Reference no: EM131228677
1. What is your mission? Are you looking for part-time or temporary experience to enhance your résumé, a career stepping-stone, or a full-time, longterm career choice? (This mission will help you set the stage for the rest of your plan.)
2. What are your strengths and weaknesses? Make an honest self-issues often come up during job interviews. What about opportunity marketplace? Who are your competitors? Do you have a competitive advantage? List any special leadership skills, international travel, computer experience, team projects, communication efforts, and other attributes (Any competitive advantages you possess should be noted in the cover letter of your resume and in your job interview).
3. What are your objectives? Do you need to find a job within the next thirty days, or are you more flexible? Are there specific job activities that you would like to perform? (These job activities could be stated in the objectives portion of your résumé. Be sure the objectives are very specific: general objectives are of little use to you or an employer.)
4. What is your target market? Are you looking only for jobs with big, established organizations or small entrepreneurial firms? Are you looking at companies in a particular industry? Do you have any geographic preferences? When you figure out your target, compile a list of firms that meet your requirements and describe them. (The more you know about your target-market potential employers, the more prepared you will be in an interview.)
5. You are the product. How can you best present yourself? Think of your own packaging with regard to dress, appearance, mannerisms, and speech.
6. What about place? Are you willing to travel or relocate? Or do you need an employer close to home? How will you travel to the employer? Is telecommuting an option?
7. How will you promote yourself? A carefully constructed cover letter, résumé, business card, and personal Web site can all help communicate your skills to a potential employer.
8. Think carefully about pricing issues, including salary, commission, bonuses, overtime, flexible time, insurance, and other benefits. What is a fair price for you? What is a normal price for a company of that size in that industry to offer?
9. And finally, how will you implement your plan? That is, what is your plan for applying to companies? How will you contact them for potential interviews? How will you prepare your wardrobe and work on your interviewing skills? When job offers come in, how will you evaluate them? If job offers don't come in, can you find out why and control for these aspects?
The Appendix at the end of this chapter introduces various aspects of a career in marketing, such as types of marketing jobs, pay scales, preparation for interviewing, and what to expect the first year on the job.
No specific answer, nothing is required
Generic strategy through complementary strategic
: How has Comcast strengthened its generic strategy through complementary strategic moves in this industry. Discuss Comcast's strategies for competing in international markets. How does Comcast enter foreign markets, compete internationally, and levera..
|
Ebook on strategic human resource management
: Global Green Books Publishing is producing customized eBooks for a local college. It has just received a large order for a new eBook on Strategic Human Resource Management in a Global Context from a senior professor in the business school. Who are th..
|
Making process involves analytical and systematic approaches
: Decision making process involves analytical and systematic approaches that utilize logic and considers all data and possible alternatives (Render, Stair, & Hanna, 2012). Utilizing the six steps of decision making favorable and sometimes unexpected ou..
|
The decomposition approach to forecasting
: The decomposition approach to forecasting (using trend and seasonal components) may be helpful when attempting to forecast a time-series. Could an analogous approach be used in a multiple regression analysis? Explain briefly.
|
What about opportunity marketplace
: What is your mission? Are you looking for part-time or temporary experience to enhance your résumé, a career stepping-stone, or a full-time, longterm career choice? What are your strengths and weaknesses? Make an honest self-issues often come up duri..
|
Identify the important issues in manufacturing firms
: Describe the issues facing international IS managers in service and manufacturing firms. Identify the important issues in manufacturing firms with low and high international involvement. Explain the reasons for the importance of the issues facing int..
|
Provide high quality with each activity in the operations
: Select a type of small business. Then, following the Operations Processes (Input - Processes - Output), describe ways the business owner can provide high quality with each activity in the operations of that business.
|
Charge of the project management office
: Erica Bell was in charge of the Project Management Office (PMO) for her consulting firm. The firm, JWD for Job Well Done Consulting, had grown to include more than 200 full-time consultants and even more part-time consultants. What do you learn from ..
|
Discuss the implications of this change in exchange rate
: The CFO of a company with global operations has a forecast that indicates that the euro will depreciate in value against the dollar by 30% over the next year. Discuss the implications of this change in exchange rate and what actions can be taken and ..
|