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How To Close An Interview

Note that Peggy McKee is a recruiter of sales people.

How To Work A Trade Show To Get A Job

How To Search For A Job

Hi Michael,

I have 20+ years of work experience in Quality Control in Electronics Mfg industry. I am looking for a job now. Appreciate if you or your contacts could refer anything suitable to me. Appreciate your help.

Dear M

I can't provide any immediate assistance in terms of job opportunities
as I haven't worked in that field for some time.

However, if I were you I would do this

1. Go to the library and ask for a Scotts Industrial Directory
    at the Reference Desk.

2. Identify all of the companies that I'm interested in.

3. See if I could ID the QC Managers online or via personal
    or association contacts

4. I would try to get through to their voice mails.

Then I would leave a brief, very conversational but well rehearsed script saying my name, my title in such and such a field. (My name is Betty Jones, I'm a Quality Control Manager in the electronics industry).

Then, mention one or two key strengths or achievements. Very briefly. These are my selling points. Why would they hire me, personally, instead of any old QC supervisor?

Then I tell her that I am in the market for a job and would be very interested in speaking with her about that.

5. I would leave three messages over the course of two weeks and email
    my resume if I could get the email address.

6. Then I would call back once a month to let the person know
    that I am still in the market.

You have to see the voice mail as a mini-interview. The more relaxed, articulate and to the point you sound the more inclined the other person will be to speak with you.

Most people rush through voice mails so quickly that it is hard to make out their phone numbers.

Here is a blog about job hunting http://www.gm4jh.com

Good luck

A Useful Email Address Trick

Source: OtherInbox.

Every Gmail account supports "plus addressing".

Every email address contains 3 parts. Let's call them the prefix, the @ sign and the suffix.

In bozo@gmail.com, bozo is the prefix and gmail.com is the suffix.

You can add "+anyword" to the prefix.

If my email address was bozo@gmail.com, I could use bozo+amazon@gmail.com on Amazon.com and bozo+facebook@gmail.com for Facebook.

Then I could set my email software to filter them into different folders based on the +anyword part of the address.

Many websites, however, won't allow you to sign up with a "+" in your email address, including Google Alerts.

Age Discrimination

Source: JibberJobber radio - Jason Alba (host), Karen Katz (guest)
Topic: Job Hunting Lessons From the US Election

Since John McCain is 72, age was a major issue.
You can hear 5 minutes of the audio here.

And here are some of the issues discussed.

Point: Recruiters assume that any 40 year old worker who is not in an executive role is not a superior candidate.

Karen: An older candidate in that position could sell himself as someone for whom career advancement is not an issue. He just wants to do his job well.

Point: An older worker wants more money because of his greater experience and this makes him less attractive.

Karen: Candidates in their fifties and sixties are not after big money. They care more about a good work life balance. Just like younger people.

Karen: An older candidate should sell himself as a mentor for younger staff members.

Counterpoint: The interviewer might not want a guy who thinks he's seen and knows everything.

An older worker has to present himself as someone who is eager to learn and who considers other people as peers rather than juniors who have to respect his greater wisdom.

Karen: Personal experience reveals that older people are less stubborn and more willing to learn than younger people.