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Career Transitions
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Feeling stuck in your current job?
Want to develop a new career that will make you happy?
Identification Tools: Who you are and What you're about
- Strengths, skills, and talents and passions
- Acknowledging 'what you want to do' What you don't want to do.'
- Who's job do you want? Dead or alive? Fact or fiction?
Developing a plan
- "Who do you know?"
- Capitalizing on your contacts
- Networking, Developing new contacts and Building connections
- Asking the right questions
- Asking for what you want
The Interviewing Process
- Research your target employer, client, customer
- Preparation: Positioning yourself effectively
- Wants and needs
- What do you want to know about them
- What do you want them to know about you
- Never leaving empty handed
- Be aware of your interviewer's interests, hobbies, collectibles
Following up
- Identify the gatekeeper
- Developing a relationship with the gatekeeper
- Send a personal note with a small personal token
- Keeping in touch
- Reinforcements
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Copyright ©2002 James Knopf
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