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High School Career Search

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If you've decided it's time for a new career, making that move can be a bit overwhelming. After all where do you start. Well, start right here with these 8 steps to a successful career search.

1. It all begins and ends with networking. Make a list of everyone you need - friends, family, extended family, co-workers (past and present), church members, neighbors, acquaintances, and anyone else you can think of. Talk to everyone on your list. Of course not all at once but 5 to 10 people a week.

2. There are hundreds of job search engines online like Monster.com, all with hundreds of career opportunities. So review what's available and try to apply for at least 10 postings each week.

3. Jump the gun and apply for a position before it's actually posted. Jumping the gun like this before others know about the position is a great way to move yourself to the front of the line and increase your chances.

4. Respond to every newspaper ad that interests you. Over 95% of all resumes received or tossed so you can't apply for too many positions when you're on a new career search.

5. Find new employers that have just opened up shop by using the internet, networking, checking new phone listings, and watching the papers for press releases. Depending on where you live there may be several a week that apply to the type of work you're looking for. Even better if you can find out about them before they do their big hiring campaign.

6. Follow up calls are essential to any business that you have sent off a resume. That means you should keep a log and then two weeks after you send the resume you should be following up with a personal phone call. If you received an interview you need to send out a thank you letter 2 weeks after the interview. You can see how you'll need a log to keep track.

7. Contact employment agencies and recruiters, also called headhunters. They can be a valuable resource in your career search so don't forget about them.

8. Your references are very important. In fact, more so than most people realize. That's why it's so important to make sure that their contact information is up to date.

High School Career Search

I've been reading Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, and it's got advice that's helpful not just to businesses, but to professionals as well. Specifically:

* C-level executives

* Senior managers

* Mid-career professionals, and

* Anyone business person with lots of experience to draw from and share with an online audience

If Google is not just a search engine, but a "reputation management system," as you'll read in the book, then using a blog is vital to you as an expert and executive in your field.

When a headhunter or recruiter gets your resume and Googles you - and more and more of them will as time goes on - what will they find?

If you're blogging, they'll find someone who's intensely passionate about their industry, their vocation, their business savvy. And wouldn't that be a great thing for a recruiter to find? Especially in the midst of hundreds of other candidates for a position? Wouldn't a recruiter be able to do wonders for you with that kind of information to share with a target company?

Not to mention how good it's going to make the recruiter look in front of their client on the employer side of things. So you land a great job, the employer gets a great addition to their team, and the recruiter looks great in the process. It's one of those rare situations where everyone wins.

In addition, a blog is a great networking tool, "a way to connect with other like-minded professionals," as Lani Voivod at "The 'A-Ha!' Blog" puts it. It's just one more way of extending your network, and well beyond the local business groups you may already frequent.

Need more convincing? GoDaddy's CEO Bob Parsons blogs. So does Bill Marriott - yes, he of the hotel chain. The GM FastLane Blog is a team effort which includes Vice Chairman Bob Lutz and other GM VPs, executives, and general managers. And those are just three of the bigwig blogs. You could be in there, too.

To learn more about blogging as a business person, an executive or manager, check out Naked Conversations, and also have a look at "BlogWriteForCEOs," Debbie Weil's excellent website for corporate blogging resources.

Then take a crack at your own blog - once a month to start, work your way up to once a week, then maybe twice or three times, and enjoy yourself while you blog your way to a new position.

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