How to Find Jobs in 2013

As you begin your search of employment in 2013, below are some websites you might visit:

Money – US News – “The 100 Best Jobs

http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-best-jobs

InfoWorld – “IT jobs light up top 100 careers for 2013”http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-jobs/it-jobs-light-top-100-careers-2013-209585

Forbes – “The Best Jobs For Women In 2013”http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/12/26/the-best-jobs-for-women-in-2013/

Fox Business – “Get Hired: Hot Jobs in 2013”http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2012/12/27/get-hired-hot-jobs-in-2013/ -      Click on "Continue to The Site"

Citi - Top Jobs For 2013http://www.thegrindstone.com/2012/12/26/career-management/top-jobs-for-2013/

Please share with readers of this blog or email me at glynjordan@gmail.com websites that you find helpful to your job search in 2013.

Thanks.   Glyn

Home for Christmas

Are you going home for Christmas?  Many are going home to visit with family and friends and stay just for the holidays.   However, many others go home because of job lay-offs and/or their inability to find employment. 

If you are among the unemployed, hopefully at home you will find support and encouragement.  What should you do?  I have published many blogs concerning job search strategies, resume construction, interviewing techniques, and networking.

Here are my suggestions:

  

·        *   Relax and enjoy the holidays

·        *   Make a New Year’s resolutions to become employed

·        *   Consider getting a job first and the salary and the position second

·        *   Research jobs openings and locations

·        *   Consider relocating in pursuing job opportunities

·        *   Don’t let your pride keep you unemployed!

Please share with readers of this blog or email me at glynjordan@gmail.com your experiences if have returned home and found employment.

Thanks.   Glyn

The P Plan for a Job Search

An article in The Dallas Morning News, December 16, 2012, edition on Page 1J, “Biggest Blunders of Home-Base Job Seekers, by Christine Durst and Michael Haaren of Creators Syndicate discusses what job searchers should not do when applying for home-based jobs.  The writers suggest that a job seeker should not:

Call the employer about an advertised job

Complain online about a company’s hiring practices

Get discouraged or offended when employers don’t respond

However, the article does not provide advice as to what job seekers should do!  My minster in his sermon today provided advice to all, and I am thinking that the advice is appropriate for job seekers.  Here is his P Plan:

Plan Perfectly – Develop a plan to find a job

Proceed Positively – Avoid being discouraged when you are ignored by a potential employer

Persevere Persistently – Keep on keeping on and work your plan

These P’s seem rather simple, but as golfers often say “half the game is mental.” 

   

Please share with readers of this blog or email me at glynjordan@gmail.com if you find these three P’s helpful to your job search.        

Thanks.   Glyn

A Gift to Give

This is the season when we typically think of family, friends, and other folks in need.  So how will you respond?  What gifts will you give?

For many, a Christmas card or a telephone call is all that it takes to make their day.  For others, especially those in need, clothing, food, money or other substantive items are appropriate gifts.

I think that the giver receives a feeling of the season as much as the receiver.  I encourage you to use this time of the year to express your love, mend fences, renew friendships, and lend a helping hand.  

Please share with readers of this blog or email me at glynjordan@gmail.com your suggestions for a gift to give.        

Thanks.   Glyn

Are You Unemployed and Still Riding Horses?

Articles in The Dallas Morning News in the December 2, 2012, edition on page 1D about Hostess Brands got my attention: “Can Hostess brands be resurrected?” and “Past Challenges could haunt Potential Buyers”.   Are there any lessons job seekers can learn from the demise of Hostess?

Karen Robinson-Jacobs writes “Aging infrastructure, balkanized union rules, health food, inefficient management, and crushing debt are the ingredients that formed much of the toxic recipe that pushed the 82 year-old Hostess Brands Inc. into liquidation.”

As a student of strategic management, I found that many organizations, like Hostess, fail because of their inability or reluctance to change their organizations to adjust to a dyanmic business environment. 

It is possible that job seekers, like Hostess, fail to recognize changes in their operating environment and continue to do what they have always done?  I encourage a job seeker to embrace new technologies especially the Internet and research innovations in the industry where he/she has work experience.  I think that you should be willing and eager to learn new skills and seek job opening using such skills.

When I speak with individuals who state that they are not interested in learning all the new skills and think the old ideas are best, I asked them where they tied-up their horses when they came in the building.  Are you unemployed and still riding horses?  

Please share with readers of this blog or email me at glynjordan@gmail.com how you avoided the fate of Hostess Brands.        

Thanks.   Glyn