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The Articles on this page have all recently appeared in EzineArticles.com pages where Peter Fisher is recognised as an expert author. These Top Tips and Consultants Secrets will throw a new light on some old ideas.
But Now You Can Also Submit Articles to the Direct-Articles.net Directory - Free Article Submission for Writers and Fresh Content for Webmasters and Ezine Publishers you can use for free at Direct-Articles.net Other author's work that may help your career change will also be included here. Let me know if they are useful - just go to my comments pageand let me have your feedback on any of them; included here for you are: Unexpected Career as Webmaster!
When I had decided that the only way to bring all of my career change experience and material to you was on the internet, I started to research how I could do that. The Internet Service Provider (ISP) where I had my broadband connection and my email offered me free website space where I could build my own website and I could FTP (???) it on to the internet. When I looked around there were lots of very cheap web hosting service providers. I wondered why...
Read the full story here.Redundancy or Downsized?
If you are handling a Redundancy, Downsizing operation or just "having to let people go" you know how difficult and stressful it can be. Everyone is affected in some way whether they are being made redundant, downsized or let go; or even whether they are being kept on (the survivor-guilt syndrome).
Read the full article... Active Retirement May Be Your Answer
Don't let retirement be forced on you or think you have to continue in a job you dislike because the Pensions Industry has messed up. Active retirement might be the answer when all you actually want to do is stop what you’ve been doing but not "hang up your boots" altogether.
Read more... Choosing Your Options With Care
Want to be an astronaut or a baker or a carpenter? Perhaps you'd prefer to be a chef or a pilot or a successful entrepreneur? Choosing your options is never going to be that easy; what you need is to collate the things you are good at with the things you enjoy doing and then see where that leads you.
Read the full story... CV Secrets You Need to Know
Spending so much time reviewing CVs from people who are clearly in need of guidance is very frustrating. Why isn't it obvious to them that their CV won't work? Can't they see it's too long winded and boring?
Read more... Drive Your Career Change
This direct approach is no more and no less than a ‘marketing’ exercise to a specifically qualified target audience. It is NOT a mail-shot and certainly NOT ‘speculative’ letters that some people would have you waste your time writing. Compared to a direct approach letter, the speculative letter or mail-shot is a complete waste of time, effort and possible opportunity. So don’t do it!
Read the full article... 7 Steps to Your Career Success
Don't know where to start when you need to change jobs or even your career? It's just a matter of following these 7 steps that will mean you know what to do and when.
Read more... Salary Negotiation is a Sticky Subject
When you have received the job offer and you think the package needs improving before you accept the position, what can you do?Read the rest... Interview Perspectives 1 & 2
Every successful interview depends on actually taking part in the interview of course and if the interviewer – through incompetence or other reason – doesn’t allow that, what can you do?
Read the full story... Overcome Interview Nerves
Sooner or later, the interview invitation is going to say you are required to give a presentation as part of the selection process. And like most people you may dread having to do it. Here's how you can overcome those interview presentation nerves.
Read more here... Discover What You Really Want To Do
Working out exactly you want to do can be quite a challenge.
Read the article here... Telephone Phobia: Make the Phone Your Job Search Friend
You’re pretty comfortable using the phone. It’s something you do every day in your working routine; so why is it that as soon as you need to use it for career change or job-search it becomes too difficult?
Read more... Career Change Success Is Yours If you Follow The Formula
Simply stated there are only two things stopping you from making the successful career change you dream of - belief and action. Or in my terms: PMA + SMA = Career Change Success.
Read on here... The Life-Long Student
You may not miss eating Ramen noodles everyday, but you are doing yourself a huge disservice if you have completely forgotten every aspect of the student lifestyle. Students learned and studied everyday - something that is essential for you to do if you want to be on top of your industry.
Read the article... Retirement: Is It A Career Change Option?
Retirement might be the answer when you ask yourself "why do I want to make a career change" and you decide that what you actually want is not so much a career change as to stop what you’ve been doing altogether.
Read the full article...Interview Presentation Skills: Dealing With Your Nerves
Sooner or later, the interview invitation is going to say you are required to give a presentation as part of the selection process. And like most people you may dread having to do it. Here's how you can overcome those interview presentation nerves.
Read the full article... Reactions to Job Loss; Getting Past the Emotions
Most of us invest so much of ourselves in what we do that job loss can take away our sense of status and belonging, as well as the routine and support that work provides. With our job forming so much of our identity, it leaves us feeling disoriented and lost - but it can also be a first step to positive job or career change.
Read more here... Listening for Interview Success
Yes I know that we usually think of interviews as us doing all the talking, but the reality is different. At least 40% of the time we should be listening, and what we hear will have an enormous effect on what we say.
Read the article here... Your Interview Questions Are a Serious Matter
Of course interviews are mainly about you answering the questions they put to you, but at the end of your allotted interview time, the questions that really matter most are yours. This also means that the interview doesn’t just fizzle out but ends positively.
Read the article here... CVs And Resumes Sometimes Just Get In The Way
As a Head-hunter and Career Coach I see so many CVs and resumes that look as though they are designed to get in the way of what I (or any other recruiter) might need to know about you the candidate. They vary from pure meaningless waffle without any identifiable facts to lengthy tomes with so much detail they send me to sleep. And I persevere where many others wouldn't bother.
Read the article here... Overcoming Inertia in Job Change
It can be especially difficult to be optimistic if you are feeling a little hurt or bruised following redundancy, but even when you know you need the change it can be difficult to get going.
Read the rest here... Avoid Your CV Always Ending Up in the Bin
Cover Letters must grab the reader's interest so that they immediately want to learn more about the writer (you). Your cover letter is generally the first document potential employers will read. So your job is to make sure it introduces you effectively and positively.
Read the full article here... Self Confidence, Job Loss and Anxiety
Your self confidence inevitably takes a knock when you lose your job – whatever the reason. What I’m going to describe is my version of what I believe you are going through, how it affects you, how it may affect your family or loved ones and what you can do about rebuilding your self-confidence.
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 These are all published by either myself and other expert authors on career change and job search and are included as a useful additional resource for you. If you want me to write about or include other topics that are important to you please let me know so we can share them with other visitors to this site. All you need to do is fill in my comments form and send it to me. I'm sure you will have got some good new ideas that you can put into practice right away. Keep checking back - new topics are being added regularly. Want to go back to the start to remind yourself about your career change? Return from Articlesto Career Change home page.
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