Julia Erickson
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Career Coach: Your "Right Fit" Work and Love Your Work Expert
Julia Erickson Quick Facts
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- Career Coaching, Career Advice, Job Search
- Career Focus
- Coach and Blogger
- Affiliation
- Careerealism.com
Julia Erickson coaches people to find, get and do their "right fit" work - work they love, do well, and want to do again. She blogs and tweets on career and job search. Julia is a career expert on Careerealism.com, a top 10 career blog. Julia’s coaching is grounded in nearly 30 years experience in NYC’s non-profit industry, including 12 as CEO of two major organizations. She hired hundreds, fired some, and coached many to use their talents at work. Julia led Public/Private Initiatives at NYC's Department of Employment, which gave her in-depth knowledge of what employers want. Julia applies to career management the marketing expertise she used to raise more than $100 million, much through direct response. Julia graduated from Smith College and has an MBA in leadership. She was the James Beard Foundation's 2003 Humanitarian of the Year, and a Women's Day's "Women Who Inspire Us" in 2002.
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Five Quick Tips for Effective Networking
Networking to find a job is very effective. It works especially well when you make it easy for your network to help you. Here are some tips to do it for the best results. 1. Start with your "natural network." You have good friends, former colleagues, current colleagues you trust completely, and family members. These are the first people with whom you can network. They know you, you know them, it's relatively easy to ask them for help. See below for the help you will request.
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The One Thing All Employers (and Clients) Want
Focus on solutions, not problems. Solving problems is the one thing all employers - and clients - want. In the world of work, I find two things to be true: * employers want a job candidate who can solve their problems * bosses or co-workers want someone who comes up with the solution to whatever problem they have also identified.
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You Have the Power: How to Shape Perceptions of You in Your Career and Job Search
Knowing how you want to be perceived is key in any career interaction. When you have an intention, you can make decisions that will lead you closer to realizing that intention. These are some questions I ask my clients to help them frame their intentions and then develop effective strategies: * How do you want your boss to perceive you? How do you want co-workers to perceive you? What actions or behavior will foster that perception? EXAMPLE: Liz wants her bosses to perceive her as a leader: capable, trustworthy and decisive.
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Want to be Happy at Your Next Job? Make Sure You Like the Company Culture!
Micro-managing bosses. Back-stabbing colleagues. Unrealistic performance expectations. Favoritism. Unprofessional behavior. Unfair, capricious practices. Lack of respect for expertise. These are some of the reasons people want to leave jobs. And these are a reflection of a company’s culture. In fact, bad fit with organizational culture is one of the key factors in someone’s decision to leave a job. Yes, people leave for more money or more responsibility. But the push out the door is usually something to do with culture. What is company culture? Here’s the Wikipedia definition:r
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How to Use the Law of Attraction in Job Search
I'm sure you've heard about the Law of Attraction (LOA). It says that you attract to you things, people, opportunities and circumstances that match your distinct "energy vibration." Quantum physicists observe this in the laboratory and we can observe it in our lives. What the LOA means in everyday terms is that I get what I focus on. Wherever I focus my attention, I am giving energy. And so I attract it to me.
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