How to Find Your Dream Job: A 5-Step Process
Book – PDF
This book outlines the 5-step job search process. The job search is a marathon, not a sprint. Here are 5 steps to take you through the process:
- Assessment of your skills and values;
- Building your personal Brand with a pitch, cover letter, resume and LinkedIn profile;
- Connecting to hiring managers in your industry through building and expanding your network; finding the hidden job market
- Differentiating yourself from the competition with results oriented accomplishments; how to handle difficult interviews;
- Enhancing your candidacy through follow-up, proposals, comparing offers and negotiating your compensation.
$19
Finding the Hidden Job Market
Online Course
Don’t have time to see a coach? Take this online course at your leisure open 24/7.
Learn where to find the jobs that are not advertised. Conduct a self-assessment including accomplishments. Create a job target map. Learn 5 ways to expand your Network. Learn two ways to reach companies. You will learn how to find the hidden jobs; how to use online job boards; how to create Your Job Search Plan. The course includes 5 ways to grow your network; two ways to write to get meetings; what to say at meetings; how to expand your job target map. It includes activities, templates and examples of emails, letters, and follow-ups.
Ten Online Courses to Get to Your Dream Job
Online Course Package
Don’t have time to see a coach? Take these online courses at your leisure open 24/7.
Finding a job is not easy. It is not a sprint that takes a few weeks. It can take months or up to a year or more. How did I do it?
I worked with a career coach. We met once a week for 5 months. Every week I had an assignment. First I wrote up all my accomplishments, my best stories, I showed result in the form of money earned, time saved, increased participants and course creations. Then I worked on a pitch to sell myself in a short 2 minute or 60 second commercial. Then I created a list of companies, non-profits, associations and universities where I would like to work.
In the meantime I worked with a temporary agency that got me two interim positions (full-time but no benefits). In the meantime I was working with my coach.
But if you can’t find a coach or don’t live near one, you can take these ten courses and get some extra coaching from me…and get the same results!
Each course has a power point presentation; voice over audio; sample resumes, templates, checklists, activities.
- Assessment: Your Strengths, weaknesses, values; Figuring out what you want
- Finding the Hidden Job Market – How to find the hidden jobs; how to use online job boards; how to create Your Job Search Plan
- Branding: No Such Thing as the Perfect Resume – 5 keys to the Resume
- Branding: Using LinkedIn for Your Job Search
- Branding: Your Two-Minute Pitch – How to write it, how to use it
- Connecting: Building your Network – 4 ways to build your network; what to say at networking events; how to follow through
- Connecting: Search Firms and Online Job Boards – 2 different search firms; how to work with search firms; how to follow up
- Differentiating: How to Ace the Interview – Typical questions; difficult questions; different types of interviewers and how to deal with them.
- Enhancing: Influencing After the Interview – How to follow up, how to stay in touch
- Keys to Salary Negotiation – 4 step process; 4 key numbers in any salary negotiation; perks and benefits – what to ask for and when