How to Solve the 10 Biggest Career Reinvention Mistakes
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By Randi Bussin
Part One: Mistakes One Through Five
Career reinvention can be a difficult and lengthy process, especially if you are unprepared. Before you begin your career reinvention, consider these commonly made mistakes and how to solve them. Avoiding these potential pitfalls may help make your reinvention as smooth and successful as possible.
1. Quitting your job without having a plan. A successful career reinvention can take months, even with a clearly defined strategy. Without planning, you may find yourself in limbo for a significantly longer period of time. Don’t take the leap until you have clearly determined what steps you are going to take to change careers and how long you expect to be without a paycheck. more
How to Prepare for a Career Change, Job Loss or Self Employment
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Maybe you’re ready to make the leap and start your own business. Perhaps the company you work for is down-sizing and thus having layoffs. No matter what the reason, by preparing yourself ahead of time you can help to ensure a smooth career transition.
Network Now: Don’t wait to start nurturing relationships, continuously cultivate old and new relationships. Get involved is some social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn where you can manage your professional and personal contacts with ease.
Join a business group or take a class where you can expand your reach and learn some new skills. When the time comes to make the transition you will be able to easily approach your contacts – and remember it’s usually not who you know, but who your contacts know that matters. more
How to Search for a Work at Home Job
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Many people want to work from home, especially moms that want to be readily available for their children; but they don’t know where to start. Just like any other job search, you will need to put in some time and effort, but once you do, you’ll be happy to find that there are a lot of work at home opportunities out there. Here are three tips to get you started with your work at home job search.
1. Search Major Career Job Sites. Start by searching the major career sites like Career Builder and Monster using the terms: “work at home”, “work from home”, “home based”, “remote”, “virtual”, “telecommute”, and “telework”. Because companies are trying to save money in this tough economy more and more businesses are hiring people to work from home. more
5 Key Job Hunting Tips to Land Your Ideal Work at Home Job
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In this tough economy competition for home-based jobs is fierce, so to get noticed you’ll need to distinguish yourself from the crowd. Here are five key tips to help you stand out in this tough market.
1. Polish Your Resume. To make your resume stand out highlight your past achievements. Example: Increased organic web traffic by 45% by utilizing SEO techniques and social networking instead of the simply saying, incorporated SEO techniques and social networking into marketing plan.
Address any periods of unemployment by listing achievements and tasks completed during the time period. Example: From 2007 – 2009 while being a full-time stay at home mom, I created and managed a motherhood blog, volunteered at the local woman’s shelter and organized a monthly woman’s business group.
Remember to include a memorable cover letter, list of references, follow-up letter and phone call after you submit your resume.
For more resume tips see: Resume writing – 10 tips to generate more interviews and higher salary offers more