to see what separates those who arrive at that magical moment of receiving an offer from those who don’t. Make sure the following are part of your job search this year:
1. Focus:
Three women from my last LYJ (Love Your Job) Search Class had interviews this past week. How did they line them up? Not by painfully slogging through online job boards or agonizing over cover letters but rather with tiny actions that had immediate and big pay offs in surprising ways.
1. As I wrote about in
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