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1. Your
Networks: Natural And Created
2. How To Design An Elevator Speech
3. Resume Redesign Guide
4. Change Your Career Now and Have
a Better Future
5. How to Indentify and Describe Your
Dream Career
6. Tips for Introverted Job
Seekers
7. Informational Interviewing
8. The Buddy System Model
Informational
Interviewing
(Richard N. Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute? Modified)
Purposes:
To screen careers before you change to them. To screen jobs before
you take them. To screen places before you decide you want to
seek employment there. To find answers to very specific questions
that occur to you during your job-hunt.
Who
Is It Done With? Employees. You only do informational
interviewing with people actually doing the work that interests
you as a potential new job or career for yourself.
Typical
activities: You get names of employees from your network.
Once you have names and contact information, you call them and
ask for a chance to talk to them for twenty minutes. You make
a list, ahead of time, of all the questions you want answers to.
Hear are some examples: (1) How did you get into this line of
work? Into this particular job? (2) What kinds of things do you
like the most about this job? (3) What kinds of things do you
like the least about this job? (4) Who else, doing this same kind
of work, would you recommend I go talk to? (5) Would you introduce
me to those people?
Mistakes
to make: Trying to use this with a hiring manager rather
than with employees who do the work. You are claiming you want
information when you really have a hidden agenda with this person.
They can smell it a mile away and you lose your credibility with
this person and with their friends.
For more information,
contact me at:
(919) 469-5775
www.lifecareerinstitute.com
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