Career Services from Measurability

CAREER CHANGE STARTS HERE – Career Coaching Workshop

“There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.” – Wayne Dyer

Many employees drift through their career working in jobs lacking fulfilment or any real satisfaction. Others believe that work is not for enjoyment therefore taking little action to find that dream job. As a result it is estimated that as many as 80% of employees are unhappy at work and on the wrong career road.

• Do you want to be inspired to take up the challenge of career change?
• Do you want your career to add to your life as opposed to take from it?
• Do you want to push yourself out of your comfort zone and adopt the strategy of measured risk?

 “Career Change Starts Here” workshop is your opportunity to learn essential career direction skills and to de-clutter your mind and focus.  It will help with career planning and motivate you to take action with insightful information on key career tools, job search strategies and winning CV writing.

WORKSHOP CONTENT

• Career clarity & career direction
• Career planning
• Expert advice to market yourself – CV’s & Cover Letters
• In-depth understanding of Job Search strategies

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP FACILITATORS

Jane Downes of Clearview Coaching Group www.clearviewcoachgroup.com
and Paul Mullan of Measurability www.measurability.ie  are two of Irelands leading Career Coaches helping jobseekers across Ireland successfully navigate career hurdles.

WORKSHOP INFORMATION

Davonport Hotel  Dublin 2.
Saturday 18th Oct 10.00 – 2.00pm.
Investment EUR195.00 (EUR165.00 before 3rd October)

BOOK NOW AS LIMITED AVAILABILITY!! info@measurability.ie

There are a number of key strategies to find that dream job.- Recruitment Agencies- Direct Applications

- Networking

- Speculative Applications

 This post will provide with information about Direct Applications. Basically this involves Newspapers and Online Job Boards.

NEWSPAPERS – The two key national newspapers are the Irish Independent Jobs and Careers supplement (I am a career doctor) and The Irish Times on a Friday. If you are outside Dublin you can consider regional newspapers such as The Examiner in Cork. If you read the Sunday papers you might consider the Sunday Tribune.

JOBBOARDS – There are a few general sites including EmployIreland, RecruitIreland, Monster, Jobs.ie and IrishJobs. Equally there are role specific JobBoards including AdminJobs.ie, SalesJobs.ie, ComputerJobs.ie and RetailJobs365.ie. Eirjobs will provide a useful resource for new job announcements.

Remember: You are not job hunting if you are not covering these job resources.

For additional support why not consider CAREER COACHING - contact us.

Whether you are beginning your job search in 2008 or you are actively hunting but struggling to reach you career goal – there are two important points to consider.

Recruitment Log

It is essential to keep a record of your job hunting activity. By this I mean a little black book. A recruitment log will benefit you job search in a number of ways.

- It will provide a record so you can analyse what is working and what is not. I regularly meet career coaching clients who are not getting the results they want. Most do not keep records and when we analyse their activity they are relying on one strategy. Information from you log will help focus your activity.
- It will make your job hunting more professional. You will easily know what companies you have approached reducing the possibility of applying to the same position twice.
- It will prove a valuable source for when you are back hunting again. It will be a resource of recruitment consultants you have worked with or industry contacts.

If you keep doing what you are doing you will keep getting the same results.

Great if you are getting positive results. Your recruitment log will help you identify what is working but more importantly what is not. There are many ways to source a job and you must embrace all strategies. There are reactive strategies such as recruitment agencies and direct application like papers and job boards. Most jobseekers will gravitate towards these strategies as they are easier. If they are not working you can approach them differently or look at proactive strategies. Proactive strategies include networking and speculative approaches to companies. Remember 50% of jobs are never advertised so proactive strategies will help you unearth these gems!!