Job Search Over a 100K – The Options

If you’re considering doing a job search over a 100K, then you need to think beyond the little green pieces of paper. After all, even if you have all the right qualifications for a 100K job, do you have what it takes? It is not easy maintaining a 100K job, let me tell you. In fact, it is downright hard.

Securing a 100K job too, is much more difficult than it used to be, what with the recession hitting our economy hard.

Moreover, the competition isn’t getting any easier, and let’s face it, no matter how good you are at whatever you do, someone will always, always be better than you. So you need to keep that in mind when you’re doing an employment search over 100K.

So what are your options when you’re looking to work in 100K jobs?

Pharmacy

This is one field where you can still easily find a job of over a 100K, relative to other fields. In fact, the average salary for pharmacists, in 2008, when we were deeply in the grasp of recession was actually $106,410! Obviously, two years down the line, the figure has moved upward, because we’ve managed to come out of recession! So what is the career profile of a pharmacist?

You need to prepare medicines and drugs for patients and give them healthcare advice as well as monitor health progress in patients. A doctorate course in pharmacy – which translates into a higher salary – usually takes about four years.

Finance manager

Always had a head for accounting? Then your career search for 100K jobs should definitely include this profession, because most people get puzzled by numbers and your love for numbers could therefore make you a very sought after professional indeed!

But, just like any other field, experience is the basic key for a high salary here. If you don’t have considerably experience, you might not be in line for that fat paycheck.

Human Resource manager

They are the most hated people in a company and most employees are resentful of their power. But, a 100K job search is incomplete without this position, simply because it is extremely high paying. After all, the future of the company depends on its human resource department!

In order to reach the top, the minimum qualification is a master’s degree or a doctorate. Human resource isn’t child’s play and not for nothing is it so high paying – you can earn much more than the 100K you’re targeting -, but the good news is, a lot of people do manage to crack it!

If you are looking to work in 100K jobs, there are a vast number of options apart from this that you can go in for. In fact, almost every field offers 100K jobs if you have sufficient experience. So do a job search over 100K now and be surprised!

Silas Reed, Writer for  100KCrossing writes articles that inform and teach about different 100K job profiles. Please visit http://www.100Kcrossing.com for a list of some of the many jobs we offer in the 100K profession.

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30+ Strong Action Verbs to Spice Up Your Resume | Career Rocketeer - Career Search and Personal Branding Blog

If you use the phrases “responsible for, duties included, or worked with...” you are selling yourself, your experience and your resume short. These passive terms do absolutely nothing for communicating the value and benefits you offer an employer.

These phrases are boring and repetitive because most every job seeker uses them. Hiring managers need words that jump off the page and captivate them. Here are a few examples of my favorite action words:

Accelerated
Authored
Captivated
Captured
Championed
Consolidated
Critiqued
Directed
Diversified
Diverted
Doubled
Enforced
Enhanced
Exceeded
Pioneered
Forged
Formalized
Formulated
Generated
Influenced
Initiated
Integrated
Intensified
Leveraged
Masterminded
Maximized
Mentored
Optimized
Orchestrated
Re-engineered
Spearheaded
Structured
Proliferated
Recaptured
Rejuvenated

...And the list could go on. Don’t like these? Use the synonym feature in Microsoft Word or go to thesaurus.com. Be strategic in your action verb choice and choose strong words that convey ACTION and RESULTS to begin every sentence. These words are a key component in creating a powerful and captivating resume.

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Jessica Holbrook is an expert resume writer, career and personal branding strategist, author, speaker and President/CEO of Great Resumes Fast. She creates high-impact, best-in-class, resumes and cover letters that win interviews. For a free resume analysis visit http://www.greatresumesfast.com/ or for a free phone consultation call 1.800.991.5187.

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Online Reputation Management: How To Repair Damage | Brand-Yourself.com Blog

Jeff Kramer was kind enough to mention Brand-Yourself in an article he wrote the other day.  On a side note, I shadowed him once while pursuing my dream of being a humor writer.  He’s a fun guy; he taught me how to get kicked out of a fur shop with dignity, or at least without getting the cops called on us.

In any case, he made a real point in his article: the service Brand-Yourself provides is great for getting your name out there in a positive light. Let’s face it: not everybody has been smart enough to keep the less-flattering information about themselves off the internet.  Now, obviously it’s better if you have a squeaky-clean image, but if you’ve made a couple bad decisions (perhaps vis-a-vis your friend Jose), there are a couple online reputation management steps you can take before paying someone else to help:

Remove the offending material if possible

Is there a status update or tagged photo you don’t want splashed on the net?  Get rid of it.  If it’s a photo you don’t own, untag yourself, click “Report This Photo,” and request that the poster remove it.  Hopefully they will, but at the very least attempt to disassociate yourself from it.

Deal with negative reviews quickly

This is a bigger problem for people who sell things (such as eBay seller). Regardless, you should remedy the situation to the best of your ability.  If appropriate, offer a refund or some way to make it right, but don’t get into a public pissing contest.  Even if you’re right, other buyers are only going to see you being uncooperative.

Bury the bad

This is the most consistently effective tactic for making something go away. And it’s exactly what Brand-Yourself makes it easy for you to do. Generate posts, comments, and pages of material on multiple websites using your real name to make the negative stuff drop as low as possible.  When nothing else works, this will at least minimize the effect.  If it comes to serious issues like criminal behavior and legal accusations, you just have to do your best to hide it.

Suck it up

Already got fired because you said something you shouldn’t have? It’s too late to change that course of events, but make it a learning experience.  Like anything negative, if a future employer asks you about it, you can explain one negative incident away as a learning experience.  A series of similar incidents is a behavior, and much harder to put a positive spin on.

As a general rule, you should treat your internet web presence like a resume these days. Online Reputation Management 101: only put up what you want employers to see.  If you do feel the overpowering urge to post something risqué, it might be time to get yourself an alter ego.

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How Your Writing Style Affects Your Job Search | Brand-Yourself.com Blog

if you read the hedline of this post and thought it was an intresting article to read.  and then you started to read it and it sudenly  became clear that the auther doesnt appear to understand how to spell or use correct grammer, wood you read it threw till the end? They’re are many conclusions one could jump to about my expertise and personel brand just base on this 1 paragraph, isn’t their?

Okay, that might be a bit exaggerated for the average bad speller, but I have seen worse!

In today’s online world, your ability to spell and use proper grammar and punctuation plays a huge role in building your personal brand – especially if you are a job seeker. Strong writing skills are incredibly important nowadays because writing is one of the main ways we communicate with each other at work.  Your writing represents you and is often your first impression to a potential employer. And let’s face it: first impressions are very hard to change!

As a job seeker, the biggest assessment of your written communication skills will typically come into play after you have sent in a resume and cover letter. Why? Most people take great care in assuring their cover letter and resume are error free. However, a surprising number of people do not.  Do not be one of those people – especially when writing out a job application! 

Where is Your Professional Writing Style?

 

When hiring managers want to set up an interview with you, sometimes they will call you, but other times they might just send you an email asking for some good dates and time for your interview.

I like sending emails. Honestly, I prefer to communicate by email so I can assess a candidate’s written communication skills in ‘real’ life. I know that many people do not write their own cover letters and resumes so I’d like to see some writing that comes directly from you.

Why are writing skills important? Most office jobs, nowadays, require employees to communicate with their customers /vendors/suppliers via email.  Would I want to have a new employee who writes like I did in that first paragraph?  What was your first impression of me when you started reading this article?

If you can’t spell or put sentences together properly, people will draw some not-so-great assumptions about you. Sadly, I know some very smart people who can’t spell or write good sentences no matter how hard they try. You must realize, though, that potential employers do not know anything about you and will likely assume that you do not pay attention to details, or are just lazy.  This is a less-than-desirable first impression, isn’t it?

Are You Writing To Your Friend or To Your Potential Employer?

In addition to proper spelling and grammar, knowing when to be formal or informal with your writing style is key.

When I set up job interviews via email, my last question to the candidate is a variation of “will 2:30 p.m. Friday work for you”? I typically get two different types of acceptance responses:

1)   “Dear Ms. Simko: Thank you for contacting me. Friday at 2:30 p.m.  will work well for me. I appreciate your interest in me as a candidate and I look forward to meeting you on Friday!  Best Regards, Bob.”

2)   “Sounds great! See you then.”

Now, I am not advocating that a response like #2 is always inappropriate but when you are communicating with someone for the first time, professionally, (as a job seeker and at a new job) you should always be very professional in your communications – i.e. response #1.

Response #2 won’t kill your chances of getting the job but people who use response #1 will have a definite edge over you.

Less-formal communication styles may build over time as you get to know people better and as you become familiar with what type of communication is preferred in the workplace. But until then, put your best writing style forward!

Do You Have ‘Writing Samples’ Online?

Finally, as we often mention on this blog, employers will likely Google you to learn more about you as a job candidate. Just as important as it is to have a “clean” online appearance, you should make sure that the style of your writing is clean and appropriate as well.  If you are a blogger, write published articles online, or you comment in LinkedIn groups, your great content isn’t going to make much of an impression on me if I see that your writing style resembles paragraph one of this article.

What I read online from you is considered as a ‘writing sample’ to me. Bad grammar and writing skills will cause me to lose interest in you as a candidate.

If you are not a great master of the English language, I would advise you to find someone who is and have that person Google you and look over the content that you have written online.  This is a great opportunity for you to gain feedback and clean up your act a bit.

For anyone who wants to improve his/her writing skills, there are many free online courses.  This is one example, but there are many others out there if you just Google “free online grammar course”.  It really is important that you take some time to work on your writing skills if you are weak in this area or are unsure about when to use different communication styles.  Excellent writing skills go a long way in building a strong personal brand.

Jessica Simko is a seasoned senior level Human Resources professional with over 15 years of experience in all facets of Human Resources Management.  She is a Freelance Writer and  Entrepreneur specializing in career/ life coaching and social media. Striving to help people connect their passions with their jobs and life, she offers great career, personal branding, and life tips on her new blog, Work and Life Solutions.  Feel free to connect with her on:

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Dealing with Rejection Tips & Career Advice by Career Expert Kris Parfitt : CAREEREALISM

By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Kris Parfitt
What’s the size of a baseball, the weight of a grapefruit and can knock you to the ground at 50 mph?
My beau, Dan, was an all-star lacrosse player in high school and college and has been playing the game since he was a kid, he still plays. One of my favorite stories he tells is also one of the best analogies to how we deal with failure, rejection or when we are confronted by something that stops us in our tracks.
When you’re a kid first learning to play the game and you get hit with a lacrosse ball you feel like you’ve been sucker punched by Mohamed Ali – you’re out of the game. Out as in you don’t return because you’ve been carried off the field, doubled over in insane pain hiding the tears from Coach and your team mates. As you grow a bit older (and bigger) and get hit by the ball, the game stops, the ref and Coach come running onto the field to check things out, you walk it off, sit out a few plays – maybe you go back in, maybe you don’t. Usually though, you’re back at practice the next day.
When you’ve been playing as long as Dan has and you see the ball screaming towards you at 70 mph you now know your best defense is to tighten and flinch, take the hit and keep running. You know you’ll have a bruise that lasts a week but nothing about the pain stops you – you’ve experienced it many times before and will many times again. When you learn the hit doesn’t require emergency attention and continuing to move forward actually makes it feel better, there is no need to stop. Besides, you’re a valuable player and this could be game point.
How many times have we taken a hit – worse than a lacrosse ball to the gut or as stinging as a Thanks, But No Thanks letter – and we get stopped? We’re out of the game, licking our wounds, contemplating whether or not to return. I love this analogy because it fits well into how we as humans deal with rejection, failure or when confronted by something that stops us from moving forward.
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From my own experience I’ve learned the more I fail, am rejected, or confronted the higher my level of confidence becomes and the less time spent on the side lines. Yes I still fail, often get stuck when confronted, and feel the smarts to be rejected, but I no longer wallow, pout or hide – and if I do, it’s not for very long. I flinch, take the hit and keep moving. It’s not to say I ignore the pain or distance myself from the emotional hurt, I am in touch with the process of moving through that: I just don’t let it take me out of the game for long, if at all. I love being in the game more than I do being on the sidelines.
The more we play in the game of life, the more we’re going to be hit by the ball. And the more we are hit by the ball, the more we learn that it doesn’t have to stop what we’re doing. Learning this and applying it shapes our character, the two most important aspects being leadership and confidence. Combined they are two qualities that draw people to us such that we are noticed, admired and respected. However, the best way to increase our level in one or both is to keep getting hit by the ball. Play a bigger game and the reward is an increased awareness of our own leadership and confidence.
When we have the confidence to keep going in the face of failure, our playing field gets bigger and getting hit by the ball no longer means the end of the game.
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Kris Parfitt is a career strategist and leadership branding coach who is committed to finding your roadblocks and moving them out of the way so you can have the career success you want. Kris has over twenty years experience in leadership, counseling, and training positions all of which have provided an exceptional education which allows her to be a dynamic coach, one that focuses on inspiring you to acknowledge and express your extraordinary abilities and potential. Connect with Kris via LinkedIn or follow her on Twitter.
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Simple Often Wins

If you run a hotel, the business is this: fill beds with happy guests. Everything is geared around that. We can add “at a reasonable operating margin” to pretty much every business, including the hotel business. Restaurants: serve as many meals as possible per hour. TV: get as many viewers per show, and charge ad rates accordingly.
Business is simple. We make it complicated for some unknown reason.
At a speech today, a really smart question came from a man named Tim with an amazing beard (this has nothing to do with the question). He asked me about how we benchmark all this social media stuff, in a world of marketers who need to show their leadership benchmarking. If Julien and I are preaching standing out from everyone in Trust Agents, then how will one benchmark?
My first answer: “No one ever won a race looking sideways.” My second answer, “Experiment and show new results. You can’t benchmark for new stuff, because it hasn’t been done before. That’s the point.”
But it’s moments like those, when I think about how big companies run, when I think about how complex people seem to want to make their jobs (or that bosses seem to be asking for), that I wonder where it will end.
Most business can be done simply. There may or may not be grace and complexity to the execution, but the business is simple.
I was talking to Julien about my almost-ready-to-announce business, and he said, “Oh, so like membership sites?” And it was a lot easier to say “yes” than to try and go into the details. It’s media and education, but sure, it’s also easy to say membership sites.
How simple is your business? Do you view it simply? Can you see the benefit?
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Jobs Out of the Blue | CareerAlley

“It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.” – Oscar Wilde
The best thing about job search is the worst thing, you just never know where your next job will come from. A former colleague of mine had been looking for a job for over a year after being a casualty of the “Great Recession”. I’ve been lucky enough to have never been out of work for more than a few months, but even a few weeks can feel like a lifetime when you are out of work and don’t know where you next paycheck will come from. Anyway, back to my friend. So, he finally finds a pretty good job at a major financial institution and a few short weeks later he gets offered another very good job at a more prestigious company, out of the blue. It’s almost like show business, where someone becomes an “overnight sensation” (after having clawed their way to the top over 30 years). Rarely does anyone become an overnight sensation or find a job overnight. But the point is, you never know where your next break will come from so the best bet is to look at every opportunity no matter how remote the chance. Today’s post is a mix and match of job search resources, information and leads. Take a look because you just never know . . .

• 100 Best Career Posts for Recent College Grads – Tons of job search resources for the recent college grad (100 to be exact). While many of these articles are geared to college grads, most of the advice applies to everyone. Posted by onlinedegreeprograms, the article provides a brief one-liner for each site with links to the detailed articles. Topics such as resume writing, internships, interview mistakes and more. And, coincidentally (not), number 29 on the list is CareerAlley.

• The 10 Worst Social Media Mistakes That Will Prevent You From Landing a Job – It’s always nice to learn what not to do before you do it (rather than learning the hard way). This article, posted on Onlinedegree.net, provides some great advice on what not to do on social networks (and hopefully it is not too late for you). In addition to providing great advice, each tip has an embedded link which leads to a related article. There are additional resources on the left hand side of the page, with articles and links. Top of the page has a link to career guides.

• College Times – This site is dedicated to college students and the link at the start of this paragraph leads to their careers page. There are links at the top of the page for Browse All Jobs, Job Preparation Tips, Job Negotiation Tips and more. Below this is two search engines, one for “on campus jobs” and one for “off campus jobs”. Center page is a listing of the latest jobs posted on the site, and you can use a “Full Time”, “Part Time” or “Freelance’ filter. The site is definitely worth a look.

• 100 Useful Social Sites for Every Kind of Job Seeker – Seems like a good match, 100 useful social sites and the link above for social site mistakes. This article is posted on Associatedegree.com and has sections for the top job search sites, sites for college grads, Resume help, Job Prep and Research and so much more. Each topic has a list of 10 or more links related to the topic.

Special Mention:

• Top 10 Cities to get your first job –   You know what they say, “a picture is worth a thousand jobs” (or was that “words”). This link provides an interesting graphic on average monthly salary and rent in the top 10 cities. There is also a list of top hiring companies at the bottom of the page.

• Studio Blue – A job search blog, there are lots of great articles on a variety of job related topics

Good luck in your search.

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