Self-Help Resources
If you are looking to jump start your job search, you are probably looking on the web for what resources are available. You may be getting out placement support with lots of self-help information. If you are self-motivated and self directed, time spent researching and applying these skills can be very valuable.
As part of our career ministries efforts at PCM, we have selected a variety of articles and services that we have found to be very useful. We encourage you to review and study these articles, and hopefully you will start to see how finding that next job is complex and challenging in today's environment. We would also encourage you to take advantage of some of the group help sessions with experienced executives and managers to help build the skills you will need to find that next position.
Managing a Career Transition and Creating a Strategy for Finding a Job
This is a comprehensive manual for getting started in your search, including resume tips, networking skills, interviewing skills, developing a brand, and creating the important response to "What is it you do?"
Managing a Career Transition
Social Media - Making It Work for You
Fortune Magazine's LinkedIn
Unlocking LinkedIn
LinkedIn Strategies
Ten Most Effective Ways to Use Facebook
How Can LinkedIn's New Features Help Job Seekers
Interviewing
Don't Interview - Audition!
How To Become Pals With Your Interviewer
Creating a Personal Brand
How a Personal Branding statement Can Help Job Seekers
Resume Tips
Ten Worst Things to Put on Your Resume
Why an Objective Statement Won't Work
Tips for Optimizing Your Resume for Social Media Environments
Networking
It's Not What Grads Know, It's Who They Know
Perfect Your Pitch - Templates for Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch
Networking to Achieve a Positive Outcome
Job Seekers Guide to Online Networking and Using Linkedin
Advantages of Older Workers
How to Move Up the Pay Scale
How to Help Those Looking for a Job
Offering Help to Jobless Friends
Useful Links
http://chooseonpurpose.com/ - Excellent site, especially for new entrants into the workforce http://msn.careerbuilder.com/custom/msn/careeradvice/viewarticle.aspx articleid=2518 - Good Advice For Interviewing