{"id":247,"date":"2015-12-02T09:56:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jeanbaur.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2015-12-02T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:56:33","slug":"all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A JOB!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody feel this way? If your job search has gone on for a bit, you may be wondering if anyone will ever hire you. In my Boomers Back to Work! Class we talk about obstacles, and there are so many it&#8217;s hard to list them, but common ones include: \u00a0age, salary, career change, not being up-to-date with technology, and worst of all, wrong strategy. By that I mean not conducting a smart search. So here are some quick tips to help you help Santa get that job in the pipeline (and if you&#8217;re not in transition, these are good to know anyway.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resumes don&#8217;t get jobs. They&#8217;re an important tool but are frequently overused. Have a good one and provide it when it&#8217;s asked for.<\/li>\n<li>Create a list of companies where you&#8217;d like to work. Don&#8217;t get hung up on openings&#8211;just list 10-20 places where you think you&#8217;d enjoy working. Use this list as a key networking tool and ask your contacts if they&#8217;d take a look at it.<\/li>\n<li>Have a networking spreadsheet or keep your contact list in a notebook. Follow up is often where the good stuff happens, so be careful not to let possibilities slip through the cracks.<\/li>\n<li>Ask for advice. It&#8217;s magic as we all love to give advice. This is much more productive than asking for a job.<\/li>\n<li>Be creative. Talk to your local reference librarian, reach out to some stretch contacts (maybe the author of a book you like), shadow someone in a job that you don&#8217;t know much about.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The crazy thing about looking for work is that it&#8217;s unpredictable. A strong lead fizzles out, while a so-so interview turns into an offer. Keep light on your feet, connect with others, search smart and my bet is you&#8217;ll be working in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. For more ideas, see my book, &#8220;Eliminated! Now What?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody feel this way? If your job search has gone on for a bit, you may be wondering if anyone will ever hire you. In my&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean","category-job-search"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j73q-3Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}