Summary Sunday Get Ready For Your Job Search

Summary Sunday Get Ready For Your Job Search Preparing for job search requires some planning and making sure you are up-to-date with todays trends. Learn about interviewing blunders to avoid, where to go to look for new job, and more! These are five posts I shared this week and received attention, so Im highlighting them here! I hope youll take a minute or two to skim through these and if you do find one you like, please, share! Interviewing The Top 5 Embarrassing Errors to Avoid in Your Job Interview by  Robin Madell | USNews World Report On Careers Yes, weve all blown an interview. But if you learn from these missteps, youll do better at your next interview. Job Search Advice 18 Best Places To Find A Job (As Recommended By Career Experts) | Career Waymark 23 job search coaches, resume writers and people in the know,  chime in on where you should look to find a new job! Are you using ALL of these? Career/Workforce Trends 6 Tips to Capitalize On Todays Job Market by Nancy Collamer | Forbes This article shares take-aways from Collamers  recent attendance at the  Indeed Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas. Along with these six trends, youll also find  recommendations on how to navigate/benefit from the trends! The labor market has really, truly improved. The health care sector is red hot. Every company is a tech company. More people are seeking flexible work options. Boomers represent an important labor force going forward. The job search never ends. The Full-Time Job Is Dead  by UpWork | Medium This post didnt make the top listing, but it should! If there is ONE article you should read and ponder, it is this one! It is about how and why the 40-hour week is outdated. It talks about how Lyft, Airbnb even General Electric are transforming how they employ people. This sums it up pretty well: But technology is now changing the nature of work. The trend points to a new era in which most of us will work in multiple “micro-careers” at the same time, leaving the traditional full-time job behind. “Work” is likely to turn into a marketplace in the cloud rather than a desk and a chair at a traditional corporation. A free agent workforce will be able to make a good living layering a number of professional relationships, entrepreneurial passions and other money-making pursuits on top of each other.   Guess Who Doesnt Fit In At Work by Lauren A. Rivera | New York Times This is a longer article, yet well worth the read. Its about cultural fit, and according to a recent study, cultural fit is a top concern for 80% of leaders today.  As Rivera found out interviewing over 120 hiring managers within investment banks: professionals at all levels of seniority reported wanting to hire people with whom they enjoyed hanging out and could foresee developing close relationships with. (Right or wrong- likability is key to fitting in!) Hope you enjoy reading this! Like This Post? If you want to keep up with the trends impacting your job search and career, follow my social media accounts or sign up for my articles! Follow @careersherpa // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs'); // ]] Career Sherpa  |  Promote Your Page Too Visit Career Sherpas profile on Pinterest. Never miss the job search news you can use. Sign up now! Email Address