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 Strategies for Career Success - Early-July 2009


in this issue

  • LinkedIn Check List

  • Client Comments

  • Upcoming Workshop

  • Special Offer

  • Stepping into Your Greatness

Joan Runnheim Olson is the expert and visionary behind Strategies for Career Success, a no-cost bi-weekly e-newsletter for professionals, managers, and executives. Each issue delivers simple strategies you can use right away to create the career of your dreams. Go to http://www.pathwayscareer.com to learn more.

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Editor's Note

Welcome to the Early-July issue of Strategies for Career Success. It's hard to believe 2009 is half over! It's time to re-evaluate my goals for the year to see if I'm on track and make any necessary adjustments. How about you? Are you on track?

 

Are you on LinkedIn and not sure how to use it? Check out the "LinkedIn for Job Seekers" video series. Be sure to check out the article below which includes a LinkedIn checklist for job seekers.

 

Also included in this issue is an article titled, "Stepping into Your Greatness" by guest author Lori Bestler.

 

Follow me on Twitter and receive "Tweets" on    Twitter-exclusive offers with discounts on career coaching and résumé services. These special offers won't be advertised anywhere else and will be available to my Twitter followers only. 

 

Check out my blog for more career and leadership tips. You can follow me and receive updates as they are published.

 

Here's to a happy & safe 4th of July!
 
 

Enjoy!

 

Joan Runnheim Olson  

Certified Career & Leadership Coach

 

 

LinkedIn for Job Seekers Check List


Are you on LinkedIn? If not, what's stopping you? Maybe you've taken a peek at it but don't understand how to use it. Below is a checklist created by Caroline Melberg to help you utilize LinkedIn most effectively. Also, be sure to check out Caroline's video series "LinkedIn for Job Seekers."
 
Set-Up
-Update your Profile (100% complete)
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Update your Public Profile URL (friendly URL)
-Set your Status visibility to Everyone
-Ask for Recommendations (give some too)
-Add Connections - people you already know
-Search and join applicable Groups
-Add Applications to your Profile

Daily
-Update status
-Read & respond to Invitations/Inbox
-Review the Status Updates from your Connections
-Visit Groups, join discussions, read and respond to job postings or ask for introductions
-Visit Jobs and search for jobs, ask for introductions
-View other's Connections, ask for introductions

Weekly
-Search and answer questions
-Invite people you've just met to connect
-Post News & Discussions in Groups
-Give and request Recommendations

Monthly
-Create and Add SlideShare Presentations
-Find and join new Groups
-Review and update your Profile

Follow Caroline's tips to get the most out of LinkedIn. And keep in mind, LinkedIn isn't just for job seekers. LinkedIn can be an effective overall career management tool.

About the Author
Caroline Melberg is the President of Small Business Mavericks, a full-service Marketing Company specializing in Web Design & Development Services and Social Media Website Promotion and Training. She believes that marketing is not communication – it’s a conversation.  She would love to hear from you at 952-473-1007, by e-mail at: caroline@melberg.com, or via her website at: www.SmallBusinessMavericks.com.

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Upcoming Workshop

 

Women & Leadership: What it Takes to Lead & Succeed

 

The statistics are staggering! Women make up about 50% of the nation's workforce, yet only 2% are CEO's at Fortune 500 companies. What unique obstacles do women face, both getting into and being successful in a leadership role? Uncover what those challenges are and learn how to overcome them. Discover what qualities are needed to succeed as a leader in today's marketplace. And finally, get started designing an action plan to put you on the path to leadership success!  

 

Friday, July 17, 2009

8:30 to 10:30 a.m. 

Century College, White Bear Lake, MN

Call 651-779-5788  to register.

$39

 

For other scheduled workshops, click here.

Are you an Emerging Leader or a Struggling Seasoned Leader?

Learn your preferred leadership style and get started on developing a plan to become a more effective leader. By completing the Work Behavior Inventory coupled with a 1:1 power-hour coaching session you can:

- Focus and guide your leadership development efforts.

- Pinpoint specific strengths that may help advance your career.

- Identify areas for training and skill enhancement.

- Identify work environments that may allow you to be most successful.

- Help guide career choice and transition decisions. 

For the month of July, I am offering this special for $150, a savings of $50!

Schedule your session today! Call Joan Runnheim Olson, Certified Career & Leadership Coach, Pathways Career Success Strategies, at 715-808-0344 or email joan@pathwayscareer.com or go to www.pathwayscareer.com.

Stepping Into Your Greatness

 

by Lori Bestler

 

What is the biggest reason people do not succeed?

 

Lack of Motivation and Effort?

Lack of Positive Attitude?

Lack of Focus?

 

Nope.  Even though all of these aspects of success are important, they are not the most important quality necessary to achieving goals.  Instead, the main obstacle to success is "self-perception”.

How you THINK and FEEL about your self; your potential, your purpose and even your perceived value to the world is what will move you in the pathway of living your best life right now, most.

Your self-perception, which influences your emotional state regarding your self-identity, affects your self-worth, self-confidence, and promotes or demotes who you really are.  It also attracts or repels people.

Self-perception makes up a self-identity reinforcing cycle.  When it is framed positively, you move past fears, overcome challenges, and live courageously and fulfilled.  However, when it is framed in negativity, doubt, and a failure mindset, before you know it, you're stuck in a downward spiral of energy sapping, barrier blocking, negative self fulfilling prophecies you are often unaware of.

Perception is a form of psychology, a neurological process of acquiring and mentally interpreting information from the senses.  Who you sense you are; talented, stupid, creative, a problem, is based on opinions which form self-identity deep within your subconscious mind.  Often these opinions are miscommunication and ultimately improperly form self-identity.   

From my coaching experience, I can instantly tell whether or not a client is moving forward on the prosperous pathway of realizing their higher potentials, growing, and getting better and better.  However, more often than not, they are moving backward on the pathway of a downward spiral, slowly dying from lack of self-esteem, misconceived self-identity, and getting worse and worse.

And sadly, for most people they often don’t even realize it is happening.

Instead of striving toward goals, your deepest fears, limiting beliefs, and reservations about what you can achieve and expect in life …READ MORE.


Your NLP Mind/Body Success Coach and Motivational Speaker,

Lori Bestler-Positive Change Expert

Gain the Power to Achieve-Find the Freedom to Overcome

Changing Landscapes of the Mind for the Health and Wealth of it! 

Certified Neurolinguistic Practitioner

Certified Stress Management Consultant

Certified Motivation Coach

 

www.mindscapesunlimited.com

Lori@mindscapesunlimited.com

651-464-9034

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