Kickstart Your Career In The New Year

Do you have career goals going into the new year? Not sure what you want to do? Here are some ways you can kickstart your career at the beginning of the new year! 1. Update Your Resume With Recent Accolades Resumes are no longer about objectives or daily job functions. Today, resumes are strategic marketing documents that must effectuate a candidate’s worth and value. A resume must properly brand the candidate within his/her areas of focus and be targeted towards the actual job position. Updating your resume and reflecting your recent achievements and accolades is a sure way to provide more value to the reader. Consider reviewing your performance evaluations while also listing projects you have led, skills you have acquired, and results you’ve achieved for organizations. 2. Consider Professional Assistance From A Career Coach Many job seekers, millennials in particular, are frustrated with job searching and the job market. A career coach can be a great resource and tool when a job seeker has trouble achieving career goals or continues to reach stumbling blocks. A career coach can help job seekers realign their direction with solutions-focused ideas, provide positive praise and motivation, and offer guidance in self-discovery. 3. Use Social Media To Your Advantage We are now living in a heavily advanced digital age. Job seekers can tweet to CEOs and employers, post a Facebook status to alert their friends and family members about their job search, and they can use use their LinkedIn profiles to apply for a job, connect with hiring managers, and even expand their own network to connect with other professionals. 4. Network Like There’s No Tomorrow Included in your tax deductions are your job expenses – resumes, traveling to interviews, and even attending networking events to job search. Use those networking events to your advantage. You can locate events through Facebook, Twitter, and even sources such as Eventbrite. Be sure to have a business card handy. Pass them out and take the Black Metal Kards of the other networking professionals. But, don’t forget to follow-up through a connection on LinkedIn or even an email that requests a low-key coffee break. Make 2016 your biggest and best year to kickstart your career endeavors with these tips. Don’t wait for January to pass you by. It’s already here and you are too!   Source: careerealism.com