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May 2017
Welcome to the May newsletter showing you how you can direct your job search, manage your career, and even start out as a consultant. With content you can use now.
It's late spring now and time to celebrate -- we just had Mother's Day, and now it's on to weddings, reunions, graduations, as well as long holiday weekends away and vacations. Summer is almost here so plan some time off. But keep the job search going, for the good reasons listed in the article below.
You are worth doing the work you love!
- Joanne Meehl, aka The Job Search Queen -
Now celebrating
now 14 years
guiding job searches
and advising professionals on career strategy!
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Why do they
want my references already?
"I've barely just started talking with the recruiter but she wants my references already. I thought that came much later. Is this OK?"
There are career advisors who urge that candidates hold off on giving references' names until deep into the process. They fear the recruiter might be seeking additional candidates, for example, and "using" your references as such. Or even asking your references to nominate other candidates.
I don't think most recruiters have underhanded reasons for asking up front for references. And in fact, there is a good reason (for you): ... [continue reading here]
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It's summer so keep your job search in high gear (really?!)
Summer: a time to slack off your job search, right? After all, so many hiring managers are on vacation or are too shorthanded to do any hiring, yes?
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Want a new LinkedIn profile that employers want to find? Contact Joanne
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Congratulations, new grads!
Speaking of graduations, our
congratulations go out to all the new college grads. You made many friends in the last 4 years, you stretched yourself, developed strengths, had disappointments, took on responsibility, had fun, and learned so much. Job well done! And now welcome to the real world -- we need your talents, skills and energy!
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CollegeRecruiter.com names Joanne to Panel of Experts
Joanne is the Resume Expert on the panel. "I'm delighted to join other career/job search leaders who focus on topics such as LinkedIn, networking, interviewing, and others, in helping students start their careers!"
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts
- Franklin Roosevelt
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"Your career is the treasury of your life"
- Joanne Meehl
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Face2Face, Connecting with the next generation of leaders
- career and job networking for managers, Directors, VPs, GMs, and similar, in the Minneapolis area.
Next meeting: June 1st, featuring the amazing "Give & Get" networking and the Open Forum/Q&A.
The May meeting in our new location and the new format was a HIT so join us!
Useful Links:
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On LinkedIn --
Know a new grad who needs to learn about job search?
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An expert, and want to be on your own?
Are you a knowledge expert in your field, and burning to be on your own, free of the confines of corporate life? But you aren't sure how to do it, how to gain clients, how to market yourself?
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