There’s huge competition for almost every job opening. No doubt you’ve experienced this yourself, or have watched as others struggled in their job search over the last few years. If you now are back to work, congratulations.
Now it’s time to be planning your NEXT job, so you have a much better chance to reach your career goals.
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There’s a lot of advice out there about how to create a great résumé or CV. There are stories circulating about how people delivered theirs along with a pair of shoes, or dressed up as a clown.
People are desperate for jobs, and at some point you get so frustrated you’re ready to try just about anything. But here’s the question: Do you want people circulating stories about you, or do you want a job?
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A lot of people I’ve talked to have puzzled over how to present themselves on Facebook. The problem is that you really should have only one “identity”, yet you don’t necessarily communicate the same kind of messages to friends, co-workers, future employers, or people in other social circles. This can be especially a concern for those born before, say, 1970, who didn’t have to deal with this before the Internet changed our lives.
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There’s lots of people who give you conflicting advice about how to create the perfect résumé or CV. What I tell people is to get lots of ideas and opinions, but then come up with something that you think does the best job of representing you to your target employers.
That said, here are things that I talk about with clients when they want to improve their résumé:
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I’ll give you the bottom line right now: The perfect résumé or CV doesn’t exist. Sorry about that.
Why would this be?
Because your résumé is the beginning of a conversation between you and another person.
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I have some big news!
I have just signed up with a coaching services firm, Small Fish Business Coaching, based in Australia. This is a huge leap forward for me and my business, because I’m moving away from working totally on my own, to being in partnership with a rapidly growing group that is intent on improving the plight of small business owners, one at a time.
Part of the human journey is a constant struggle between wanting to fit in, and wanting to be valued because of our unique value.
I guess that’s one of the things that makes life interesting.
But what makes you unique? It can come from several places:
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In Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success, he stated that to achieve mastery in an area, it generally takes about 10,000 hours of serious learning, practice, and skill development.
I think it’s a valid conclusion, but there’s more to the story.
If you want to be famous for something, to be at the forefront, you have to establish yourself as world class. You want to be one of the best violinists? 10,000 hours. You want to make a living as a pro golfer? 10,000 hours.
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Nobody likes a braggart. But there are times where you need to promote yourself – to your boss, to potential customers, to future employers. How do you promote yourself in a way which doesn’t come across as shameless and inauthentic?
Here’s the trick: You promote in a way which is well-founded, or where promotion isn’t the primary message.
There’s more than a little fuzziness around the concept of “soft skills.” “Hard skills” are thought of as those technical abilities which often lend their name to an entire profession: designing, architecture, repairing, nursing, and so on. These are easy to identify because there’s a specific body of knowledge around each, and they’re the kind of things that our schools teach.
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