Krista Mitchell
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Krista Mitchell Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Resume Writing, Article Writing, Job Search, Interviewing Skills
- Career Focus
- Resume Writer and Employment Specialist
- Affiliation
- Composure Resume Writing Service, Professional Association of Resume Writers, Georgia Department of Labor
Expertise in crafting resumes designed to showcase your qualifications with impact. Certified by the Professional Association of Resume Writers.
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Layoff Survival 101
Losing your job is stressful, even traumatic. If you suspect an impending layoff and can stay one step ahead of the game, you are less likely to panic when the time comes. Even still, the first few weeks may feel like culture shock. The structure of your daily life has changed and may have left you feeling helpless in despair. Following these steps can help you to retain a sense of power over your situation, the optimism of hope, and sound structure in planning your future career decisions.
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How to Get the Hiring Manager's Approval
Although employers may ask you all kinds of questions in interviews, there are really five main things they want to know about you, and all of their questions are geared around them. Your resume may even be screened out for red flags that call into question your ability to provide these five qualities. Here is what they want to know: 1. Be reliable and dependable.r
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5 Reasons Your Resume Isn't Getting Read
Have you applied for countless job vacancies only to receive silence in return? There are a few common blunders people make that cause employers to toss their resumes after only the first few sentences. Read on to be sure you aren’t committing these resume crimes:
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Finding Job Opportunities and Accessing the Hidden Job Market
The way candidates find work has changed drastically from the way they have historically. No longer can you walk into a business off the street and have your application or resume reviewed on the spot. With the flooded pool of applicants in the market, learning to access “the hidden job market” is key to decreasing your competition. Monster and CareerBuilder jobs are viewable by anyone with Internet access and the number of job seekers is in the millions. That is unreasonable competition. The following steps can boost your success in finding a job:
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Adapting to the New Face of Employment
companies are more and more often using innovative strategies to cut costs with employees. Businesses remain insecure about the economic market, and the costs employers are skimping on are benefits packages and salaries. In order to do this, they have devised several tactics, and if you close off your job search to include traditional full-time with benefits jobs, you may be unemployed for a very long time. These are the new faces of employment:
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How and Why to Be an Employer Focused Candidate
With so many candidates in the applicant pool in the sluggish economy, employers have the pick of the litter. Therefore, you have to work extra hard to impress and prove that they need you. Frankly, they don’t care whether you are seeking a “growing company” or “opportunity for advancement”. What they are conce ed with is their bottom line and whether you can enhance it. What you need to do is tailor your skills, experience, and education on your resume to make you precisely the candidate they are seeking.
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How To Update Your Resume Without Outdated Features
Resumes no longer have rules. They are marketing tools, and they are selling you to potential employers. They can be as individual as the people they represent. Resumes in today’s highly competitive job market should be employer-driven, all about how you fit the employer’s needs and bring value to their company.
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How to Network Most Effectively
Research says that about 80% of people employed got their job through networking. Often, these jobs were never even advertised, making them part of the “hidden job market”. You know how so-and-so knew about a job at his sister-in-law’s brother’s friend’s company? That’s how networking works. It’s strictly word-of-mouth information. It’s all about who you know. Sometimes, companies receive applicants for a position before it even becomes open, because other employees knew the job was going to become available and they let their network people know.
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Accelerate Your Job Search with a Portfolio
Let’s pretend we’re not in a recession and imagine you are going to shop for a new car. You’ve got dozens of models and makes of cars in front of you on the car lot, each with a paper in the window citing its specifications. If that’s all the information you have, then aside from personal preferences in color and such, how will you decide which car is worthy of your thousands of dollars? You want to see some consumer reviews or ratings, right? You want know how it drives, how it performs compared to its commercials on television.
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How to Deal with Gaps in Your Work History
Maybe you took time out from your career to raise children. Maybe you resigned your last job to commit yourself full-time to your college studies. Perhaps you have been ill or caring for an ill parent who no longer needs your help. Whatever the reason, you’re now ready to throw yourself back into the working world but are not sure how to address the gap in your work history. If there is a gap, you must be prepared to discuss the reason with potential employers.
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5 Ways to Solve the Age Issue in Interviews
Do you think employers are shying away from hiring you because of your age? Have you been told you’re “overqualified”? You may not be able to hide your age, but there are ways to make hiring you appealing. There are five main reasons why employers don’t want to hire older applicants, and here is what to do:
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Make Yourself Employable
There has been a lot in the news lately about the long-term unemployed and how employers are discriminating against them. Why are they discriminating? They believe you are “unemployable”. They assume that if a hundred employers have already looked at you and passed over you for other more appealing candidates, there must be a good reason. They assume you must lack the skills, experience, education, or stability to be successful. Is it true? Maybe you need to reassess your job search techniques and see if there is an aspect that is shooting down your chances.
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