How Can a Career Coach Help You Get a Job You Love?
By Susan Andrewes
There are a lot of misconceptions out there about what career coaching involves and how it differs from other professional forms of support such as career counselling, mentoring, and even therapy. With this in mind, I thought I would set the record straight and explain exactly how career coaching differs from other disciplines, and how it can help you get a job you love.
Therapy - therapy is about resolving past emotional traumas and is not within the competencies of a coach. Coaching is very much focused on attaining future goals quickly and effectively, rather than trying to understand past decisions and events.
Career counselling - a career adviser or counsellor is someone who gives advice about what various professions entail, and who can match up your existing skills with a range of suitable careers. If, for example, you fancy getting into photo journalism, becoming a writer, or teaching music, a career adviser will be able to provide you with specific advice on those industries and where to start your job search. Or they will be able to give you a list of organisations to contact to obtain more information and get a better understanding of what those professions involve. A career adviser is a great resource if you want to consider various options, work out which is a better fit for you and what skills or qualifications you will need to acquire to enter that profession.
Mentoring - a mentor is typically someone from your industry who has 'been there, done that'. A mentor is someone who has already achieved what you aspire to achieve yourself, and can therefore be an excellent resource if you already know what you want to do. All successful people have mentors to guide, advise and support them as they progress toward their goal. If, for instance, you harbour a secret desire to become a travel writer, and you know someone who has already succeeded in that field, you could approach them to find out how you can go about achieving the same success.
Career coaching - a career coach comes from a different angle. Rather than giving you advice or telling you what to do, a good career coach will help you to develop your self-awareness to identify where you are now, exactly where you want to be, and how to get there more quickly and effectively than you would do by yourself. By working with a career coach, you will gain a much clearer idea of what motivates and drives you, your skills, strengths, talents and passions, and what kind of job will fit with who you are and the kind of life you want to lead. A career coach has the training, expertise and experience to give you objective feedback and act as a sounding board to bounce ideas around before committing to them.
Many people find that they simply do not have the full support they need from friends and family, and a professionally-trained coach will offer valued support and give you honest feedback as you decide what path is right for you and move forward. A coach will therefore support you emotionally, help you overcome inner obstacles to success and help you to build and maintain the winning mindset that is key to achieving your goals. By helping you to bust through any doubts and negative beliefs holding you back, a coach will help you gain the confidence you need to face the challenges that inevitably come with making a successful career change.
The real value of a coach, however, is that they will challenge and stretch you the whole way, and hold you accountable to yourself and your goals. They will stop you from procrastinating and making excuses, and help you take action and truly get the results you desire.
Susan Andrewes is a leading Career Coach based in London, UK. She helps professionals who are tired of their current career get a job they love. To download your free 5-Step Plan, 'How to Get a Job You Love', visit http://www.getajobyoulove.com.
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Sunday, November 14, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
How to Blow a Job Interview in Less Than Five Minutes
By Rebekah Cockrell
Your resume was good enough to get the interview. You woke up feeling confident and even showed up fifteen minutes early to your interview. You felt great as you chit chatted about the weekend and then answered all of the questions with ease. You were a shoe in. Then why didn't you get the job or even a second interview.
Let's rewind.
You showed up fifteen minutes early. Awesome for you, unfortunately not all employers feel the same way. It can be annoying for an employer to have an interview show up while they are still trying to finish up the interview before you. It's good to be punctual, and even early in most cases. Five minutes early is acceptable. If you show up earlier than that, just sit in your car for a few minutes. Listen to the radio and meditate on why you are the best candidate for the job. Then five minutes before your scheduled interview, head on in.
Next, let's cover your interview attire. Your hair is neat and combed; you put on your best shirt and favorite "nice" jeans. O.K..... Let's talk about the "nice jeans". I hate to break this to so many of you, but jeans are almost never acceptable for an interview. It almost rules you out before you even get a chance to say anything. Yes if you are applying for a job as a cowboy or related field it's appropriate. For almost every other job on the planet it's not. At the very least pull out a pair of khaki's for the interview. Employer's look at your appearance as a reflection of how you might dress on the job or represent the company. You don't want to come across as too casual or sloppy. Even if you know the office is generally casual and the person interviewing you is wearing jeans, you don't want to make any assumptions about expectations for the interview process. After you have the job offer, ask what the appropriate dress is for the business. As a tip, it's good to have a "go to" interview outfit and try to make it something that you feel comfortable in.
Now let's move on to the interview chit chatting. It is always a good idea to find something to relate to the interviewer about. This shows the interviewer that you would fit in with the office. It's not a good idea to engage in overly long discussions that are unrelated to the position available. You only have a short time to impress someone enough to be offered the job. Try not to waste too much time discussing items that are not going to get you the job. While they may "like" you, the job will end up going to someone else that is more "qualified". Let's discuss the rules of interview chit chat. No politics, religion, or any type of a private story that is best left for happy hour with your friends.
Now that you have these easy to follow rules for your next interview, get working on your resume, pull your interview outfit together and practice for your next interview. Good luck on the job hunt.
Rebekah Cockrell is a Community and Marketing Manager for http://CreateBetterResumes.com
CreateBetterResumes.com was founded with the purpose of making it easy for everyone to have a compelling results driven resume using our signature phrase building technology.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rebekah_Cockrell
Your resume was good enough to get the interview. You woke up feeling confident and even showed up fifteen minutes early to your interview. You felt great as you chit chatted about the weekend and then answered all of the questions with ease. You were a shoe in. Then why didn't you get the job or even a second interview.
Let's rewind.
You showed up fifteen minutes early. Awesome for you, unfortunately not all employers feel the same way. It can be annoying for an employer to have an interview show up while they are still trying to finish up the interview before you. It's good to be punctual, and even early in most cases. Five minutes early is acceptable. If you show up earlier than that, just sit in your car for a few minutes. Listen to the radio and meditate on why you are the best candidate for the job. Then five minutes before your scheduled interview, head on in.
Next, let's cover your interview attire. Your hair is neat and combed; you put on your best shirt and favorite "nice" jeans. O.K..... Let's talk about the "nice jeans". I hate to break this to so many of you, but jeans are almost never acceptable for an interview. It almost rules you out before you even get a chance to say anything. Yes if you are applying for a job as a cowboy or related field it's appropriate. For almost every other job on the planet it's not. At the very least pull out a pair of khaki's for the interview. Employer's look at your appearance as a reflection of how you might dress on the job or represent the company. You don't want to come across as too casual or sloppy. Even if you know the office is generally casual and the person interviewing you is wearing jeans, you don't want to make any assumptions about expectations for the interview process. After you have the job offer, ask what the appropriate dress is for the business. As a tip, it's good to have a "go to" interview outfit and try to make it something that you feel comfortable in.
Now let's move on to the interview chit chatting. It is always a good idea to find something to relate to the interviewer about. This shows the interviewer that you would fit in with the office. It's not a good idea to engage in overly long discussions that are unrelated to the position available. You only have a short time to impress someone enough to be offered the job. Try not to waste too much time discussing items that are not going to get you the job. While they may "like" you, the job will end up going to someone else that is more "qualified". Let's discuss the rules of interview chit chat. No politics, religion, or any type of a private story that is best left for happy hour with your friends.
Now that you have these easy to follow rules for your next interview, get working on your resume, pull your interview outfit together and practice for your next interview. Good luck on the job hunt.
Rebekah Cockrell is a Community and Marketing Manager for http://CreateBetterResumes.com
CreateBetterResumes.com was founded with the purpose of making it easy for everyone to have a compelling results driven resume using our signature phrase building technology.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rebekah_Cockrell
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Career Job Opportunity, How To Get It?
By Nawaz Shahzad
To have a versatile staff (employee) is always been a first choice of hiring managers (employers / recruitment agency). In today's fast moving recruiting needs there are many ways & channels to have a long & competitive list of global job seekers to choose from. Out of many other channels, social networking emerges as a robust form of candidates seeking channel, equally beneficial for career success seekers. Establishing solid and equally helpful associations is the top objective of a social networking. Plan your career and thus succeed in finding your career targets. A well sketched career building action plan will direct you through the career searching route.
Job opportunity + career plan = Career Job!
Simple but basic steps to reach successfully to your career job!
1. Explore Career Options
2. Get career based experience
3. Measure your strength, weakness & interests
4. Get trained in targeted job search skills.
5. How to stay organized & ready
6. How to deal with your boss & colleagues
7. Improve your communications skills
8. How to make best use of your time and potentials
9. Clearly set your targets
10. Always updated your CV
11. Monitor industry trend
12. Rehearse your job interview posture
Sometimes finding alone is hard to accomplish your objectives. But once involved other social factors to assist you in reaching skies with the support of successful people consistently surrounding you and support efforts. Job seekers can go unaccompanied or gain support of a people who understand your career targets. Once found a career job you craved for is well value the time exhausted searching for it. Sometimes job seekers come across obstacles pulling them for not moving out of existing job, if this is a situation then outline a tactic to beat them. Always keep in mind that it is a quest for your dream career and you are striving to make it happen.
Nawaz is an author for this article. Article Source: http://www.e-cvs.net/cv_articles.html
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Nawaz_Shahzad
To have a versatile staff (employee) is always been a first choice of hiring managers (employers / recruitment agency). In today's fast moving recruiting needs there are many ways & channels to have a long & competitive list of global job seekers to choose from. Out of many other channels, social networking emerges as a robust form of candidates seeking channel, equally beneficial for career success seekers. Establishing solid and equally helpful associations is the top objective of a social networking. Plan your career and thus succeed in finding your career targets. A well sketched career building action plan will direct you through the career searching route.
Job opportunity + career plan = Career Job!
Simple but basic steps to reach successfully to your career job!
1. Explore Career Options
2. Get career based experience
3. Measure your strength, weakness & interests
4. Get trained in targeted job search skills.
5. How to stay organized & ready
6. How to deal with your boss & colleagues
7. Improve your communications skills
8. How to make best use of your time and potentials
9. Clearly set your targets
10. Always updated your CV
11. Monitor industry trend
12. Rehearse your job interview posture
Sometimes finding alone is hard to accomplish your objectives. But once involved other social factors to assist you in reaching skies with the support of successful people consistently surrounding you and support efforts. Job seekers can go unaccompanied or gain support of a people who understand your career targets. Once found a career job you craved for is well value the time exhausted searching for it. Sometimes job seekers come across obstacles pulling them for not moving out of existing job, if this is a situation then outline a tactic to beat them. Always keep in mind that it is a quest for your dream career and you are striving to make it happen.
Nawaz is an author for this article. Article Source: http://www.e-cvs.net/cv_articles.html
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Jobs in the Film Industry
By Kristin DeAnn Gabriel
If you are looking for a career in the film industry, you are looking at a pretty competitive business. The good news is that many people are getting jobs in this area, even when the economy is suffering from a slump, because entertainment is the one thing people still spend money on during tough times. Here are a few statistics pertaining to careers in film.
In recent years, theater admissions did decline, but it seems that the year 2006 ended a three year downward trend because admissions increased three.3 percent over 2005. Revenues from ticket sales increased by 5.Close to 5 percent, making 2006 a $9.49 billion year. Movies released in 2006 were up 607, marking an 11 percent increase over the number of releases in 2005.
If you want to learn how to be a director or a producer the latest published data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that the film industry provided 157,000 jobs for actors, directors and producers in 2004. This number is expected to grow between 9-17 percent by the year 2014.
In 2002, there were about 360,000 jobs in the motion picture and video industries, but most of these workers were involved in the production end of film making. There are many companies in the industry employ 10 workers or less. The good news is that a 31.1 percent increase in jobs is expected industry-wide between the years 2002 and 2012. This growth is about twice the 16 percent growth expected across all industries combined over the same timeframe.
How much money can you can make by getting a job in the film industry? It seems that median annual earnings for salaried producers and directors, were about $46,240 in 2002. And if you were really good, and lucky, the top ten percent earned over $119,760.
Those who are really serious about a career in the film business should take a look at programs with film mentor teachers from inside the industry, which takes you out of the classroom of some film schools in colleges and onto real movie sets. This is how and where you'll learn by doing while you apprentice, one-on-one with a mentor, or by working with a professional - a producer, actor, or a director - in the area of film that you want to study. There are plenty of Los Angeles film schools, and even New York film schools, and many in between in just about any major city in the U.S., but the reality is that in order to really "break into the film business" you will benefit by studying with a working professional.
The reality is that no matter what the economy has in store, or what the job market statistics come in at -- if you really want to work in the entertainment or film industry, the best way to do it is to learn your skills from a mentor in the entertainment industry who will help you get a job once you graduate.
Writer and social media expert Kristin Gabriel works with the http://www.film-connection.com , a Los Angeles film school run by the Entertainment Career Connection, Inc., a fully accredited academic institution certified by the National Private Schools Accreditation Alliance. The school provides educational apprentice programs for the film, radio, television and the music recording industries in more than 100 cities in 50 states. The schools provide the entertainment industry with graduate apprentices and entry level employees.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kristin_DeAnn_Gabriel
If you are looking for a career in the film industry, you are looking at a pretty competitive business. The good news is that many people are getting jobs in this area, even when the economy is suffering from a slump, because entertainment is the one thing people still spend money on during tough times. Here are a few statistics pertaining to careers in film.
In recent years, theater admissions did decline, but it seems that the year 2006 ended a three year downward trend because admissions increased three.3 percent over 2005. Revenues from ticket sales increased by 5.Close to 5 percent, making 2006 a $9.49 billion year. Movies released in 2006 were up 607, marking an 11 percent increase over the number of releases in 2005.
If you want to learn how to be a director or a producer the latest published data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that the film industry provided 157,000 jobs for actors, directors and producers in 2004. This number is expected to grow between 9-17 percent by the year 2014.
In 2002, there were about 360,000 jobs in the motion picture and video industries, but most of these workers were involved in the production end of film making. There are many companies in the industry employ 10 workers or less. The good news is that a 31.1 percent increase in jobs is expected industry-wide between the years 2002 and 2012. This growth is about twice the 16 percent growth expected across all industries combined over the same timeframe.
How much money can you can make by getting a job in the film industry? It seems that median annual earnings for salaried producers and directors, were about $46,240 in 2002. And if you were really good, and lucky, the top ten percent earned over $119,760.
Those who are really serious about a career in the film business should take a look at programs with film mentor teachers from inside the industry, which takes you out of the classroom of some film schools in colleges and onto real movie sets. This is how and where you'll learn by doing while you apprentice, one-on-one with a mentor, or by working with a professional - a producer, actor, or a director - in the area of film that you want to study. There are plenty of Los Angeles film schools, and even New York film schools, and many in between in just about any major city in the U.S., but the reality is that in order to really "break into the film business" you will benefit by studying with a working professional.
The reality is that no matter what the economy has in store, or what the job market statistics come in at -- if you really want to work in the entertainment or film industry, the best way to do it is to learn your skills from a mentor in the entertainment industry who will help you get a job once you graduate.
Writer and social media expert Kristin Gabriel works with the http://www.film-connection.com , a Los Angeles film school run by the Entertainment Career Connection, Inc., a fully accredited academic institution certified by the National Private Schools Accreditation Alliance. The school provides educational apprentice programs for the film, radio, television and the music recording industries in more than 100 cities in 50 states. The schools provide the entertainment industry with graduate apprentices and entry level employees.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kristin_DeAnn_Gabriel
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