Establishing Yourself as a Known Authority to Get a JobWritten by Scott Brown
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WRITING A REGULAR COLUMN OR A BOOK If you write an article and you find experience enjoyable, you might want to consider writing a regular column for a magazine or even writing a short book. Having a regular column or having had a book published gives you enormous credibility. It also makes it easier for you to get other exposure for yourself. Published authors and columnists have an easier time getting opportunities to speak at conferences, getting interviewed on radio and TV shows, etc. TEACHING A CLASS If you have a knack for explaining things, teaching a college class might be for you. Becoming an adjunct professor at a college and teaching a class about your profession also helps to raise your profile. The biggest benefit is credibility it gives you. As an adjunct professor, you'd be more likely to be given opportunities to speak at conferences, etc.
Scott Brown is the author of the Job Search Handbook (http://www.JobSearchHandbook.com). As editor of the HireSites.com weekly newsletter on job searching, Scott has written many articles on the subject. He wrote the Job Search Handbook to provide job seekers with a complete yet easy to use guide to finding a job effectively.
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Pitching Your Background & Visualizing Success: - Once you understand what job entails and what needs to be done, you should mentally match tasks with things you've done in past. - Start off talking about your strongest competencies, tying one of tasks to be accomplished with something you've done successfully. - You could start off talking about task they need done, then talk about how you did something similar before, then paint a picture of how you would do it for them, including action words to help them visualize you actually doing it. - Talk about symptoms of success your efforts will create. Could talk about a more productive workforce with people spending more time talking to clients instead of doing paperwork. This will help create visual images in mind of interviewer that will help them remember you and make it easier for them to see you as being successful in position. For example, if employer needs to migrate their systems from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003, you could first talk about how you migrated a similar-sized company a couple years ago from Windows NT to Windows 2000. You could talk about how you planned project, how many people were involved, and how end-users' productivity changed at end (hopefully for better). Then talk about steps you would go through to do it for them, being as descriptive and visual as possible.
Scott Brown is the author of the Job Search Handbook (http://www.JobSearchHandbook.com). As editor of the HireSites.com weekly newsletter on job searching, Scott has written many articles on the subject. He wrote the Job Search Handbook to provide job seekers with a complete yet easy to use guide to finding a job effectively.
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