“Thank you for everything you did for me in helping get this job. I couldn’t have done it without you.”
Sheriff’s Deputy, Grand Forks (ND) County
Know your value
Jeri is interviewed on Studio One, a cable news program produced by students, faculty and staff at the University of North Dakota. This segment talks about job interview process and how you can be prepared for this important part of getting your career going in the right direction.
Executive: CEO, CIO, CFO, COO, President, Vice President, Partner At the top of your profession, an accomplished leader with a vision to match, you have accomplishments begging to be quantified in ways that show your enterprise scope. Management: Director, manager, general manager, operations manager, You are doubly blessed with management experience backed by a profession. Professional: You are highly educated and/or trained in a career track field. Technical: Your training is highly specialized, technology oriented, and quickly evolving. Creative: Your career has called you into the attic of angels, where the sweat of creativity powers the heavens.
Fargo, ND, is among the 10 best places in the US to find a manufacturing job.
North Dakotans usually pride themselves on the low unemployment rate in the state and their hardy Midwestern work ethic. Now, they have another reason to blush and dig their toes in the dirt. Fargo, ND, ranks among the 10 best places in the US for finding a manufacturing job.
Although not the ideal growth environment because of negative annual growth rates of 4% and 3% in 2009 and 2010 respectively, Fargo ranks high for growing manufacturing employment, low unemployment, a relatively low cost of living, and reasonable executive salaries.
Fargo’s annual growth rate in manufacturing employment was 4% in January 2011, 5% in February 2011, and 9% over the past 10 years, ending in February 2011. With 8,700 employed in manufacturing, 400 of those jobs are new in the 12 months ending in February 2011.
At 4.7%, which is uncharacteristically high for Fargo, the unemployment rate is still the lowest of all top 10 cities.
Comparatively, the cost of living in Fargo at 92% of the national average in 2010, is among the lower in the 10 locations.
Perhaps one of the more surprising statistics, executive salaries are third highest among the 10 at 106% of the national average in 2009.
Other locations in the Manufacturing Top 10 are (in alphabetical order by state) Flagstaff, AZ; Bakersfield-Delano, CA; Amarillo, Midland, and Odessa, TX; Logan, UT-ID; Kennewick-Pasco-Richland, WA; Morgantown, WV; and Casper, WY.
Nobody wants to apply for a job and tumble into the black hole of noncommunication that plagues some employers. You want to hear back, regardless of the news.
StartWire helps you do that with an upcoming Webinar titled 10 Ways To Avoid The Black Hole & Get Hired. The Webinar features black-hole blasting secrets from top job search coaches, of which I am one.
Hold it. Did the sun come up in the West? Did the polar caps melt? The career services world just shifted, that’s for sure.
In the 10th Annual CareerXroads Source of Hire Report released this week, job boards glided into a respectable second place after referrals as the most effective job search strategy.
Nearly 90 of survey respondents attributed at least one hire to Monster during 2010.
If you feel held back in your job, it’s not your imagination. It’s your soul letting you know what you need.
Some years ago, I learned through a difficult experience the damage that occurred when I ignored that feeling too long. I talked to someone this week who had a similar experience. We ignored our feelings because we were too busy working
Happy New Year! Here is a gift you’ll be able to use every week of 2011, and you can start bright and early Monday. My new Facebook friend Richard Crooke ran these daily exercises as his status in December, and when I saw them, I knew they were a gift to share with you.
If the holidays come in the middle of your job search, thank Santa for the opportunities and then leverage each gathering and card to the fullest.
The holiday season is traditionally one big networking opportunity. We catch up with friends and family through cards or emails, even if we just saw them. We attend parties with business colleagues, other members of associations, religious and
The first snow of the season is an event of pristine beauty in the minds of people who live in a Norman Rockwell world – or Phoenix. They are as mistaken as job seekers who think the holidays offer a break from the constant job hunt. (If you need some help staying on track, contact us.)
Job seekers, several of today’s headlines apply well to the activities uppermost in your mind. While I can’t recommend the strategies, I want to note that they appear to be working. Take a minute to learn what these celebrities have to teach us.
You can have the best reputation money can buy: After an investigation into a domestic incident, the revelation of a long series
In Part 1 of this series, we learned how to look for a company. Part 2 concerned the type of information about a company that is valuable to a candidate. In Part 3, we learned where to look for this valuable information.
If you’re ready to talk with us about the final steps in the process, contact us now.
