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Interview. Resume. Cover Letter. MBA- Understanding the MBA Degree. By Karen Schweitzer Updated February 25, 2016. What Is an MBA Degree? The MBA (Master of Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree that is awarded to students who have mastered the study of business. The MBA degree is commonly considered one of the most prestigious and sought after degrees in the world. Students of MBA programs study the theory and application of business and management principles. This type of study equips students with knowledge that can be applied to a variety of real world business situations.

Why Get an MBA? The main reason to get an MBA degree is to increase your salary potential and advance your career. In most cases, an MBA degree is required for executive and senior management positions. Continue reading below our video Play Video People who hold an MBA degree will find that there are many different types of employment opportunities that are available to them. What Can You Do With an MBA Degree? Types of MBA Degrees Where Can You Get an MBA Degree? MBA Rankings. The Best Job Search Tool Ever. There are a lot of super resources on the internet for job search help. And I will agree, it can be overwhelming.

This post, and the others written by the experts of Career Collective (down below) will help you sift through the data to find the most useful tools for your toolbox. My all time favorite tool for building a successful job search and keeping you on track is the MARKETING PLAN. Your Marketing Plan lays out the following: Functions you excel atStatement of your benefits (summary of qualifications or elevator speech)Market preferences (industries, geographic locations, size of company)List of target companies Creating this document is going to help you clarify where you want to go to prevent the “spray and pray” approach to selling. However, you will need to explain to your specific audience how you want them to use your plan which you have placed in front of them. Someone inside a target company:Ask to have them review your summary of qualifications/elevator speech.

Resume and Cover Letter Guide - Resume Skills. Use The Back Door | Solutions from Design Resumes & Thoughts from Julie Walraven. Photo by Evil Erin I speak with so many job seekers who are still trying to use the front door to find their next gig. It’s awfully crowded at the front door. I really think using the back door is much more effective. Front door / back door, whoa, what am I talking about – home construction? No, I’m talking about job search strategies and how to use the best and shortest method to get your resume and your talents noticed by hiring managers. Clients e-mail to ask if the online submission to _________ (fill in the blank with your favorite online job board) was done correctly. I don’t know since I didn’t do it for them and I didn’t watch them do it. online applications is still going through the front door.

So where’s the back door? Sound familiar? Who do you know who can help you find the person who has the power to hire you in the industry? If your only job search strategy is posting on online job boards, you will continually wonder why you don’t get calls back. So which door did you select? AvidCareerist. Do this to identify a job’s big deliverables: First, most hiring managers want to hire someone who works well with others. That’s Deliverable #1 in most jobs.

Even if they say it isn’t. Beyond interpersonal skills, I ask hiring managers the following questions in order to understand the big deliverables of any job: What would your new hire have to accomplish in the first six to 24 months on the job for you to feel as though you had made a great hiring decision?

What’s keeping you up at night? As a job seeker, before you have direct access to the hiring manager, how do you identify a job’s deliverables so that you can address them in your resume? Get a copy of the full job description before you submit your resume. That’s it. AvidCareerist. ReferenceUSA, a 14-million employer on-line database, is a job search dream. It’s an almost complete directory of U.S. business and government employers.

It is searchable on a number of fields, including industry, city, state, and zip code. Amazing. RUSA will return a list of employers that match your search terms. It will also let you drill down on each employer for more detailed info and a link to the company’s website. RUSA covers two of the three main sectors of the economy. How do you get access to RUSA? RUSA is very easy to use. If you’re a DIY type, watch this very good four-minute video to get the basics and then have at it: Fast Tube by Casper BTW, if you have a tip for using ReferenceUSA for the job hunt, please let us know about it in the comments section below. AvidCareerist. A Twitter Friend and I have shared these messages with each other this week: Twitter Friend: Is it a good idea to contact the person reviewing applications through LinkedIn (outside the prescribed application process)?

AvidCareerist: It depends. What are the circumstances? Twitter Friend: It is a position with the X Organization. I know who the hiring manager is. He’s a third-level connection on LinkedIn. What My Twitter Friend Might Do: It is a good idea to contact the hiring manager for a couple of reasons: To confirm that he, or his representative, received your application. Here’s how the recommendation might work: You call your first-level connection, Carol.You ask if this is a good time to talk for five to ten minutes.The two of you catch up a bit on your lives.You share that you have an interest in the position with the X Organization.You share that you analyzed the X Organization’s selection criteria against your background and that it appears to be a Match Made in Heaven.

By the Way. A little tool for decision making | Solutions from Design Resumes & Thoughts from Julie Walraven. When I am working with clients who are trying to make a decision about a job offer or between two career paths, I tell them about a little tool I use to help me figure things out. I call it my Pro / Con tool. Essentially, this is it: You take a sheet of paper and you make a list of all the positive reasons (pros) about your decision and then all the negative reasons (cons) for against the decision.

When you are done with your list, you put a value on each item but you think about each item individually and make the value a real number. Ideally, a table structure works best for this so you can see them in parallel. The above example puts a value on multiple things and it gives you the example of how to weight each item with different values. See the same example with different values: Only you can put the value on what you think is most important. Decision-making tool This little tool can be used to make decision about many more things than job search. What do you think? Photo Credit. AvidCareerist. If you don’t meet at least 75% of the job’s selection criteria, don’t put any more effort into going after this job.

Invest your very valuable time in finding and pursuing jobs that are better matches for your knowledge, skills, and abilities. BTW, don’t send this letter. They make recruiters do an eye roll because they’re pretty contrived. Nice idea, but hard to execute well. They are, however, excellent tools for job seekers to use in analyzing whether or not they should apply to a job. If you do meet the selection criteria, be sure that you apply exactly as specified in the directions. If you are applying to a computer, and you probably are, be sure that your resume (not your cover letter) contains each key word that the computer will search for to produce a list of applicants for human eyes. Done with that one to two-hour process? Ask yourself why you are corresponding with a computer instead of a human being. Is Craigslist A Good Place to Look for Jobs? | Professional Resume Services. How to Maintain Your Personal Brand as a Corporate Employee - Smashing Magazine.

Advertisement A strong personal brand is beneficial on many levels. At the core it differentiates the designer, developer, marketer, etc, from the rest of the pack within crowded disciplines. It functions as a self-promotion agent that works for the practitioner 24/7/365 ultimately ensuring this person becomes a magnet for new and interesting work opportunities. The foundation of a personal brand is initially created by consistently doing good work. However, “the idea of personal brand is often associated with independent practitioners”, as David Armano puts it. Many opportunities for friction As a corporate employee you don’t represent “you” out in public — you represent the company. These same corporations are only now beginning to comprehend the power of the social web and don’t understand the need for external “corporate ambassadors1”.

Finally, if the practitioner works for a less-established brand, there is a risk the personal brand will ultimately outshine the corporate brand. A Cup of Coffee to Relevancy | Personal Branding Blog - Dan Scha. It’s time to grab your cup of coffee and spend 30 minutes on some solid – but easy – action items that will make a difference to your personal online brand. As you add your cream and sugar, reflect on the general purpose of building a brand: to establish credibility and visibility in order to signal quality and reduce perceived risk from buyers.

Okay- let’s get started. Today, we’re going to talk about one word: Relevancy. The Google empire Google built an empire on that word. We use the word “Google” as an adjective a thousand times a day because of the company’s utilization and manipulation of targeted, relevant information. In order to build an online foundation from which your brand will grow, you’ll need to do a little research and capture what’s most relevant to you and your brand.

Once you know exactly where your pond is – and who else swims in it – you can then provide good, relevant information to the others in the pond. Define your words What are people going to rely on me for? Working Hard Is not Enough. Here's 18 Ways to Work Smart - by Du. All of us work hard in life – there is no doubt about it. We work hard in our jobs so we can excel at work. We work hard to maintain our relationships. We work hard so we can achieve the best results in our life. After working hard for an extended period of time, there comes a point when we realize that there’s only so much we can do by working hard. Don’t get me wrong – working hard is important. I’m a firm advocate of hard work – I can be quite the workaholic. However, when you have 24 hours a day, just like everyone else, you have to start working smart too (on top of working hard) to get the maximum value for your time and effort.

Get clear on the objective.