As they say, “It’s a jungle out there.” A job search, particularly for the very first job after graduating college, is a tough adventure. If you are in search of your first “real” job and have said or thought any of these common excuses, listen up and learn. If you’re the frustrated parent or mentor of a new job seeker, pay attention, too. Get ready to debunk the obstacles to finding a meaningful first employment opportunity.
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Experience teaches many things including how to make the most of a first “real” job. As parents, relatives, and mentors, we want to impart wisdom — without sounding like Methuselah — and help our millennials succeed.
Here are a few tips to help get the conversations started. Use the list creatively. You may want to text one tip a day to your millennial, create a laminated card-size version of the first words of each tip, or post the entire list somewhere visible.Tagged With: Insider, Expert Knowledge
It’s no secret. We love Northeast Ohio. The North Coast is a great place to live and work. This is a real story, and we asked some of our friends to help tell it. We asked them:
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You’ve probably heard that saying: “A players hire A players, and B players hire C players”.
But does this mean you can’t hire someone who has ever made a mistake? Absolutely not. Or that you have to have a perfect hiring record or else you are a failure? Emphatically not.
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 70 percent of all jobs are found through networking.
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Having a well-defined corporate culture, i.e., having a good story to tell, is by far the best way to help you recruit and retain the people who can help your company achieve the success you are seeking.
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Finding your perfect job is not easy—even in the best of times.
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If you are in Finance or Accounting, or you’re an Executive charged with managing the P&L of an organization, you are probably undergoing a rather large increase in stress as you come to terms with financial conditions you may not have experienced before.
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The bad news just keeps coming.
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