Job Search Advice

If you are searching for job search advice, you will find it on our blog. Job searching has evolved dramatically in the past decade, and this blog will help you stay up to date and current on job search best practices and trends.

Reasons Why Your Job Search Isn’t Working and How To Fix It

Unless you’ve had jobs simply fall into your lap, you know that engaging in a job search is usually time-consuming and, the longer it takes, often stressful as well. Success is easily measured; initially by the number of interviews you get and, ultimately, in

2023-10-23T17:09:29+00:00November 7th, 2013|Job Search Advice, Personal Marketing|

5 Tips to Really Stand Out in Your Job Search and Get Hired Quickly

With your excellent skills, detailed knowledge, and vast experience, you may think that your job search will be smooth sailing, even in the current economic times. But don’t be too complacent. Given the numbers of people who are out of work or underemployed, the

2022-11-16T18:54:13+00:00September 11th, 2013|Career Management, Job Search Advice, Personal Marketing|

Submitting a Resume Is Not Enough: Follow Up!

Now what? You've had Distinctive Career Services develop an amazing, attention-getting resume for you. You've applied for some jobs that are ideal. In fact, you are really, really anxious to hear back because they are more than ideal. And you know you are a

Job Searching at Job Fairs: Key Tips For Success

Whether you're looking for a new job or a different one, for part-time employment, extra income or a complete career makeover, job searching is serious business, one that requires diligence, focus, creativity, drive, ingenuity and imagination. It also requires you to be honest with

2022-10-15T00:27:40+00:00July 31st, 2013|Job Search Advice|

Tips To Help You Cope With A Job Loss & Get Your Career Back On Track Quickly

Job loss has become a fact of life in today's economic climate. Even though the worst of times seem to be behind us (fingers crossed), there are still plenty of layoffs occurring. A major key to coping with job loss and getting your career

2023-10-23T17:05:37+00:00July 26th, 2013|Career Management, Job Search Advice|

6 Tips to Make Conducting a Remote Job Search Fast & Easy

How to conduct an effective remote job search is a question that has vexed many working professionals who desire relocation to another location. Once upon a time, a job search was governed by the same rule that applied to the sale of real estate: 

Job Hunters Beware! How To Avoid Job Search Scams

It’s no secret! Jobs scams are on the rise. And admittedly, they’ve been for years. While job scams have always existed, the evolution of the internet as the ultimate job search tool has made these scams more lucrative and relatively easier to carry out. On

Cloud Computing: How a “Cloudy” Forecast Can Help Your Job Search

By now we've all grown accustomed to the cloud.  To illustrate the impact of the cloud, recent statistics show that in 2020,  the cloud computing market exceeded $330 billion and cloud data centers will process 94% of all workloads in 2021. It's clear then,

How To Use Stories To Turn Your Job Interview Into a Job Offer

How can stories help you turn an interview into a job offer? It is simpler than you think, and the effect is powerful. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....". A simple phrase, familiar to moviegoers everywhere, and one which triggers

Expecting to Find a Job? Manage Your Expectations & Get Hired Faster

Are you in the middle of a search to find a job? It's said that satisfaction is a function of expectation, that your level of satisfaction is largely determined by how far from the expected outcome you end up.  This could apply to a relationship,

2022-11-16T18:17:25+00:00April 24th, 2013|Career Management, Job Search Advice|
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