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Exit Strategy
What do you do if you receive an exit letter or termination letter?
- Review your original offer letter that may affect you leaving the organization.
- Think about what safeguards should you consider changing or revising in your employment agreement within the term and termination clause, prior to receiving an exit letter or accepting employment.
- Employment agreements are executed when receiving a job offer. Promotion or change of ownership of the organization within your employment agreement, need to be reviewed so if you are not covered you can do your best to ensure . . .
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Resigning From Your Current Employment Home – Not Easy!
If you have never resigned from an employer, it would be a good idea to secure an exit plan before you speak to your boss.
If you have been terminated or approached for a new role in a new organization or you have worked to find yourself a new employment home, you will need to resign from your current employer. This can be a very emotionally charged time in your career. Prepare yourself emotionally and design a plan with precision to make certain you retain the best of relations with your soon to be ex-boss and team members.
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Exiting Out – Workbook
If you maneuvering from being gainfully employed to looking for your next step and this is fresh news, the shock hits you first. Reality sets in later. If you have decided to resign on your own accord although shocking for those staying, you may feel more of a bittersweet sadness leaving work acquaintances and good friends than the actual organization.
WHAT TO CONSIDER:
- If you were just let go and are currently unemployed, what 5 factors triggered you leaving? Example: I was let go for restructuring reasons but as the last one hired was . . .
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Job Search Strategy Analysis – Workbook
Job search strategy, next steps:
When you approach the job market today at any hiring level it is integral to success to build a strategic search. You need to start with an understanding of what an A, B and C job search list is.
A = I am a 90% + fit
B = I am at least a 75% fit
C = I am at least a 50% fit
Finding the right type of employment can be a tricky adventure causing high frustration levels. Follow below and fill in your Job Search Strategy . . .
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How to Write a Resignation Letter & How to Resign
What you write and say when leaving employment will stay in your employment file forever!
If you need to resign from your employer for any reason and need a resignation strategy or you want to deliver the message before your boss approaches you, please review this content. Often career professionals equate career success with track record of performance. First and last impressions, how others perceive you, engage, and remember you are equally important. Resigning from employment can be a difficult and emotional task that seldom receives proper attention. A well -intentioned, respectful resignation letter and strategy can help you resign . . .
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Raising Your Level of Confidence, Outside of Your Comfort Zone
Raising your level of confidence outside your comfort zone takes practice. If you had to deliver a presentation as an employed person you would practice until perfect, right? Being the number one selected candidate on an interview takes precision, time, skill and practice. Technically you can have it nailed but bringing your personality with you to every interview is critical to success. You need to sharpen your interview skills so that you have that extra edge. It is a soft skill most of us don’t realize could be a show stopper if you neglect to pay attention to refining . . .
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Careers & Identities, Cross Lines
If you have never been unemployed and this is an unexpected and unwelcome change in your employment status, the shock you feel will pass, I promise. With the right next steps, you will be back in the game. If not employed sometimes it can feel like your business identity is slipping, do not panic. If you are having a tough time managing the stress at home, the stress of finding new employment and feel like everyone is misunderstanding your role, don't panic. You may find that it is affecting your ability to present yourself on interviews with that happy . . .
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Generate Job Search Success In Our Digital World – Overview
In today's digital world it is integral to your career that you master how to achieve maximum job search success. The job market gatekeepers in our world today are job boards, social and business or association networking websites, employers and recruiters. We really do understand.
A few quick questions you may want to ask yourself. Do you find it challenging to position yourself as a job seeker with recruiters? Not sure how to send your resume to a potential employer so that you are not caught in the maze of job applicants? Do you feel confused about which social . . .
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Online Con-Artists Creeping Through To You?
Years ago, the bad people that were called gangsters would plan their crime, do their thing and create havoc that often would take authorities years to track down. Today with the digital world, even our top security organizations can’t keep up with these scammers.They are consistently changing their technically driven fraud activities which are targeting new victims at an unprecedented rate. Even job postings have become the digital criminals pot of gold.
Personality Drill Down
Am I a likable person?
You may be the type of person who would say - who cares if I am likable, I am excellent at what I do. That may very well be true but are you making it harder on yourself by not caring what others think? The question remains, am I a likable person?
You may be likable but not everyone you meet in your lifetime will like you. Sometimes people just have personality clashes and there is not a thing we can do about it. In the employment world, it matters if you are known . . .
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Understanding Recruiters
Recruitment firms are called many different names in the employment market. There are executive search firms, recruiting firms, placement agencies, contract agencies, temporary agencies, specialty hiring firms and of course everyone’s favourite slang, headhunters. In Canada these are paid for services by the hiring organization. In the U.S.A. it is a mix of client pay and job seeker pay depending on the type of firm you engage. Internationally fees can be also paid by the client organization however depending on where the organization is hiring from this can change from country to country. There are specialty firms . . .
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Strategy To Reach Hiring Managers
Are you feeling frustrated trying to navigate through the job market today? Are you annoyed that you are wasting time and can’t get through to find the positions you are qualified for? Getting caught in the nightmare of online recruiting software screening you out? There are so many considerations required when seeking your next employment home. How do you manage through the maze of how organizations hire today? What are your options?
If you approach the job market without doing your homework up front, it will take you 50% more time to realize looking for employment takes as much . . .
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Interview Preparation
Behavioral Interview Quick Tips
Most job seekers do not look forward to behavioral based interviews, usually because they are not sure how to prepare.
Interview Preparation General Questions – Workbook
Manage effectively in an interview: Practice, practice and review again.
Manage your Job Search – Workbook
Manage your Job Search - Workbook has been designed with the job seeker in mind. We did our best to
Quality Checker
Quality Checker is your personal checklist to get rolling! Dust off your resume, find the last updated version saved. Review
Psychometric Testing Preparation
The employer-side: expectations meet reality! If you are a job seeker in employment transition or hoping for a next steps
Typical Interview Errors
Typical errors that you don't want to make on an interview: this is your checklist to ensure you have no
Are You Managing Your Digital Reputation?
What is one of the hottest topic's being discussed today? The buzz is about digital reputation management and maintenance for
New Professional Immigrant Sample Interview Practice Questions – Workbook
If you have relocated and now live in a new country, have all the proper government sanctioned approvals to work
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Your Tools
What is Important to You?
Most often, when it comes to ourselves, we are the last person we think of. We help others, take care of others and do our best to make sure we are liked by others but do we look after what is important to ourselves? It is time to be candid and strip off the band-aids we have patched together in our lives. It is your turn to think about you.
Some would say, I don't have time to think about what I want. There are too many personal responsibilities. If I get free time, I just want to . . .
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Candidate Reference Consent
At a certain point in the hiring process, you will be asked for references. To be ahead of the competition, prepare a release for your references and background check.
Job seeker release: permission form to conduct business references.
(For the sole purpose of gaining employment)
I, _________________________, hereby authorize (recruitment firm), or any firm retained by the recruiting company, to conduct business references for the purpose of employment on my behalf.
Switching Hats
Are you used to being on the hiring side of the desk? This program covers how to switch hats and learn to be comfortable on the job seeker side, of the interview and hiring desk.
This program is recommended for job seekers at the manager level and above.
Are you having a hard time NOT taking the lead seat at the interview table? Do you find yourself biting your tongue in an interview so that you don’t direct/control the interview flow? Do you find that you are trying your best not to interview the interviewer? If this sounds like you, it is time to switch your mindset and discover ways to successfully present yourself to an employer. You can ask questions once invited to do so but give the interviewer the benefit of respect. You are the invited guest.
Representation Letter
What is a representation letter and why do I need to know about it?
The simple answer is, if you engage with recruiters you will find that most recruiter's will ask you to sign a letter of representation. A letter of representation is usually for a specific position within a specific organization to protect the recruiter, you and any fee attached to potential placement of you. When recruiters engage with clients on a non-exclusive basis it is possible if not protected, to find themselves in a questionable position about related fees.
Example: Bob finds . . .
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Are You Giving It Your Best Shot?
Every single day I get between 1-15 calls that start like this:
- “I want to give it my best shot but I need some help to figure out a way to explain to my boss that I am exceeding my goals and targets but am not being recognized monetarily or through acknowledgment, what can I do?”
- “Why does my boss spend copious amounts of dollars on frivolous daily spends but when it comes to giving me a raise there is no more money?"
- “I have tried my best but how else can I . . .
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Do You Have The Jam To Be A Great Leader?
Working harder is not working smarter nor is it the way to success. The core answer is in the creation, planning, and execution of your peace of mind. Combining your emotional, intellectual strengths and communication best practices will lead you towards a path you can follow that will guide you to reach your potential.
To put it simply you are only as good as what you think about and what you choose to initiate, design, deliver and execute on. It has been said that “The definition of insanity is doing the same things day in and day out and expecting . . .
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Respect – Do We Earn Respect or Demand It?
Would you agree that today the work environment and the workplace itself can be considered choppy at best? Employed or unemployed it takes a great deal of inner strength to get through all of the moving parts of each day. When you ask most people how they are, you hear this. “I am crazy busy”. What exactly does this mean? We know that our personal lives collide with our business lives. Does it mean that we are crazy and busy or just busy and crazy or does crazy busy mean we are pumping on all cylinders and we are good . . .
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Career Promotion – Manage Your Career Path
Manage & examine your next step in your career Have you spent the last number of years going through the motions at work only to realize that years have gone by and you have been passed over for promotion or feel you are not exactly where you want to be?
Career management takes dedication and focus. You are the only one who can move your career to the next step. It is up to you to look after your career just as it is up to you to look after your personal life. Hand in hand, piece by piece you . . .
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Career Direction Planning – Workbook
What is important to me?
Not everyone comes from a family where focusing on your priorities in life and your career opportunities are their priority. Most families have competing priorities and life is a juggle of all of them to keep all moving parts going in a forward direction. If you have people in your life that care about you that still doesn't mean that your career is their priority. Whatever your personal situation, nobody can decide what is important to you professionally or even personally but you. You are the only one that knows what challenges . . .
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Career Promotion: Career Management 101
Manage & examine career path next steps
Have you spent the last number of years going through the motions at work only to realize that years have gone by and you have been passed over for promotion or feel you are not exactly where you want to be?
Career management takes dedication and focus. You are the only one who can move your career to next steps. It is up to you to look after your career, just as it is up to you to look after your personal life. Hand in hand, piece by piece you must take the time to work on yourself, not someone else’s idea of what your success should be. Take the time every year to look at your goals, hopes, and dreams. Figure out what it is you want out of your life both personally and professionally. There are many steps you will need to take to manage your career path success.
P.I.P. – Performance Improvement
This is the kind of letter you could receive from your employer if you are officially being made aware of a performance issue. Often organizations have PIP (Performance Improvement Plan) solutions. Once a PIP is implemented a letter as below is often generated by the employer to the employee. Please note this is a sample of a PIP for a Sales Executive.
Date:
Employee name and title:
Name of employee's Manager:
Signature:
Title:
Department:
Human Resource name & signature:
Human Resource title:
This . . .
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Have You Felt Shocked by a Colleague that is Here One Day, Gone The Next?
It is a tragic day when you come to work and your boss tells you and the rest of the organization that one of your colleagues will not be coming back to work. Not because the person was let go or resigned but due to a sudden horrific accident. For our purposes, we will call this employee, Manny.
Most people have immediate gut reaction thoughts. You may think, how/when did this happen? Oh my goodness, I spent two hours reviewing a presentation with Manny yesterday. How is this possible? What do you say? Your thoughts fly as you hear . . .
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