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According to Marshall–October Issue
October 10th, 2011 | 
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| Welcome to the October issue of According to Marshall…
The purpose of this message is to share just a quick summary of some of the topics that I think are relevant to your personal and professional success. If there are particular subjects that you would like to receive more information on from me, reach out and let me know. I also welcome any relevant information that you have produced or found that I can share with my readers. 7 Tips From CEOs On How To Eat Uncertainty For Lunch By Marc Figueroa, Vistage International “Today’s business owners and CEOs are constantly being tested. Faced with volatile markets, shifting customer demands and economic uncertainty, the only thing most business leaders are certain of is that there’s more change ahead. So how do you continue driving your business forward? We asked seven members of Vistage International, a CEO peer group organization, for their insight on how to lead with confidence in times of uncertainty.” Click here to read the full story 6 Personal Branding Mistakes That Can Threaten Your Job Search By Meridith Levinson “In 2009, personal branding became the buzzword of choice for job seekers and career coaches alike, and for good reason. When done right, personal branding—the act of identifying and communicating your unique value to people who can help advance your career—promised to be the job seeker’s silver bullet, his surefire way to stand out in a crowded job market.” Click here to read the full story Building Authentic Relationships in the Workplace By Chrissy Scivicque “Back when I worked in banking, as the Assistant Manager of a branch, I wore a mask. No, not literally, you silly goose. After all, banks and masks don’t go well together if you know what I mean…But I hid all the same. I was hiding behind an image of who I thought I should be, who I thought others wanted me to be. I didn’t show the “real me” because I was scared.” Read more at: Click here to read the full story Top 5 Secrets to Make Your Web 2.0 Job Search More Effective By Rosa Elizabeth Vargas “Social networking sites have dramatically changed the job search “game.” LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, and Online Career Sites can help you, from the comfort of your home, discover new opportunities and tap into the hidden job market. Why? Because networking, whether it is performed offline or online, is still the most effective way to find a job. However, building a brand, connecting with professionals in your field, and maintaining those relationships is not as easy as just setting up an account (don’t we wish!?). ” Click here to read the full story Top 10 Steps To Reclaim Your Life From Distraction By Guy Kawasaki, Co-Founder, Alltop “Peter Bregman is strategic advisor to CEOs and management teams and author of 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done. According to Peter, people are interrupted, on average, four times an hour, and the more challenging the work, the less likely you are to go back to it after the interruption. In other words, we are most likely to leave our most important work unfinished.” Click here to read the full story SEO for Your Resume By Mona Abdel-Halim “With the advent of “intelligent” technology, technology that more and more mimics human behavior, a slew of new tools have emerged to help recruiters quickly identify candidates with relevant skills. The behavior such technologies emulate are the mental scoring and comparing of candidate applications, primarily resumes, that recruiters used to take days to sort through manually. Now, by simply inputting key phrases or an entire job description, recruiters can automatically generate reports of upwards of thousands of job seekers in rank order.” Click here to read the full story I also invite you to forward this to a friend.
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Ready to Learn How to Write a Resume that Gets Results in a Tough Economy?
If you have been searching for a job in the past few months, you know how challenging this job market is right now. You may be discovering that the job search strategies that you’ve found success with before are not working anymore. To help support you in your job search, I’m going to be hosting a free resume writing teleseminar to share some tips and strategies that you can use to help improve your results.
This 30 minute call is a preview of a full teleseminar will take place Wednesday, October 5th @ 8pm, which will include many special bonuses. When you join the free preview call you’ll get a discount code for the October 5th session while gaining powerful, FREE tips you can implement on your resume immediately.
During this free 30-minute preview call on September 14, 2011 at 8pm EST, I will be asking, Michelle Riklan, CPRW, CEIC, Resume Expert and Career Coach about some of the most impactful tips you need to know for success in landing your next job.
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According to Marshall–August 2011
Welcome to the August issue of According to Marshall…
There is a lot of information out there and most of us have little, or no time, to read it. My goal is to provide you, my readers, with relevant, important and up to date information that will help you in your business success. It’s just a quick summary, on various topics of interest, that I am sure will be relevant to your personal and professional success.
If there are particular subjects that you would like to receive information on, let me know. And if you want to share relevant information I would be happy to include it to my readers. Please feel free to send your information to me.
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Examples Of Good Resumes That Get Jobs
By Sam Dogen
“One of my predictions for this year is that the job market will surprise on the upside. With cashed up corporate balance sheets and a revival in demand, there is little doubt in my mind that unemployment levels will continue to improve. Unfortunately, 2011 has proven to be a little more challenging than expected, with unemployment levels staying at above 9%. This is why now more than ever, you need to get all your documents in order, starting with your resume.”
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A Winning Job Search Strategy
By Peter Vogt
“You’ve posted your resume online and are submitting resumes and cover letters for all the job openings that seem to fit you.
Is there anything else you can do to look for a job? Absolutely! In fact, the more diverse your job-hunting strategy, the more effective it’s likely to be.”
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Staying Positive During Your Job Search | Jobfully Blog
By Stephanie Heydrick
“Having a positive mindset is important in your job search. However, job search length has become much longer since the current “Great Recession” has begun. It’s common to see job seekers get discouraged, particularly during an extended period of job hunting without results. Keeping a positive mindset constantly can be challenging. Here are some suggestions to help you stay positive:”
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A Resume Checklist: 13 Things to Do Before You Apply for the Job
By Selena Dehne
“When writing the first draft of your resume, you probably know it could be — and should be — stronger than it is. If you’re like many job seekers, though, you might feel pretty mystified as to which specific steps will lead you to more powerful content and a more attractive design.
Fortunately, boosting a bland resume or simply polishing it before applying for a job isn’t as cumbersome as you might expect.”
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Marshall Brown – Today’s Job Search Tip: A Strategic Cover Letter is CRITICAL!
Today, your cover letter has to sell you as effectively as your resume does. It’s the first thing people read, and some really take the cover letter seriously.
It’s your opportunity to truly sell yourself in a way your resume can’t. You can fill in the details, tell your story, and express yourself in far greater detail than the bullet points on your resume.
A good cover letter has a “hook” to grab their attention. It’s gotta be short, brief and have impact immediately. Your value has to come across right now and have an impact on the reader.
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Marshall Brown – Today’s Job Search Tip: Always keep your resume up-to-date.
Here’s a big tip…
If your resume is to open doors for you—within 10 seconds of landing on HR’s desk or computer screen—your resume MUST sell the value of what you offer.
A resume with a marketing edge will open a door for you, and do a number of things:
1. Sell the value of YOU in 10 seconds or less
2. Allow the interviewer to clearly see everything that you offer
3. Be relevant, action oriented and market what you can do for their company
4. Speak the language of the person reading the resume so that they can see YOU in this position
That’s what a really good resume will accomplish. Need help read
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To your success!
Marshall
Take Time NOW To Update Your Resume
Are you in a job search or in need of a fresh resume?
The peak of job search activity normally starts in September, right after Labor Day weekend. Despite the economic climate there are job opportunities out there. Now is the time to get ready!
No matter how impressive your education, experience and skills are, they will not land you the job if you can’t get in the door. A high quality resume gets you a job interview.
Remember, your resume is your #1 marketing tool!
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High-Level Resumes – Part 4
A career change as an experienced professional
Changing careers completely is one of the most difficult transitions to make successfully – that is to change both work tasks and work fields. For example, Charles, a Corporate Director of Training with 20 years of experience has decided to make a career change from working in private industry to teaching in higher education. One of the concerns he faces, like many senior level job seekers making this type of transition is the age factor. Employers tend to focus on salary and benefit package requirements and the possibility of you being overqualified when looking at high-level professionals seeking a job outside of their usual specialized practices or industry.
One good strategy is having the reviewer concentrate on your transferable skills and knowledge as well as the benefits of hiring a seasoned professional so that your disadvantages fade into the background. Use your age to your advantage by identifying the chosen market needs, how you can meet those needs, and stressing your solid experience and significant achievements.
In being realistic about making a career change, you need to also consider the possibility that you may actually have to accept a position at a lower level of responsibility and leadership than your present one and to do so with a salary cut. Your résumé’s fundamental role is to project your professional image in a way that improves the chance of this scenario not happening.
Another defensive strategy is to thoroughly research your new career interest and work environment. By doing your homework, you become aware of the essential required skills and knowledge. Follow-up with identifying the proficiencies you possess or in lieu of actual experiences can substitute education/training. As a selling point, consider taking professional development course to fill the gaps in you qualifications as proof of your strong commitment to this transition.
For making a career change, as you identify information for inclusion in your resume ask yourself the following questions:
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High-Level Resumes – Part 3
A move within present organization
When making a move within your organization, it is usually one of two basic options: a) A move that is a step up (a promotion) or b) A move that is across the career ladder and/or the organizational structure (a lateral move). Since people are quite familiar with the concept of moving up or advancing your career and what a promotion implies, no further explanation is needed.
However, not everyone may fully understand what is and why someone wants to make a lateral move. A lateral move involves transferring to a different but equal to the one you presently have. This is a professional shift to consider when you want to remain with your present employer, but want to further develop as a professional and therefore, interested in expanding your skills and experience base. For example, Bill a HR Specialist with some responsibility for writing training materials, develops a growing interest in writing and editing. This results in his request for a lateral move to the In House Publications Department since one future possibility is working for an organization specializing in HR publications.
In either of these moves, one of the challenges that you may have to deal with is – how other people see you. If you are seeking a promotion: Do they see you as someone on their way up in the organizational structure or not? Or, if making a lateral move to learn new skills, do people who are only aware of your desire to make this transfer without knowing the reasons for the change may see you as a not very ambitious person.
Additionally, when attempting to make any type of organizational move try to be aware of any inside competition you may have and how you can offset their advantages with some of your own. Use the company’s informal networking system or your intuitive sense of other colleagues and be aware of whom else maybe applying for this position. On the other hand, if a specific opening does not exist, determine an organizational need/issue, and plan to promote yourself as the person who not only can solve the problem, but is interested, ready, and available to make a move and you will not have any competition.
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High-Level Resumes – Part 2
Resume Technical Points
A reviewer not only looks for reasons to select a resume for the short initial interview pile, but also looks for reasons to reject a resume. When a document has a “high polish”, clarity, balance, and “togetherness” look to it, the hiring agent receives the message that you are a consummate professional. This is particularly true when a person, who has never met you, uses the resume as their main tool for selecting candidates for the initial interview invite.
Frequently, a resume is rejected simply because of typos, grammar errors or just not easy to read. Therefore, it is essential to pay close attention to the required or preferred resume technical points. Some of the rules are just Standard English and writing usage and others are good resume development procedures. Fifteen accepted guidelines to follow as you develop your resume are:
1. Be accurate and check and if necessary, double check all dates and figures
2. Omit jargon and other language that is organization or industry specific, particularly when making a career change or professional shift to another field and/or industry e.g., acronyms, titles, phrases and so forth.
3. Try and not to repeat or overuse the same professional skill word, action verb or other characterizing words in describing your background and experiences.
4. Do not abbreviate to save space other than the usual accepted ones e.g., state names, academic degrees, part of an organization’s name, commonly used in a specific field or industry
5. Use wide space and wide margins to make the resume visually appealing
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High-Level Resumes – Part 1
With September just around the corner our thoughts start to move away from ‘vacation mode’ and back to ‘business mode’. With this in mind I wanted to share with you excerpts from my book High-Level Resumes.
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Resume Format Options
The traditional chronological and functional resume formats are not usually the most efficient and effective ways for senior level professionals to present their varied specialized, in-depth experiences and qualifications. A quick review of the descriptions of these types of resume will indicate why. In today’s highly competitive job market where there are more candidates than positions, you do not want the reader to have to take too long to figure out whom you really are and what you have to offer. Many reviewers take only ten to thirty seconds to scan a resume and decide whether to place it in the call in for an interview or reject pile.
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