Strategies for Career Success

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Pathways Career Success Strategies

 Strategies for Career Success - Early-March 2009


in this issue

  • Recession-Proof Your Career

  • Résumé Critique Special Offer

  • Upcoming Workshop
 

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.

 

Editor's Note

Welcome to the Early-March issue of Strategies for Career Success.  Spring is just around the corner! The snow was almost gone here in northwestern Wisconsin and then boom- we got about six inches of fresh snow this week. I thought I was done cross-country skiing for the season, but thank goodness, I have a chance to get out again this weekend!

 

Several months ago I wrote an article on "Say "YES" to Life" and talked about how a couple of life changing experiences made me decide not to put my life on hold anymore. I'm open to trying new and different things. This week I took a pottery class. It was so much fun creating a piece of art with my hands and a pottery wheel. I can't wait for the next challenge! What are you going to say "YES" to in 2009?

 

If you live in the Twin Cities or Western Wisconsin, don't miss my no-cost presentation on "Your Two-Minute Pitch- The Keystone of Your Job Search" coming up in Shoreview, MN on Monday, March 9. See below for more information.

 

Included in this newsletter is a first in a series of articles to assist you in recession-proofing your career.

 

Don't miss out on my résumé critique special offer. Read below for more information.

 

Enjoy!

 

Joan Runnheim Olson  

Certified Career & Leadership Coach

 
   
Recession-Proof Your Career

 

This article is the first in a series designed to assist you in recession-proofing your career. The shaky economy may have you concerned that your position may be eliminated. If you're worried that may happen to you, why not consider seeking another position with your current employer? So where do you start?

First, learn more about what is going on both inside and outside your company. Keep abreast to what's happening in your industry, the marketplace, and your company. It's important to maintain your marketability, whether you're leaving or staying. So keep learning and growing.

To conduct an organized internal job search, use the following tips: 

  • Focus on three or more departments, divisions, or businesses

  • Research those departments, divisions, or businesses

  • Build relationships with 4 to 6 people in each area

  • Find out how those functions are performed in other companies

  • Perhaps take that information back to your present employer

  • Develop the skills you need to make yourself marketable in those departments, divisions, or businesses. 

Staying marketable and keeping in touch with your network is how most people get jobs. The same applies to a job with your present employer.

 

The above is excerpted from Navigating Your Career: Develop Your Plan, Manage Your Boss to Get Another Job Inside and is based on methodology developed by the Five O'Clock Club, America's premier career coaching and outplacement network. Joan Runnheim Olson, President of Pathways Career Success Strategies, is a Certified Five O'Clock Club Career Coach. 

 

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Résumé Critique Special Offer

Are you in a job search? Or do you know someone who’s in a job search? A polished and targeted résumé can help you outshine the other candidates. Remember, it’s the résumé that gets you the interview. With a résumé critique you’ll receive recommendations for improving the approach, structure, presentation, organization, content, and grammar of your résumé. This résumé critique service is a guide and roadmap for reworking your résumé yourself.  

During the month of March save $25 on a résumé critique. Regularly $100, now $75. 

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. Hurry- offer ends March 31, 2009. 

Upcoming Workshop

 

Do you struggle when interviewers ask, “Tell me about yourself?”  In networking situations do you stumble when someone asks what type of work you’re seeking?  Discover how your "Two-Minute Pitch" can give you the confidence you need to outshine the other candidates and promote yourself during networking. And get a jump start on putting together your own pitch.

 
What: "Your Two-Minute Pitch: The Keystone of Your Job Search"
When: Monday, March 9, 7 to 8 p.m.
Where: SOAR for Jobs, St. Odilia Catholic Church, 3495 Victoria Street North, Shoreview, Minnesota 55126 (www.soar4jobs.org)
Cost: Free
 
Presenter:  Joan Runnheim Olson, Certified Career & Leadership Coach,
Pathways Career Success Strategies

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Joan Runnheim Olson

Pathways Career Success Strategies

joan@pathwayscareer.com

Hudson, WI 54016

(715) 808-0344
 


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