Job-Seeking Resources

Here are some job resources for you:

1) ASSESSMENT

• Listen to Live! with Lisa tonight for our questionnaire (Updated 1/28: Questionnaire is typed up here)
• Do a strengths assessment: for example, VIA Signature Strengths Questionnaire
• Write out several stories of when you most enjoyed your work

2) TARGETING TOOLS

• Meetup.com
• Alltop.com
• Job sites – especially industry specific
• Friends and colleagues – 48+% find their job through referrals

How else can you target your new job:

• Apply – apply to jobs
• Pre-apply – do informational interviews, group meetings
• Work – run a Meetup group, be a contributor to a blog, start a website or twitter account about your industry, volunteer in it. You can do a lot of work without officially being employed. And then – BIG BENEFIT – it’s not like you were unemployed for ten months. It’s like you were running community events on that field in your industry.

3) ACTION STEPS

• Resume
  • Put in those things relevant to getting called in for a job, and only those things
  • Put in those activities that you want to do, not those you don’t want to do!
• Interviewing
  • The one thing to know in a job interview
  • Prepare specific (situation-action-results SARI) examples like this

IN THIS ECONOMY:

• How to get a job in 2009 by Charlie O’Donnell
• In this economy, we’re all entrpreneurs by Charlie O’Donnell
• Follow-up to “everyone becomes an entrepreneur” by Fred Wilson
• “How to use Social Media to land your next job” by Mack Collier

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I wish you all the best and I wish you the most beautiful fate!