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Assessment and Resume Development  Order Now! Module I of the Complete Job Search and Career Change Process addresses your market-readiness to seek new employment.  Issues that will determine you success are: Your particular orientation to change – How do you feel about making changes in your life?  Are you a risk taker?  How are you at initiating new relationships?  What about follow-through? And what is your “learning quotient?” What does it really take to make a successful job or career change? – Capitalize on over 25 years of research and learn how the most successful people in America have transitioned from job to job, and career to career, and consistently moved up the financial ladder while securing better positions. Know yourself: Your Personal Assessment – How to Turn weaknesses into Strengths. - Most people get into their first jobs either by accident, parental expectation, or by focusing purely on money.  Consequently, job dissatisfaction is high (well over 80%), and thoughts about job and career change are a chief concern for those over 30 years of age.  Our Personal Assessment Testing process (utilized throughout most fortune 500 companies) will give you answers to questions related to: Maximizing Your Strengths?  Developing Your “Growing Edges.”  Appropriate Career Focus; Communication Style; Decision Making; Problem Solving; and Managing Conflict and Change. Your Resume – The Most Important Document You Will Ever Write!  - Your resume is the instrument that gets you in the door.  It needs to be well designed and well written.  Our design and style have been recognized as the industry standard by Human Resources departments and Executive Search firms nationwide.  Your resume will not only focus on where you have been, but on the expertise you bring to a future employer…and it can easily be understood within 10 seconds.  “It is a top-notch marketing tool that has clearly defined my professional focus and opened many doors, ” says a former school teacher- turned-high-tech-professional.  Market Research Order Now! Module II of the Complete Job Search and Career Change Process addresses your focus and understanding of how the job market works.  From this module you will gain valuable insights into: The Formal Market – If you are like most people, you have heard that most of the available jobs are never advertised….but you may not understand why.  This module not only explains why this is true, but also shows you how to use this knowledge to your best advantage.  With this new understanding you can get “a leg up” on all other competition while positively influencing the hiring managers with your newfound business savvy.  The Informal Market – Most people have difficulty initiating new relationships.  When looking for something important, we tend to take the easy way out.  We go to newspapers, the yellow pages, or we seek the efforts of professionals practiced in the art of research and discovery.  But the informal market is rich with people willing to help, if you know what you want; do your research; and know how to ask. Your Marketing Plan – This plan enables you to target the maximum positions and companies in your area or region of choice.  Covered in the Marketing Plan are areas such as: industries to explore, questions to ask, issues to explore, formal approaches, proactive approach strategies, lists of key contacts, plus much more. Research – Without research you are working from a vacuum, and nothing will get done.  It is important to know where and how to get the most important information that will aid you in your search.  Our section on research can arm you with the essential knowledge to make your dynamic presentation, and quickly convince your hiring manager of your initiative and resourcefulness.  It’s not the most qualified person who gets hired – it’s the best prepared.  Network Development Order Now! Module III of the Complete Job Search and Career Change Process addresses the plans and activities surrounding contact development and job research.  Since the best  jobs are unadvertised it is essential that you understand how to uncover leads, conduct dynamic conversations with professionals in the field of your choice, and learn just where you would fit in to a growing and exciting company. This module helps you: Learn how to access the 75% of the job market that is never advertised  How to appropriately contact hiring managers and learn of their needs Discover how your skills and background would fit in And how to manage your research and conversations toward the development of a job offer. Interviewing and Negotiating Skills Order Now! Module IV of the Complete Job Search and Career Change Process focuses on the unique dynamics of interviewing and negotiations.  While most people fear this process, the successful and properly prepared job seeker is really in the driver’s seat.  And fear becomes a non-issue.  This module helps prepare you by: Teaching you the dynamics of interviewing Identifying various types of interviews Showing you how to prepare for your meeting with your hiring manager Helping you to research the company and position Preparing you in advance for the difficult questions they will ask you Supplying you with questions that any savvy interviewee should be asking Identifying the “subtle and unconscious signals” when a casual conversation turns the corner toward becoming an interview, or when an interview becomes negotiations This module also addresses when you should talk salary or money, with whom you should discuss it, and why it is absolutely necessary to negotiate.

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