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Employment opportunities have to be handled with special attention when you’re a high school or college student job seeker. For example, no matter what your age, a hiring decision about you is made only after a face-to-face meeting.

So employment opportunities require you to master a few basic communication skills.

First, you have to look employable. If this is your first job, you have to make absolutely everything work to your advantage. Since you don’t have a work history or at best a thin resume, much more credibility will be placed on how you come across when you meet with a decision-maker. There, it’s up to you to represent yourself assertively and with enthusiasm.

Here are 6 tips that can move you toward success with your employment opportunities:

1. Get your ducks in a row. Write down the specific talents and capabilities your bring to the table. For example any work experience including volunteer work, school and church projects, family projects, athletic prowess . . . anything that demonstrates that you have contributed to helping another organization or individual. Be sure to include any work for neighbors including raking leaves, baby-sitting, shoveling snow, etc.

2. Write a script that details how you’ll present yourself to a prospective employer. Remember, first impressions count BIG! If you stumble around and can’t look an interviewer in the eye, you just lost. You must be prepared to speak with authority.

3. Practice what to say with friends. Let them ask you tough questions so you can learn to respond intelligently without getting rattled.

4. When you’ve done all your prep work, then you can write a resume recapping what you’ve done in the first three steps. It has to be brief and to the point (maximum one page.) Remember–your resume won’t get you a job. Only a face-to-face meeting results in serious consideration.

5. Dress appropriate to the position and according to company standards. Be polite. Have an opening comment to make so you can be the first to speak. Prepare in advance some intelligent questions to ask.

6. Be open to employment options. For example, an internship, starting out part-time, offering to work free for a week, a probation period, etc. Incidentally, the holiday season is a great time to get your foot in the door with retail businesses. Very often part-time holiday employment turns into full-time after the holidays.

Employment opportunities at the high school and college level can be exciting and enriching experiences. They can seriously prepare you for a lifetime of satisfying and lucrative work.

Paul Bowley manages EEI, the world-class pioneer in alternative job search techniques and innovative e-business strategies . . . since 1985. Check out THE WORLD’S FASTEST JOB SEARCH PLAN! And grab our stunning FREE REPORT! http://www.fastest-job-search.com

Your resume? . . . Dump it! And everything it stands for!

Sounds sacrilegious, doesn’t it?

Sorry. But your resume won’t get you a job. I know this goes against everything you’ve heard about how to find a job. But it’s true! This is the 21st Century job market. Things have changed a lot. The old-fashioned ways of getting a job are out — at least if you have any intentions of locking up a high-paying job fast.

So, I’m recommending you dispense with everything you ever heard or thought about how to find a job and you’ll be better prepared for the new job marketplace. Don’t be confused by the rules of a traditional, old-fashioned career job search. They’re suspect. If you’ve ever used them to find a job, you know what I mean.

For example, what’s the very first thing you think of when you decide to look for job? Your resume, right? The resume is such a job-search icon that preparing it can easily become an obsession. But it’s the last thing you should be thinking about.

That’s because the traditional job search process is oriented toward YOU, your work history and your accomplishments. It’s passive and reactive at the very time an employer expects a job candidate who’s proactive and assertive and alert to the employer’s needs.

Here’s an important job search alternative approach: in the new century the EMPLOYER must become the focal point of your job campaign.

Once you understand what an employer is looking for, then your alternative bio-action resume and some non-traditional job-search techniques will make a lot of sense because they’ll be responding to an employer’s needs.

You see, employers today want to meet candidates who

* Understand the organization.

* Can show how to make a difference.

* Represent their capabilities with confidence.

* Demonstrate quantifiable contributions they can make.

* Aren’t afraid to ask for a job.

* Know how to cut a deal.

The good news is that, with exciting new job search alternative strategies, you can stop fretting about mailing or posting hundreds of resumes. Forget about the want ads, job sites, employment agencies and recruiters. Instead you can learn the value of “career partners” who will do a lot of the leg work for you.

As for interviews and waiting for the phone to ring . . . they’re last century’s way. Like your resume, they’re just some of the common misconceptions that can turn what should be an exciting, challenging and rewarding life experience into a painful drudgery.

Paul Bowley manages EEI, the world-class pioneer in alternative job search techniques and innovative e-business strategies . . . since 1985. Check out THE WORLD’S FASTEST JOB SEARCH PLAN! And grab our stunning FREE REPORT! http://www.fastest-job-search.com

It’s no secret that making a successful career move these days is a lot different. Career move expectations have changed. Especially in the 21st Century job marketplace.

Let me show you what I mean. Just take a look at the dramatic changes that have occurred in the last few years:

1. Changing jobs every three years is no longer frowned upon.

2. Lifetime employment went out with the dinosaurs.

3. Corporate loyalty to workers in terms of job guarantees is dead.

4. Employees are now totally responsible for their own careers.

It was largely the corporations that ended the traditional employment contract in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Since the notion of “loyalty in exchange for lifetime employment” no longer made bottom line sense to many organizations, hundreds of thousands of workers lost their jobs.

So, here’s what this means to your career move in the contemporary 21st Century job market: unless you become pro-active and self-reliant in your career move you could be dead in the water.

Because of the changes noted above, employers have changed too. Their expectations of job candidates have evolved as well.

For example, if you’re not prepared to demonstrate specifically how you can make a bottom-line contribution to the organization — you’re out!

Or if you’re unable to respond like a pro to tough questions about your background, you just lost out to someone who can.

Or if you’re counting on your resume to sell you to a prospective employer, you go to the end of the line!

Today’s savvy job seekers know that resumes don’t make hiring decisions — people do. And being able to assertively represent yourself in a face-to-face meeting is the only way to land a high-paying job.

That’s why you need 21st Century tools and techniques. For example, you can’t rely on your resume to get you a job. Instead, you need to spend the time doing your homework to identify organizations that match up with your requirements. And then the names of decision-makers who potentially could be your next boss.

One of the most powerful tools you have immediate access to is called “career partners.” These are people you already know or who are influential in your community, e.g. political figures, religious leaders, community leaders, etc.– the kind that help you identify precisely who you should be talking to.

Your career move is too important to leave it up to chance. Using old-fashioned techniques like answering ads, posting your resume on job sites, emailing companies or relying on agencies and recruiters — these are ways to guarantee you’ll have a long and painful job search.

Times have changed. Have you changed with them? Your career move requires it!

Paul Bowley manages EEI, the world-class pioneer in alternative job search techniques and innovative e-business strategies . . . since 1985. Check out THE WORLD’S FASTEST JOB SEARCH PLAN! And grab our stunning FREE REPORT! http://www.fastest-job-search.com

Making a career path move should be a dynamic and enthusiastic acknowledgement of our ability to grow and to be successful.

So when the time comes to change our career path, we often prefer to do it as quickly and painlessly as possible. That means we hope against hope that the right situation will drop in our laps without having to go through too many changes.

But is that the right way to look at our most important investment? Not unless we want to be a WIMP! An attitude adjustment is required if we have any hope of success.

So, why is this rite of passage painful so often?

Well, it’s hard to pull up stakes. It’s challenging to explore new career path directions. It’s not easy to say goodbye to something we’ve become accustomed to–a secure haven for our talents and earning ability. If we’ve been fired or laid off it’s twice as hard. Being cut off from the umbilical cord of an assured salary, work environment and friends can leave us gasping.

So, it should be refreshing to learn that a carefully planned career path change of course doesn’t have to be depressing or painful. It can be quick, energizing, rewarding and safe. If you have the right attitude!

The first and most important attitude adjustment is this: your career (and the job which represents your current stage of career growth) is THE MOST IMPORTANT INVESTMENT YOU HAVE!

These days we’re caught up in an explosion of information about asset portfolios, money management, and financial planning. We’re being taught to value responsible investing and prudent concern for the future.

That’s great. But where does the fuel for this financial machine come from? YOUR JOB, of course.

Yet how many of us spend even a fraction of the time protecting our career path investment as we spend worrying about financial investments, or even planning a vacation?

Your career path investment is easily as important as getting ready for any retirement program. It’s definitely the equal of long-term financial planning. In fact, without a long-term focus on your career path none of the other planning means anything.

So, what should be your approach? Well, there are 3 fun steps that can help you adjust your attitude.

1.Assess your many strengths, capabilities and assets. You’ve acquired many new talents over the years both on the job and outside it. They can point you in some exciting new directions.

2.Explore the unique opportunities that are emerging in both traditional and new industries. Make Google your friend.

3.Put together a portfolio of career options. Let your imagination and investigation suggest several options that could be right. You might be surprised at the different directions that can open up.

Look. Like everything else in life our career path doesn’t stay the same. It’s constantly evolving, whether we like it or not. Recognizing this can help you go a long way to an exciting future!

Paul Bowley manages EEI, the world-class pioneer in alternative job search techniques and innovative e-business strategies . . . since 1985. Check out THE WORLD’S FASTEST JOB SEARCH PLAN! And grab our stunning FREE REPORT! http://www.fastest-job-search.com

Your employer is learning the hard way!

Here’s a job change alert that can make a big difference to you and your employer. More and more organizations are acknowledging that they better find ways to keep you happy!

Why?

Well, experienced and talented workers are entertaining offers from someone else. So, your employer (like most others) is probably scrambling to find ways to retain valuable employees before the exodus.

And things aren’t getting any easier for employers. Here’s what your employer has found. A recent Harris and Associates survey shows that more than 50 percent of workers expect to change jobs within the next five years!

Furthermore, rapid staff turnover is expected to escalate. That means that just when companies are devoting more time to finding new talent, they have to find ways to encourage current employees to stay.

Managers can no longer afford to take for granted the steady, productive employee who is a good, if unrecognized quality performer. Sadly, employees report, they have been provided very little by way of mentoring or appreciation. So, managers are contributing, often unwittingly, to the turnover.

The good news is that, if you are considering a job or career change you can make this dynamic work in your favor in two ways:

1. If 50% of your fellow employees are contemplating a job or career change in the next five years, so are 50% in other organizations. This spells opportunity for you.

2. You have added leverage to upgrade your job status both within your own organization as well as in a prospective new work environment.

The secret to using these changes effectively is to always know what your options are.

So, you want to stay on top of the ever-changing job marketplace. Don’t miss out on critical career news and innovative job change alerts. Stay informed! These days it’s so easy to have immediate access to current trends and strategies. The internet is you best friend. And knowledge is power.

Remember, your current job and future career advancement provides the fuel that drives your lifestyle. If you don’t believe that, check out the sometimes catastrophic impact of losing your job. It pays to be well-informed about the current job marketplace . . . and your status within your own organization.

That means you can have a leg up on your employer and take advantage of their need to retain valuable employees. Look, you want to nurture your job status and career growth like you would an investment. The escalation of staff turnover is another workforce dynamic that can work for you!

Paul Bowley manages EEI, the world-class pioneer in alternative job search techniques and innovative e-business strategies . . . since 1985. Check out THE WORLD’S FASTEST JOB SEARCH PLAN! And grab our stunning FREE REPORT! http://www.fastest-job-search.com