Plan out your career before doing anything

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You need a plan for your overall life and career that you are seeking to accomplish. People without an overall strategy for their goals never rise very high. Set a strategy for both your personal as well as professional objectives

Measure yourself against your own progress

Career Tip of the Week

Use your past and not an ideal as a yardstick to measure your careers. Most successful people are often the unhappiest because they constantly measure themselves against ideals they simply cannot live up to. A sense of inferiority creeps which is dangerous. All around you there are various ideals that you think you need to measure up to and that which you can never really do because no one can be the best at everything. There is always going to be someone better than you. Compare yourself only to the person you were before. Measure yourself against your own progress and forget about others.

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Dos & Don'ts of a Good Cover Letter

"It's too bad many job hunters are too lazy to write one" says our expert, because "cover letters are very influential and a well-written letter can grab an interview just on its own merit." Read Article CareerBuilder.com

Seven Easy Steps to a Freelance Life

By Kate Lorenz, CareerBuilder.com Editor

Being a free agent is exciting, rewarding and gives you carte blanche to choose your own hours and assignments. But standing out from the more than the estimated 10 million independent contractors in the United States can be a challenge.

"Some workers freelance while they look for a traditional full-time job, but most are freelancing because they've made a conscious lifestyle choice," says Ben Jablow, Senior Business Development Director for Sologig.com, a Web site that connects consultants and freelance job seekers with more than 60,000 contract-based projects. "They want to better balance and integrate their life and work and to be able to control what they do, how many hours they work and how much money they make."

Hiring freelance workers is beneficial to employers, too, because it provides more latitude to conduct their operations. Employers can hire based on specific skill sets for individual projects and outsource more operations, ranging from design and marketing to IT. This allows businesses to easily augment or reduce staff levels based on workflow and control costs by dialing up or down payroll and minimizing benefits coverage.

Are you seeking the flexibility and autonomy of freelancing? Jablow offers seven ways to help build your client base and fatten your wallet:

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Eight Tips for Spring Cleaning Your Career

By Anthony Balderrama, CareerBuilder.com writer

Ah, the arrival of spring: The sun is out and it’s time to get your act together. You can pull down those holiday decorations. Wash the layers of mud and salt off your car. Take those running shoes – that you bought last spring – on their first jog around the park.

This is the one time of year when everybody’s eager to improve their lives.

Unfortunately, work life rarely gets the same attention. While your home might be in order, you won’t feel completely refreshed if your work situation is a mess. Whether you have a job or you’re looking for one, here are some tips to make the most of your spring cleaning.

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Scouting Your Talents for Employment Potential

A realistic assessment of your aptitudes can help land a new job

By Eve Tahmincioglu, MSNBC.com careers contributor

You’ve all heard it before. Find what you’re good at and build a career around it.

It’s advice that makes sense, but not always. Not every talent can necessarily translate easily into a career.

Case in point. I got a letter from a reader named Karina from Hong Kong recently and her comments crystallize what I’m talking about:

“I'm very good at guessing a movie's storyline and my husband agrees that any movie that keeps me guessing to the end is one of the best movies we've ever seen. Are there any jobs out there that can utilize this ‘talent’ of mine?”

We all probably have a long list of these types of “talents,” but thinking you can get these abilities off the couch and into a great job might be a bit naive. I’m not saying it’s impossible. I’m just recommending that you keep your reality check meter on high.

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Stand Out with an E-Portfolio

Take a minute to search your name on the Internet. What comes up? Your MySpace page? An old paper you wrote in college? A court document archiving your arrest from college?

While some of these citations are worse than others, none of them are items you want to showcase – especially to potential employers. And believe me, they’re looking. Thirty-five percent of hiring managers use Google to do online background checks on job candidates, according to a recent survey by Ponemon Institute, an information and privacy think tank. Nearly one-third of those Web searches lead to job rejections.

“If an employer is going to be searching for you online, would you rather them find pictures of you at a party or valuable information about your experience, expertise and career goals?” asks Kelly Driscoll, president and co-founder of Digication, a technology solution firm.

Enter the e-Portfolio, the newest career tool in our tech-savvy era of job hunting. Not only will an e-Portfolio give you a competitive edge in the job market, it also gives you a positive digital identity when companies search for you online, Driscoll says

“E-Portfolios are becoming increasingly important to supplement, support and extend a résumé into a dynamic profile of an individual with not only descriptions of work that was done,” Driscoll says, “but actual examples that give employers the ability to learn much more about an individual before even entering the interview process.”

Want to learn how to hone your digital identity as a competitive advantage in your job search? Read on for a crash course on e-Portfolios.

By Rachel Zupek, CareerBuilder.com writer
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Worst Résumés Ever

In their years as recruiters, Jon Reed and Rachel Meyers saw plenty of résumés pass across their desks. Plenty were good... but some raised some eyebrows. Reed and Meyers kept track of some of the more bizarre entries and compiled them in their funny new book, "Résumés from Hell" (eCruiting Alternatives, Inc.).

As Reed and Meyers point out, the mistakes these job seekers made give us valuable how-not-to's for our own job searches. These are some example entries from their book, and some useful lessons for the rest of us.

By CareerBuilder.com
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Eight Résumé Editing Tips

Depending on how it's written, your résumé can make or break your job search. A professional, well-written résumé can have employers banging down your door; but a sloppy, mistake-laden résumé can turn off a hiring manager in a split second.

Proofreading is a must. Neglect doing it and you could send out a résumé with simple mistakes that could have been avoided. Before you send yours to an employer, follow this checklist to ensure it is the highest-quality representation of yourself.

By Jennifer Anthony, Resume Expert
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Seven Things to Know Before Writing Your First Résumé

There are many rites of passage in every young person's life. Getting your driver's license, graduation day and turning 21 are just a few. But another rite of passage can be even more important to your future -- writing your first résumé.

While it's not as exciting as learning to drive, creating your first résumé is a vital step in launching your career. The process may seem daunting. You have to put all of your best qualities on paper, make yourself look more attractive than the next person and completely sell yourself, all on one sheet of paper. "You have only a few seconds to snag the employer's attention," writes Seattle-based career coach Robin Ryan in Winning Résumés, (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003). "You must sell the employer within 15 seconds of looking at your résumé, or you'll lose the job." Here are seven tips to help you catch an employer's attention.

By Kate Lorenz, CareerBuilder.com Editor
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Job Hunting 101 for New Grads

Despite a chronic case of senioritis, you turned in that 100-page term paper, presented the group project for which nobody pulled his weight, and completed final exams. Now after surviving the never-ending commencement activities with your family, it's time to kick back and take advantage of some of your newfound freedom. Right?

Wrong!

The grim reality is that you're no longer on the Mom and Dad gravy train. The rules have changed and it's time to fend for yourself. And that doesn't mean waiting tables at your neighborhood cafe or serving drinks at your college stomping ground. You're actually expected to put your shiny, new, freshly-minted degree to work.

Fortunately, CareerBuilder.com found there's good news for the class of 2005. Sixty-two percent of hiring managers plan to recruit recent college graduates this year and one-in-four say they will be increasing starting salaries over those offered in previous years.

"It's a different job market today with more promising prospects for college graduates," says Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder.com. "Educated labor is in demand and 18 percent of hiring managers say they plan to hire a greater number of recent college graduates this year than they did in 2004."

In terms of compensation, 28 percent of hiring managers expect to increase the starting salaries for recent college graduates this year, and only 6 percent plan to decrease them. Fifty-nine percent of hiring managers expect to offer less than $30,000, and 26 percent will offer $30,000 to $39,000. An additional 10 percent will offer $40,000 to $49,000 while 6 percent will offer $50,000 or more.

With promising job opportunities, favorable salaries and plenty of free time, new grads should have no reason not to look for that first job. Here are the top things hiring managers look for when sizing up a candidate:

By Kate Lorenz, CareerBuilder.com Editor
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Your Résumé: Marketing or Misleading?

A résumé is a marketing tool – it should showcase your experience and qualifications in the most succinct and relevant way possible. And that often means being selective in the kind of information that you include or crafty in your wording.

But that doesn't mean you should lie. A survey by the Society for Human Resource Management found that 96 percent of HR professionals always conduct reference checks on job candidates, and more than half say they sometimes find inconsistencies.

By Kate Lorenz, CareerBuilder.com Editor
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The New Grad's Survival Guide

Congratulations! You got your diploma, aced the interview and landed a job offer... now what?

Starting your first real job is an exciting and challenging experience, and every new graduate could use a little guidance. Susan Morem, author of 101 Tips for Graduates (Checkmark books), offers these 15 crucial tips to help new grads survive those first gut-wrenching months on the job:

By Laura Morsch, CareerBuilder.com
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Job Hunting 101 for New Grads

In terms of compensation, 28 percent of hiring managers expect to increase the starting salaries for recent college graduates this year, and only 6 percent plan to decrease them. Fifty-nine percent of hiring managers expect to offer less than $30,000, and 26 percent will offer $30,000 to $39,000. An additional 10 percent will offer $40,000 to $49,000 while 6 percent will offer $50,000 or more.

With promising job opportunities, favorable salaries and plenty of free time, new grads should have no reason not to look for that first job. Here are the top things hiring managers look for when sizing up a candidate:

By Kate Lorenz, CareerBuilder.com Editor
Click here for Full Article.

Stand Out with an E-Portfolio

Take a minute to search your name on the Internet. What comes up? Your MySpace page? An old paper you wrote in college? A court document archiving your arrest from college?

While some of these citations are worse than others, none of them are items you want to showcase – especially to potential employers. And believe me, they’re looking. Thirty-five percent of hiring managers use Google to do online background checks on job candidates, according to a recent survey by Ponemon Institute, an information and privacy think tank. Nearly one-third of those Web searches lead to job rejections.

“If an employer is going to be searching for you online, would you rather them find pictures of you at a party or valuable information about your experience, expertise and career goals?” asks Kelly Driscoll, president and co-founder of Digication, a technology solution firm.

Enter the e-Portfolio, the newest career tool in our tech-savvy era of job hunting. Not only will an e-Portfolio give you a competitive edge in the job market, it also gives you a positive digital identity when companies search for you online, Driscoll says

“E-Portfolios are becoming increasingly important to supplement, support and extend a résumé into a dynamic profile of an individual with not only descriptions of work that was done,” Driscoll says, “but actual examples that give employers the ability to learn much more about an individual before even entering the interview process.”

Want to learn how to hone your digital identity as a competitive advantage in your job search? Read on for a crash course on e-Portfolios.

By Rachel Zupek, CareerBuilder.com writer
Click here for Full Article.