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Three Steps to Successful Information Interviewing

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Three Steps to Successful Information Interviewing

Most job seekers have heard the terms “information interview” or “networking interview”. But few people really understand how to use them effectively to make a successful career change. In fact, most job seekers don’t realize that there are multiple kinds of information interviews.

While all information or networking interviews share common elements the kind of information gathered depends upon the stage of information interviewing. Outlined below are the three stages of information interviewing and the goals of each. But first, let’s look at some of the many reasons why it makes sense to conduct information interviews.

Information interviews are a chance to:

  • Explore careers or clarify career goals
  • Identify professional strengths & weaknesses
  • Build confidence for job interviews
  • Identify industry trends
  • Expand your professional network
  • Identify current or future employment needs

Be clear about your goals

Regardless of online opportunities to network, personal contacts are still, by far, the most effective way to find a job. A networking interview is about making a personal connection with someone who has information helpful to your job or career decision.

When asking others for advice or information it is important to be clear about why you are seeking them out for assistance. There are a variety of reasons to schedule a networking interview

  • to gain clarity about next steps
  • for advice or industry specific information
  • to ask for referrals or information about specific job opportunities.

All of these are legitimate reasons for wanting to meet with a friend, colleague, or industry expert.

Three stages of information interviewing

Below are three distinct stages of information interviewing. Each stage has unique goals, questions to be answered, and networking outcomes. Understanding each phase is essential for the novice job seeker and career professional alike. Before activating your network decide what you hope to achieve from the contact and plan your approach accordingly.

Stage 1 – Career Exploration/Option Generation

In this stage your goal as a job seeker or potential career changer is to generate ideas and solicit information about which jobs or careers are a match for someone with your skills.

You want to answer as many of the questions below as possible:

  • Given my skill set what options are available to me?
  • What kinds of jobs are available for someone with my interests?
  • Are there potential career paths for someone with my skill set in this industry?
  • What is the employment outlook for this specific occupation?
  • How mobile is this career?
  • Is this a growth industry?

Stage 2 – Option Clarification

During the Option Clarification stage you are seeking to evaluate how realistic each of the most interesting options you uncovered are given your knowledge, skills, and experience. During Stage Two you are looking for additional information about how well each option fits.

Internal evaluation

You are conducting an internal evaluation to determine the following:

  • Of all of the options available, which one or ones best suit me?
  • At what level can I enter the field?
  • What are potential barriers to entry?
  • Does this job or industry fit my values?

To confirm which career options fit best, you must identify industry trends, credential requirements, and salary ranges for the positions that most interest you. You will also want to determine which companies are leaders in their field and gain referrals to respected industry professionals.

Stage 3 – Cultivating Opportunities

Stage Three information interviewing is all about pinpointing and targeting those companies and specific individuals with a current or near future need that you can satisfy. The purpose is to connect with and be referred to your target audience; those folks most in need of your expertise and therefore, most likely to hire you!

Used wisely, information interviewing can be your ticket to career success.

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How To Handle A Panel Interview

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Congratulations! Your persistence and well crafted resume has opened the corporate doors for an initial job interview with a representative from the Human Resources department. You have already performed your research and due diligence on the company and now prepared to allow your personality, confidence, and experience help you to impress your interviewer. After a highly positive and encouraging initial screening process, you receive an invitation for a follow-up interview. A panel interview to meet several members of the company.

You now have the opportunity that you’ve been preparing for; to inspire the interviewer with the innate skills, talent, and resourcefulness that will help make a successful company even more successful! It is your shining moment!

A Disarming Revelation

You arrive in advance of your scheduled time, well groomed, portfolio in-hand, ready to meet your interviewer. After a few minutes, you are cordially greeted by a company representative and subsequently escorted into a spacious corporate conference room. You will be participating in a ‘panel’ interview with six or eight employees representing several relevant multi-disciplinary sectors from within the corporation.

As a candidate, you had no visibility that you were entering an environment where you will be barraged and grilled by a myriad of employees with diverse personalities and roles for your follow-up interview. Stunned, stressed, and intimidated, this is not the type of intimate one-on-one interview you expected. Your choice is either to compose yourself and embrace the challenge at hand or, remain anxious and negatively convey your stress and dazed emotional state to members of the team. The prudent and professional course is to adapt, gain control of the situation, and forge ahead with confidence.

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Get a Job Using LinkedIn: 10 Top Tips

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If you want to get a job using Linkedin, or at least get noticed by companies that may be hiring, you need to take LinkedIn seriously. There are other business networks but none of them is as big and as well-known as LinkedIn. Although there is a paid version of LinkedIn, most people use the free one and find that is enough for what they want.

Many people register and create some sort of profile and then think that’s all they have to do but there is more!!

10 ways to get a job using LinkedIn

1. Explore LinkedIn thoroughly

Hang around the site a bit to get a feel for the features before you use LI for job seeking. Look up someone you know or a company you have worked for in the Search bar at the top right hand corner of the page to see how it all works.

2. Search the Jobs section

Go to the Jobs section which you can use to find jobs you are looking for in your area of work (and your geographical area too). There is a search facility so you can put in everything you’re looking for.

3. Read the instructions

Follow LinkedIn’s advice for completing applications online.  They have so much information available to help you create a great profile and to use the site effectively.  But it takes time to read it and therefore most people don’t!  You can be ahead of the crowd fairly easily but following the instructions.

4. Create a powerful profile

Develop your Profile so people can find YOU. This is hugely important and you need to spend several hours getting it right. Many head hunters and recruitment agencies use LinkedIn. Talk about yourself in your profile as this is a personal statement where you sell you, your skills or your services. Make sure your profile is up to date and in line with what you say on your CV/resume because many prospective employers check LinkedIn profiles of candidates

5. Your profile photo needs to be professional

Add a business-like photo and link in your website, blog, Twitter account etc if you have them. Be careful and only put professional things on LinkedIn.  Some people advise you to upload a current resume, but I don’t agree with that.  It’s better to make the profile so good that they ASK to see your resume.  That way you can quickly tailor the resume to suit the company and the possible job before submitting it.

Bonus tip to help you get a job using LinkedIn

If you are serious about getting a job using LinkedIn, put your LinkedIn address on your CV/resume, business card, email signature and any other tool you use to market yourself!

6. Consider your Settings

Check out the Settings and make sure you are happy about the people who will have ‘access’ to you but remember, if you want to be found, you need to leave your settings reasonably open!

7. Start building connections

Invite people you know to connect with you. Also invite those people you would like to work for to connect but not everyone will accept direct contact so you have to go through a connection who is connected to them. When you ask to connect to someone, don’t just use the message provided by LinkedIn but write something more personal. Also when you accept an invitation to connect, send a personal note; don’t forget you are building relationships

8. Update your profile regularly

At the top of the page just under where you put your name and job title, you will see an update white bar. Update this regularly as any changes you make to it will be emailed by LI by email once a week to all your connections. This shows you are active and you can say “researching job opportunities in accountancy” or whatever.

9. Join a group

This is useful if you don’t have many direct connections but you want to add some. There are hundreds of groups on all sorts of topics. For example, if you are looking for a job in film, you might choose to join the Film TV Professionals or if you’re interested in selling hats, the Milliners Forum (yes, it does exist!) could be useful. Once you join a group you can reply to posts in discussions and post your own topics to get yourself noticed and have access to other members of that group

10. Build relationships

Remember that LinkedIn is for networking – that is, for building relationships. Don’t expect your first connection to offer you a job straight away!

Bonus tip to help you get a job using LinkedIn

If you are serious about getting a job using LinkedIn, put your LinkedIn address on your CV/resume, business card, email signature and any other tool you use to market yourself!

Our guest author: Kate Cobb has over 25 years experience as a management training consultant providing F2F training, executive coaching and instructional design services for a wide variety of clients in UK, Europe and the Middle East in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.

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Flexible Job for Baby Boomers – How to Enjoy a Retirement Vibe Without Retiring

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My 79-year-old widowed mother has a part-time job aiding elderly people in their homes. I used to be amused by saying that; I mean, 79 is elderly, isn’t it?
The fact is, her paid work is a mere four hours a week, a small piece of her portfolio of several self-chosen activities which keep her vibrantly engaged with life. My mom is an admirable example of the “new old.”
But I’m no longer amused at the irony of her employment since I read about an 89-year-old former airline pilot who works 25 hours or more a week helping older adults find jobs. Yikes!
Meanwhile, following this great generation are baby boomers bracing for a future that will have them working beyond the standard retirement age. If it looks like you’ll be working into your 60s, 70s or beyond, here’s a twist on telecommuting that can give you a retirement vibe without retiring.
Try telecommuting as a way to get out of town and still earn a living.
Am I suggesting you take your laptop computer on your vacation? No, not that. Definitely not!
Instead, consider a seasonal escape where you do your usual work in the salubrious setting of your choice for six to eight weeks.
Imagine the following temporary work set-ups (but not all three, of course!):
•February and March at your South Carolina condo
•June and July at a vacation rental in Idaho or Ireland
•Thanksgiving through New Year’s at your son’s home in another state
Sounds lovely, you say? But how is it possible? I’ve outlined 5 steps, below.
This flexible work life tactic assumes you are a “knowledge worker,” i.e., a professional who commutes daily to reach a computer and a phone to do your job. We’ll turn it around so that the laptop and phone goes to the worker (you) instead.
It’s a progression of steps over six months.
Why not start today?
STEP 1: Change your thinking about how your job gets done.
Begin to recognize that you can work from anywhere. This may be a new idea for you so the biggest obstacles are probably in your mind. (We’ll deal with your manager separately.)
Most telecommuters work remotely one to three days a week. While not widespread, there are employees who work full time from home. Your intended gig is working full time from (a temporary, faraway) home for only a season.
STEP 2: Arrange to telecommute from your home.
First, redesign your job into telecommuting.
Don’t be put off if there are some job tasks that you can’t imagine being done from thousands of miles away. We’ll get to that further down.
Set up remote access to your work computer through your employer’s network or using remote access software.
Over a period of weeks, work an hour or so on a few job tasks in the evening or a Saturday from home. Don’t make it a habit; your goal is to prove to yourself-and eventually your manager-that you can perform your job well from home.
After you’ve proven to yourself it can be done, present a proposal to your manager to work from home two or three days of each five-day workweek.
Assuming approval of your request (most long-term, trusted employees get the green light for at least a trial period), you’ll move to Step 3.
STEP 3: Nudge telecommuting from home up to the next level.
After three months of telecommuting two or three days a week, request to work four days a week from home.
STEP 4: Arrange an in-person meeting with your manager to assess your telecommuting arrangement.
Your mission is to gauge your manager’s true comfort and confidence level about your work set-up.
With six months or more of solid telecommuting experience, you will have likely improved your output. Most remote workers see double-digit productivity increases; with fewer interruptions and no socializing, what’s to do but work?
This foundation, paired with your positioning as a reliable, well-performing employee your manager doesn’t want to lose (right?), sets you up to get approval of your request.
Yet, you need to get a clearer view of the situation from your manager’s perspective.
Is your he or she blown away at your productivity output (at which time you can reinforce the value of remote work and how it adds to your job satisfaction and achievements)?
Or is your manager suggesting that four days a week working away from the office is excessive?
What else? Listen carefully (especially between the lines). Do a subtle probe of the attitude environment so you can figure your next move.
STEP 5: Request your seasonal remote work arrangement.
Based on the outcome of Step 4, you’ll know (or sense) if and when it’s a wise move to go forward with your request.
Let’s say you have a good vibe about it and you’re planning to ask.
Make your request at least two months before your anticipated start date; given approval, you’ll need the time to make travel and accommodation arrangements.
Ask for eight weeks of long-distance telecommuting so you have room to negotiate for fewer.
If you meet little resistance and you really only want three to six weeks, confirm your travel arrangements first, then immediately alert your manager to the adjusted dates.
Fine-Tune Step 2
Looking back at Step 2, are there job tasks that can not be performed from a remote location? Let’s tackle that issue by considering the possibilities.
Could those particular job tasks:
•be skipped during the weeks that you’re away from the office?
•be deferred until your return?
•be delegated?
•be done in a collaborative way via telework tools?
•be given work-around treatment*?
If you’ve set up a job sharing arrangement, Step Two has fewer obstacles.
*Imagine you had to take several weeks of FMLA leave to be with your elderly parent in a faraway state during his or her hip replacement surgery, rehab and recuperation. Beyond your ability to access your office computer from your parent’s home to do some work, how would you and your employer manage the other aspects of your job? There’s no perfect solution, but there’s usually a work-it-out solution. Think in those terms.
Make it Happen
Is this an unusual arrangement? Yes.
Is it really possible? Yes, if you follow the steps above over a sufficient chunk of time, you may be surprised at the flexible work lifestyle you can craft for yourself that has hints of a retirement vibe.
Flexible work adviser and pay raise coach Pat Katepoo equips career professionals to negotiate for more time and money at their current job. Will your boss say YES to your request for a flexible work arrangement? Find out using this quick 3-question quiz. Find more tools and tactics for a flexible work life after 50 at WorkOptions.com.

Flexible Job for Baby Boomers

My 79-year-old widowed mother has a part-time job aiding elderly people in their homes. I used to be amused by saying that; I mean, 79 is elderly, isn’t it?

The fact is, her paid work is a mere four hours a week, a small piece of her portfolio of several self-chosen activities which keep her vibrantly engaged with life. My mom is an admirable example of the “new old.”

But I’m no longer amused at the irony of her employment since I read about an 89-year-old former airline pilot who works 25 hours or more a week helping older adults find jobs. Yikes!

Working beyond standard retirement age

Following this great generation of over 75s are baby boomers bracing for a future that will have them working beyond the standard retirement age. If it looks like you’ll be working through your 60s into your 70s or beyond, here’s a twist on flexible work that can give you a retirement vibe without retiring.

Tips on How to Start Your Flexible Job

Try telecommuting

Am I suggesting you take your laptop computer on your vacation? No, not that. Definitely not! I’ve tried that and it’s difficult and not fun.

Instead, consider a seasonal escape where you do your usual work in the salubrious setting of your choice for six to eight weeks.

Flexible work in IrelandImagine this flexible job scenario:

Working happily on your computer

  • February and March at your Sunshine Coast apartment
  • July and August at a holiday rental in Ubud or Ireland

Sounds lovely, you say? But how is it possible?

I’ve outlined 5 steps below.

Knowledge worker

This flexible work life tactic assumes you are a “knowledge worker,” i.e., a professional who commutes daily but mainly uses a computer and a phone to do your job. You could turn it around so that the laptop and phone goes to the worker (you) instead.

It’s a progression of steps over six months. Why not start today?

STEP 1: Change your thinking about how your job gets done.

Begin to recognize that you can work from anywhere. This may be a new idea for you so the biggest obstacles are probably in your mind. (We’ll deal with your manager separately.)

Most telecommuters work remotely one to three days a week. While not widespread, there are employees who work full time from home. Your intended gig is working full time from a temporary, faraway home for blocks of time.

STEP 2: Arrange to telecommute from your home.

First, redesign your job into telecommuting.

Don’t be put off if there are some job tasks that you can’t imagine being done from thousands of miles away. We’ll get to that further down.

Set up remote access to your work computer through your employer’s network or using remote access software.

Over a period of weeks, work an hour or so on a few job tasks in the evening or a Saturday from home. Don’t make it a habit; your goal is to prove to yourself-and eventually your manager-that you can perform your job well from home.

Expand your proposal.

After you’ve proven to yourself it can be done, present a proposal to your manager to work from home two or three days of each five-day workweek.

Assuming approval of your request (most long-term, trusted employees get the green light for at least a trial period), you’ll move to Step 3.

STEP 3: Nudge telecommuting from home up to the next level.

After three months of telecommuting two or three days a week, request to work four days a week from home.

STEP 4: Have a meeting with your manager to assess your flexible work arrangement.

Your mission is to gauge your manager’s true comfort and confidence level about your work set-up.With six months or more of solid telecommuting experience, you will have likely improved your output.

Most remote workers see double-digit productivity increases; with fewer interruptions and no socializing, what’s to do but work?

This foundation, paired with your positioning as a reliable, well-performing employee your manager doesn’t want to lose (right?), sets you up to get approval of your request.

Consider the manager’s perspective.

Is your he or she blown away at your productivity output?  If so this is the time to reinforce the value of remote flexible work and how it adds to your job satisfaction and achievements?

Or is your manager suggesting that four days a week working away from the office is excessive?

What else? Listen carefully, especially between the lines. Do a subtle probe of the attitude environment so you can figure your next move.

STEP 5: Request your seasonal remote work arrangement.

Based on the outcome of Step 4, you’ll know (or sense) if and when it’s a wise move to go forward with your request.

Let’s say you have a good vibe about it and you’re planning to ask.

Act strategically

Make your request at least two months before your anticipated start date for your remote flexible work to be conducted in another location. Given approval you’ll need the time to make travel and accommodation arrangements.

Ask for eight weeks of long-distance telecommuting so you have room to negotiate for fewer.

If you meet little resistance and you really only want three to six weeks, confirm your travel arrangements first, then immediately alert your manager to the adjusted dates.

Fine-Tune Step 2

Looking back at Step 2, are there job tasks that can not be performed from a remote location? Let’s tackle that issue by considering the possibilities.

Could those particular job tasks be:

  • skipped during the weeks that you’re away from the office?
  • deferred until your return?
  • delegated?
  • done in a collaborative way via telework tools?
  • completed on your return?

If you’ve set up a job sharing arrangement, Step Two has fewer obstacles.

Consider how you’d manage under different circumstances.

Imagine you had to take several weeks of leave to be with your elderly parent in a faraway state during his or her hip replacement surgery, rehab and recuperation.

Beyond your ability to access your office computer from your parent’s home to do some work, how would you and your employer manage the other aspects of your job? There’s no perfect flexible work solution, but there’s usually a work-it-out solution.

Make it Happen

Is this an unusual arrangement? Yes.

Could a flexible job really be possible? If you follow the steps above over a sufficient chunk of time you may be surprised at the flexible work lifestyle you can craft for yourself that has hints of a retirement vibe.

About our Guest Author:

Flexible work adviser and pay raise coach Pat Katepoo equips career professionals to negotiate for more time and money at their current job.

Request our free Retirement Lifestyle Guide “Create A Future You Will Love” today!

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The Top 10 Job Search Personal Branding Mistakes

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The Top 10 Job Search Personal Branding Mistakes

Have you made some serious job search personal branding mistakes?

Employers want to know why you are the best choice for the job. Should they hire you or another candidate? But here’s a surprising truth: The person who truly connects with the interviewer is most likely to get the job – even over someone who might be more qualified. That’s where your personal brand comes in.

Maybe you’re thinking, “A personal brand? I don’t have one or even want one!” Reality is, though, you do already have a personal brand whether you realize it or not. Just by being you in interviews, on the job, or wherever you present yourself, you have a personal brand.

Defined as “the way you want people to perceive, think, and feel about you in relation to others,” your personal brand is alive and well and exists in the minds of other people – including interviewers. That’s why it’s important to take control of your brand, to make sure you make the impression you want throughout your job search.

So, learning to master your personal brand is key to success, and one way to do that is to avoid the Top 10 Job-Seeker Personal Brand Busters. These, listed below, are among the most damaging mistakes that job seekers make when looking for a new position. Avoid these personal branding mistakes, and you’ll communicate a more powerful personal brand to potential employers before, during, and after your interviews.

In your job search efforts, have you committed any of these Job-Seeker Personal Branding Mistakes?

1. Not paying attention to your personal brand on the Internet.

Chances are, your interviewer or future boss will search for your name on the Internet prior to your interview. So, think twice before posting those wild photos from Mardi Gras on Facebook. If you blog or use Twitter, pay attention to what you say. Avoid writing negative comments about others (especially former employers and coworkers), and steer away from profanity and strong opinions.

2. Not visiting the restroom prior to your interview.

Ok, let’s get the obvious out of the way: You definitely don’t want to squirm in your chair because you haven’t had time to go to the restroom before the interview! But you should also use a quick pop into the restroom to make sure your hair is neat, your suit hasn’t picked up any lint, and everything is in its proper place.

3. Answering a question without taking the time to think or before fully understanding the question.

Let’s say you’re in an important interview, and you’re asked a question that takes you by surprise. You’re not sure how to respond, but you feel you need to say something right away to make you look confident. So, you just start babbling, spouting out whatever comes to mind. The truth is that interviewers actually prefer that you pause for a few seconds to think of a good answer before you speak. If you rush to answer every question, you run the risk of saying something you don’t really mean.

4. Only looking at one interviewer when there are two or more interviewers in the room.

Job seekers tend to look at the interviewer who is most expressive or seems the most receptive. But if you’re interviewed by more than one person, make sure you look at everyone in the room when you speak. Make eye contact with one interviewer for a few seconds, then shift to another and another in order to connect with all of them.

5. Talking only about what you want out of the job and not what the company needs or wants.

The employer is more interested in what you can do for the company and not vice versa. If you’re asked in the interview what you want from the job, answer the question intelligently, but don’t go on and on about all that you’re hoping the company can offer you.

6. Speaking negatively about your current or former employer.

This was confirmed in a survey of interviewers and recruiters conducted by CareerBuilders.com where 49% said that the worst interview offense is speaking negatively about a former boss. Saying something mean-spirited about a former employer will leave a bad taste in an interviewer’s mouth, so find a way to shed some positive light on your current or previous company and boss.

7. Asking questions about pay and benefits during an initial interview.

Recruiters say they immediately read that kind of question as a sign of someone with little experience. It’s okay to ask an employment agent or recruiter about salary and benefits, but an initial interview isn’t the right time to ask those questions unless the interviewer brings it up. You can cover those subjects once you’re further along the interview process.

8. Not asking questions in a way that helps sell yourself.

Ask questions in a way that highlights your strengths. For example, you could ask something like: “Given my experience managing big projects in my current job, do you see opportunities for someone like me to take on a project manager role here, too?”

9. Not being prepared with good, thoughtful questions to ask at the end of an interview.

Being prepared with smart questions about the company and the job will show you’ve done your research. It demonstrates that you want to be a part of the organization and that you’re taking the process seriously.

10. Beating yourself up if you don’t do well in an interview or if you don’t get the job.

You may have done better in the interview than you think, and the company’s reasons for not choosing you may have nothing to do with you at all. The company might have decided to eliminate the position entirely, or they may have chosen someone from within. So, don’t let a less-than-stellar experience turn you into a pessimist. Stay positive! Evidence shows that people who are optimistic about their job search actually get jobs more quickly.

Benefit from the mistakes of others, and take these job search personal branding mistakes to heart. Learning to manage your personal brand will help you make strong connections with your interviewers and ultimately land a great new job.

About the Author: Brenda Bence is an internationally-recognized branding expert, certified executive coach, professional speaker, and award-winning author of the How YOU Are Like Shampoo personal branding book series. As President of Brand Development Associates International, Ltd. Brenda now travels the world speaking, training, and coaching individuals and companies to greater success through corporate and personal brand development.

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Stay at Home Moms Returning to Work

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Stay at Home Moms Returning to Work

Due to the economy a lot of stay at home moms are finding themselves having to go back into the workforce sooner than they planned. This may be a stressful time trying to discover work after years of not working. Career coaches are seeing many women these days who thought they would have a few much more years at home with their kids struggling to locate work.

Returning to work in a strong work industry is difficult. Let’s face it, the job marketplace is surely not at its strongest, thus making it harder. Even though you most likely feel a sense of urgency to land a work, the finest point for you to do is slow down and take a deep breath. It is important to make certain that you just cover all of your employment search basics before rushing in. If you are in crisis mode, it will be harder to produce a excellent very first impression on perspective employers. Make sure you’re organized and prepared before you dive in.

The initial thing you’ll need to figure out is what kind of employment you are looking for. Do you wish to go back to the same line of work you were doing previous to deciding to become a stay at home mom, or do you need a change of pace? In case you want to go back into the same field, you may desire to figure out what parts you liked about your previous employment and which elements you didn’t. Then try to discover a work that focuses on the components of the work you did like.

Do not send resumes to job boards like monster.com and call it quits. You could locate a work that way, but there aren’t any guarantees. You may want to have in contact with your former co-workers. They might be able to allow you to find a new employment. It is not a great idea to ask people straight out if they can provide you a employment themselves. Before contacting any person you will need a quick conversation planned out. It must include what sort of job you might be looking for and what kind of experience you already have. End the chat by asking them, Do you know of anybody I must contact? Keep in mind to maintain it brief, you really don’t want to inconvenience or overwhelm the individual you might be talking to.

Another essential thing to keep in mind is that you shouldn’t talk to anybody until you are ready to return to work right away. If you do not have child care already lined up and you might have to cancel an interview, you aren’t going to have the employment offer you hoped for.

Volunteering your time in your intended field can also be a fantastic asset. Not only does it look good on a resume, it can assist you to to meet key players in the field. Volunteer work is an incredible way to expand your network.

Just bear in mind to take as a lot of deep breaths as you need to maintain yourself calm and focused on your work search. Never be apologetic for staying at home to raise your youngsters, you have nothing to be sorry for. Ensure you show enthusiasm about returning to the workforce. Good luck.

By Michael A Maritn – For the best Stay at home moms returning to work information visit http://thebestinternetmarketingtools.com.

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