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JOB SEARCH & CAREER MARKETING TIPS
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from Distinctive Documents
the Internet's Resume & Career Marketing Specialists since 1996
October 1, 2005
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1. 10 Ways Your Network Contacts Can Help With Your Job Search
2. New Service Offering - Company Research for Interviews
3. Sites, Stats & Stuff
10 WAYS YOUR NETWORK CONTACTS CAN HELP WITH YOUR JOB SEARCH
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1. Help distribute your resume and other career marketing documents to individuals in their personal and professional networks.
Provide everyone in your network with at least a few copies of your resume and any other career marketing documents you are using. Your contacts will often be more than happy to help pass along your resume to people in their own network who may be aware of opportunities or are able to help with your search in other ways.
2. Talk about you, your current career goals, and your value proposition at meetings.
Individuals in your network can help promote you as a "solution to an employer's problem" by discussing your qualifications and current job search at meetings and events they attend.
3. Invite you to attend events, such as personal or business meetings, workshops, or seminars.
Attending various events and programs is an excellent way to increase your visibility and contacts as well as knowledge and skills in areas relevant to your industry and profession. Individuals in your network can help by inviting you to the meetings, workshops, and seminars they attend.
4. Nominate you for business or community recognition and awards.
As a recipient of awards or special recognition for business achievements or for donating your time or resources to a worthy cause, you distinguish yourself as a leader. This is an excellent way to increase your visibility and contacts, and members of your network can help by nominating you or otherwise making award committees aware of your activities.
5. Pass along information and leads.
Members of your professional network can help you immensely by remembering you as they go through their day, and passing along tidbits of information that they think might help you in your search. This could be anything from news reports of trends impacting your industry, reports of companies that are growing or expanding, job announcements that they read, or simply leads on current or future job openings that they have been made aware of.
6. Provide you with referrals.
One of the top ways your network members can help you is by passing along the names and contact information for specific individuals who are either the decision-makers for jobs that match your target or are in a position to help you with your job search in other ways.
7. Make initial contact regarding current or future job opportunities.
Better even than passing along referrals, if an individual in your network becomes aware of a job opportunity, and they have a personal or professional connection with the decision-maker for that opportunity, they can make contact on your behalf. That way, when you follow up, the decision-maker will already be expecting to hear from you.
8. Introduce you to decision-makers and leaders within your target profession and industry.
An immense help in building new relationships is to receive a personal introduction. Members of your network can help by introducing you to people they believe you should meet regarding your job search, and can even help by telling the person about you, sharing some of the things you have in common with the person, and talking a bit about your qualifications and professional background.
9. Help to arrange meetings on your behalf.
When a member of your network tells you about a person you should meet regarding your job search, he or she can help by actually arranging for a meeting between the two of you and setting up the details, such as time, date, and location.
10. Follow up on referrals they have given you.
After they have referred you, your contacts can follow up with the contact to see how things went, to answer questions, to discuss your background, and to reinforce your value proposition.
NEWS FROM DISTINCTIVE DOCUMENTS
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Over the past decade, I have seen many changes in the way that people in career transition use the Internet in their job search. As the Internet has grown, the information in the public domain has exploded; it is a virtual treasure trove of data for those people researching and targeting specific companies. Today, the Internet has so much information that it is very time consuming for a busy person to sort through it. People in career transition are overwhelmed by the volume of data and don't have time to do the "due diligence" they should before going to an interview or contacting a company.
Our new InfoPak service solves this problem.
Info Pak is a service that scours the Internet for information on a particular company and then puts that data into a convenient format for use.
InfoPak gathers and presents key information about companies in a user-friendly format (typically Excel spreadsheets and Word documents).
Executive names and titles
Phone numbers
Email addresses
Executive biographies
Recent press releases
Additional news information on
- acquisitions
- corporate governance
- corporate values
- diversity programs
- financials
- new products
- and more
While I will continue to encourage my clients to do their own research when possible, InfoPak will save hours of research time for those people too busy to do so themselves, and will collate key information from thousands of sources in a concise, easy-to-read format.
Since all information gathered is in the public domain available on the Internet, the quality and extent of information is highly variable by company. The accuracy also depends on various factors, as much of the information is provided by the company itself and unverified. Our role, with InfoPak is simply to gather and forward available information without representation as to its accuracy. Of course, if I ever believe the amount of information is too small to be meaningful, I will offer my clients the opportunity to cancel their order.
The charge for this service is just $100.00 per company researched. To order, just call or email me with the name of the company you wish to have researched. It is that simple.
SITES, STATS & STUFF
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For those who prefer to do their own research, here are a few valuable resources for Internet research:
www.hoovers.com_ (http://www.hoovers.com)
Access to info on 42,000 public and non-public US and international companies. Subscribers also have access to more than 14 million small to mid-sized companies.
www.guidestar.com_ (http://www.guidestar.com)
Database of nonprofit organizations.
www.business.com_ (http://www.business.com)
Business search engine and directory.
www.marketwatch.com_ (http://www.marketwatch.com)
Information on global markets and companies.
www.corporateinformation.com_ (http://www.corporateinformation.com)
Information on world securities markets including company profiles from 58 countries.
www.pwcmoneytree.com_ (http://www.pwcmoneytree.com)
Definitive source of information on emerging companies that receive financing and the venture capital firms that provide it.
www.thomasnet.com_ (http://www.thomasnet.com)
Comprehensive resource for industrial information.
www.sec.gov/searchedgar.com_ (http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm)
Search for SEC filings.
www.businesswire.com_ (http://www.businesswire.com)
Source for news releases and regulatory filings for companies worldwide.
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Michelle Dumas, Executive Director
+ Nationally Certified Professional Resume Writer
+ Certified Job & Career Transition Coach
+ Certified Employment Interview Professional
+ Certification Commission, National Resume Writers' Association
+ Former New England Regional Director, NRWA
+ Member, Professional Association of Resume Writers
+ Charter Member, Career Masters Institute
+ Consultant on Executive Resumes to ExecuNet
+ 2X Winner, PARW National/International "Best Resume" Contest
+ Contributor to 10 Top-Selling Books on Resumes and Job Searching
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