Job Search and Career Marketing Tips2010-03-14T12:29:37ZTips and tactics to advance your career and accelerate your job search - a newsletter from Distinctive Documents, the Internet's resume and career marketing specialists.Dada Mail 2.9.2Job Search and Career Marketing Tips Message2010-03-14T12:29:38Z2005-10-06T18:19:58Ztag:www.distinctiveweb.com,2005-10-06:%2Fcgi-bin%2Fdada%2Fmail.cgi%2Farchive%2Fdistinctive%2F20051006181958%2F~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
JOB SEARCH & CAREER MARKETING TIPS
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from Distinctive Documents
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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 http://www.distinctiveweb.com http://www.executive-resumes.biz
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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.
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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.
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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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JOB SEARCH & CAREER MARKETING TIPS
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from Distinctive Documents
the Internet's Resume & Career Marketing Specialists since 199Job Search and Career Marketing Tipsnews@distinctiveweb.com
JOB SEARCH & CAREER MARKETING TIPS
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from Distinctive Documents
the Internet's Resume & Career Marketing Specialists since 1996
August 1, 2005 http://www.distinctiveweb.com http://www.executive-resumes.biz
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1. Introduction
2. Trends in Career Marketing Documents
3. News from Distinctive Documents
4. Sites, Stats & Stuff
INTRODUCTION
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Welcome to the first issue of Job Search & Career Marketing Tips from Distinctive Documents. Because you are a past or current customer of Distinctive Documents, we have automatically subscribed you. This list will be used for important news about Distinctive Documents and for our newsletter, planned for publication about once per month. Nothing else! Your privacy is our very first concern at Distinctive Documents and we guard it very carefully. We intensely dislike unsolicited email and will never sell or rent your email address or personal information for this purpose. Because you are a Distinctive Documents' customer, we have taken the liberty of sending you our newsletter, but if at any time you wish to opt out of receiving our newsletter, just click the link at the bottom. You can always resubscribe at a later time by visiting our website.
We hope that Job Search & Career Marketing Tips will be a valuable resource to you. Marketing your career is a lifelong process and we plan to provide tips and insights to empower you in your professional life, whatever your career goals might be. We have many topics that we hope to cover in future issues, including tips, tactics, and strategies for online job searching, personal branding, working with recruiters, job search etiquette, interviewing, salary negotiations, career planning, and much more. We will pass along interesting websites, point you to online and offline resources, review books we have been reading, and summarize interesting job market trends and statistics. If you find our newsletter informative and helpful, we encourage you to forward it along to a friend who might benefit. As we will actively solicit new subscribers from visitors to our websites, and our websites are presently attracting an average of 3,000 visitors daily, we expect our subscriber base t
o grow quickly.
TRENDS IN CAREER MARKETING DOCUMENTS
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We have recently learned that a number of career marketing documents created by Distinctive Documents will be featured in a new book tentatively titled "Beyond the Resume: Executive Job Search for $100,000 to $1 Million-Plus Jobs."
Why "beyond" the resume?
The "traditional" resume and cover letter still play a primary role in the job search and we do not expect that to change in the near future. But, in recent years there has been a real evolution in thought and creativity regarding content, length, and formats of resumes. Accelerated by an increasingly competitive job market, a variety of new career marketing documents have emerged and are gaining in use and popularity.
--Networking Resume
A shorter, more concise, one-page version of your complete resume that is useful in networking situations when you don't want to hand out your full resume. Your networking resume is created to succinctly convey the key facts, major highlights, and your value proposition in an attractive format. You may want to hand several of these to your contacts, for them to use when reaching out on your behalf to their own networking contacts.
--Web Portfolio
Quickly gaining in popularity, your career portfolio on the web becomes a central, 24-hour "advertisement" of your professional credentials. Audio, video, photos, graphics, and interactive content (such as blogs) enhance your web portfolio. Going far beyond the resume, your web portfolio can include any content you wish, to support and illustrate your personal branding and value proposition. Traditional resumes and other career marketing documents can be linked for download directly from your web portfolio.
--Specialty Profiles
Usually a one-page document submitted as an addendum to your resume. A specialty profile can be used to showcase your specific area of expertise. Leadership Profiles, Consulting Engagement Profiles, and Technology Profiles are particularly common, but specialty profiles can be created for individuals with expertise in any area. Profiles might include such items as lists of training or presentations, case studies, lists of clients or projects, technology summaries, or even brief case studies.
--Biographical Sketches
Typically, a one-page narrative summary marketing your key qualifications and career achievements. Biographical sketches are often included in business plan submissions or when seeking Board appointments or speaking engagements. You may be asked for a biography by a hiring company, to use in their marketing materials or on their website.
--Reference Sheets
Going beyond a simple listing of references, your references sheet becomes a key "selling" piece in your overall career marketing strategy. Again, it is usually a one-page document that includes a summary of your relationship with each reference and your traits and qualifications that the individual reference will speak about.
--Accomplishment Summaries
A great way to include more in-depth information about key accomplishments than is practical in the resume. These documents are rarely longer than two pages and should include a few expanded accomplishment stories written in the Challenge-Actions-Results format.
At Distinctive Documents we have been preparing all of these career marketing documents for our clients on an individual basis for years. Now, we are working to formally integrate them into our standard product offerings and you will likely see them rolled out on our websites, along with actual samples, in the very near future. In the meantime, if you would like to learn more about any of these career marketing documents or would like us to assist you in creating them, just give us a call. We'll be happy to answer your questions!
We will announce the actual publication date of the new book as soon as it becomes available.
NEWS FROM DISTINCTIVE DOCUMENTS
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We would like to welcome a new staff member to the team at Distinctive Documents. Alicia Innis will be joining us on August 1 and will be providing assistance with office management and customer service. If you call our office in the future, Alicia will likely be behind the friendly voice that you first hear. Alicia comes to us with a varied background that includes human resources, customer support, and account management. We feel very fortunate to have her joining our team. Welcome, Alicia!
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For the past five years I (Michelle Dumas) have served as a consultant on executive resumes to clients of ExecuNet (http://www.execunet.com), but I was never thoroughly familiar with their service offerings beyond my portion (resume critiques and consulting). Recently, I was given full access to ExecuNet resources, so that I would have a more thorough understanding of the information and services available to ExecuNet clients. All I can say is "wow!" ExecuNet is designed to serve the needs of $100K+ executives and the recruiters who seek them. The resources available to ExecuNet members are vast. If you are an executive and have not yet explored the benefits of ExecuNet membership, I encourage you to do so today.
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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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Toll Free: (800) 644-9694
Local/International: (603) 742-3983 http://www.distinctiveweb.com http://www.executive-resumes.biz
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