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Why Career Centers Should Teach Lifelong Job Skills with Denise Felder

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Career Centers must prepare high school, and college students to job search for life. It is a hindrance to the student if the teaching and engagement is short term or assumed.

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Denise Felder (@DeniseMpls) is the Director of Professional Development, Career Technical Education for the State of Minnesota Colleges and Universities. She has been a Career Advisor for 15 years working with teens and adults in nonprofit agencies and schools. She currently helps educators, administrators, and advisors who teach in high schools, colleges and universities. She still volunteers with community organizations helping low-income people to make education and employment decisions.

Highlights from our conversation:

Schools that have placement offices can be a hindrance because it is not teaching students the job finding skills, and additionally puts pressure on staff to find any job. Her goals are to teach students life long skills to go with the mentality of, “… Teaching them how to fish…”
The local economy impacts the success of the program, but the entry level jobs help a student see their specific career trajectory
Faculty can aid in the students’ vision if they are familiar or working in the current field to understand career trends in hiring. If the faculty doesn’t, then enlisting the help from career services
Alumni can play a huge and relevant role in mentoring students. They can provide experience to student through informational interviews
Denise talked about the “new world of work” as each student and job seeker needs to prepare to be an independent contractor. Her advice is to think long-term and your “career identity”

by Mark Anthony Dyson

Show Confidence and Resilience in Your Job Search

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Without confidence and resilience in your job search, people will wonder and wander. You got it. You must show it. If you lack these two vital attributes, or if you need reassurance, this is the episode for you.

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This week’s show is going to infuse your job search showing you are the right candidate! Let me introduce you to our guests this week:

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Aaron Morton (@aaron_morton) is a confidence coach, and founder of The Confidence Lounge. He has a diverse background in counseling, behavioral therapy, and as a personal trainer. He helps his clients increase their confidence so you can get more out of what they want.

Here are highlights from our discussion:

Confidence is a major part of sealing the deal. Competence is a part of the hiring decision, and so is confidence as a major factor
Confidence also brings a diversity to your job search portfolio
Aaron describes confidence as a two-pronged approach: How you consider you experience up to the moment and the level of certainty of what life throws at you
He also stated that confidence is affected because of the amount of rejection he or she experienced
Many job seekers do not apply for jobs as avoidance associated with rejection
I asked Aaron to explain durability as he did in a YouTube video – as he stated, there is a difference between strong and durable

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I never heard of a resilience coach before I met Mark Black. When I read his story, it made sense. He teaches people how to become and remain resilient. We all need this and especially those who are conducting job searches. I can almost guarantee that employers would love to hire a resilient individual.

Mark Black (@MarkBlackSpeaks) is founder of MarkBlackSpeaks.com, and an international speaker who shares his story of how he endured physical battles (even one near death) to eventually run marathons. I will save what he shares for you to listen from his mouth. Here are the other highlights from our conversation:

Mark explained he experienced going through the stages of death, eventually he became content with what will happen and make the best of his situation
He started speaking at a high school graduation, and was unprepared when someone asked for a business card
While building his business, he spent seven years as a substitute teacher (I did it for four years)
First attribute of resilience is acceptance – Don’t over-dramatize situations but accept the reality as it is. Denial is destructive
Second, be adaptable. Proactive adaptation is better than being forced
Third, determination & persistence. Trying and failing multiple times is essential

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by Mark Anthony Dyson

Personal SEO for Your Online Resume

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Personal SEO is a way of stating the importance of being found online. This episode will convince you that a Facebook page is not enough for a job search. Having an online resume portfolio is how employers will find and confirm your value. That is our goal in today’s episode.

Susan P. Joyce (@jobhuntorg) is the perfect person to have this discussion. She is the owner of Job-Hunt.org and WorkCafe.com, Forbes Top 100 websites for your career. She is a former Marine and an MIT visiting scholar. She also a Huffington Post contributor. All of that sounds intimidating right? Well, she is just as down to earth as anyone I’ve met. We talked over the phone for almost an hour and traded numerous emails on a variety of job search subjects. This conversation is more than 45 minutes, and we covered so much. I don’t know if the highlights will do it justice.

Here are the highlights of our discussion:

People are still outraged that employers Google them not realizing that your online identity in general is fair game. Job seekers need to think in terms of leading employers and connections to where your best presence resides. Having a consistent profile across all platforms is smart and strategically sound in presenting your online resume
Google Plus is still an under-used yet powerful resource with fewer rules than LinkedIn. It is a great place to manage your online reputation. Commenting on blogs and writing articles are great ways to associate increase visibility. We recommend using Google authorship to make it easier for employers to find you. You must have a Gmail account and a Google Plus account to set this up
Amazon reviews scores high in Google rankings. A job seeker can write a review for industry related books, and be found. This increases value in presenting your online resume
We mentioned how people can also refer to the conversations in past shows with Hannah Morgan and Erin Kennedy as we discuss online reputation and the importance of keywords
Susan recommended that a person should Google themselves at least once a week to manager his or her reputation. Most people are unfamiliar with Google Verbatim, a tool used for targeted searches and useful to search your reputation
Privacy protection should be a long-term concern. Susan stated that there are too many people unaware of consequences of so much personal disclosure
We end the show by talking how employers are not posting salaries along with the description, and why she was so passionate about it. This is the original tweet that sparked my inquiry

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