Category: New Jobs, Extra Income & Making Money
Where to Get Ideas on What Products to Sell
Okay so you’ve decided to start your own online shop and thinking about what products to sell, but you still find yourself stuck and not able to come up with any product ideas? Here’s a list of places I turned to for some inspiration: Take a look at sites that review new products, if you want a bit of inspiration. You can make use of Cool Material, Werd, Outblush, Bless This Stuff, HiConsumption and Firebox. If you already have a specific type of product or niche in mind, you could get some ideas by looking at the specific industry leaders of that particular niche. Tools such as Topsy, LittleBird and FollowerWonk can help you tremendously to find the industry leaders. You can also get an
I’m a hard worker… (but so is everyone else!) Surefire Techniques to a Successful Job Interview
In my job-seeking consultancy, job seekers overwhelmingly feel the job interview is the most difficult, anxiety-filled and mysterious part of the job seeking process. “How do I make myself stand out?” “How do I talk about myself without bragging?”“What are employers REALLY looking for during the job interview?”“I feel powerless at an interview and don’t feel I have control of my answers.” When you think about it, job interviews are a combination of a test of knowledge, background, expertise and skills, as well as a way for employers to get a feeling for how your personality would fit in the culture of the company. As a matter of fact, in the final job interview, each of the finalists for
For job seekers, modesty is over-rated, but confidence never goes out of style.
I was in the park with my young kids the other day and heard a conversation between a child, his mother and one of his mom’s friends. “David, how have you been?” “I’ve been great! I play baseball now!” “How’s that going?” “Terrific! In my last game, I had three hits and a homerun! I also pitched and got four strikeouts! My coach named me the player of the game!” Mom chimes in: “Now Davey! You shouldn’t brag! Remember, there were other kids on that team that helped win the game too!” Everyone probably remembers a conversation like this from their own childhood. Ever since we were kids we’ve been reminded that it is impolite to brag, take all the credit or
Let’s cut to the chase: What do you want to do?
So often, I get calls from job seekers who have been at the job search for a while. They are frustrated because after months of sending out resume after resume, they are still not getting any traction. There are few interviews and they don’t seem any closer to landing a job. A common misconception in job seeking is that the first thing you should do when looking for a job is to write a resume. After studying the habits of hundreds of successful job seekers, it is clear that resumes, while important, are not the first strategy in beginning your job search. A typical conversation will go something like this: ME: “So you’ve been at it for a while, but you are frustrated with
Looking for a job? Before you apply, read this.
After you’ve scanned the list and found the position(s) you want to apply for, here are some tips on what to do next: 1.) Before you apply, determine that you’re qualified for the job. A good rule of thumb is to apply for a job where you match 75{7dabfd103aa443fce219eea47f0f346a11a54ce587a1a0cbb74f06b9f7a304ca} or higher of the key job qualifications. Measure your strengths based on what the job requires in terms of background, education, job responsibilities and other key criteria. 2.) Look for the clues. Each job posting provides you with clues to what the company believes are the key areas they will be ranking candidates to determine if they will be granted an interview. Usually, there are 4-5 critical phrases in the job posting that will help you to
Confidence. The one nonnegotiable quality of successful job seekers.
It happened again. I was talking to a job seeker last week and the conversation went something like this: “So, can you tell me the types of challenges you are having with your job search?” “Well, I’m not sure if my resume is any good. Many of the jobs I apply to, I feel over qualified, but sometimes I apply to jobs where I’m under qualified. I used to feel as if I was confident in interviews, but now, I’m really crappy at them. Sometimes with the jobs I apply for I think I’m not old enough and other times I think I’m not young enough. I’ve changed my resume a lot so people can’t tell how
Job search got you overwhelmed? Make it more manageable (and effective!)
For many, there is an overwhelming sense of anxiety that goes with their hunt for the perfect job. Sending out endless resumes, not hearing back, or going to an interview and not getting the job, and meanwhile, time marches on. Bills stack up, there’s pressure from the family and, of course, you are trying to manage your own internal angst. If you are feeling overwhelmed in your job search, here are a few ideas to help you make the job seeking process more manageable: 1. Focus on the jobs that you are qualified for. Resist the temptation to send out your resume to every job posting that seems like ‘the perfect fit.’ Successful job seeking routines rely less on the quantity of jobs you apply to but
Professional Associations: Helping Professionals Progress Their Careers
Professional associations are some of the most helpful (but often under used) resources for networking. There are literally thousands of professional associations representing every different type of industry and profession. A professional association is a group of professionals within a career field who come together for: Individual professional development and advancement Promoting the field as well as educating the public on issues related to the industry Networking and collaborating Sharing new ideas and practices that set standards for the industry and workplace Representing interests of industry before federal, state and local governments To explore and discover the professional association that would fit your goals, visit the American Society of Association Executives at www.asaecenter.org or you can visit their searchable directory to find associations in Colorado
Carnival of Wealth, Back from the Dead Edition
You can’t kill a dead man, but apparently a part-timer can break his streak If you missed last week’s Carnival of Wealth…well, you weren’t the only one. First, the excuse: we use a couple of hosting services to organize the carnival submissions for us. One of those services has been down for a while now, the other one takes submissions and watches them disappear into the ether. So we should have been suspicious when Sunday night came around and we’d received posts from a grand total of 2 sites, one of them with only a tenuous connection to personal finance. Thank God we’ve developed the ability to filibuster. The next morning, many of our regular submitters asked where their offerings had
Carnival of Wealth, Andrew Pohl Edition
Andrew and his best friend, Gord That’s the problem with being selective. You accept only the good submissions, or the stupendously awful ones, and pretty soon the number of submitters dwindles to a trickle. Presenting another edition of the Carnival of Wealth, the only personal finance blog carnival worth a damn. Even with only 2 submitters. One of whom is one of the aforementioned awful contingent, the other of whom is a rookie. When you’re the only legitimate submitter, unbowed by threats of search engine optimization punishment, the least we can do is name a weekly edition of the Carnival of Wealth in your honor. That warrants some explanation, and excuse us if this is a little too inside baseball. The majority of blog carnivals are
March’s (F)RotM. You’re in Trent Hamm’s House.
“Qwirkle.” “Belfort.” “Ingenious.” These aren’t even real words! The biggest problem with Trent Hamm of The Simple Dollar – aside from his repetition, impractical advice, stubbornness in the face of evidence that proves him wrong, unhealthy love of adverbs, repetition, comical overuse of the word “wonderful,” and repetition – is that there’s just too much to make fun of. We can read him only in spurts, then have to take a few weeks or months off or we’ll find ourselves making our own deodorant or recording awkward YouTube videos in one take. Earlier this month, reader Kevin brought Trent’s latest to our attention and sucked us back in. A post called The Last Bit in
