Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Career Resume Writing Help - Where to Find it

Career Resume Writing Help - Where to Find itCareer resume writing help is not so difficult, but it's vital to be consistent. Most people do not know how to get started, but once they do they realize how hard the task is. There are many ways to get started and you can make a plan from there.Contact professional resume writers and ask them to help you. Ask if they can help you with your resume or if they have any professional resume writing services to offer. You may be surprised at what they have to offer. These professionals will write your resume and have it professionally formatted for submission.Professional resume writers have years of experience and are very familiar with the job market. It is possible to receive help from an experienced professional resume writer and there are services that you can find online, but the best way to find someone is to approach them.Consider changing the information in your resume to show that you have achieved success. There are many opportuniti es to show that you have changed careers and made a successful transition to another career. For example you may want to tell employers that you recently completed an MBA program and now you work in business administration.Another option is to show the importance of your education and degree by including it in your resume. If your goal is to become a doctor you may want to include in your resume that you completed your degree at the University of Chicago.If you need advice on how to write a resume, consider asking career coaches and professionals to assist you. They will know which parts of your resume to highlight and which to skip. Also if they are able to consult with you before you send your resume to be reviewed, they will likely give you the best advice to help you land the job.Career counselors and professionals are trained in the specific skills and strengths of the people that they help and the best way to get help is to approach them directly. Do not let job hunting ruin y our resume.

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

A Job Opportunity That Pays Nearly $100K Is Disappearing

A Job Opportunity That Pays Nearly $100K Is Disappearing Insurance brokers’ jobs rely on two basic truths: Insurance is necessary and insurance is confusing. While this combination has helped brokers maintain what seemed like a stable role in a centuries-old industry, new graduates hoping for a sure thing might want to look elsewhere. From 2017 to 2018, nine out of every ten job posts with the job title “insurance broker” disappeared from the online jobs marketplace ZipRecruiter, meaning employers were posting 92% fewer calls for insurance brokers than they were just a year before â€" the biggest decrease of any job title on the site. In short, insurance brokers help individuals and companies buy, sell, and negotiate the terms of otherwise tedious and intricate insurance claims, and they make a pretty good living doing it. According to the ZipRecruiter salaries page, the remaining openings for insurance brokers offer a comfortable national average salary of $93,615 â€" almost twice the national average salary of $51,960. But employment in insurance carriers “and related activities” is growing at a slower rate every year, according to an analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Current Labor Statistics â€" up 0.9% from March 2018 to March 2019, versus 1% the previous year, and 1.8% the year before that. “The average change in employment by occupation is usually around 2% at a time like this, when the economy is growing,” said ZipRecruiter labor economist Julia Pollak, adding that the changes in job listings are more dramatic and a good indicator of what’s going to happen to the industry’s employment numbers going forward. There are a couple of potential reasons for the deceleration of insurance broker job listings. One reason Pollak gives is that the insurance industry is in a correction phase, having hired too many people too quickly after the Great Recession in order to meet an increase in demand. “Many organizations ramped up hiring dramatically and some of them are now cutting back, realizing that they might have hired enough people and expanded staff enough to deal with the expansion in demand.” Labor and delivery nurses, a profession that saw a 68% decrease in listings on ZipRecruiter from 2017 to 2018, are also in a correction phase a decade after the Recession, according to Pollak. Hiring for these positions apparently never really slowed down until now. “Throughout the 2000s there was a massive expansion in nursing hiring and it didn’t stop during the Recession at all while other industries cut back. But now we’re seeing that one part of nursing hiring is slowing down: Hiring for nurse contractors, so travel nurses, on-call nursing, agency nurses,” she said. Delivering babies is the very definition of a hands-on profession, a job will that never be subject to automation. But parts of the insurance industry are vulnerable, and that’s another reason behind its drop in hiring: the latest industrial revolution relies heavily on data collection, systematic computing, and data analysis to replace existing practices and jobs. “The key outcome of using so much data and so much computing power is that we’ve become better at predicting things,” Pollak said. “And when things become more predictable, it’s less necessary to insure against them.” It’s a similar story that applies to the decline in sales, accounting, and advertising, which make up a bulk of the list of fastest declining jobs. Automation in the form of e-commerce platforms, advanced computing technology, and algorithms for targeting ads has changed these industries in such a way that they require less manpower than they previously did. These professions do still depend on human interaction to some extent. But Pollak’s take is that the companies that don’t seize the opportunity to join the automation movement when it comes their way, will be the ones putting their employees on the sidelines as their industry moves forward. “It’s not technology that destroys jobs,” she said. “It’s often the people who use the technology best who destroy the jobs of people who don’t adopt the technology.”

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Job Board Detox Tip #1 Create a Job Search Plan - Work It Daily

Job Board Detox Tip #1 Create a Job Search Plan - Work It Daily Welcome to the first day of your detox - your job board detox that is. Throughout the month I’ll be sending you tips to help you through “life without job boards”. The whole goal is to help you be more effective in your approach to job search and to leave the “crutch” of job boards behind. I want you to end this month with an appreciation for the other ways to search and a healthier use of job boards. Use them in the most effective way and not as a time waster. Today’s tip: Create a plan for your search for the next 30 days. Yes, a plan. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. There are several steps involved in a quality, effective, job search. Some of my colleagues will list as many as 40 steps and depending on the type of position, it could be that many. For this tip, break it into five key areas. Defining Target Marketing Yourself Connecting with Decision Makers Research and Prepare Go Get It - Interview and Accept a Position Write out a plan for at least the next 30 days of what you want to accomplish in your search. Job board detox image from Bigstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!