Market yourself across multiple tracks
Your audience will be easier to identify and communicate with.
You will be able to tailor your language and information to appeal to the needs of the prospective employer more quickly.
You will be better able to identify contacts for networking.
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Network to make the connections
The skills you need to find a job may have little to do with the kind of job you do.
That's a lesson that Kelly M. Goodnight of Greece learned during a recent Job Search Makeover, where experts at RochesterWorks reviewed her work history and job-search
Don't let doubt overcome your confidence in search for a job
For the first three months he was out of work, Frank Myers says he was "fine." But after 15 months without a job, five fruitless job interviews and applying for more than 150 jobs online, he admits there are days he can't get out of bed.
"As it goes on
Preparation puts you in control of interview?
HERE?S how a job search usually takes place: You put together a resume, which probably won?t be given much attention because it?s not put together very well. You send it with a generic cover letter, which gets less attention than your resume.
You post
Community Career Connection set for Friday
Scott Criqui recently thumbed through 206 applications for a part-time payroll clerk position, so perhaps it?s no surprise he?s looking forward to the upcoming Community Career Connection.
Personal contact with job candidates can make all the
Applicant Oversupply Can Complicate Job Search
contributions decline and income from investments tumble.
The recession of the past 18 months has many people out of work and job hunting in a "dog-eat-dog" employment world in which recruitment has gone high-tech. The employment scene continues to be
Local business datebook: 10.18.09
Primerica Financial Services will have an educational seminar on ?Stop the Financial Nightmare? at 7 p.m. at the ValueBank Tower, 3649 Leopard St., Suite 512. Information/reservations, Mark Oser & Associates at 883-7217 or 883-9365.
Builder group for
Author gives job-hunt tips for nose-ring crowd
Ellen Gordon Reeves drew upon experience on both sides of the job interview desk in writing Can I Wear My Nose Ring to the Interview?
Although her target audience is recent or soon-to-be college graduates looking for their first professional jobs,
Joyce Lain Kennedy: Seven Top Tips for Liberal Arts Grads
DEAR JOYCE: Do you find that liberal arts majors are not as marketable as they used to be? -- D.B.
Vocational and technical grads have always been tapped for hiring before their liberal arts brethren, so the employment-timing ratio between technical
