Job Search Tips: How to Revitalize Yourself During Your Job Search

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14 Tips to Revitalize Your Executive Job Search and Yourself

  With that all said and done, I am suggesting that in order to revitalize yourself and your executive job search you do the following:

1. Start by taking half a day off your executive job search this week. Back off. Give yourself some time to recharge. Leave the house. Turn the computer off, the phones off. Try one hour off a week or half a day. See what works for you.  Do something you really enjoy and that makes you happy during this time.
2. Make sure you are taking care of yourself in terms of eating healthy, supporting healthy habits., (in other words, not doing anything negative in excess) and make sure you are getting good quality sleep at night. Eliminate sleep deprivation! Experts tell you to go to bed at 10:00 PM at the latest.
3. Consider taking vitamins designed for stressful times.
4. Start to put some type of exercise back into your life, if you are not doing that now. (3 times a week if possible. Start slow and work your way up. ) (Consult your doctor first if you have not exercised regularly recently)
5. 1. This will have the benefit of giving you more energy. In addition it will improve your branding and image for your job search campaign.
   2. 8. Sign up to do some type of volunteer work in your community. You will be amazed at how much renewed energy you will receive in return in helping others that are less fortunate or in need. (I volunteer with American Cancer Society, Relay for Life of Barrington, www.RelayforLifeofBarrington.org for example, in addition to other volunteer activities.) [caption id="attachment_584" align="alignleft" width="138"] Volunteer During Your Executive Job Search - Relay for Life of Barrington IL[/caption]

1. Find someone that you can vent to aloud that will really be there for you and just listen. You need to reach out and make sure you are not isolating yourself.
2. Each day think about the 5 things that you are grateful today in your life.
3. 8.Get a couple of hugs from loved ones and friends.
4. 9. Spend some time petting your family animal. Take your dog for walks instead of the other family members doing this chore.
5. Remember to reward yourself for your accomplishments during the week. Celebrate the small and large wins of the day and week. Let yourself have a favorite candy bar or some type of treat for every face-face interview you are able to set up or phone interview. 
6.  6. Practice breathing exercises, mediation, listening to your favorite music, playing the piano, etc.  
7. 7. Get back to a hobby you have not done for a while. Try a new hobby you have always wanted to try but never had the time for.  
8.  Avoid all negative people when possible. They can be a real energy drain.  
9. Get going back to church or place of worship. Now that you are getting “revitalized”, feel re-energized. Let’s get back to looking at your executive job search. 
10. *** The above material is some special information that was not included in my newest executive job search book, The NEW Rules of Job Search – How to Land an Executive Job in the New Economy. There were 5 more chapters that I did not include in my recent book, that I am sharing with you in today’s blog post. This excerpt is from one my secret chapters, this chapter is, How to Revitalize Yourself and Your Executive Job Search. 
11. Have a good week with your executive job search. Feel to contact me at sweet@ExecutiveJobSearchExpert.com 
12. if you are ready for professional help with ramping up your executive job search results. I look forward to helping you achieve great results with your executive job search!
13.  Eleanor Eleanor Anne Sweet 
14.  Executive Job Search Expert Coach ™
15. PS TODAY”S Executive Job Search Action Plan: 
16. 1.Register for my weekly executive job search tips on this web site before you leave this blog post, www.ExecutiveJobSearchExpert.com  
17. 2. Go to www.TheNEWRulesofJobSearch.com  to find out more about my newest executive job search book, The NEW Rules of Job Search - How to Land an Executive Job in the New Economy. 
18. 3. Go to www.AskTheJobSearchExpert.com to submit your most pressing executive job search question. You will receive an answer with 48 hours via email on how to handle your current executive job search challenge. 
19.  4. Go to www.GreatInterviewQuestionsBlog.com for additional interview questions and suggested answers, in addition I suggest you register for the RSS feed for that blog. That way every week you will have the executive interview questions and answers sent to your email account.            

Job Search Tips: How to Succeed in Your Job Search

The person who succeeds is not the one

who holds back, fearing failure, nor the

one who never fails . . . but rather the

one who moves on in spite of failure.

 

— Charles Swindoll

  I KNOW THIS CURRENT LABOR MARKET is the most challenging one you have ever been involved in while looking for an executive job. Because of this tendency, it will take more motivation and strength of heart to succeed with your executive job search than it would in a more robust economy. The key to your executive job search success is to know your goal, keep a positive mindset, and never ease up on your intense commitment to landing that next great executive job! Follow my Executive Job Search Success System™ as outlined in my book (The NEW Rules of Job Search – How to Land an Executive Job in the New Economy) and you'll achieve that executive job success!

1. Have a good, solid core belief in yourself and your end goal.
2. Create strong customized, accomplishment-oriented executive resumes and letters for each specific executive job and interview you are responding to.
3. Create and constantly update your executive job search target company list.
4. Cultivate a strong executive networking base that you stay in touch with and also keep updated on your executive job search. Remember once you land an executive job to also stay in contact with your executive network on a fairly regular basis. Also remember to be genuine and real at all times.
5. Work on constantly updating and adding to your executive hidden market company list. This is the list you will use with your executive informational interviews and broadcast letters.
6. Continue to improve your executive target company, networking, and hidden market company lists on a consistent basis. It is from these lists that you build your pipelines for your executive job search leads.
7. Prepare in advance for every executive interview in terms of customized executive resumes, letters, company research, and interview questions.
8. Confirm that you are well-versed and comfortable with the strength of your answers for the hypothetical executive interview questions you have practiced prior to each new executive interview.

9. Remember to be meticulous with all your follow-up and follow-through following all conversations and meetings regarding your executive job search.

10. Do not stop or slow down on any of these steps in your Executive Job Search Success System.

Keep your pipeline full and keep working that pipeline. Remember your executive job search is not over until you have a physical offer in hand and have accepted and started your new executive job.

*** The above material is are excerpts from my newest executive job search book, The NEW Rules of Job Search – How to Land an Executive Job in the New Economy, Appendix 1 page 241-42.

Have a good week with your executive job search. Feel to contact me at sweet@ExecutiveJobSearchExpert.com i

f you are ready for professional help with ramping up your executive job search results. I look forward to helping you achieve great results with your executive job search!

Eleanor Eleanor Anne Sweet Executive Job Search Expert Coach ™

PS TODAY”S Executive Job Search Action Plan:

1. Register for my weekly executive job search tips on this web site before you leave this blog post, www.ExecutiveJobSearchExpert.com

2. CLICK HERE  to find out more about my newest job search book, The NEW Rules of Job Search - How to Land an Executive Job in the New Economy.

3. Go to www.TheJobSearchExperts.com to register for additional weekly executive job search information to help you with your executive job search and landing that next great job faster.

4. Go to www.GreatInterviewQuestionsBlog.com for additional interview questions and suggested answers, in addition I suggest you register for the RSS feed for that blog. That way every week you will have the executive interview questions and answers sent to your email account.

Job Serach TIps:Executive Job Search Expert Coach: Secrets of the Executive Job Search for the Over 45 Crowd

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Job Search TIps for the Mature Job Seekers

6 Advantages the "Mature" Job Seeker

Offers the Perspective Employer

(Your True Value and Benefit to the Employer)

By now you're probably thinking that if you're 45+ years of age, you're fighting an uphill battle.

But there are many executive job-related pluses that come with age!

1. Wisdom—Age brings wisdom with it. Because of your maturity, you are able to recognize both success and failure. Your executive experience can provide insight into the future.

2. Superior work ethic—It's a commonly accepted fact that Executive Baby Boomers possess a proven track record of good solid work ethics in addition to being dependable. They are also known for being loyal to their employers, often more so than their younger co-workers.

3. You have a mature attitude and life experience in handling various types of crisis on the executive job—Because of your proven experience; you have developed a good solid head when it comes to crisis and problem-solving.

4. Strong mentoring capabilities—You're a natural executive role model to those who are younger than you.

5. Less likelihood for maternity leave or significant time off for sick kids or their after-school activities.

6. An understanding of the importance of good follow-up, customer service, and developing a genuine rapport with people as opposed to establishing relationships via email. Remember that a lot of age is a mindset. "The majority of it is between the ears."

You will not be able to change everyone's mindset on the "older worker," but you may be able to alter the perception of quite a few people with some of the ideas shared in this chapter 14 from my book, The NEW Rules of Job Search.

Remember that you can impact 93% of your first impression during the executive interview. What's more, you can do so by simply improving your vocal and visual presentation. Thankfully, you have control over both these areas. To use this information presented in this post and chapter to your best advantage, you must get organized and apply its advice. Most executive job seekers do not know this, so leveraging this information gives you an automatic competitive advantage

Good luck in using what I have shared in this post to make your executive job search a successful one!

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should

rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings

of experience and the firm lines of character.

—Ralph Barton Perry

The secret to staying young is to live honestly,

eat slowly, and just not think about your age.

—Lucille Ball

 

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

 

Live your life and forget your age.

—Frank Bering

  *** The above material is an excerpt from my newest executive job search book, The NEW Rules of Job Search – How to Land an Executive Job in the New Economy, Chapter 14, pages 236-7   Take this information to heart. This is from my book, Chapter 14, Secrets to the Job Search for the Over 45 Crowd.

I look forward to helping you with your executive job search success in 2015! Take care, Eleanor Eleanor Anne Sweet Executive Job Search Expert Coach ™

PS

TODAY”S Executive Job Search Action Plan:

1. Register for my weekly executive job search tips on this page before you leave this page/blog, www.ExecutiveJobSearchExpert.com

2.. Go to www.TheNEWRulesofJobSearch.com  to find out more about my newest job search book, The NEW Rules of Job Search - How to Land an Executive Job in the New Economy.

3. Go to www.TheJobSearchExperts.com to register for additional weekly executive job search information to help you with your executive job search and landing that next great job faster.

Executive Job Search Expert: 9 Great Tools for your Executive Job Search Research - Part 2 of 2

Expanding Your Target Companies with Your Executive Search

9 Tools for Your Target Company Research – Part 2

Tool #2-9

I am suggesting this week, a Library Field Trip. Next, let's go over some of the various research sources that are available at most local libraries to use with your executive job search. Get to know the best research librarian(s) in your local library. Interview them personally.

Tell them about your executive job search. Then ask them to show you the best research tools they have, both in the library and online through their library website. You need to understand that in most cases, by physically going to the library, you will have much better and broader access to most of these database-oriented websites than you would by remotely accessing the library's website from home. That's because the majority of companies have created limited remote access to their databases for library patrons.

Some of the other resource tools you should find at most libraries, both public and private, are:

  2. Newspapers and magazines—You should look at the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Crain's Chicago/Cleveland Business, Federal Career Opportunities, Federal Jobs Digest, and Inc. to start with. Look up their various websites for online access.

Check out:

 www.newslink.org

 www.cnbc.com

 www.money.com

 www.finance.yahoo.com

 www.marketwatch.com

 www.foxbusiness.com

3. Trade Journals—There are specialized trade journals for most industries. Information Week, HomeWorldBusiness, HFN, Hardware Retailing Magazine, Home Channel News, and Real Estate Professional are several examples. If they do not have the trade journal you are interested in at the library, search for it online. In addition, look up industry trade journals, for example, www.specialissues.com/lol/.  

1. Local business journals and publications—One of the main national ones to check out is www.bizjournals.com

1. Major newspapers are another source that most people forget about in today's world. Don't forget that news- papers and magazines often have special issues that can provide a wealth of information. Within their pages, you can "mine" out great information. Examples would be "Top 100 Retailers," "Fastest Growing Companies in Houston," etc.

1. Books about careers—Most of today's libraries have a special section set up where the entire job search/career books have been shelved in one location. If that's not the case at your library, your librarian can tell you where they are located on the shelves.

7. Market Resource Firms through your library will be another best bet.

 www.aberdeen.com

 www.business.com

 www.Forrester.com

 www.gartnergroup.com

 www.idg.com

8. "Phone books"—Yellow Pages

 www.Superpages.com  (merged with Big Book)

9. Internet Libraries

 Internet Public Library— www.ipl.org

 The Digital Librarian— www.digital-librarian.com/

Remember to check out my blog post from Monday, February 18, 2013 for Part 1, Tool #1, Business Directories.

*** The above material is an excerpt from my newest executive job search book, The NEW Rules of Job Search – How to Land an Executive Job in the New Economy, Chapter 7 pages 114-115.

Have a great 2015 landing that next great executive job! I look forward to helping you land that next great job!

Take care,

Eleanor

Eleanor Anne Sweet

Executive Job Search Expert Coach ™

PS TODAY”S Executive Job Search Action Plan:

1. Take this list to your local library to do some new research for your executive job search.

2.  Register for my weekly executive job search tips on this page before you leave this page/blog, www.ExecutiveJobSearchExpert.com

3. Go to www.TheNEWRulesofJobSearch.com  to find out more about my newest job search book, The NEW Rules of Job Search - How to Land an Executive Job in the New Economy.

4. Go to www.TheJobSearchExperts.com to register for additional weekly executive job search information to help you with your executive job search and landing that next great job faster.

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PSPS Please contact me at sweet@ExecutiveJobSearchExpert.com if any of these links are not working.

Thank you for your help and patience on this.  

Executive Job Search Expert: 9 Great Tools for your Executive Job Search Research - Part 1 of 2

Expanding Your Target Companies with Your Executive Search

9 Tools for Your Target Company Research – Part 1

Tool #1

  I am suggesting this week, a Library Field Trip Next, let's go over some of the various research sources that are available at most local libraries to use with your executive job search. Get to know the best research librarian(s) in your local library. Interview them personally. Tell them about your executive job search. Then ask them to show you the best research tools they have, both in the library and online through their library website. You need to understand that in most cases, by physically going to the library, you will have much better and broader access to most of these database-oriented websites than you would by remotely accessing the library's website from home. That's because the majority of companies have created limited remote access to their databases for library patrons.

Some of the resource tools you should find at most libraries, both public and private, are:

1. Business directories—You will find that some of these are free while others are fee-based. Your library may have a subscription that your library card allows you access to. In some cases, you can log in to your library's website remotely and gain access to some of these tools that way. With some of the fee-based directories, however, you will have to be physically present at the library to access them.

There again, your librarian can explain all of these specifics to you.  

Financial and Business Directories

 www.CareerSearch.com

 www.Edgar-online.com  (SEC filings)

 www.Hoovers.com

 www.standardandpoors.com/home/en/us

 www.valueline.com  

Manufacturing and Service Directories

 Billion Dollar Directory

 Corporate 1000

 Directory of Corporate Affiliations

 International Directory of Corporate Affiliations

 Million Dollar Directory (three volumes)

 Moody's Index

 Directory of Manufacturers and Services by state

 Dun's Directory of Service Companies

 Directory of Consultants and Consulting Organizations

 Directory of Executive Recruiters   Technical Directories

 Directory of American Research and Technology   Research Public and Private Companies

 Corporate Information— www.corporateinformation.com/home.asp (Free but requires registration)

 Dun & Bradstreet— www.dnb.com/us/

 Securities and Exchange Company and People Search— www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html

 Million Dollar Database— www.dnbmdd.com/mddi/

 123 Jump— www.123jump.com  (global market news)

 Financial Web— www.financialweb.com

GrayMetalBox—www.graymetalbox.com/s1/servlet/com.scs.gray.StockLink?symbol=att  

Thomas Register— www.Thomasnet.com

Hoovers— www.hoovers.com

Forbes 500— www.forbes.com

Business Week— www.businessweek.com

Lexis Nexis— www.lexisnexis.com

The Red Book— www.redbooks.com/Nonsub/BrandSearch.aspx  

Venture Capital Directories

 Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources (library suggestion)

 Venture's Guide to International Venture Capital Startup Venture Groups (To uncover which startup industries are getting funding)

 The MoneyTree Report— www.pwcmoneytree.com/MTPublic/ns/index.asp

 PE Week Wire— www.privateequityweek.com

 Just Sell— www.justsell.com  

Watch for next week’s post on Monday, February 18^th, for Tools #2-9 for Your Target Company Research for your Executive Job Search.  

*** The above material is an excerpt from my newest executive job search book, The NEW Rules of Job Search – How to Land an Executive Job in the New Economy, Chapter 7 pages 112-115.

Have a great 2015 landing that next great executive job! I look forward to helping you land that next great job!

Take care,

Eleanor

Eleanor Anne Sweet

Executive Job Search Expert Coach ™

PS

  TODAY”S Executive Job Search Action Plan:

1. Take this list to your local library to do some new research for your executive job search.

2.  Register for my weekly executive job search tips on this page before you leave this page/blog, www.ExecutiveJobSearchExpert.com

3. Go to www.TheNEWRulesofJobSearch.com  to find out more about my newest job search book, The NEW Rules of Job Search - How to Land an Executive Job in the New Economy.

  4. Go to www.TheJobSearchExperts.com to register for additional weekly executive job search information to help you with your executive job search and landing that next great job faster.