Monday Mission March 12, 2012

Happy Monday – hope you are looking forward to a productive week!

You should check out the Weekly Works for a newspaper/magazine style presentation of information related to job search – Click  The Weekly Works from www.injuredworkerhelpdesk.com to visit the magazine anytime.

This week I shared two articles that may be of interest: 

Injured Worker Help Desk: Post-50 Job Search: 5 Stereotypes You Must Overcome  - Job-seekers over 50 encounter some special challenges. Although age gifts seasoned applicants with a wealth of experience, well-honed skill sets, a mature work ethic, and numerous additional pluses.. (Many of the “over 50” articles are appropriate for most of us over 40….)

Injured Worker Help Desk: Fashion Tips for Older Job Seekers - It is important to put your best foot forward.... literally!

Today’s edition of The Weekly Works can be found here: http://paper.li/marysevinsky/1326552280 and you can subscribe to have it delivered to your email by clicking on the blue subscribe button to the right of the page

The Members Only Page of www.injuredworkerhelpdesk.com will take you to more resources (Don’t forget to log in using your email and password “Sevinsky”).  For example, job logs – you can use any of these that seem helpful.  

It is very important that you document what you do for the following reasons:

1.     Follow up on your activities

2.     Record of what you discussed with a particular employer

3.     Note anything to research or prepare

4.     Support your tax deductions

5.     Provide a reference for discussion with your career counselor

6.     Document your efforts for workers’   

         compensation/SSDI/Unemployment/Other system

I-9 Recap: Make sure you can locate the documentation needed for the Federal I-9 form (usually a driver’s license and birth certificate; or a passport).  Either bring ONE document from List A or ONE EACH (2 total) from List B or List C:

·         List A Documents

·         List B Documents

·         List C Documents

Starting a new job is stressful enough (good stress, but stress nonetheless!) – no need to feed the fire!

For those of you on the Eastern Shore of Maryland – there is a very large career fair in Ocean City, MD on March 17^th 9 am to 1 pm and the 22^nd at WorWic Community College 2:30 to 6 pm.  If you live within 1 ½ hours it would be appropriate for you to attend: 

http://chamber.oceancity.org/events/details/2011-ocean-city-job-fair 

and

http://www.worwic.edu/StudentServices/CareerServices/CareerEventsJobFairs.aspx. 

Here are some links to Career Fair Tips to review:

WHAT NOT TO DO AT A CAREER FAIR
CAREER FAIR TIPS

photo credit: kevin dooley via photopin cc

Mary is a Masters-prepared Career Counselor with over 18 years experience in resume writing, personal branding, career assessment and counseling. Specializing in non-traditional specialized careers and career-transitioning, she has the ability to synthesize and focus your unique skills and abilities to obtain interviews for the positions you want with the employers you want to notice you. Follow her on Twitter at @MarySevinsky.

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