Success story

Thank you for everything you did for me in helping get this job. I couldn’t have done it without you.

Sheriff’s Deputy,
Grand Forks (ND) County

  Know your value

Jeri is interviewed on Studio One, a cable news program produced by students, faculty and staff at the University of North Dakota. This segment talks about job interview process and how you can be prepared for this important part of getting your career going in the right direction.


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The Workwrite Job Search Guide is for you if you are:

Executive: CEO, CIO, CFO, COO, President, Vice President, Partner
At the top of your profession, an accomplished leader with a vision to match, you have accomplishments begging to be quantified in ways that show your enterprise scope.
Management: Director, manager, general manager, operations manager, You are doubly blessed with management experience backed by a profession.
Professional: You are highly educated and/or trained in a career track field.
Technical: Your training is highly specialized, technology oriented, and quickly evolving.
Creative: Your career has called you into the attic of angels, where the sweat of creativity powers the heavens.

             Job Search Guide           

Beware of firms asking big bucksfor job search assistance

Even – maybe especially – in times of economic uncertainty, predators abound. This recent New York Times story gives some clues about who they are – and aren’t. Be sure to look through the reader comments. The article author recommends using resume services and career coaches.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/us/17career.html?_r=1

>Alumni Contacts Aid Job Search

Here’s a resource we don’t always remember if we’re out of college more than a few years:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/fashion/02alumni.html?_r=2&pagewanted=2

>Create Your Online Business Card

At Business Card 2, you create your own business card, a quick and easy profile you can send, link to, or display on a site. Here’s mine:

http://workwritecareercoach.businesscard2.com/

Create a job search tool by promoting your skills and accomplishments on your Business Card 2.
Start here:

http://businesscard2.com

>Looking for the lies

Here’s the real “Lie to Me” guy: http://www.paulekman.com/. I’m fascinated with the idea of seeing these microexpressions. The short and sweet training is only $20. Check it out.