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6 Tips to Help You Get Hired

During our 14-week Promotional Readiness program, I provide weekly career tips for the students at Touro Graduate School of Business.  In the coming weeks, I'll address six points covered in a great article, 6 Sure Ways to Sabotage Your Job Search, by Nancy Collamer.  Whether you are looking for a new or promotional role, this article, and my tips, are a must read for the students and for you.  My tip this week follows on the first point mentioned in the article, “failing to proofread job hunting materials”.  To avoid this, step back from your materials for a day or two and review them with fresh eyes.  I also recommend engaging a peer, or a professional career coach, with excellent grammar and writing skills to help. You can read more about this in my blog postings on peer review and getting started with your resume review checklist. If you’d like to work with a career coach at Time2MarketU (yes, I mean it's time to market you when you write your resume), schedule here.

Communicate Your Accomplishments

Whether you are pursuing new or promotional roles, your ability to clearly and effectively communicate how your capabilities meet other parties’ needs and preferences will help set you ahead of the competition. One way to communicate this effectively is to highlight your accomplishments, in both written and verbal communications.  In last week's webinar with Touro Graduate School of Business students, we discussed how to communicate accomplishments in writing on your resume, and verbally, in career conversations with networking contacts and hiring managers.  If you struggle with communicating your accomplishments, this week’s tip will help. It provides two communication frameworks, and you can read more about both here.

Create a Winning Resume

You don't have to be a professional athlete to take away some great points from this article discussing how one ex-NFLer preps for a finance play, starting with his resume.  It’s a short read meant principally for the early career professionals who I’ll meet with today from Touro Graduate School of Business.  It highlights many points we'll cover in our webinar session, Resumes that Work! It may also help you too. Key points for creating a winning resume to help you pursue new or promotional roles - include a summary incorporating your objective, keep your document simple, visually appealing, one that highlights accomplishments and differentiates you from the competition. 

Show up Prepared

Woody Allen quotes that showing up is 80% of success. I'd add that preparation can make all the difference to our success in getting what we want and need when we do show up. Combining the two concepts, this week’s tip is to show up prepared.  It’s intended for the Touro Graduate School of Business students who I’ll meet with on March 10 for resume development.  They've got 7 more days to prepare for our meeting and can start with top tips from one executive recruiter here.  Next week, we'll explore putting those tips and more in action to pursue new and promotional roles.