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.

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Expanding your Network

While RelationshipSecure is a powerful tool for maintaining your existing relationships, other companies have developed technology to help you expand your network of contacts. These concepts aren't mutually exclusive: in fact, it makes sense that you'd want to keep in touch with people so that relationship won't have gone cold by time you need to ask them for an introduction, a job, a meeting, etc.

LinkedIn.com is one of most popular services for expanding your network by getting introduced to other people who can help you move ahead in your career. How it works is this: you enter your contacts' email addresses or import them from Outlook. LinkedIn then gives you a window into people your contacts know and depending on their privacy settings, ability to contact people who may be able to help you. LinkedIn.com is most popular among executives and other high-level professionals because of exclusive nature of their service and its powerful privacy features.

Ryze.com is another service similar to LinkedIn.com, but with fewer privacy controls. It is not as popular among executives but it's worth checking out, especially if you want to network with people who aren't in LinkedIn's demographic.

Reaching Recruiting Contacts

While these tools provide a powerful way for you to tap your existing networking resources, it may be case that you have to reach out of your network to find someone who can help you. I recommend using a service like ResumeArrow.com to get your resume in front of recruiters and employers you wouldn't be able to reach otherwise.