1. The Chazin Group Bullet Proof Your Career In These Turbulent Times

2. The Chazin Group Can They Save Us? Hilda Solis 3.

What Does That Mean For You?

The Chazin Group The Chazin Group 4. The Chazin Group The Chazin Group If we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet - 5.

Your Dream Job Awaits

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Preparing For A Career Change

Start Building Your Dream Job

• VisualizationExercise

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Your Dream Job

Make Your Lifes Passion Your Work

Turning Hobbies Into A Successful Future

Likes & Dislikes

Employer Loyalty And Employee Rights No Longer Exists

What Comes Next?

Be Your Own Boss!

The Chazin Group The Chazin Group 8. The Chazin Group The Chazin Group It isnt enough that we have meaningful work. What is also required is work that satisfies the soul. - Thomas Moore - 9.

Your Dream Job

Good Work Combines

Excellent Performance

The Ability to Express Ones Ethics

Pleasing Sense of Engagement

Howard Gardner, Psychologist, Harvard University

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Personal Assessment

Tools

• Keirsey Type Indicator

• Myers-Briggs

• Herman Brain Dominance Instrument

• DISC Tool

• Birkman

Goals

• Identify Strengths & Areas for Improvement

• Identify New Career Opportunities

• Identify Ideal Industries and Companies

• Identify Your Working Style

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Personal Assessment

Match Yourself to Potential Employers

• Understand The Formal vs. Informal Company Culture

• www.Jiibe.com

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Your Personal Mission Statement

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Define Your Life Goals

What Do You Want From Your Career?

What Are Your Financial Goals?

What Lifestyle Are You Seeking?

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Your Core Values & Beliefs

What principles do I choose as a foundation for my life?

What would I like to accomplish and contribute?

What would I like to be?

How do I fit into my family and community?

What are my strengths?

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Why We Need a Personal Mission Statement!

Ensures a greater chance of career success!

Steven Coveyrefers to crafting a mission statement as "connecting with your own unique purpose and the profound satisfaction that comes in fulfilling it."

Michael Goodman : a personal mission statement is: an articulation of what youre all about and what success looks like to you.

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The Four Step Process

1. Identify Past Successes

2. Identify Core Values

3. Identify Contributions

4. Identify Goals

• • • VOILA!

Your Personal Mission Statement

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Some Examples

" My personal missionis to live completely, honestly, and compassionately, with a healthy dose of realism mixed with the imagination and dreams that all things are possible if one sets their mind to finding an answer.

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Some Examples

" My personal missionis to take time every day for reflection, to realize what I learned, what I should learn more about to say thank you, to give myself a pat on the back while looking into what I need to improve upon.

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Your Positioning Statement

Here is what I can offer your organization

• Core Competencies

• Expertise

• Success Stories

• Qualifications & Experience

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Your Proposition Statement

What I will do for your organization

Apply your background, skills and experience to their specific needs

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Resources

FranklinCoveyMission Builder;www. franklincovey.com/missionbuilder/index.html

Laurie Beth Jones ,The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement For Work & For Life

Richard J. Leider ,The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work

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Defend Your Current Job

Engage Your Boss in Frank Discussion

Go Higher UpIf Needed

Tap Into the Gossip Mill (All Levels)

Whats The Press Saying?

Seek out Continuous Professional Development Opportunities

• Join / Become Active in Associations

• Get Involved in Extracurricular Organizations

• NetworkNetworkNetwork

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Defend Your Current Job

Seek Additional Responsibility

Consider Lateral Moves

Defend Your Reputation From Sabotage

Serve on Cross functional Teams

Sell YourselfUP&ACROSS

Reading the Tea Leaves Means Reading Between The Lines

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The Writing Is On The Wall

Company Keeps Missing Targets

Others in Co. are Being Laid Off

All Training is Cancelled

All Funding For Special Programs Is Cut

Hiring Freeze

Cutbacks in Spending by Dept.

Across The Entire Company

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When Its Time to Leave

Negotiate an Equitable Severance

• You Get What You Negotiate, NOT What You Deserve

Obtain the Services of an Outplacement Firm

Seek a Select Few Recruiters

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When Its Time to Leave

Deal With The Loss Then Move On

Develop a Professional Bio

Your Personal Marketing Plan

• Identify Top Industries

• Determine Top Firms in Each Industry

• List Your Core Competencies

• Identify Your Ideal Job Titles

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When Its Time to Leave

Utilize Every Available Resource

• Only10-15%of Jobs Get Advertised

• Online Resources

• • CareerBuilder, Monster, Yahoo! Hot Jobs

• • LinkedIn

• Classified Advertising

• • NJ.com

• • NYT.com

• • Craigs List

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When Its Time to Leave

• Dont Forget the Jobsites

• • FunctionalJob Sites:

• • • Sales Jobs (Salesjobs.com)

• • • Marketing Jobs (Marketingjobs.com

• • • Advertising (TalentZoo.com; AdvertisingCrossing.com)

• • • IT (DICE.com)

• • • Accounting & Finance:

• • • • Yahoo Career Connections Groups http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CareerConnectionsConsortium/?yguid=51102645

• • • • Careerbank.com

• • • • www.accounting.com

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When Its Time to Leave

• • Job AggregatorSites:

• • • SimplyHired.com

• • • Indeed.com

• • Executives/Professionals :

• • • ExecuNet

• • • Korn Ferry

• • • Christian & Timbers

• • • 6FigureJobs

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When Its Time to Leave

Company Research Sources

• Hoovers Online

• SEC (www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml)

• DNB.com

• Business.com

• SearchSystems.net (public records dbase)

• PR Newswire

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When Its Time to Leave

Company Research Sources

• ThomasNet.com

• CNNMoney.com (http://money.cnn.com/news/crc)

• vault.com/companies/searchcompanies.jsp

• www.learnwebskills.com/company

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When Its Time to Leave

Your Resume Forever Success Stories

You Are aProduct :

• Features & Benefits:

• • Core competencies

• • Experience

• • Skills & Qualifications

• • Education

• • Certifications

Resume & Cover LetterLAST !

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Get The Resume Ready

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Resumes That Get Read

The Five-Second Rule

Success Stories

Highlight Your Experience

C.A.R

Customize By Job/Industry

Include Industry Buzzwords

Quantify Say It With Numbers

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Resumes That Get Read

Can It Be Scanned?

As Long As It Needs To Be

Make It About Employer Needs

Separate Yourself From Other Candidates

Show How Will Employers Make Money by Hiring You

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Dust Off The Cover Letter

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Cover Letters That Get Calls

OPEN : How About A Headline?

Target With Research

Address Their Needs

You Are a Set of Solutions

Canned Letters Get Canned Be Unconventional!

CLOSE : I Will Call YouThen Do It!

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Leverage Recruiting Firms

Limit to 4-5

Provide Your Marketing Plan

Leverage Against Each Other

Recruiting Ins & Outs

The Passive Workforce

Show No Loyalty

Kennedy Information Red Book

of Recruiters

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• Talent Shortage Growing Rapidly

• • College graduates incapable of performing the work before them

• • Baby Boomers Soon to Retire in Masses

• Becoming an Employer of Choice

• Tons of Job SeekersMeet Hiring Freezes

• Measurable Training & Development

• Develop & Implement Acquisition/

• Retention Strategies

• Want a Seat at Management Table

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Contract Jobs

Temporary Work/Consulting

Placement Agencies

Freelance / Contract Work

Websites:

• Sologig

• Flipdog

• Allfreelance

• VirtualVocations

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Work a Job Fair

Research Participating Firms

Perfect Your Elevator Speech

Resumes, Marketing Plans & Bios

Dress to IMPRESS!

Focus On Your Industry

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Work a Job Fair

Attention to Detail

The Curtains UP!

Your Are a Product: How Will You

Meet Their Needs?

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Cultivate a Lifeline

• Networking Is Reaching Out To:

• • Family; Friends of Family; Friends of Friends; Friends of Friends of Friends!

• • Its Not Who YOU Know But Who Knows YOU

• • Keep a Tracking Form:

• • • Name & Organization

• • • Tel. #

• • • Email

• • • Who They Referred You To

• • • Comments

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Cultivate a Lifeline

• Networking

• • BNI www.bni.com

• • FENG, MENG, etc.

• • Toastmasters

• • Chambers of Commerce

• • Business Development Centers

• • Small Business Administration

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Cultivate a Lifeline

• Networking

• • Social Networking

• • • FaceBook

• • • Twitter

• • • UNYK

• • • MySpace

• • • LinkedIn

• • • MeetUp.com

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Cultivate a Lifeline

• TheInformationalInterview

• • Understand What People Do

• • What They Enjoy Most/Least

• • How They Got Into the Industry

• • Great Networking Source

• • Fine Tune Your Selling Skills

• • DONT Ask For a Job!

• • DO Ask For Referrals!

• • Send Thank You Immediately

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Know Your Worth

• Research A Suitable Salary Range

• • Numerous Sites Abound

• • • SalaryCalculator.com

• • • Salary.com

• • • JobStar.org

• • • EcompOnline.com

• • • SalaryExpert.com

• • • Payscale.com/salary-calculator

• • By Industry

• • Experience Level

• • Geography

• • Bureau of Labor Statistics

• • Anecdotal Through Networking

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Interviewing

Interviewer Is NOT an Expert, so

YOU Control the Process

Get ReadyThe Curtains Up

Focus OnEVERYTHING!

An Aptitude Test Might Be Given

Rehearse Your Core Competencies

Apply The Mirroring Technique

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Interviewing

Know Your Interviewer So You Can

Interview the Interviewer

Salesmanship in Print

Ask For The Sale

Understand The Follow-Up Process

Practice, Practice, Practice

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Interviewing Questions

Some Examples:

• Tell Me About Yourself

• What Are Your Strengths/Greatest weakness?

• Where do you see yourself in the future?

• What would your boss say about you?

• Why did you leave your last job?

For Each Question: As applies to

your ability to do this job !

Relate to your interests, strengths,

and accomplishments

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Interviewing Questions

What you can ask them:

• When we have my first review how will you gauge success?

• What are the most crucial 3 or 4 attributes of the ideal candidate you are seeking for this opportunity?

• What problems keep you up at night?

• What have been the qualities/characteristics of people you have worked most effectively with?

• What happened to the person doing the position most recently?

The Chazin Group The Chazin Group 58. The Chazin Group The Chazin Group Perspective Taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone. More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase ofprofits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to Ourselves and to our fellow men. Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. 59. The Chazin Group The Chazin Group First Inaugural Address March 4, 1933 60. The Chazin Group The Chazin Group 901 Madison St. (2B) Hoboken, NJ 07030 Tel: (917) 239-5571 Email: thechazingroup@yahoo.com Website: www.thechazingroup.com Thank You!