Career Transition Services

Career Transition ServicesThere are numerous Portland Oregon based job companies and individuals offering online professional resume writing services to individuals interested in making the transition from full time employment to self-employment. Not surprisingly, many of these businesses have been around for quite some time, specializing in the unique problem of career transition, but also providing the services of a full-service resume writing service to individuals and families looking to achieve employment success. Consider what these Portland Oregon based business owners do first hand - provide an honest assessment of the work market conditions facing your industry or employer - and then help you do it better.To date, many Portland Oregon based business owners offer career transition services that are designed to save you time and money by providing you with tailored guidance regarding a number of issues such as resumes, cover letters, and cover letter writing skills. Such servi ces range from helping you overcome any work/life conflicts that may arise during the employment search, to giving you some basic job coaching tips, to individualised advice on how to manage yourself during the first months of your new employment. These professionals offer personalized service that includes the goal of aiding you in the processes of writing a killer first impression of yourself, showing employers that you are both employable and willing to learn new job-related skills, and being a solid reference for employers.With such a list of strengths, there are a number of tips and techniques for beginning an interview, cleaning up your entire resume and eliminating any errors, and preparing your cover letter and resume to meet the requirements of employers. The key to employing this type of service is the expert coaching and guidance of someone who has actually undertaken the task of hiring someone previously, and who knows how to overcome work/life conflicts and provide tips and techniques that are applicable to your career needs. Additionally, you will be taught about hiring styles and how to make the most of them so that you can impress an employer to make you their next employee. No matter what career you are pursuing, no matter what industry you are interested in or what area of expertise you possess, these Portland Oregon based career service providers can help you get to the next level.It is important to remember that no matter what your interests or career goals are, getting and keeping employment is all about your 'firewalls' in order to ensure that potential employers know how to read you and what you're capable of, and that the skills you are displaying are unique, that they can trust you with and what you can really do for them. By consulting with professionals in this field, you can help ensure that you keep that professional 'firewall' and remain confident that potential employers will 'see' and read the qualities you possess in order to m ake you a valued employee.There are an impressive number of career transition services that are available to you at every turn and of course one should always investigate the credentials of those offering the services before settling on a specific company or individual for assistance. There are several Portland Oregon based professionals that specialize in the field of career transition and resume writing and you need to conduct a thorough research before deciding on a career transition service that will offer you the most value for your money.If you have thought about moving your career into a new direction, one of the best places to start is by consulting with professionals in the field of career transition and resume writing. After all, this is where you begin to have a successful transition of employment - not on the job market - but with a firm foundation of an exciting and rewarding career at your disposal.With an online presence, you can avail of Portland Oregon based career services that will assist you to take your career to the next level and begin making a difference in your life today. There is many Portland Oregon based professionals that offer professional resume writing services and this can lead to an innovative and career-turning journey that is sure to be as fulfilling as it is lucrative.

Jeff Bezos Amazon Business Success Thanks to Good to Great

Jeff Bezos Amazon Business Success Thanks to 'Good to Great By the end of last year, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had amassed a fortune estimated at around $132 billion. Even after the tabloid scandal that prompted his divorce earlier this year, Bezos still held onto an estimated $109 billion worth of Amazon stock â€" along with the title of the world’s richest man. These eye-popping numbers make it easy to forget that Jeff Bezos’s net worth wasn’t always astronomical. As an internet and e-commerce pioneer, Amazon had some home run ideas, sure, but there were also plenty of foul balls and some projects that were simply a swing and a miss (remember the Amazon Fire Phone fail?). Just how did Jeff Bezos cope with failures and come up with the winning ideas that helped make Amazon an enormous success â€" and make himself incredibly rich in the process? In a new Vox podcast with Kara Swisher of Recode, former Stanford professor Jim Collins, the author of business books including Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t, recalled a phone call he got from Bezos back in 2001 that changed the trajectory of Amazon, which was then a four-year-old company. At the time, Amazon was struggling in the wake of the dot-com bust and hadn’t yet turned a profit. Collins recounted to Swisher how he visited the Amazon campus and talked with Bezos and the other executives about a core idea of his book: Viewing business growth and success as a giant flywheel. The idea, he explained in the podcast, is that all of a company’s activities should be dedicated to creating and building momentum. “It’s not a list of things you want to do drawn as a circle, it’s an inevitable, ‘building A will drive B,’” he said. “The key is the causal linkage.” Courtesy of Amazon Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t gave Bezos and his team the road map for a strategic shift in what they needed to do to put that proverbial flywheel in motion. And it worked; they made the leap. Amazon turned its first profit in the last quarter of 2001, and it’s arguable that a big reason for the company’s meteoric rise has been its focus on sustainable growth for the long haul over short-term profits â€" in other words, keeping and honing their focus on what Collins called the “inexorable logic” that propels success. “If you can get the compounding momentum of your flywheel in a world that wants you to do something quick and overnight, it’s an enormously powerful thing,” Collins said. Courtesy of Amazon It’s well-known that Jeff Bezos is a fan of this book. In the 2013 book about Amazon, The Everything Store, author Brad Stone included a roundup of a dozen books Bezos found influential. As might be expected, “Jeff’s Reading List” is heavy on business and management books like Good to Great, though it also includes some unexpected titles, like Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Remains of the Day. It should come as no surprise that Bezos (like fellow billionaire entrepreneur Bill Gates) is a voracious reader; after all, Amazon did start out life as an online bookstore. But the lesson he took away from Good to Great arguably had the greatest impact on his success. Courtesy of Amazon Budding entrepreneurs, take note. If you aspire to emulate Bezos and want to learn more about the flywheel principles, Collins just wrote a companion piece, Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great, that goes into more detail about the underpinnings and real-life applications of this concept, which helped make Amazon what it is today, and helped make Jeff Bezos the world’s richest man. We’ve included affiliate links into this article. Click here to learn what those are.

5 Statistics that Matter for Your Job Search - Work It Daily

5 Statistics that Matter for Your Job Search - Work It Daily Each year for the past nine years CareerXroads has conducted a survey about the sources of new hires. The most recent survey (full report available here) solicited source of hire stats for 43 large companies, who collectively filled 176,000 positions in 2009. While the sample size is small, and arguments can and have been made about the accuracy and applicability of the statistics, the survey results are nevertheless revealing, and have some important implications for how job seekers invest their job search energy. 1. Internal transfers and promotions were the source of 51% of all full-time hires in 2009. This is up by 19% from 2006. Why it matters: It is the perennial job seeker debate: should I take a lower level or lower paid position, just to get back in the workforce, or should I wait for my dream job? Three years ago, it may have been good advice to hold out for your dream job because two thirds of positions were being filled externally. Today, it may not be such a good strategy. If you can get your foot in the door of a good company, you stand a better chance of being able to work up to your dream job. 2. Referrals account for 26.7% of all external hires, and yield an average of one hire for every 15 received. Why it matters: You hear it all the time: if you want to land a new job you must network, network, network. This stat demonstrates why. More than a quarter of jobs are filled with somebody who leveraged their network of contacts to get a referral. Outside of internal transfers and promotions, referrals were the single largest source of new hires. BUT, and it’s a big one, nearly 75% of external hires were NOT referrals, which means as a job seeker you need to have a multi-pronged job search strategy. 3. Job boards and corporate career sites accounted for 22.3% and 13.2% of new hires respectively, 35.5% in total. Why it matters: There is a lot of noise about job boards being dead. Don’t believe it. Don’t spend all day, every day, scanning job boards, but do make sure you are checking in on a regular basis to see who is hiring. Use aggregator sites such as Indeed.com and SimplyHired.com to monitor multiple boards at once, and Linkup.com to monitor new postings on corporate boards. 4. Third party recruiters accounted for 2.3% of all external hires in 2009, down from 5.2% in 2005. Anecdotal auxiliary stat on this: a typical recruiter will have some kind of contact with an average of 100 candidates a week, but will place a fraction of 1% of them. Why it matters: A lot of job seekers have the misconception of the importance of recruiting firms in the grand scheme of job placements (a lot of recruiters do too). Candidates are often outraged about recruiters who focus exclusively on passive candidates, and begrudge the seeming injustice of it. But 97.7% of jobs aren’t filled through external recruiters. Those 2.3% of jobs that are tend to have very specific technical, sales or leadership pre-requisites that are hard to find, or have a mismatch between the location of the talent pool and the location of the job. Be findable by recruiters, but don’t invest a huge part of your job search energy on trying to break down the recruiter’s door. And don’t sweat it if the recruiters aren’t returning your calls. 5. 2.3% of external new hires were people who walked in the door. Why it matters: It’s a comparatively small number, but here’s the thing. Most job seekers don’t do it. My guess is less than 20% do it. In fact, I’d be venture to say less than 10% do it. This means 23% of job seekers who are so bold as to walk into a company and ask for the job actually end up landing a job. Polish up your cold-calling technique if you want to be one of them. So job seekers, now that you have some insights on sources of hire, how will you change your job hunt strategy? [This article was originally posted on an earlier date] Karen Siwak, founder of Resume Confidential is a Canadian certified resume strategist with 10+ years of experience in coaching counseling. Read more » articles by this approved career expert | Click here » if you’re a career expert Photo credit: Shutterstock Have you joined our career growth club?Join Us Today!