Preparing to Import into JibberJobber

Preparing to Import into JibberJobber Ive had a couple of calls in the last 2 weeks about importing so Im writing this post (part one of two) to help clarify. First, you need to have a CSV file to import into JibberJobber! If you are using something else (like Outlook, PalmDesktop, CardScan, or your own spreadsheet) that is cool. But you have to get the data ready for JibberJobber to accept. It needs to be a csv file (or a vcard, for onsie-twosie imports from Outlook). So Im going to show you how to create this CSV file from Outlook (most programs will be very similar note, my version of Outlook may be different than yours, but this will be fairly close). In Outlook, click on File, then Import and Export. Next, select Export to a file (note the rest are for importing) and hit Next Next, choose the one that says Comma Separated Values, which is what CSV stands for. Im choosing the one with (Windows) in it (not sure why, if this is wrong Ill fix this post). Click on the Next button. Next, choose the folder you want to send to this CSV file. In this case you will choose the Contacts Folder, and click Next. Then it asks you where you want this file to end up. I like to put it on my desktop because it is always easy to find, but MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE SAVING IT. You can copy and paste whats in the white box to a Word doc just to keep track of where you are saving it. This last page allows you to map fields, dont worry about that just click on the finish button. You should have the CSV file with all of your contacts and their information sitting on your desktop (or wherever you saved it). Now you are ready for Part II, which Ill post on soon. Remember, you can do this from other programs, and it usually is this easy (or easier). Preparing to Import into JibberJobber Ive had a couple of calls in the last 2 weeks about importing so Im writing this post (part one of two) to help clarify. First, you need to have a CSV file to import into JibberJobber! If you are using something else (like Outlook, PalmDesktop, CardScan, or your own spreadsheet) that is cool. But you have to get the data ready for JibberJobber to accept. It needs to be a csv file (or a vcard, for onsie-twosie imports from Outlook). So Im going to show you how to create this CSV file from Outlook (most programs will be very similar note, my version of Outlook may be different than yours, but this will be fairly close). In Outlook, click on File, then Import and Export. Next, select Export to a file (note the rest are for importing) and hit Next Next, choose the one that says Comma Separated Values, which is what CSV stands for. Im choosing the one with (Windows) in it (not sure why, if this is wrong Ill fix this post). Click on the Next button. Next, choose the folder you want to send to this CSV file. In this case you will choose the Contacts Folder, and click Next. Then it asks you where you want this file to end up. I like to put it on my desktop because it is always easy to find, but MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE SAVING IT. You can copy and paste whats in the white box to a Word doc just to keep track of where you are saving it. This last page allows you to map fields, dont worry about that just click on the finish button. You should have the CSV file with all of your contacts and their information sitting on your desktop (or wherever you saved it). Now you are ready for Part II, which Ill post on soon. Remember, you can do this from other programs, and it usually is this easy (or easier). Preparing to Import into JibberJobber Ive had a couple of calls in the last 2 weeks about importing so Im writing this post (part one of two) to help clarify. First, you need to have a CSV file to import into JibberJobber! If you are using something else (like Outlook, PalmDesktop, CardScan, or your own spreadsheet) that is cool. But you have to get the data ready for JibberJobber to accept. It needs to be a csv file (or a vcard, for onsie-twosie imports from Outlook). So Im going to show you how to create this CSV file from Outlook (most programs will be very similar note, my version of Outlook may be different than yours, but this will be fairly close). In Outlook, click on File, then Import and Export. Next, select Export to a file (note the rest are for importing) and hit Next Next, choose the one that says Comma Separated Values, which is what CSV stands for. Im choosing the one with (Windows) in it (not sure why, if this is wrong Ill fix this post). Click on the Next button. Next, choose the folder you want to send to this CSV file. In this case you will choose the Contacts Folder, and click Next. Then it asks you where you want this file to end up. I like to put it on my desktop because it is always easy to find, but MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE SAVING IT. You can copy and paste whats in the white box to a Word doc just to keep track of where you are saving it. This last page allows you to map fields, dont worry about that just click on the finish button. You should have the CSV file with all of your contacts and their information sitting on your desktop (or wherever you saved it). Now you are ready for Part II, which Ill post on soon. Remember, you can do this from other programs, and it usually is this easy (or easier).

Building a Lasting Personal Brand - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Building a Lasting Personal Brand - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Which is going to last longer; your job, your personal brand, or your life? Although your retirement may be decades away, its not too early to think about how long your personal brand will continue to serve you. The importance of long-term personal branding is especially important because of the increased life expectancy you can probably look forward to coupled with the fragility of jobs and careers in todays fast-moving world. Have you considered the possibility you may outlive your personal brand? That leads to two important questions: What would it mean to be brand-less after your working career is over? What are you doing now, and what can you do now, to work towards a lifetime brand? The questions are especially important since research indicates a close correlation between mental activity, i.e., challenges, stimulation, productivity, satisfaction, and an individuals physical health. Going strong at 75 The questions occurred to me after I read a recent Seattle Times article, Seattle Jazz Broadcaster Reaching Fans Around World. The article profiled Jim Wilke, who, for over 30 years, has been a leading figure in the Seattle jazz community, and beyond. His Jazz After Hours program reaches jazz lovers around the world through over 70 public radio stations and the Internet. Jim Wilke recently celebrated his 75th birthday. At a time when many have retired, Jim is as active as ever: Sharing his love of jazz Recording jazz performances at festivals and local venues Producing and recording several hours of radio programming each week MCing jazz events At an age when post-retirement creates health problems associated with isolation and loneliness, Jims calendar is filled and his inbox contains interactions and stories of his listeners reactions to his programs. (See the listener comments on his website and the comments readers added to the Seattle Times profile.) Most important takeaway in the article:   No Retirement Plans What does Jims story have to do about writing? Jim Wilkes story is important because the challenges and satisfactions he enjoys (recording concerts, discovering new talent, creating engaging programs) are the same types of challenges and satisfaction that writing offers you! Nobody can fire Jim Wilke, just like no one can fire an author who continues to find challenge and satisfaction from writing. Challenge, passion, and satisfaction can help keep you healthyif you have created a way to remain engaged in what you love andmost importantand have developed a brand and a platform to share your passion with others who share your interests. A lot of Jim Wilkes current satisfaction comes from current technology, i.e., personal computers and the Internet.   These tools will continue to be available to you, if you cultivate a brand and a passion to share. Its never too early to plan ahead No matter how busy you are this week, I encourage you to devote a few minutes to think ahead and ask yourself, Whats the personal brand I want to have on my 75th birthday? and What can I do today to pave the way to a strong personal brand at 75? I wish you the best. Author: Roger C. Parker wants to help you write to build your personal brand. Start by downloading his free workbook, 99 Questions to Ask Before You Start to Write and ask your questions about getting started writing for personal branding success.

A Kinder Take on Goals (and Resolutions) Using Positive Psychology Marla Gottschalk

A Kinder Take on Goals (and Resolutions) Using Positive Psychology Marla Gottschalk Authors Note: I believe this strategy can help us as we deal with rapid change during the current crisis. Work life is different now. Our view of progress must also adjust. We all engage in goal setting. Historically, its simply what we do. Yet, goals can either help or hurt us â€" depending on their inherent ability to energize. New Years resolutions can suffer the same outcome. They are essentially goals, wrapped in a loaded, time-stamped, end-of-the-year package. As a work life strategist, Ive advised clients to refine or even lose goals that no longer serve them. Resolutions can also let us down and often fail to direct us in a meaningful way. Im wondering if we can craft work-focused resolutions that are better for us? One strategy, is to apply what we already know about positive psychology. With its roots in humanistic psychology, positive psychology theorizes that we have the power to re-frame our life experiences to help us become more positive and productive. Resolutions could stand a re-framing. So lets follow this thread. Consider the following passage: Positive psychology isa call for psychological science and practice to be as concerned with strength as with weakness; as interested in building the best things in life as in repairing the worst; and as concerned with making the lives of normal people fulfilling as with healing pathology, Christopher Peterson We could re-frame resolutions with a nod toward what is right, and not wrong with   work life. As we look toward the future, we might recognize what has worked during the previous year. (Sustaining energy requires that we actively acknowledge the good.) Taking the time to remind ourselves of what we already have already accomplished, can provide the fuel that we need to build both energy and resilience. So â€" ask yourself: What brought you a feeling of accomplishment recently? A sense of meaning? Joy? First, carefully consider what you have already achieved, by drafting a list of your steps already taken in the right direction. (Remember, no step is too small to acknowledge.) Celebrate the successes and take something constructive from failures or disappointments. Secondly, craft a few behaviorally-defined steps for the future, which build upon progress. Try to avoid broad, overwhelming resolutions such as Find a better job. Be specific, yet supportive, of your on-going journey. Integrate what you have learned from both the highs and lows of 2019. Then think of yourself actively completing these goals. What are you actually doing? What are the specific steps you will take? Heres how this might look regarding one of my 2020 resolutions: To identify opportunities for collaboration regarding my work in core stability. Please note: I did not identify the right collaboration opportunity during 2019. There were stumbling blocks, yet there was modest progress. And acknowledging the latter is important. Progress in 2019: Continued to refine concept message. Engaged in many useful conversations (virtually and IRL) regarding core stability as applied to both people organizations. Wrote published the concepts origin story and its guiding principles. Began identifying HR/HR Tech micro-influencers whose work aligns with my own. Whats Next in 2020: Hone list of possible HR/HR Tech contacts. Reach out on social media, where possible. Write an email a week regarding potential collaborations. Schedule one conversation per week regarding possible collabs. Continue to define research parameters: subjects, scope, funding. Let me know if this process brings you any resolution success. Happy New Year to all of you! Dr. Marla Gottschalk is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and a charter member of the LinkedIn Influencer Program. Her training series The Core â€" helps people organizations build a stronger work life foundation. Her thoughts on work life have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, BBC Work Life, Quartz and The Huffington Post.

How Make a Standout LinkedIn Profile

How Make a Standout LinkedIn Profile The increasing popularity of LinkedIn has made it an indispensable tool for recruitment. Anyone looking for a job should know that one of the first things a potential employer will do is to look the person up on LinkedIn. A poorly structured profile or a lack of one could be a deciding factor when choosing between you and another candidate. LinkedIn is not only used for showing off your accomplishments, like a resume or CV, it is also a powerful networking tool. What users need to know is that merely slapping your resume on the site will not serve you well. It’s important to consider LinkedIn as a different way to connect to an employer or recruitment audience. Show your stuff Like any social media profile, your image is of the utmost importance. In this case, you want to present a professional face to the world. Be sure to add a picture that looks polished and is a clear representation of what you want in your career. Don’t put in pictures with strange backgrounds and definitely no selfies! In addition, you should fill your profile with media like images and links to your further workâ€"there’s nothing better than visual content, after all. Tell a story While your CV might have a brief summary followed by bulleted points for individual listings, this is not the way you want your LinkedIn profile to read. Consider the medium of LinkedIn as a kind of marketing landing page which should show you off at your best and sell your characteristics. Because of this, it must be more prosaic than a standard resume, with some hints of your personality and how you approach your work. Again, LinkedIn a networking tool too, so you want to present yourself as both professional and accessible in order to make the strongest impact. Think of how you might see a blog post. Instead of saying something like: Spearheaded outreach for 3000 person event space, raising social media profile by 30% Consider something more illustrative like: “For three years, I was tasked with tackling outreach and media for programming for large event space (with over 3000 audience members). Happy to say that my efforts had the effect of raising our social media profile by over 30%.” You can add almost everything In structure, a LinkedIn profile is more like a CV rather than a resume, and it needs to have all the details you can muster. Because the site functions as an all-in-one professional hub, many things that you would never put on a resume are actually fair game (think, specific interests and groups you belong to). Remember the medium again, readers will scan and scroll on your page, picking out areas of interest. That said, make sure interests are work-related and not just “sci-fi movies” or the NY Knicks (unless that’s in your career path). Similarly, you can add things like volunteer experiences, language skills, and awards you’ve won that you might not have included on your resume for fear of making it too lengthy. In this case, you never know what will connect with an employer. Recommendations and skill endorsements It doesn’t hurt to add as many skills as you can think of for people to endorse you one of the key aspects that employers look for on LinkedIn is how other people see your professional skill level. When it comes to recommendations, it is useful to have at least 2 or 3. Talk to your co-workers or people you trust who you may have worked with at a previous job, and ask them to do a recommendation swap. If they write one for you, you’ll write one for them. While there’s no shortage of LinkedIn profile tips to learn from, the most important thing to take away is that if your profile has the effect of demonstrating a human, personable, and effective career-minded individual, then you can’t go wrong. Have a look at the infographic below for some more LinkedIn profile tips. About the author:  Meredith Wood  is Editor-in-Chief at Fundera. Specializing in financial advice for small business owners, Meredith is a current and past contributor to Yahoo!, Amex OPEN Forum, Fox Business, SCORE, AllBusiness and more.

Marcs Wife, Lotus, and Her Observations on Moving to Ajijic. [Podcast] - Career Pivot

Marc’s Wife, Lotus, and Her Observations on Moving to Ajijic. [Podcast] - Career Pivot Episode #100 â€" Marc interviews Lotus Miller for her side of the story on moving to Ajijic, Mexico. Description: In this special Episode 100, Marc’s wife, Lotus Miller, is the guest. Marc has talked about the issues from his point of view, so now we hear about her experiences. Listen in for a forthright review of what she has found and what she feels about it. Key Takeaways: [1:27] Marc welcomes you to Episode 100 of the Repurpose Your Career podcast. When Marc launched this podcast late in October 2016, he never imagined you would be downloading this podcast in the thousands of episode downloads per month. Over 45K episode downloads occurred in the first nine months of 2018. [1:58] Episode downloads have tripled since the podcast was featured in the May issue of AARP Magazine. [2:06] Marc certainly didn’t think he would be recording episode 100 outside the U.S.A. A lot has changed since the show debuted. Since the podcast launched, the economy has done very well but not for everybody. Marc has written on the blog that the recovery has been very uneven. [2:28] While the published unemployment rate for Boomers is 3%, many of our generation have dropped out and are no longer being counted. Health insurance is a political punching bag. This is why Marc is living in Mexico â€" for better health care and cheaper health insurance. [2:54] Who would have thought a few years ago that people over 55 would be so poorly treated by our health system? Our world in October 2018 looks a whole lot different than it did in October 2016. Therefore, this podcast will continue to evolve. [3:13] Marc says thank you to everyone who has written an iTunes review. Marc really appreciates when someone rates or reviews the show. [3:23] Here’s what Marc has planned. He has a series of fascinating guests to interview. Next week Marc will interview Bob McIntosh, a renowned LinkedIn expert who will discuss how to use LinkedIn in your job search. Now on to the podcast… Download Link | iTunes|Stitcher Radio|Google Podcast| Podbean | TuneIn | Overcast [3:36] The following week, Marc will have Michael O’Brien, who, like Marc, suffered a near-fatal bicycle accident. Their accidents were nearly identical and occurred one year apart, to the day. [4:01] Marc will survey the audience in the coming weeks. Marc would like your input. What do you want from the next 100 episodes? [4:11] Marc will launch a Patreon page in early 2019. Patreon is a platform for performers and content creators to raise money. This podcast costs about $400 a month to produce. Marc will be polling the community of listeners to see if there is an appetite for anyone who’d be willing to contribute to defray the cost for making this podcast. [4:48] For Episode 100, Marc “rattled his brain” wondering what he could do to make this episode special. After consulting a number of folks, including the Podfly team, Marc decided on interviewing his wife, Lotus Miller, on her experiences about their move to Mexico. [5:04] Lotus is not a recovering engineer but a former Registered Nurse and a massage therapist. A lot has changed for Lotus and Marc in the last two years. Marc has chronicled their journey to Mexico on the blog and in the podcast. What surprised Marc is the magnitude of the positive response. You folks like hearing about their journey. [5:26] It has not always been pleasant, like when Marc recorded Episode 29 from Lotus’s hospital room after returning from Ecuador five days early or grappling with health insurance and tax implications. Marc remembers completing his income taxes in Ajijic last April, digging through the insurance company’s portal for claims they had paid. [5:54] Marc is a really smart guy, and he found taxes really difficult. What does the ‘average Joe’ do? It’s ridiculous. [6:06] As Marc records this episode, they are preparing to drive back to Austin. As this episode is published, Marc and Lotus will be on a three-day drive to Austin to empty out their condo and prepare it to be rented. After 40 years in Austin, Texas, it’s time to move on. [6:29] Marc will continue in the coming year to record episodes about their move to Mexico, but maybe not as frequently â€" you tell Marc what you would like. Marc has been very open about sharing the good times and the bad. It has not been easy, but many of you have told him you appreciate how open and frank he has been. [6:48] Four podcast listeners have visited the Millers in the last four months. If you are interested, ping Marc. [7:01] Marc welcomes Lotus to the Repurpose Your Career podcast. They are recording in the second bedroom of the casita. If it sounds like a concrete bunker, it is! [7:21] It was a year ago that Marc and Lotus first visited Ajijic. The first things that got Lotus’s attention were all the dogs lying on the sidewalk in the sun and often sleeping. There were some dog droppings on the sidewalks. Some dogs were in fenced yards. [9:57] Lotus thought the people in the neighborhood looked comfortable and happy, though not rich. When she greeted anyone in Spanish, they were always happy to acknowledge her with a “Buenos días” or a “Buenos noches.” [10:55] Marc remembers when Lotus greeted a woman with “Buenos días,” and the woman corrected her with “No, no, no, no! ‘Buenos tardes!’” Lotus found the elderly ladies very nice to her. [11:36] As time passed over a couple of visits, what at first seemed odd to Lotus, now she doesn’t notice. The dogs on the sidewalk seem normal to her. Most of them are not street dogs, they are just allowed to run loose. People feed and take care of dogs that are unowned. In general, there’s not much difference between owned and street dogs. [12:57] One dog, Chiclet, seemed to be a street dog, but then somebody took it in. Marc and Lotus give details. [14:09] The weather and foliage were much different from Texas. Everything is so green, in the rainy season. People had ivy on their walls. Trees bloom in the fall, covered with purple or orange blooms. Plans get Lotus’s attention because she loves the outdoors. The town and the lake are surrounded by mountains. [16:07] Lotus notes that the native speakers of Spanish speak much faster than she can understand. Over the year, her grasp of it is coming along. Even in English, Lotus prefers slower speech to faster speech. [17:54] Lotus loves the food in Ajijic. There are a lot of Italian restaurants in Ajijic! Lotus has met a lot of people of different nationalities, which may play a part. Lotus, from Austin, is accustomed to eating Italian food or continental food. In Texas, she rarely ate Mexican food, but she is eating a lot of it now and finds it so much better. [19:06] Lotus finds the quality of food amazing; the sauces are very slowly produced in the morning. Lotus has not been a fruit eater but she is starting to enjoy the mangoes. She does not like the papayas. International companies grow various berries all year long, available fresh at half the price as in the U.S. Farms surround the lake. [21:19] Lotus goes to tianguis or open-air markets. There are three she goes to, the Chapala Market, the organic farmers’ market, and the Ajijic Market. Lotus describes the markets and when she goes. She tells about one woman at the Chapala Market, who chops up a chicken on the spot as Lotus likes. [24:07] The Chapala Tianguis is a sensory experience. Marc talks about the array of goods available there, in at least half-a-mile of displays. [25:00] Lotus discusses the organic market. Lotus soaks vegetables in an iodine solution before eating them fresh but doesn’t need to do that with vegetables from the organic farmers’ market. The Ajijic Farmers’ market on Wednesday is a scaled-down version of the Chapala Market. [27:12] Lotus talks about seafood. It is more flavorful than she has found in Austin. I Kilo of shrimp for about 100 pesos, or about $5. Lotus serves it with no seasoning. Marc notes both he and Lotus have lost weight without trying. [28:12] Lotus tells about riding the bus. The driver takes off while you are still handling the fare. The buses run to cities all around the lake for a few pesos. When the bus is full people stand on the back of the bus and hand their fare up through the crowd. It is not unusual to see school children riding the bus by themselves. [30:11] The back seats of the bus are very bouncy on the irregularly paved cobblestone roads with holes. Some drivers are cautious and others zip around, but they get there safely. Marc and Lotus have ridden the bus to Chapala and to Jocotepec. From Ajijic to Jocotepec (about 15-20K) costs 12 pesos or about 60 cents. [31:51] Sometimes musicians will perform on the bus, maybe with their children. [32:27] Lotus talks about the Lake Chapala Society, where Marc and Lotus are members. They have much to offer expats and visitors. Lotus takes Yoga classes there. Lotus knows of bridge groups, Scrabble, and Mahjong players. They have too many activities to list. They have the largest English library outside the U.S. [33:42] Lotus has been checking out books and reading a lot; not watching any TV since they have been there. She is looking forward to bringing a U.S. DVD player, because the English DVDs she can rent cannot be played on a Mexican DVD player, only on a U.S. DVD player. They are U.S. formatted DVDs and Blu-Rays. [34:21] There are many ponds and so much greenery. Marc and Lotus were eating at an outdoor cafe at the Lake Chapala Society and a very large avocado fell from a tree onto the awning and rolled off. They took it home and ate it later. It was so good. The avocados and other local foods in Mexico are always good and fresh. [35:53] There are grocery stores that cater to expats, with lots of packaged foods. [36:00] Lake Chapala Society assists children in schools and classes and offer art classes for children. They give back to the locals as much as assisting expats. The expat community has created and participates in many nonprofits in the area in the arts and the schools and spaying and neutering dogs and finding homes for them. [37:07] In spite of their daughter’s prior misgivings, Lotus feels very safe and happy in the environment and with the people around her. It is a slower-moving life. Mañana means no more than ‘not today.’ [38:09] Most of the crime in the big cities is cartel against cartel. There are one million American expats living in Mexico, not to mention from other countries. Expats are very welcome by the government and do a lot of good for the community. [38:09] There are a lot of similarities between Austin and Ajijic. Austin grows by 150 people every day. People are also moving to Ajijic like crazy. The rental market necessitated Marc’s and Lotus’s early move, to make sure they got the property they wanted. There’s a lot of gentrification occurring. [39:49] On their first visit, and again, right now, it is a month of religious feast days with fireworks shooting off at 5:00 most days in the morning for a month. The events move from chapel to chapel carrying a statue to represent a saint. There are horses and bands parading as part of it. [42:56] September 16, Mexican Independence Day is a big celebration of performances and fireworks, starting the weekend before. Lotus admires how the Mexicans celebrate things. If you don’t like the noise, “probably don’t come here.” Mexicans celebrate at the drop of a hat. Some chapels, from the 1600s, are rented out for celebrations. [45:03] Lotus is disappointed to miss The Day of the Dead, this year but it will still be there every year. Lotus is looking forward to the dry season, the winter. It should be mostly sunny. The dry season high is usually about 75 degrees F in the late afternoon with the low in the low 50s or even into the 40s. [46:00] Marc and Lotus were there at Easter this year, and the Mexicans really celebrated that, so Marc and Lotus want to know how they celebrate Christmas. [46:19] Lotus would advise first-time visitors to get the book, Moving to Mexico’s Lake Chapala, by Lisa Jorgensen. Marc also recommends this book. Lotus likes a smaller-town feel and that’s what she loves about Ajijic. Ajijic is an indigenous peoples’ name, not a Mexican name, by the way. [47:30] Marc thanks Lotus for being on the Repurpose Your Career podcast. [47:36] Marc notes that Lotus is very much on board with this plan. Your experience may differ. There have been a fair number of divorces after couples move overseas and one just loves it and the other just craves to return to the U.S. [48:01] The one who loves it isn’t always the member of the couple that instigated the move. It’s not as simple as one might think. Half the people who retire overseas, return in less than five years. It’s half for health, and the other half because they can’t handle the cultural change. Lotus is pretty excited about what she has found. [48:59] Watch for the opportunity to help Marc work on the third edition of his book Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life, with Susan Lahey. He will be forming a team of volunteers in the coming months to read pre-release versions of new chapters. Look for the sign-up sheet coming soon! [50:19] Check back next week for Episode 101! Marc will interview Bob McIntosh, the renowned LinkedIn expert on using LinkedIn in your job search. Marc Miller Like what you just read? Share it with your friends using the buttons above. Like What You Read? Get Career Pivot Insights! Check out the Repurpose Your Career Podcast Do You Need Help With ...

[BOOK REVIEW] The YOU Plan A 5-Step Guide to Taking Charge of Your Career in the New Economy - CareerEnlightenment.com

Another thing to keep in mind is the importance of self-branding. “The job market is ever-changing so you have to make sure you are always positioned correctly.You must present yourself in a way that is relevant and in demand.”Value Clarification: Creating a Strong FoundationIn a time of instability it helps to have stable values as your foundation. Woodward guides you through a process of value clarification and assessment. Its important to recognize if you arent actually acting on what you say your values are.“Aligning your values with your goals and actions is a critical first step in building a successful career.”This is because your well-being is deeply influenced by whether or not your values are in alignment with those of the company you work for. You need to know what youre looking for before you can be sure that you are seeking the right employers.Intrinsics: The Things You Have to Offer that You May Not Be UtilizingThe idea of seeking an employer that jives with who you are may sound like wishful thinking when its so challenging to find a job in the first place. But dont sell yourself short. You probably have a lot of things to bring to the table that feel so natural to you that you forget to emphasize them.Here is Woodwards description of intrinsics: “Contributions can come in many shapes and sizes: writings, research, innovations, assistance, or changes you have influenced. Step back and assess the value you have created, and see how you can leverage that value in developing your career.”This is yet another example of creative career design. You are learning to use what you already have to find a custom fit. “Its just a matter of identifying, articulating, and packaging these contributions.”If youre ready to start building your plan check out the book for tons of guidance and space to reflect.You can also find lots more at http://drwoody.com/

Resume Miami - Matching Cover Letter and Envelope to Apply For Jobs

Resume Miami - Matching Cover Letter and Envelope to Apply For JobsWhen you have your resume printed out it should match the information that is on the cover of the envelope. Since the cover is only used as a sales pitch, a generic job title and some experience you should make sure that the resumes that are sent to you in the mail match the information on the envelope.Some people think that the job description on the envelope is not the same as the information on the cover. The fact is the cover is used only to get your attention and open the envelope. If you can find the job title on the envelope that tells you right away that it is not the same as the information on the cover of the envelope.Another reason to use a matching cover and envelope is that it allows you to send out two copies of the resume to use for comparison. One set will be sent to each person who may be interested in the position. When they receive your first application they will see the job description, some of th e skills that you may not have, and you name. If they respond, you will know right away if they received your letter correctly.If you send out three resumes and all of them differ from the job description that you posted you will know that it is an error and you will be able to correct it. You will then be able to send out the correct resume to the new applicant and he will also know that the job is not available.The problem with applying for jobs from many different job descriptions is that they can all look the same. There is no way to tell if the job description is completely accurate or if the wording is just to attract attention. If you are applying for the same position, you will be able to notice this.As long as you use a cover letter of introduction the chances are good that the envelopes will be the same. Most employers prefer to receive one cover letter to send out to a thousand different applicants. Using the same cover letter when you send your resume also helps to build trust between you and the employer.If you were to send a letter to hundreds of different people each one of those letters would be unique and you would not get any more than 100 responses. The same goes for the envelope.If the information on the cover of the letter and the information on the envelope do not match, it is important to send your resume out to several people from different companies. Make sure that you are consistent with your cover letter and that your envelope and cover letter information matches to receive the best results.