All Ages Job Fair in Jerusalem, Wednesday February 10th 2010

All Ages Job Fair in Jerusalem, Wednesday February 10th 2010 4 Hiring companies, speakers and expert counselors will be at your service as Merkaz Hamagshimim Hadassah and AACI put on their first job fair since 2007. Update 05/02/10: Shira from the Mercaz sent me the list of companies that are supposed to be at the fair, see below. Who From the official release: “For job seekers in all fields (computers, science, medicine, teachers, researchers, pr, admin, engineers, tour guides, translators, etc), as well as students, those who recently completed the army, new and veteran olim, and Israelis, English, Hebrew, and other language speakers alike.” What Approximately 30 companies from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in the following fields:eval Hi-tech Technical writing Bio-tech Marketing/PR Education/hadracha Law Accounting Non-profits Engineering and more… And those companies are: Connect Hever JVP Software Incubator Animation Lab LawJobs Morningside Translations Jedi Media Group Shorashim CSWW Maof FXCM VerNet CheckMarx Upsider Relocation jobs RE/MAX Vision Dialect Worldwide Jobs Stern Engineering Etgar Matan media NFTY Etz Hadat H. Stern Jewelers Ramada Jerusalem Hotels Quest Pareto Eteacher Marksman Net translators ????? ??? ?????? IBC Berlitz LEAP The Jerusalem Post ACTL There will also be “career counselors, resume writing assistance, and lectures on the job market in Israel, job hunting, and other related topics. Information and resources for start-ups, small businesses and entrepreneurs. We will also have job boards with postings of open positions in a variety of professional fields.”eval Scheduled Speakers 5:15 pm â€" “Self Employed in Israel”, Ran Afek of Israel Business Connection 6:15 pm â€" “Hi Tech in Israel”, Jacob Richman of CJI 7 pm â€" “Tailoring One's Job Search for Israel”, Nat Gordon of Marksman International Personnel 8 pm â€" “Networking via LinkedIn”, Ron Machol of Israemploy Where Mercaz Hamagshimim-Hadassah Beit ArEl, 8 Gad St. (the old Ulpan Etzion) Baka, Jerusalem Map Bus â€" use the excellent Jlembusmap.com (click ‘Baka' in the left sidebar) to find your bus. Lines 7, 21 and 21A have the closest stops but the many buses along Derech Chevron or Emek Refaim are only an extra few minutes' walk. Entry is FREE For more information, call Shira at 052-6039116 or email meida [at] themerkaz.org When Wednesday, February 10th, 5-9 pm Why To submit resumes (have copies with you!) To show off your networking skills and meet company rep.s, to follow-up with on email and social media To learn about job search from the speakers and get advice from experts I will also be there with a table to meet job seekers and answer job search questions. Come by and say hi, it's always nice to meet in person. DON'T FORGET: as usual, remember to read my 35+ Job Fair Success Do’s and Don’ts a few days beforehand.

How to Get Introduced to a New LinkedIn Connection

How to Get Introduced to a New LinkedIn Connection So you know I am a big fan of FREE networking  on LinkedIn and I don’t recommend paying for the premium service. This is why you don’t have to. How to Get Introduced to a New LinkedIn Connection You can use an introduction to contact a 2nd-degree connection  through a connection you have in common. What I recommend doing is searching who your 2nd-degree connections are. Often the person you want to connect with is just one person away. You may be surprised at how many connections you have available to you at your fingertips! [RELATED: How To Reach Out To a Recruiter] I know right now I have hundreds of second-degree connections, if not thousands. So first in the search box, type a possible company you are interested in working for. Find someone who is a 2nd-degree connection to you listed in your search results. Go to the profile of a 2nd-degree connection you want to get introduced to. Move your cursor over the Down arrow in the top section of the profile and select Get introduced. If more than one person can make the introduction, choose who you want to make the introduction. Write a message to the person who will introduce you and be clear about why you want to get introduced. This message may get forwarded to the person you want to be introduced to. Click Send Request. Here is a sample email you can send to your LinkedIn connection: Hi  (name of contact), How are you?  Its been great to see how much success you have had in your career lately (or something that is personal that shows you have a personal connection and reminds them how they know you again). I am interested in setting up an informational interview with (name of person), one of your connections on LinkedIn. I want to ask her about her experience as a (job title) at (target company) and see if I might be a fit for the organization in the future. If you are comfortable passing along my introduction, I would appreciate it. I am also happy to chat with you more about my intentions and the opportunities I am seeking. You can decide whether to pass my name on from there. Otherwise, I would very much appreciate it if you could forward my message to (name of the  other person). Thanks for your help and please let me know how I can be of help to you too! Your name Send off the email and wait for your LinkedIn connection to reply!

Why Personal Branding is Here to Stay

Why “Personal Branding” is Here to Stay The term personal brand is one that always makes me quiver. The concept has now been around quite a long time, and ultimately is not rocket science, but amazingly enough it is still a concept that many people are challenged by. Whether it is just the term itself that makes you quiver as it does me, accepting the concept of personal branding and how to make it work for you is imperative in the current job market. What is a brand? From a business perspective, the brand is their product or service. What they are known for and what people recognise them for. Brands are what we develop a relationship with, something that is a lot of time a sub-conscious engagement with that brand that entices us to it time and time again. Think about the food we eat, what we drink, where we shop and products we buy. Each of these are a brand and it is our relationship with that brand that has us going to it time and time again. What is a personal brand? The personal brand is what we are putting out there to allow others to build a relationship with us. What is our unique identifier that allows others to recognise who we are, what we bring and where our expertise is? It is the bits that make people remember us; both good and bad. It is in how we present, how we communicate, how we define what we want to do and how we have become capable individuals in a role or in our field. It may be a brand developed through volunteer work, it may be a brand that drives our professional careers. Whatever the focus is for you, it is about being unique and authentic to our brand. Where can branding go wrong? I use an example here of 2 consumer brands that wanted to try something different. Let’s start with good old Australian vegemite. Vegemite launched a new product that they named iSnack 2.0. Relationship to the brand; none. Relationship to the product; none. Relationship with consumers; none. Outcome, back to the drawing board. More recently, another Australian brand Gladwrap thought a simple change to the design of its product, a design that consumers had been purchasing for years, would breathe new life in to the product and increase engagement with the consumers. This simple branding change was an overnight disaster. Immediately, consumers stopped purchasing the brand as they could no longer relate to it and it no longer represented the relationship that they had with the product that drove them to buy it time and time again. There are dozens of stories of where branding has gone drastically wrong for businesses. And this also can have an impact on individuals when developing their own personal brand. For individuals looking to transition their career, moving away from what people understand about your brand and what you now want them to see in your brand is challenging. Done without proper reflection, you can end up with a disastrous outcome just as the brands above had. You need to truly understand what it is you need from your brand to put in place something that will help with building that brand. How do I build my personal brand? Your brand needs to be strategic, it needs to allow people to build a relationship with you and with what you bring as part of your brand. When developing this, it needs to be slow and strategic. If your brand doesn’t exist, it needs to start with you developing your own understanding of what your brand is to deliver. This needs to happen before you even take your brand to the market. Once you understand this, you need to look at what is it about your brand that can reflect your purpose; how do you present yourself, what experiences do you need to demonstrate, who do you need to connect with. Working slowly is important in building your brand as it will allow you to redirect your brand if necessary without going through a whole reinvention process. Reinvention can be challenging and is not something that can occur overnight so it is best to avoid this sort of thing if possible. Why is personal brand so important to candidates? In the current market, where roles are sourced predominantly through the hidden job market or “under the radar”, your candidates brand is what will provide them with access to these roles. Building relationships using their brand and having a clear brand purpose will assist them in aligning these opportunities to them. Eventually their brand can become a calling card; one where people feel comfortable approaching your candidate as they know what their brand delivers and the value that comes with it. Your candidates brand is something that needs to be developed and managed consistently. Online and offline, no one can ever do enough to manage their brand even when it seems overly time consuming. The best approach to brand management is to ensure that they look at this on a regular basis and reflect on where your brand is at. Does their brand as it sits still align with their direction or are small tweaks required? Do they need to review their brand strategy to assist in achieving their long term goals? Is this something they may need to consider in the future? These sorts of questions drive the link between your candidates brand and their career and this is the reason it is so important. What their brand represents needs to be effective in demonstrating what they can deliver in their career. Whether or not they are starting out in their career, or you are looking at transitioning out of their career, their brand is important and the concept is here to stay. If it makes you quiver as it does me, get over this and ask yourself what value will my  candidates brand bring to me?

What Does Your Brands Target Market Look Like - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

What Does Your Brands Target Market Look Like - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career As a personal brand your goal should be to bring in just the right client into your business â€" a person or company who expresses mutual interest in what you have to offer. But what does that niche look like? That is where precise market research comes in to gather data and give your brand a well-rounded picture of your target market, which becomes a unique client profile. Your data should be as specific as possible. Think of it as a visual of what the ideal client would look like. Creating a profile of your target market is a fairly simple, and even enjoyable process. Your brand will have more clarity on their niche, which creates more focus and less waste in marketing to your audience. Here are a few steps you can take in painting the right picture of your client. How to create a client profile • Determine the demographics of your audience Research factors like age, gender, location, level of education, occupation, income, and family structure. This will start your profile with a more personalized view of who your target market is. • How does your target market live? It is important to know the lifestyle of your audience, which is referred to as psychographic data. Find out what they like to do in their free time as well as personal habits and places they like to go and shop in. • What are the morals and values of your community? There are many different beliefs people may have, and this can include what your audience personally believes, religious preference, societal beliefs, and so on. • Find the main problems your niche needs to solve Pay attention to where the pain points are of your target market. With this information your brand can offer the right solution that meets their exact needs. After conducting your research you should create a picture or detailed profile description of your target market for your personal brand. This can be a creative process for you and/or your team, and helps you see who your audience really is. This is especially beneficial when communicating with them online by keeping it personal.

How to Create a Resume For College

How to Create a Resume For CollegeA lot of people are out there struggling to create a great resume for college. It may sound impossible, but you can indeed write a successful resume without using any college experience in your resume. For example, you don't have to have completed a bachelor's degree, nor do you have to have finished your college work early.In fact, it is much easier to have a successful college career by using free resume writing software and writing a resume with no college experience. You can use resume templates that will be able to give you the basic information that you need to have in order to get a high job placement. However, using free resume writing software is only the first step to creating a solid resume.The most important part of your resume is its call to action. You want to make sure that you take full advantage of this and get your point across very well. Your call to action must be very specific, as you don't want to give them any excuses to not ca ll you back. By making sure that your call to action is very concise and to the point, you are going to be able to go through and make sure that you keep your readers interested enough to follow through with your resume.By learning about the student-teacher ratio and the types of classes that you will be taking, you can prepare yourself for how many credits to be able to fit into your college program. Also, if you can, you can even schedule the time to study for the SAT or ACT just to prepare for your resume. When you are sure that you have done everything that you can to help yourself succeed at college, your next step will be to organize your resume.One of the best ways to organize your resume is to use bullet points. A bullet point is just a summary of what you would like to include in your resume. It is typically placed at the beginning of the main text. This will allow you to summarize your education in a way that readers will easily read and digest.Another good tip is to be su re that you stay organized. Take all of your application materials, including your applications for college grants and scholarships, and put them all in one folder. This will help you from spending time looking for items while you are trying to find the proper place to put your application materials.Always double check your application papers before submitting them to colleges. Keep in mind that you will not be able to send these to everyone that you want to apply to, so make sure that you use your best judgment when sending them to each school. Also, always be sure to include your high school grades if they are available to you.Applying to more than one college is another important strategy. Make sure that you fill out your resume in the best way possible. There is no reason for you to get discouraged if you cannot get into one of the schools that you want to apply to, because there are plenty of other places that you can apply to, and your resume can be the first step to getting i n touch with one of these opportunities.

Tips to Employer-Proof Your Social Media - Sterling Career Concepts

Tips to Employer-Proof Your Social Media Tips to Employer-Proof Your Social Media Ive written in the past about being careful with your social media accounts when it comes to job hunting. The majority of employers today are looking at candidates social media accounts. It cant be reiterated enough that what you post, tweet, share, and chat about online can come back to haunt you.   I always recommend making your accounts private, but thats not even a fool-proof strategy because a screenshot of something can always be forwarded and things can be misinterpreted or misconstrued. On the flipside, your social media presence can sway a hiring decision in your favor.    The School of Graduate and Professional Studies at Stevenson University has put together a great infographic that outlines what to do on your LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter accounts to make a positive impact with potential employers. Lets face it:   if we know theyre going to be viewing our profiles, lets make it count. I think Stevensons advice for each platform is spot-on. LinkedIn is the go-to site for professional networking and as such, your account should be complete. This is a great place to include honors and awards that help you stand out from your peers. While Facebook is generally a personal site, do not be lulled into a false sense of security. Be careful what you post and comment on. Twitter can add to your credibility when done correctly. Tweet intelligently and thoughtfully. Do not engage in debates that risk becoming less than professional. Take a look at their infographic below for additional tips on each of these three social media platform: This infographic was created by Stevenson University Online

Accepting a Job Is Harder Than You Think

Accepting a Job Is Harder Than You Think Job seekers and employers certainly understand the daunting challenges of looking for a new job. And while filling a position is immediately satisfying to job seekers and employers alike, filling the position with the wrong candidate is expensive and discouraging to everyone involved. Although much has been written for job seekers and employers on the topic of how to find a new job, very little has been written on how to accept a new job. This is where the accompanying infographic, The Ultimate Guide to Accepting a Job Offer, comes in. When job seekers and employers understand the proper steps of the acceptance process, the result is a much better fit and a far greater likelihood of successful and mutually rewarding long-term employment. In particular, when all the details of a job offer are reviewed carefully, the candidate has a clear understanding of what he or she will be getting into. This greatly reduces the chance of surprises cropping up that cause the new hire to become disenchanted or leave the organization soon after starting. Another critical aspect of the acceptance process is negotiation. When negotiations are handled professionally, the result is a new employee who starts the job in the best possible frame of mind, and an employer who feels likewise. Poorly executed negotiations leave one side (or both sides) feeling unhappy, or even worse, cause a great candidate to get away. Bottom line: Don’t stop working when a job offer comes through. Instead, learn the details of accepting a job, and make the most of the opportunity. The Ultimate Guide To Accepting A Job Offer from Advanced Resources