What Does it Take to Become Re-Employed?

With unemployment at 10.2% based on government information it is the highest it has been in most people’s memory. The actual number may even be higher when those who are no longer seeking a job are included. It makes everyone tense and anxious. It also causes those who are employed concern in some cases if their position is secure. All of this is understandable.

Those seeking a new opportunity are slugging it out with everyone else using the same strategies, tactics, and tools that have been around for decades. Perhaps the only difference now is that we have social networks and professional networks to add to the mix. Since the numbers of those becoming employed is not great, the question becomes why aren’t all the “tried and true” methods coupled with the highly advanced additional communication tools working? This is also are creating a large group of very frustrated and even discouraged people.

There are a number of specifics that have changed. The hiring managers are changing their methods. The Baby Boomers, who dominated the hiring managers for decades are retiring being replaced by Gen X. The jobs have changed. What was once a straight forward position is now multi-dimensional. The time available for hiring managers to hire the same way isn’t there anymore. Certainly there are many more applicants for any one position than there have been for a very long time.

Many will attest to the fact that those “tried and true” methods are not working such as:
Answering ads whether in print or online at some website.
Sending cover letters and resumes to numerous companies.
Even networking is not as effective. A recent article stated that what used to be 85 percent that would find their next position this way has dropped to 60 percent.
Using recruiters has never been an effective method.

Instead of pursuing those methods above, try taking a more proactive approach by learning the skills to:
Perform a skills self-assessment for a specific industry and specific companies.
Market themselves and their specific value to a company.
Prepare to gain the interview, then gain it.
Perform specific post interview actions to create additional interest by the hiring manager.
Not only gain the offer, but the offer desired.

Try to think about where in school, what class or course or training was provided to learn how to conduct a successful job search. To the best of my knowledge there haven’t been any.

Now there is such training. Career Track Experts partners, Doug Beabout and Kevin Sutton have combined their 50 plus years of experience to design and conduct this training. It is presented in a series of 5 webinars, in 5 consecutive days. The times each day will be 12:00 PM ET and 7:00 PM ET. Please go to our website, www.careertrackexperts.com to see our qualifications and more specifics of each webinar. We also offer a webinar on creating a powerful resume and for those that take it and register for the complete series we will credit them for their investment in the resume webinar.

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