tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17551734856306994042024-03-13T11:13:39.408-04:00Job Search Corner - Job Searching with RobHere’s some info to help in a job search or career. Some new, some not but tried and true. Some news or muse perhaps too, but also true. I’ll keep it moving with ideas to stoke a few tired careers. Bring in YOUR ideas, insights, some tips & FUNdamentals ... or just some of your "reading between the lines" all in the spirit of community. So check in once in a while to see if there's anything new for you. YT, Rob Taub of The Job Search CornerRob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-27501513499935476092010-08-25T14:46:00.016-04:002010-08-25T19:22:41.270-04:00How Do I Pick My Major If I don't Know What I Want To Be (When I Grow up)?Start with the end in mind. As with writing a speech, you determine what your objective is and what it is you hope to instill in your audience and only THEN do you begin to write your speech, make sense? Same with the job search and too, picking a major, internships, related clubs and activities, and more: You begin with the end in mind.Every step you take, even in the moment, is another step on Rob Taubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595242820034488187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-89223044573994855982010-08-24T15:25:00.008-04:002010-08-24T15:48:37.036-04:00Is My Personality Killing My Chances? ... I Mean, Really If you feel that your enthusiasm and focus on being the best you can be, either in an interview or on the job, may be working against you, you may want to rein in your enthusiasm and moderate your intensity to some degree. Nevertheless, and more often than not, it is a matter of developing good communication sense. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />Is myRob Taubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595242820034488187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-6093341897680682932010-07-15T12:46:00.006-04:002010-08-25T15:23:08.516-04:0010 Rules For Beginning Your New Job On The Right FootSecuring a new job is akin to a successful product launch! After all the time spent running a well-organized marketing campaign, you product has landed in the market. Similarly, you’ve landed your new job: The Product is in the Market! … And just as with the product launch, you want to continually work on positioning and posturing for long-term success … YOUR long-term career success.<?xml:Rob Taubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595242820034488187noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-39328571919923094802010-01-20T12:27:00.003-05:002010-01-20T12:36:21.676-05:0010 Steps to Preparing Top-Notch ReferencesRob Taub is a CAREEREALISM-Approved ExpertView My Other Blogs It Pays to Groom Your ReferencesGrooming your references is essential; knowing exactly where you stand and avoiding surprises can be the make-it or break-it in a search. A little time with a reference can result in great returns.10 Steps for Preparing Your References to Work for You (Yes, another '10-Stepper')1. First, phone or visit Rob Taubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595242820034488187noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-30791372070528859382009-12-09T09:30:00.002-05:002009-12-09T09:34:37.775-05:006 Steps for Product Marketing Me: Strategy for the “Unpublished” Job MarketThe best way to introduce yourself to a company with which you would like to work, find a company for which you think you’d like to work or to target companies for the purpose of networking into a position, openings notwithstanding, is to know the “What, where and how you can help the company”. I can give you a better-than-even chance of getting in the door to introduce yourself and possibly Rob Taubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595242820034488187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-26949713232797965492009-12-02T13:17:00.000-05:002009-12-02T13:17:20.484-05:003 Concepts for “Job Search Marketing Made Simple”Job Search Marketing is a lot of work but is doesn’t have to be complicated. Comprehensive, “yes”; complicated, “no”, yet so many people cause themselves a lot of difficulty and stress. I’m going to try to make the concept of job search marketing simple for you to understand. I won’t be able to make it simple for you to undertake, however. It will always be hard work. Nevertheless, with Rob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-89321245186167944322009-11-16T15:17:00.001-05:002009-11-16T15:17:00.498-05:00Whether or not you take advantage of opportunity depends upon whether or not you believe you are free to chooseRob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-2649450349622191512009-11-16T15:14:00.001-05:002009-11-16T15:14:48.600-05:00Notice how seeking lures your attention out of the present moment, toward an imagined state of completeness and satisfactionRob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-79353423277568064502009-11-16T15:06:00.001-05:002009-11-16T15:06:22.758-05:00Every journey is just an imagined path from Here to Here. You always have been and are right now – right Here, at HomeRob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-30470415212484129872009-11-12T15:56:00.003-05:002009-11-12T16:09:37.103-05:007 Steps to Climb to Open a Career DoorBy CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Rob Taub<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />November 3, 2009 by sparktalk The best way to introduce yourself to a company that doesn’t appear to be actively looking is to know the “What, where and how you can help the company”. I can give you a better-than-even chance to get the door to open to be able to introduce Rob Taubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595242820034488187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-53620758370236214942009-11-12T15:45:00.006-05:002009-11-12T17:07:38.304-05:00Tell-Tail Characteristics of Company CultureMany companies today promote building teams over individuals; respecting the entry-level mailroom clerk and the top salesperson equally; consider failure the beginning not the end of developing talents and careers; and where ‘Values’ are not fads. Still in other companies you will find a lack of esprit de corps where departments operate as fiefdoms not work in partnership with one another; where Rob Taubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595242820034488187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-30170804222691036482009-10-26T12:51:00.005-04:002009-10-26T13:33:36.144-04:00It Pays To Groom Your References<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />Grooming your references is essential; knowing exactly where you stand and avoiding surprises can be the make-it or break-it in a search. A little time with a reference can result in great returns.10 Steps (yes, another “10-Stepper”) for preparing your references to work for you:1. First phone or visit your references. Rob Taubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595242820034488187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-86580292589615994332009-10-06T14:46:00.001-04:002009-10-07T09:11:46.082-04:0010 Tips to Overcome Fear of Cold CallingJob search phone phobia is very common. Here are some ideas that could turn your phone into the feather-light tool it should be and not a 500 lb weight.
There are many types of phone calls. The calls that give people the most trouble are the "Introductory Calls”. The purpose of the call is to make you known. The goal is to get an appointment or at least another call of longer duration.Rob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-42096289759869900882009-09-22T09:09:00.001-04:002009-09-22T09:16:20.073-04:00CAREEREALISM Q#293 – How Often Can I Use My Network for Help?
How often you can use your network contacts, is entirely up to you. If it becomes “work” for them, expect it to be infrequent at best and short-lived. If you manage it right, it’s forever.
Let’s agree in theory that most people like to help others. Given the opportunity and the wherewithal they will, and why? … Because it feels good! That’s human nature. Unfortunately, Rob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-27499416614224249592009-09-20T19:27:00.020-04:002009-09-20T20:22:56.465-04:00<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />Bullied On-the-Job…How Do I Fight Back?<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />September 18, 2009 by sparktalkDear Experts,I see workplace bullying as an increasing trend…especially, since it happened to me.It happened at my previous job with my supervisor. She would humiliate me Rob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-59261225264849070292009-09-16T15:12:00.004-04:002009-09-16T16:22:55.883-04:00Is My Personality Killing My Chances?If you feel that your enthusiasm and focus on being the best you can be, either in an interview or on the job, may be working against you, you may want to rein in your enthusiasm - moderate the intensity to some degree, but more often than not, it is a matter of developing good communication sense.High Self-expectation + Tenacity ≠ Arrogance. On the other hand, ‘high self-expectation + tenacity’ Rob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-68824884348525334872009-09-09T18:12:00.002-04:002009-09-09T18:22:44.210-04:0010 Signs Job is Dead-endOR … Top 10 Reasons to Run For The Door!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />Number 10: The position for which you are interviewing is vacant. Well run companies don’t create vacancies. Before letting someone go or sensing if someone wants to go, they will be ready with a replacementNumber 9: When asked how the company measures its success in the market, Rob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-9471107382928537172009-09-08T14:02:00.004-04:002009-09-08T14:14:50.449-04:00Are Career Experts Just Feeding You A Lot Of Rubbish?Someone asked recently, "Are career experts full of it?" this was my answer: I can only speak for one – me; but YES! Absolutely! That is of course if “it” refers to substance as in a body of knowledge and not substance (eh-hem) as in matter.Although I can only write as one Career Expert, I am sure there are others like me who will say “we are full of it”. For starters, when advising an Rob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-24420282856193114322009-09-03T16:48:00.004-04:002009-09-10T13:03:58.440-04:00Job Satisfaction[Having discovered the link in this Post from Thursday Sep 3 was broken , I have posted it again with a working link so you can read it in its entirety...here it is]A friend once said, “If I knew that job satisfaction was so elusive, I wouldn’t have spent half my life looking for it.” I asked him to define what job satisfaction for him would be and he responded “I’ll know when I find it.” <?xml:Rob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-7870334908341662012009-09-03T07:58:00.005-04:002009-09-03T08:13:59.841-04:00Gotta Love That RejectionHow to use rejection to improve your job search.Clearly, there are many more rejections in a professional job search than there are offers. And there should be. After all, if you are not getting rejections than you are not seeing many opportunities. Read the story »CAREEREALISM: Because EVERY Job is Temporary! Career advice, job search news and perspective. Job seekers get cutting-edge career, Rob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-25734611346601038652009-09-02T16:26:00.002-04:002009-09-02T16:47:59.364-04:00Hey! You Gotta Problem?First post in my series of Tough Interview Scenarios by Rob TaubFrom blatant … “Greatest weakness”; “weakest attribute”; “most significant failure” … to soft … “what might your previous employer say …?” … even softer …“you certainly seem to have a lot of strengths, but we understand no one is perfect…” The question will come one way or another, everyone knows it, yet still befuddled by it.There Rob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-38474990183623166362009-08-28T17:29:00.001-04:002009-08-28T17:29:52.142-04:00The single-most important "thankyou" letter to send out this week . If U agree, please Share - RT http://bit.ly/3JUYiKRob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-76000425613642183852009-08-22T14:34:00.001-04:002009-08-22T14:34:19.861-04:00Before you leave a job with which you are not happy to search for another go through this one simple exercise: http://ping.fm/TC24KRob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-1531455245397584902009-07-15T19:06:00.013-04:002009-08-28T15:24:29.785-04:00The Most Important Letter You May Ever WriteI am working with a top ranking career military officer, who during his time in the Reserves also developed a stellar career as a senior-level executive in industry. Recently, after concluding his reactivation in the Military, he had the daunting task of re-entering the job market; and as well all know, during the worst economy in a lifetime. After some time searching on his own he was able to Rob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1755173485630699404.post-62807405495020559172009-07-09T09:20:00.014-04:002009-07-24T11:48:26.573-04:00What advice would you give regarding how to begin a new job on the right foot?
What a great question! Securing a new job is akin to a successful product launch. All the time spent running a well-organized marketing campaign and now the product is in the market … You have landed your new job!
As in the product launch, you would want to continually work on product positioning and posturing for its on-going success, right? Likewise you want to do so for your success.
How Rob of ResumePro Plushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01218634749999161430noreply@blogger.com2