Selling Yourself to a Prospective Employer
by Rick Flores
The job market environment for desirable positions can be very competitive. Make it a goal to positively impact all prospective employers you come in contact with. Take the initiative and promote the essential items in your work history and personal activities that make you stand out in the minds of a hiring decision maker.
Most of us are not natural salespeople. But, many of the top positions in all fields of work are won by candidates that are able to sell their strengths and abilities to prospective employers even though they may not be the absolute best applicant for the position. From the employer's point of view, filing a position is about creating a good "fit" for the organization with a new employee. Here are some suggestions in the job hunting process that are within your control and you can use to land that new position...
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Don't Blog Your Way Out of A New Job
by Michael A. Fleischner
If you've been sending your resume to one employer after another, but not getting any responses, it could mean you need to do more than just update your resume. In today's world of online social networking, it could be your blog or personal web page that's keeping the employers at bay by making you look unprofessional and undesirable as an employee...
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Cover Letters for Administrative Assistants
by Carla Vaughan
What Is So Important About Cover Letters?
In a word – EVERYTHING!
It’s taking the best of your qualifications and characteristics and making them enticing to the prospective employer. It’s a carefully crafted letter that leads the employer to the resume to see why you are the best candidate for the job.
The best news is that it isn’t that hard.
Competition for Administrative Assistant positions is intense. You have to stand out from the crowd in a positive, exciting way to ensure you are the one employers are determined to hire.
How do you make your cover letter “sing your praises”?
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PowerPoint With Punch: Do You Know It When You See It? Four Rules to Enhance Your Presentation
by Steve Singleton
Quality is intentional not accidental
All of us want to create and present great PowerPoint shows, but how do we know if we have achieved our goal? In trying to define quality in PowerPoint we are tempted to echo the famous 1964 statement of Justice Potter Stewart regarding what constitutes obscenity: "I know it when I see it." A substantial degree of subjectivity persists in any attempt to be definitive, yet we can all agree on a few essentials: your slides must be readable, clear, and memorable for PowerPoint to be effective.
In keeping with these essential principles, here are four rules to follow to improve the quality of your PowerPoint...
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