Establishing Yourself as a Known Authority to Get a Job

Written by Scott Brown


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WRITING A REGULAR COLUMN OR A BOOK

If you write an article and you findrepparttar 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 isrepparttar 139054 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.


Visualizing Success in Job Interviews

Written by Scott Brown


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Pitching Your Background & Visualizing Success: - Once you understand whatrepparttar job entails and what needs to be done, you should mentally matchrepparttar 139053 tasks with things you've done inrepparttar 139054 past. - Start off talking about your strongest competencies, tying one ofrepparttar 139055 tasks to be accomplished with something you've done successfully. - You could start off talking aboutrepparttar 139056 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 ofrepparttar 139057 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 inrepparttar 139058 mind ofrepparttar 139059 interviewer that will help them remember you and make it easier for them to see you as being successful inrepparttar 139060 position.

For example, ifrepparttar 139061 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 plannedrepparttar 139062 project, how many people were involved, and howrepparttar 139063 end-users' productivity changed atrepparttar 139064 end (hopefully forrepparttar 139065 better). Then talk aboutrepparttar 139066 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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