One rule for writing CVs:

Leave No Myseries, writes Teresa Magnum on Inside Higher Education.

More of her tips.

Find a Mentor

Inside Higher Education offers tips, useful for job holders and job seekers at all levels, including:

Seek out mentors who have careers of interest to you: If you are interested
in becoming a faculty member or an administrator, find mentors in those
positions and ask questions on how to maximize your graduate school
experience.

http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/mentor/bonaparte

Tend your LinkedIn account

Tips from Chris Brogan:

Accept any invitations that make sense for you to accept.

Enter any recent business cards to invite them to LinkedIn (if you’re growing your network).

Drop into Q&A and see if you can volunteer 2-3 answers.

Provide 1 recommendation every few days for people you can honestly and fully recommend.

Add any relevant slide decks to the Slideshare app there, or books to the
Amazon bookshelf.

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/19-presence-management-chores-you-could-do-every-day/

Your online rep

Did you know that, in one recent study, 77 percent of recruiters said they check applicants' backgrounds online?

Some tips on managing your online image from Boston Interactive.
http://www.bostoninteractive.com/newsletter/feature/You-2.0-032009.asp

What Michael Jackson can teach about personal branding

Reaction from the generous folks at Career Hub. (Have you used their free e-books?)

How can you "break out" from the pack?

http://www.careerhubblog.com/main/2009/06/what-michael-jackson-the-brand-icon-can-teach-you-about-personal-branding.html

Higher Ed Job Hunt Tips

Make the most of your summer with this advice from Clare Potter for Inside Higher Education.

An excerpt:

Finally: finish something. Whether it is submitting an article, finishing
revisions on an article that has come back with reader's reports, writing a book
proposal and sending your manuscript out, whatever. You need to show that you
are moving forward in your career...

Discrimination in the academy?

"Mama PhD" writes about some of the myths older job candidates may face in higher ed:

It may be helpful to look at why some employers are reluctant to hire workers who are middle-aged or older. Common perceptions about mature workers include the following:

• They resist direction from younger deans or department heads.
• They are technophobic.
• They are inflexible in their thinking and set in their ways.
• Their passion for their subject has necessarily waned with age and experience.
• They may be looking only for a safe haven until retirement.

http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/mama_phd/career_coach_never_getting_the_offer

How would you counter these perceptions in your own job hunt?

Job Search on Twitter

"Twitter can establish you as a player in your field, either as a thought leader or as an involved contributor."

http://www.careerhubblog.com/main/2009/05/why.html

What could you say in 140 characters to advance your career?

Behavior-based interviews

Remember the old interview question chestnut: If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be and why?

Today human resources pros rely on behavior or behavior-based questions that seek to assess future performance based on past performance: "How have you ...? Describe an incident when...? What is your philosophy about...?"

Hit these questions out of the park with some prepared narratives that showcase your skills and experience.

See http://jobsearch.about.com/cs/interviews/a/behavioral.htm for more tips.

Teacher Interview Questions

Eric Hougan's Road to Teaching website boasts the "web’s largest collection of teacher interview questions." Exercise your interview chops!

http://roadtoteaching.com/teacher-interview-questions/

Through the looking glass...

"That's a great deal to make one word mean," Alice said in a thoughtful tone.

"When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."

Handshakes are important, study shows

Especially for female job seekers!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18808231

Work looks for you

In our workshops, we discuss how the Internet is changing the way in which we look for work to how works looks for you. Here's some good examples from The New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/jobs/31recruit.html

NEA Today Ed Notes: Hail, the School Nurse!

NEA Today Ed Notes: Hail, the School Nurse!

Your Job Hunting Online Toolbox

A good overview from the New York Times.

Take a look at the ideas in the Think Beyond the Resume section. How could you use one these tools to present yourself to prospective employers?

Free Compliments

Available on the Perdue University campus. How about at your school or campus? This could be an opening for you!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-compliment-guys-13-mar13,0,6849324.story

One Workforce: One Vision

The NEA ESP Conference opens in Orlando with a confetti celebration. ESP membership has reached 500,000!

How to create a scannable resume

Forget the fancy fonts. Be keyword rich!

Basic tips from vault.com.

For more depth on what happens when your resume reaches most employers, see this article from, About.com.

Social Networking Tips from NEA

Online? Stay In Bounds with these tips from NEA Today member magazine.

Mange Your Online Reputation

Tips from radio host Kim Komando and USA Today.

Protect Your Privacy

A excellent compilation of tips for online job hunters from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.

What to do if you lose your job

A good round-up from nytimes.com.

I liked Bob Adler's advice about not burning bridges and this tidbit on how you can build your network: "Help other people as much as you can, even if it’s just by being a listener."

Michael Melcher, a lawyer, says: "Many well-educated professionals are unaware of how ineffective some of their job-search strategies are. Most job-seekers spend too much time on the Internet and not enough time networking with real people, and when they do reach out they tend to communicate ineffectively and in some cases counterproductively. "

Disagree with Stephen Viscusi's anti-networking stance: "Everyone is as scared as you. Everyone is looking for work, even when they have a job. So don’t tell your unemployed or employed friends what you’re doing, since it’s unlikely they can help you."

Tag Cloud of my Resume: Before

This shows the frequency of terms that appear in my resume: A visualization of the key words in my most important personal branding document. I'm not entirely happy with the results. It reflects an earlier me, from the early 2000s (when I was last looking for a job) and not so much who I am now or who I am becoming. In the next few days, I will rewrite my resume and create a new tag cloud.

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