August 2009

Dealing with career anxiety

in Job search

We live in a society where personal introductions begin with the question “What do you do?”. Career being such a central place in our lives, we are always comparing ourselves to our friends and our peers. Does this behavior introduce an anxiety in terms of career achievement? Or job envy?

Conventional wisdom says that job positions are given based on meritocracy and anyone that has “not made it” is considered unsuccessful. Then is career anxiety related to job snobbery?

Alain de Botton provides a delightful (and funny) perspective on the career malaise that afflicts most of us and purports a different view to look at one’s career.

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It works both ways

in communication,Tools

Both ways! Many job seekers look for jobs with a view that they and they themselves are responsible for taking the message to prospective employers *all the time*.

Remember that recruiters (employers) that are hiring are also looking for candidates. You know the tools that they use: personal networks, Google, LinkedIn, facebook just to name a few.

Your Online Self

The exercise then really is to create an online profile that will make it easier for recruiters to find you and contact you.  Then you will really see the power of the network work for you.

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Another JobPounce success story

in communication,Job search,JobPounce,Market Trends,Tools,Videos

Aileen attended a JobPounce session on June 13th and here she is in conversation with Jill where she goes over how her job search changed and what were her take-aways.

Also, don’t miss the 90 *minute* elevator speech towards the end :)

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