Encore: Ken and Sheryl Dawson discuss techniques to achieve placement in a challenging job market

Ken and Sheryl Dawson discuss techniques to achieve placement in a challenging job market. Whether you are currently out of a job or seek to advance, preparation is the key to success. They discuss the unique challenges that senior workers face and how to overcome them. Learn to promote your work ethic, experience, values, and flexibility. Companies are particularly interested in workers with technical skills, marketing and sales, health care, computer, and science backgrounds. They also emphasize independent and contract opportunities and discuss licensing requirements in various service fields. Gain the inside story on how preparation beats your competition. The show informs and encourages listeners to achieve their career goals by featuring experts and business leaders on job search and career advancement. Show hosts are Ken and Sheryl Dawson, principals of Total Career Success, Inc. and authors of Job Search: The Total System.

For more from Ken and Sheryl Dawson, listen to the entire show at 12pm EST/9amPST on Monday, February 21, 2011 or visit www.totalcareersuccess.com.

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Ken and Sheryl Dawson discuss techniques to achieve placement in a challenging job market

Ken and Sheryl Dawson discuss techniques to achieve placement in a challenging job market. Whether you are currently out of a job or seek to advance, preparation is the key to success. They discuss the unique challenges that senior workers face and how to overcome them. Learn to promote your work ethic, experience, values, and flexibility. Companies are particularly interested in workers with technical skills, marketing and sales, health care, computer, and science backgrounds. They also emphasize independent and contract opportunities and discuss licensing requirements in various service fields. Gain the inside story on how preparation beats your competition. The show informs and encourages listeners to achieve their career goals by featuring experts and business leaders on job search and career advancement. Show hosts are Ken and Sheryl Dawson, principals of Total Career Success, Inc. and authors of Job Search: The Total System.

For more from Ken and Sheryl Dawson, listen to the entire show at 12pm EST/9amPST on Monday, February 7, 2011 or visit www.totalcareersuccess.com.

For 7 free videos go to www.betterjobbetterlife.com.

Dr. Richard Miller, President of Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering on Transforming the Future of Engineering

Miller HIResDr. Richard Miller is an award winning educator and leader in reinventing engineering education. Olin College of Engineering is transforming the field of engineering to meet the global challenges in energy, clean water, health care and cyber security. Dr. Miller shares Olin’s interdisciplinary and experiential learning model designed to better prepare engineers. By blending engineering, entrepreneurship and liberal arts, Olin has intensified student and faculty engagement, and produced graduates who are entrepreneurs as well as engineers. By their fourth year, students are actually consulting on real business problems and creating solutions that are viable and desirable, as well as feasible.

For more from Dr. Richard Miller, listen to the entire show or visit www.olin.edu.

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Ten Steps to Hit the Ground Running in Career Advancement!

Ken & Sheryl Dawson present their proven 10-step process to advance your career. The Dawsons share their unique approach found in their time tested product, Job Search: The Total System. The most powerful concept they present is the linkage of all 10 steps. The assessment of your skills and competencies is linked to the development of your resume. The resume is linked to your references, networking, and of course interviewing. Your research on industries, companies and opportunities is linked to lead generation, interviewing and negotiations. The most important link of all is your positive attitude in every single step! When you use linkage and project a positive attitude, you build psychological leverage, ensuring you are better prepared to win the offer and advance your career.

For more from Ken and Sheryl Dawson visit www.betterjobbetterlife.com or listen to the entire show.

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Special Encore Presentation: Dr. Vince Patton, Director Community Outreach, Military Advantage and Retired Career Coast Guardsman on Jobs for Vets

bioVincePatton182x2551Dr. Vince Patton, Director Community Outreach, Military Advantage/Monster Worldwide and Retired Career Coast Guardsman, brings the knowledge and experience of a 30-year military career and multiple advanced degrees to the subject of employing veterans. Dr. Patton addresses:

  • Issues facing transitioning service members
  • The value of career fairs for employers and job seekers
  • How to help disabled veterans get jobs
  • Job opportunities in government
  • Transferable skills from military to civilian jobs
  • Education options for military personnel
  • How to attract vets to work for your company.

For more from Dr. Vince Patton, listen to the entire show or visit www.military.com.

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Bob Alexander, Educational Consultant, on the Ziglar I CAN Culture Transformation Program

Alexander_IMG_9264Bob Alexander, President of The Alexander Resource Group, is a former teacher, coach and high school administrator who has personally conducted thousands of keynote addresses, workshops, and student assemblies worldwide on success principles and career advancement.  Bob is passionate about teaching the Ziglar I CAN values and attitudes that enable children to succeed.  The Ziglar mantra of encouragement and hope is one that resonates with everyone, especially children!  He shares:

  • The challenge of education;
  • ABC’s of Life…Attitude, Behavior and Character;
  • The Stair Steps to Success;
  • The I CAN success story;
  • Keys to Cultural Transformation.

For more from Bob Alexander, listen to the entire show, visit www.yesican.net, and watch this video.

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Secrets to Getting a Job NOW!

Ken & Sheryl Dawson present proven techniques to secure a better job for better pay and a better life. In an economic downturn, people of all backgrounds and most industries are finding job searches very challenging. The Dawsons share their secrets to beating your competition:

  • Adopt the Cycle of Success, including positive attitude, linkage of all steps, and building psychological leverage;
  • Research the market for niche opportunities, being open to contingency options;
  • Assess your strengths, passion, accomplishments in light of market realities;
  • Draft an A+ resume that differentiates you;
  • Network online and face-to-face;
  • Prepare to interview using linkage of your resume, research, references, and review of the tough questions;
  • Negotiate your value!

For more from the Dawsons, listen to the entire show or visit www.totalcareersuccess.com.

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Hank Kohlbrand, Retired Dow Chemical Company Executive and President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers: Building Your Chemical Engineering Career

Kohlbrand Formal 2010Hank Kohlbrand, retired Global R&D Director, Process & Manufacturing Technology R&D for Dow Chemical Company and President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), will share:

  • Key business trends that will shape chemical engineers professional future
  • Megatrends that define opportunities
  • Important skills, beyond technical skills, needed for future success
  • Embracing change as opportunity
  • Association resources for members and others to advance their careers and the industry.

AIChE is a professional society of more than 40,000 chemical engineers in 92 countries.  Learn the inside story of how the chemicals industry and careers change lives and society.

For more from Hank Kohlbrand, listen to the entire show Monday, September 13, 2010, at 12pm EST/9am PST, or visit www.aiche.org.

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Cody Farzad on Protecting Your Background Information and Social Networking Brand

Farzad picCody Farzad is a pre-employment background investigator with EmployersChoiceOnline.  Cody shares his expertise in surveillance, security and background investigations.  Companies have increased their security vigilance due to rising incidents of fraud, violence and misrepresentation in the job market and workplace.  With the prevalence of online information, job boards, blogs and social networking, companies have access to information on candidates they never before dreamed of accessing.  Gain interesting insight into the world of background checks and see how you can increase the security of information about your background and social networking brand.

For more from Cody Farzad, listen to the entire show or visit www.employerschoiceonline.com.

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Work Psychologist Dr. Paula Caligiuri on How to Get a Life by Doing What You Love

Paula Caligiuri -smallPaula Caligiuri is a work psychologist, professor of human resource management and the author of Get a Life, Not a Job, and is a leading expert in global career development. Paula shares strategies for career fulfillment, including:

  • Spending more time on enjoyable work;
  • Identifying long term career choices to match your skills and passions;
  • Transforming your current job;
  • Becoming “lay-off” proof;
  • Defining wealth-building activities;
  • Building an inspiring and financially secure career.

By continually developing yourself for activities you personally desire, you achieve a freedom to pursue multiple career options simultaneously. Redesign your career for real financial freedom.

For more from Dr. Paula Caligiuri, listen to the entire show on Monday, July 26, at 12pm EST/9am PST, or visit www.paulacaligiuri.com.

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Tamara Erickson, Organizational Consultant, on Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work

TErickson_picOrganizational consultant Tamara Erickson provides a valuable guidebook for the newcomers to the workforce -Generation Y, the 15 – 31 age cohort — who are entering in large numbers. Tammy gives Gen Y’s the information they crave to connect at work and to craft the lives they want. Sher reveals a framework Y’s can use to develop their own criteria for making career choices, how X’ers and Boomers view Generation Y, and the top 10 rules that can help Gen Y’s succeed in the corporate world. Tammy shares how Gen Y’s can use their unique strengths to understand and influence their professional relationships and to find their way in the changing workplace.

For more from Tamara Erickson, listen to the entire show on Monday, July 12, 2010, at 12pm EST/9am PST, or visit www.tammyerickson.com.

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Tamara Erickson, Organizational Consultant and Author of What’s Next Gen X?

TErickson_picTamara Erickson, organizational consultant and author of What’s Next, Gen X?: Keeping Up, Moving Ahead, and Getting the Career You Want, says members of Generation X—the 30-to-44 age cohort—have drawn the short stick at work. The economy has been stacked against them from the beginning. She lays out a powerful framework for shaping a satisfying, meaningful career, revealing how GenXers can:

  • Use their unique capabilities to become effective leaders
  • Identify work that matches their passion
  • Succeed in a corporate career or independently
  • Spot and seize newly emerging professional opportunities.

Tammy helps you decide what you want and shows how to get it.

    For more from Tamara Erickson, listen to the entire show or visit www.tammyerickson.com.

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    Dr. Tom Anastasi, Author of Successful Entrepreneur: American Dream Done Right

    Tom Anastasi photoTom Anastasi, author of The Successful Entrepreneur: American Dream Done Right, lays out a roadmap to minimize risk and maximize success. Unemployment is causing many to consider hanging out their own shingle. Tom guides the new entrepreneur through four phases to success:

    1. Start Up covers research on product viability, budgeting, and start-up capital
    2. Being the Boss offers valuable advice on employment issues and leadership styles
    3. Sales and Marketing explains pricing, marketing strategies on a budget, and effective sales
    4. Years Two to Five addresses signs of trouble, getting through tough times, and selling the business.

    For more from Tom Anastasi, listen to the entire show or visit tomanastasi.com.

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    Career Advancement Strategies in a Tough Economy

    Are you having to do more with less? Is work more intense and do you feel like you are working your fingers to the bones? We’ll share insights on dealing with the impact of the recession, as well as job search and career advancement strategies to get to the next level even in a tough economy. Learn how to:

    • Be more efficient and effective after a restructuring or layoff
    • Embrace and add value to your situation
    • Adapt to change in order to grow professionally
    • Develop an entrepreneurial perspective and/or become independent contractor
    • Be a “one-percenter” and build a cycle of success.

    Thousands have successfully used our proven techniques to make their dream jobs or careers realities. If you’re looking for a better job, with better pay so you can enjoy a better life, go to www.betterjobbetterlife.com, and receive 7 free videos that will jumpstart your future starting today!

    For more, check out Job Search: The Total System or visit www.totalcareersuccess.com.

    Personal Branding & Social Networking with Bestselling Author Dan Schawbel

    Dan Schawbel imageDan Schawbel, the leading personal branding expert for Gen Y and author of Me2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, shares the tools for building your brand and gaining a competitive advantage. Learn how to:

    • Effectively use online social networks, blogs, videos, and podcasts
    • Develop a 4-step strategy for discovering, creating, and communicating your personal brand
    • Improve your networking online and offline.

    Schawbel’s octopus model visually illustrates the impact of branding on networking, career development, entrepreneurship, the use of social media, public relations, marketing, search engine optimization, and human resources.

    For more from Dan Schawbel, listen to the entire show or visit danschawbel.com.

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    Adrienne Leigh, Business Broker & Franchise Expert: What You Need to Know to Be a Successful Franchisee

    Adrienne Leigh imageAn experienced entrepreneur with more than 25 years of business ownership, consulting, and franchise experience, Adrienne Leigh, coaches clients through the due diligence process to ensure that they are a match for a particular business or franchise. Selecting a company or franchise to buy is an art as well as a science, and Adrienne considers both perspectives. She takes much of the guess work out of the equation, and helps reduce the risk. As an astute negotiator, Adrienne enables new franchisees to optimize their investments.

    For more from Adrienne Leigh, listen to the entire show or visit www.frannet.com.

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    Jan Vermeiren, How to REALLY Use LinkedIn

    Jan Vermeiren imageJan Vermeiren, founder of Networking Coach and international bestselling author of How to REALLY use LinkedIn, shares how to effectively utilize LinkedIn to:

    • Get new customers
    • Find a new job
    • Keep in touch with your network
    • Expand your network
    • Discover new suppliers & partnerships.

    With over 45 million profiles, LinkedIn is a networking goldmine – it is like opening your network contacts’ address books! Jan provides step-by-step basic and advanced techniques to optimize your LinkedIn presence. Accelerate the power of networking by applying Jan’s recommendations to enhance your network, advance your career and build your business.

    For more from Jan Vermeiren, listen to the entire show or visit www.networking-coach.com.

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    Entrepreneur Jen Groover on Taking Control of Your Career, Life & Destiny

    Jen Groover image With her book What If? and Why Not?: How to Transform Your Fears Into Action and Start the Business of Your Dreams, branding strategist Jen Groover inspires individuals to empower their lives and our culture by beginning with simple questions like, “What if…?” and “Why not…?” An innovator who helps others innovate themselves, Jen engages people to think, be, do and become. She shows people how they can be in control of the messages they send in every aspect of their work and life. Whether stepping up to a new career, building a new business, making your voice heard, or helping someone else overcome a hurdle, Jen shows you how to make a difference.

    For more from Jen Groover, listen to the entire show or visit jengroover.com.

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    Promoting Your Own Success with Executive Coach Bonnie Marcus

    Bonnie Marcus image Bonnie Marcus, an executive coach and motivational speaker, inspires and coaches women to promote themselves and excel in their careers. To gain control of your career advancement, learn:

    • How to create an effective and memorable message to promote yourself and your business
    • The key to feeling more comfortable with self-promotion
    • How to effectively use self-promotion to advance your career.

    We often think of the work world as a jungle. Bonnie teaches us how to explore opportunities in “jungle gym” fashion. Instead of attempting to conquer the new dynamics of the workplace on traditional career ladders, she helps clients seek creative ways to advance.

    For more from Bonnie Marcus, listen to the entire show or visit womenssuccesscoaching.com.

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    Tony Rubleski, Bestselling Author of Mind Capture: How to Stand Out in the Age of Advertising Overload

    Tony Rubleski image Tony Rubleski, marketing consultant and author of Mind Capture: How to Stand Out in the Age of Advertising Overload, shares referral, retention and repeat marketing strategies for entrepreneurs, professionals and sales teams across industries. Understanding and applying the principles of Mind Capture can determine success or demise in today’s fast-paced, web-based world. Learn:

    • Why people buy
    • How to capture attention when attention spans are short
    • How to stand out in the sea of marketing chaos and win more business
    • How to differentiate in the crowded and highly fragmented media universe.

    You can differentiate yourself in your career, your business and association, with Tony’s “mind capture” techniques.

    For more from Tony Rubleski, listen to the entire show or visit www.mindcapturegroup.com.

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