10 Real World Tips to Find a Job Close To Home

Sick of commuting? Here are some ideas on how to find a job near where you live.

This is a guest post by Diane Dolinsky-Pickar. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines.

How long is your commute door-to-door? An hour? More, with traffic?

If you see yourself dreading the commute, or you’ve met the local cop one too many times as you rush to the train, it’s time to find a local job. But how do you do that when your network and contacts are far away?

Develop a geographic boundary for where you’re willing to travel, and then get into head-down mode to identify employers in that area.

The list below is a starting point.

1. Sell yourself

Give everyone you know your 30-second elevator speech, including other parents, neighbors and folks you may mix with as tennis partners/country club friends/farmer’s market enthusiasts.

2. Join local meetups

Go to Meetup.com and fill out your topic or interest, plus city or zip code, and join a local group in your industry. With so many professionals under- and unemployed, you’ll gain support from networking and learn a great deal from the speakers. At the Meetup I went to this morning for Project Management professionals, I was told more than 30 people had landed on their feet in a job, since joining the group.

3. Attend local networking groups

For example, Gotham City Networking utilizes a referral network to generate business among members, and therefore, limit membership to one subject matter expert per group. If they have a need that you can “plug” with your expertise, upon joining you can become the one they refer folks to.

4. Attend mixers and business trade shows

Often, a local Business Council that is associated with the county or city government will present a yearly business expo featuring local products and services. This kind of event has sponsors that may be hiring, and if so, they will be listed on the direct mail flier or postcard that’s sent out. Research the sponsors beforehand, and reach out to them in advance.

5. Run a local seminar

Present your knowledge of a subject at local venues, including church and synagogue groups, cultural organizations, and library programs. If you cannot find a group that sponsors an evening or weekend forum related to your work, offer to organize a panel to address that topic, and help promote it.

Local chapters of the Rotary Club or Lions Club frequently feature guest speakers at lunch meetings. If you know someone who is a member, contact them directly and ask if they’d advocate for you to get on the calendar as a future guest presenter. The members who attend are locals and potential help to you in your job search.

6. Comb community newspapers online for local business news

Identify nearby companies and contact them for an information interview. Small and medium-sized firms may be intrigued by a professional who read a Q&A or saw a media mention. Use that as a hook. One mom I know was thrilled with the open response she got, when she was transparent about her aims and simply asked to learn more.

7. Reach out to local medical offices

Medical practices that employ nurses and office support personnel are often contacted by candidates who send a resume and never reach out. Without another “touch”, that’s practically useless. Here’s what one urologist told me: “If only a job-seeker would take the time to follow up with a phone call to say they’d like to come in and meet me and see what’s here … that small show of personal interest would make all the difference in the world.”

8. Apply for adjunct teaching positions at your local Community College

If there’s a university campus in your town, look for vacancies on bulletin boards and in the Chronicle of Higher Education (or your local equivalent).

9. Pop in at the Board of Education to apply for a building substitute position

Try several local school districts. Even though they may not need you now, people come and go in this capacity, and positions do open up during the school year.

10. Pound the pavement

I know it sounds too Old School, but it worked for me. Depending upon where you live and what level of security exists, here in the suburbs where I reside, I’ve entered office complexes and gone from door to door, handing out business cards to receptionists and asking to introduce myself directly to Officers. Of course, you risk being seen as a pest, but on the other hand, after one day of exercising my shoe leather, I received two calls from potential employers.

11. Use the radius tool of search engines.

I find Indeed.com particularly useful here.

 

 

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30 Dangerous Personal Branding Habits

Which of these bad personal branding habits have you struggled with?

Of the list that follows, here are a few that have bitten me in the past, and occasionally come back to haunt:

Over-staying in your comfort zone

Break this habit by replacing it with a good one-

Once you start feeling comfortable with where your personal brand is at, take that feeling as a warning sign that you need to come up with new brand-building ideas and start executing on them.

Trying to do everything by yourself

Just because it’s your personal brand doesn’t mean you need to do all the branding work. If you’re serious about your brand, get assistance and expertise from people who can execute better than you at specific tasks.

Letting yourself be overwhelmed into inactivity

Being overwhelmed is a result of a lack of priorities and a lack of organization.

The most common example today is probably the ever-overflowing email inbox, a situation now made worse with the addition of social media messaging and cellphone text messaging. Here, you need to figure out which messages are most important and act on those ASAP while blocking everything else. Once you’re done, go through the latter and block as much as you can permanently. For more specific ideas, google ‘organize inbox’.

And now for the complete list…

Outright lying.Being inauthentic or just fake.Not delivering on promises, or just things you said you would do.Not following up.Aiming for quantity, not quality.Not measuring what you do, which makes it that much harder to know what you really achieved or not.Spending too much time measuring, or getting caught up in analysis paralysis.Not listening enough to your audience.Too much self-promotion.Navel gazing (too much self-focus).Not dressing the part.Being too aggressive.Over-staying in your comfort zone.Lacking confidence i.e. not being aggressive enough.Not having a plan.Lacking focus.Being inconsistent.Unintentionally frustrating potential brand loyalists.Switching tools, systems and/or methodologies too often.Too much branding reuse such as excessive cross-posting on social media.Trying to do everything by yourself.Over exposure.Lack of exposure.Unnecessary hyping.Having unrealistic expectations.Building unrealistic expectations in others.Letting yourself be overwhelmed into inactivity.Spending too much effort online, not enough offline.Spending too much effort offline, not enough online.Not spending enough effort anywhere.

 

 

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How to Quickly Recover From Bad Job Interviews

8 tips for getting over every job seeker’s worst nightmare.

This is a guest post by Nisa Chitakasem. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines.
It’s every job seeker’s worst nightmare.
You’re in an interview for a job you really want and it all starts going wrong.
Whether it’s your phone ringing or you giving the longest, most irrelevant answer to an interview question ever, once things start going wrong it feels like there’s no way back.
But there is.
It is possible to get things back on track and limit the damage during the actual interview. There are also some follow-up steps you can take after the event to rectify the situation and to move on with your job search regardless of what the outcome of the bad interview is.
Don’t panic
Even if you’re convinced you’ve made a massive mistake in the middle of your interview, keep calm and carry on. The interviewers may not have even noticed, or if they have, they may be willing to allow it depending on how the rest of the interview goes.
Control your emotions
Even if you feel like bursting into tears because the interview is going so badly, keep yourself in check. Keep things in perspective—it’s only one job interview, not a fight to the death.  If you really are emotional, excuse yourself to the bathroom so you can take a moment.
Avoid dwelling on your mistake
Yes, you made a mistake, but if you keep thinking about it for the rest of the interview, you’ll be distracted and that will make matters worse. Put the mistake out of your head by listening carefully to what the interviewers are saying. This will help you remain in the moment instead of thinking about what just happened.
Don’t try too hard
If you overcompensate your error by trying too hard, you’ll tighten up and will probably go on to make more mistakes. Instead, focus on executing your original game plan for the interview and try to keep your breathing even.
Do NOT vent online
You may think there’s no way in a thousand years that interview landed you the job, but that’s still not an excuse to jump on Facebook and rant about the experience. Firstly, you never know- the interviewers may still be considering you and therefore may be monitoring your social media presence to see if you’re professional online. Secondly, other employers you’ve applied to may also be checking your online profiles.
Send a ‘thank you’ note
No matter how embarrassed you are after the bad interview, take the time to at least email a ‘thank you’ note to the interviewers. It can’t logically make matters worse and is a simple sign of acknowledgement and politeness or at worst, just think of sending a ‘thank you’ note as an act of closure.
Get in touch with new thoughts
The last thing you may want to do after a disastrous interview is to email the interviewers with new thoughts or ideas about the interview topics. However, by emailing them with things that occurred to you after the event, you may be able to salvage the situation. In the clear light of day, your thoughts will be more lucid and can give the interviewers a more accurate idea of who you really are.
Move on
Focus on the other job applications you’ve made and how you’re going to improve upon your interview technique. If learning from your interview mistakes helps you to ace the next interview you get, the bad interview will have been worth something.
Nisa Chitakasem is the founder of Position Ignition – a careers company dedicated to taking you to the next step in your career. For free advice, guidance and information on careers visit the Position Ignition Career Blog or find Nisa on Twitter @PosIgnition or Facebook. And for tips specifically on job interviews, see Position Ignition’s eBooks Getting Started with Interviews and How to Ace the Interview.

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