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I’m So Excited! My First Career Success Webinar Is Up.

I am SO excited – I have just made my first career success webinar available to a wider public. Although I have been a career coach for many years, using the career success process I developed myself and which I’ve tested with many, many clients, I’ve never really spoken about it in public before. And now I am.

In the webinar, I talk a little bit about my background, and how I got to where I am now. I also take you through various tips and techniques to really help you change your career. And when you watch through to the end, you’ll find details of a really special offer I am making. Sharing valuable information is a key part of who I am, and my purpose in life, so that’s what I am doing.

Here’s the link to sign up to watch the career success webinar. It’s free!

Best Jobs For Women

Written by Natalia

What were the best jobs for women in 2013 and what are the predictions for this and the coming years? Some years ago, if a girl wanted to work there weren’t many options. Nowadays women are working in all fields. From factory workers to CEOs, and from police officers to pilots, women can be found in every working environment. And it is not uncommon in our century for females to run the household finances, and -more recently- to run businesses.

But what are the best jobs for women these days? What were the most high-paying career options last year? What do statistics show about working women?

In the infographic below, published in Visually by Graphs, you will see a nice summary of every kind of research around the topic ‘professional women’.

According to research, 73% of working women had white collar occupations in 2009 and it is projected that women labour force will be increased to 78 million by 2018.

As reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the best-paying job for women in 2013 was the one of the pharmacist. In the second and third place were lawyers and computers and information systems managers accordingly. Great news for women in STEM: in this top 19 there are many professions in that field.

The job of the physician’s assistant is the highest paying job in the top 10 career options for women, followed by that of the video game designer. It is worth to take a look at the jobs that women outnumber men. Among them are school teachers, insurance underwriters and HR managers.

Looking at the countries with the highest percentage of women’s entrepreneurship I was surprised I didn’t see the United States or any of the ‘big’ European countries (the ones with the strongest economy). Thailand has the highest percentage of female entrepreneurs in the world! Peru, Colombia and Venezuela are following. To my amazement, Greece -where I come from- is ranked in the 9th place!

It is a fact that women are starting new firms at twice the rate of all other businesses. Today, women-owned businesses in the Unites States represent nearly 40% of all US businesses. The most interesting fact is that women-owned businesses employ 35% more people than all the Fortune 500 companies combined!

Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually.

Cover Letter Lacks Human Voice! Try A Pain Letter Instead

Written by Natalia

Every job hunter knows the rules: to apply for a job you need a professional CV tailored to the job’s specific needs and a ‘killer’ cover letter in agreement with the job description that promotes your skills and expertise. Or not?

What if I told you that it doesn’t have to be this way? What if I told you that you can follow a different path far away from the ‘standard procedure’ that would make you stand out?

I received an email the other day that made me thinking for a long time. It was a link to an article in The Denver Post, written by Liz Ryan. I read the article, the discussion on the comments section, I even downloaded the eBook! My brain was working in lightning speed. I could almost hear gears inside my head spinning! What did I just read?

Probably one of the most well-established myths had just “busted”. Her outside-the-box perspective suggests the complete opposite of any typical career advice: forget the cover letters! As she puts it, they are written in Zombie Language, the language Darth Vader writes in, but definitely not what humans write in! And I can’t say that I don’t agree with that. Can you imagine how many cover letters hiring managers read every day that, except for the names, are exactly the same?

So, now you are probably wondering “Ok, what to do instead then?”. What Liz proposes as a replacement of a cover letter, is to write a Pain Letter and send it in the good old-fashioned way: in the mail!

(…) That’s a horrifying way to communicate, and as bad as it is to read that stuff in corporate life (or to get a Zombie memo from your kid’s school) it’s even worse to read about a person described that way. Zombie Language is not the way to bring across a brilliant and vibrant job-seeker’s heft and spark.
We don’t have to use that kind of language to describe ourselves. We can put a human voice in our resumes, for one thing. And when it comes time to write a cover letter, we can ditch the tired cover letter format and write a Pain Letter, instead.
What’s a Pain Letter? It’s a letter that doesn’t go into the Black Hole of Death, for one thing — it goes directly to your hiring manager. You’ll find your hiring manager in two seconds on LinkedIn, by using the People Search page to find the person at your target employer who’d most likely be your boss in your new position.

Read the whole article here: “Forget the cover letter; write a pain letter, instead”

Would you try it? Would you be willing to discard well-established methods and implement new approaches in order to set yourself apart from any other candidate? Please do share your comments and thoughts. I’m very interested in your opinion!

How To Make A Good Impression In Less Than 7 Seconds

Written by The Career Success Doctor

We have less than 10 seconds to make a good impression when we meet someone for the first time. Some say 7 seconds, some say less than 5. Anyway, whichever way you count it, it is SHORT! There are plenty of articles about how to do this non-verbally, using body language, but you can also do it by using the quality of your voice: not just your words, but the way you speak.

In this short video, I demonstrate exactly how you can quickly build rapport – a sense of liking or trust or relationship – very quickly by matching your volume, speed and pitch with that of your interviewer, important business contact, or whoever it is you need to make a good impression on.

If you are keen to make a good impression quickly, then practice the three tips shown in this video. They could help you win friends and influence people. They could even help you win the job of your dreams.

If you have any comments or questions, do leave them in the box below. I’d love to know what you think.

Dream Job: Turning Your Passion Into A Successful Career

Written by Natalia

In order to have a successful career, you need to find out what motivates you, what you are passionate about, what you would absolutely love to do and would make you happy. That is your dream job.

So, how to pursue your dream job and turn your passion into a career -a successful career?

I stumbled upon an excerpt from Josh Shipp’s book “Jump Ship: Turn Your Passion into a Profession“, which I found really educating and I wanted to share with you.

The author focuses on the laws of Supply and Demand. As he puts it, “passion isn’t enough if there’s no business potential“. He then continues on how your way of thinking should be to identify the opportunities, what questions you should ask yourself to figure out if your dream job is worth pursuing, and ends with a valuable piece of advice for every professional: “you need to become an expert on everything related to your dream job“, outlining what you need to learn before deciding to take the leap and turn your passion into a successful career.

“ The trick is finding that sweet spot where what you love to do and what other people want overlap. Opportunity lies at the point where your passion and its usefulness to other people converge.

(…) That said, it’s almost always possible to find a career (or make your own) in an area closely related to something you love.

No one is going to pay you to read books for fun, but there are plenty of jobs — book editor, patent lawyer, proposal writer, reviewer/critic, researcher — that require a great deal of reading. No one is going to pay you for working in your garden or taking care of your own lawn, but they might be interested in buying your flowers or produce, or in learning how to create and tend their own garden. There’s the opportunity. “

You can read the whole excerpt in this article by the Young Entrepreneur Council, in Brazen Life: “How to Turn Your Passion Into a Successful Career”
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