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Today’s Ebook – The Five Secrets to Boost Your Job Search

 Chris McClelland | RSS | Fri, Nov 13 2009 | 0 Comments

Today’s featured ebook download is The Five Secrets to Boost Your Job Search (827 KB, 36 pg) – I want to tell you a personal story and share the 5 Secrets to Boost Your Job Search in a tough economy. I’ve learned the hard way. Although your background is different from mine, I am sure you will find job-hunting tips that will cut your job searching time in half. You’ll learn how to write a killer resume and get your resume picked from a stack of hundreds

What you can learn from this ebook

For a guaranteed approach to finding a job, you have to see where you’re going. To see where you’re going you need a map. But not just any map. You want a proven job search blueprint and a methodology you can trust.

And for that, this field-tested Job Search Blueprint is exactly the system you need.

I know that now. After 32 years of coaching individuals and consulting Fortune 500 companies. But I didn’t always realize just how important this was.

You see… things were not laid out so clearly when I got started in Germany in 1972.

I want to tell you a personal story and share the 5 Secrets to Boost Your Job Search in a tough economy. I’ve learned the hard way. Although your background is different from mine, I am sure you will find job-hunting tips that will cut your job searching time in half. You’ll learn how to write a killer resume and get your resume picked from a stack of hundreds. You will discover how to prepare and how to ace any job interview.

If you don’t have time to read, you can start now and find the job that’s right for you. Just use the action blueprint at the end – and then come back and have a good read. But I think you’re going to
enjoy reading this Special Report and learning how to find the job that’s right for you – especially in this challenging time.

Find timesaving tips and visual blueprints so you will know exactly what to do and what steps to take to get fast results.

Now, I recommend you print out this entire report – so you can highlight key ideas as you go along. So, get yourself a good cup of tea or coffee, and let’s jump in.

To download this ebook, or any of our current ebooks, please visit the ebook page where you may choose the ebook(s) you wish to download. *Download an ebook by clicking on it’s title.*

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The Pitch – Would you start your own business if you couldn’t find work?

 Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Fri, Sep 11 2009 | 0 Comments

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Would you start your own business if you couldn’t find work?

Question:

If you are one of the millions of unemployed people in the United States (or anywhere else in the world) would you try to start your own business in order to make work for yourself?

Answer:

While this website didn’t exactly start out that way, since I finished college and had a hard time finding a job this has become my full time job. I even realized that I was worth more writing for the site than I was working full time at the department store. That basically means it would cost more for us to hire someone to write as much as I do a week than I was making working there.

I really enjoy working on this site and really hope it can go on for awhile.

Have an idea or want us to use your pitch in the next issue? Then, make a submission on The Pitch Page.

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New Student Loan goes into effect today!

 Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Wed, Jul 01 2009 | 0 Comments

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It looks like repaying student loans could be getting a bit easier. Beginning this week, those with federal student loans can apply for a program that is offered by the Department of Education that reduces or caps the monthly payments based on income and also forgives any remaining balances after 25 years.

There is a calculator at http://www.ibrinfo.org to help any borrowers determine if they are eligible for the plan.

The program comes from the Cost Reduction and Access Act signed into law in 2007 from the Education Department. The Act authorized the creation of the repayment plan for Federal Family Education Loans and Direct Loan borrowers for those who borrow Stafford and PLUS loans.

So, the Act makes monthly payment amount to less than 10% of income for the 1 million people that are expected to enroll in the program. Payments wouldn’t exceed 15% of any income above $16K a year. Those who earn less than $16K would not have to make monthly payments.

This is a great program for those graduating colleges now simply because it has become harder and harder for new graduates to afford their loans after the deferment period for their loans. As of right now, no matter what, the new graduate has to begin paying back their loans after the deferment period, even if they haven’t had any luck finding a job. So this Act will help those.

With the unemployment rates at the highs it is now and new graduates graduating college with more debt than ever this could really help some people out. If I am unable to find a job, I know that it will definitely help me out.

After I finish this post up, I’m headed over to that website listed above to check my eligibility. I only have one private loan for less than $1,500 and the rest of my loans were Federal Stafford loans (mainly subsidized).

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Some job markets for new grads

 Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Mon, May 18 2009 | 5 Comments

So you just graduated college and you’re having a very difficult time finding a job in this job market, what are you going to do? What are the best markets to try to find work in the current economy?

In a recent Business Week article, writer Prashant Gopal, tries to answer these questions.

The graduating Generation Y job seekers have an advantage over others because they are young, single and familiar and comfortable with technology. For these reasons, they are more likely to be able to move and work long hours. They are also less expensive to employers, with both labor cost and health insurance (overall). One would think that with all these benefits, Gen Y job seekers would find work easily because that is what employers are looking for.

Well, this is obviously not the case today. Right now, graduates are having a very difficult time finding work even with all the benefits listed.

There are a few fields, however, that new grads are having a bit more luck in.

Many twentysomethings are having a bit of luck making their own work. Taking their strengths into account, new grads are starting more online businesses. When starting a business, you can expect a few things:
- You will work long hours
- You will have to be mobile
- You must know technology well and be fluent in more than just Microsoft Word.
Some other job markets that is typically dominated by twenty somethings and recent college graduates include:

1) The Airline Industry – With jobs like flight engineers and aerospace engineers, these jobs require more professional and trained employees.

2) Banking – Yes, bank tellers and analysts are some of the jobs open and surprisingly Utah is the best place to get into this field..

3) Retail Stores – Retail sales is where many business, particularly marketing, students end up after graduation.

4) Computer and electronics – It is always easy to deem the electronic and information technology field as a field that is particular to new graduates. The youngest job seekers have always been the ones that are more likely to know the most about advancements in technology.

5) Education

6) Government jobs in DC – The District of Columbia has a high median salary for those under 30.
At just over $55,000, the median salary of government jobs for those under the age of 30 keeps new grads interested in DC.

7) Hospitals – Jobs in nursing offer high median salaries for new graduates and the jobs are often plentiful right out of college.

Of course most of these jobs still aren’t hiring at the rate that people are graduating college. There are still a lot of issues surrounding the fact that more people are graduating than there are jobs.

So, when you graduate there may have to be a little bit of settling when it comes to just paying the bills.

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Just to reiterate…

 Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Wed, Mar 04 2009 | 0 Comments

I know that things are going to be bad for me when I finally graduate college this summer and begin job hunting. I know that my chances of finding a job in my field are slim, most of the time, new marketing grads end up doing sales anyway, and I was ok with that. The problem is now that those jobs are getting harder and harder to come by.

Just when I had put the thought into the back of my mind, up pops Yahoo! News saying “Job forecast for new college grads grim.” Well, I thought, there goes that 10 minutes of thoughts not surrounding my future.

I’ve spent four years in school wondering exactly what they’re trying to teach us and finally this semester it was all put together. All my classes are focused on implementing what we’ve learned rather than being talked at. The thing is, I really enjoy my major and am actually really disappointed about not likely finding a job in my field. P.S. living in Mississippi probably doesn’t help.

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