254: Improve Your Job Hunting Skills
254: Improve Your Job Hunting Skills
$19.97
All of us DESERVE a good job. But, what we deserve has nothing to do with whether we will actually FIND a good job. In fact, the job market is stacked against us. In this week’s webinar, Larry Jordan presents the tips you need to know to successfully market yourself to find and land a good job.
Presented: May 9, 2018
Several times each month, Larry Jordan presents a live, on-line, video training webinar discussing issues related to video editing and post-production. For a list of upcoming webinars, click here.
Duration: 50:19
Download file size: 619 MB (Downloaded as a ZIP file)
Format: QuickTime movie (HD: 1280 x 720)
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SESSION DESCRIPTION
All of us DESERVE a good job. But, what we deserve has nothing to do with whether we will actually FIND a good job. In fact, the job market is stacked against us – and no one tells us the rules.
In this week’s webinar, Larry Jordan presents the tips you need to know to successfully market yourself to land a good job.
NOTE: Larry presents this session every semester to the engineering students at USC. It is ranked as one of the top lectures at the school, drawing hundreds of students each semester. Even if you are long-past being a student, you’ll find lots of tips you can use in finding that next gig or full-time job.
Learn:
- The reality of today’s job market
- The secret to job hunting
- Define the product that is you
- Market yourself
- The Campaign: “Dialing for Dollars”
- The Technique of Job Hunting
- Plan for the Job Interview
If you know someone who is looking for work, or you simply want to polish your own job-hunting skills, this workshop can make all the difference.
AUDIENCE LEVEL
This session has techniques that are valuable for people just starting out in the job market, as well as those who have been in it for a long time. It just requires a willingness to listen, then applying these skills to your own job hunt. This training is delivered as a QuickTime movie, no other software is required.
CHAPTER MARKERS
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- Welcome
- – Create three lists
- – Here’s the KEY question
- – Goals for today
- Confronting Reality
- – The background of hiring
- The Secret Sauce
- – “Who You Know” isn’t enough
- – Advice for students
- Define the Product
- – YOU are the product
- – Examine your lists
- – How we are perceived
- Market Yourself
- – The Challenge of the Bear
- – Key Rule #1 – Strengths
- – Key Rule #2 – Relationships
- – Resumé tips
- – Business cards
- The Campaign: “Dialing for Dollars”
- – Referral Marketing
- – Never ask for a job
- The Technique of Job Hunting
- – Create a personal network
- – Social media
- The Job Interview
- – Hidden agenda
- – Key things to remember
- – Negotiation
- – Tips on interviewing
- – After the interview
- Summary
- Questions and Answers