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25 Hour per Week Job Search Schedule
Here is a detailed 25-hour-per week, full-time job search schedule (Liz doesn’t recommend more than 25 hours a week on dedicated job search activities: even when we’re empowered and full of mojo, they are draining!) that includes researching employers, writing Pain Letters™, networking, and tons more detail. If you’re looking for a tool to help you structure your job search time, check this out!
Create Your Own Frame
This Ebook is a 34-page transcription of a live presentation Liz Ryan gave to a Colorado Workforce Development audience of over-fifty-year-old job-seekers in November, 2011. Liz talks about job search branding and ‘prongs,’ framing, Human-Voiced Resumes and Pain Letters ™, and how your brand ties together your past work experience and chosen future direction through ‘the miracle of framing,’ whether you’ve had tons of experience in the field you’re focusing on, or none whatsoever. Full of stories and practical advice, Create Your Own Frame will energize your job search and give you a new way to think about your story and your skills.
Engaging Passive Candidates
This Ebook is for employers – it talks about reaching out to and starting powerful conversations with passive job-seekers, and how to move from a vetting mindset to an integrated vetting & wooing approach. A powerful read for employer-side people who need to find new ways to reel in talent!
Finding and Landing Your Dream Job
You can get a great job, and you aren’t limited by the certifications you have or don’t have, by your past job experiences or by other people’s limitations. Get a fresh perspective on your job search by understanding why people really get hired, and how to conduct your job search in a grovel-free, empowered way to bring your heft and impact across to employers.
Human-Voiced Resume Example (Before & After/Noah Greenfield)
Here is a before-and-after resume to illustrate the Human-Voiced Resume™ concept. This Ebook includes the “before” resume for the fictional new college graduate, Noah Greenfield, the “after” resume (a Human-Voiced Resume™ ) and Liz’s annotations on both resumes to show what has changed between the two versions, and why. People tell us that this resume tool has changed their job searches and career branding in a huge way. Notice how Noah reframes his part-time and summer jobs powerfully with short stories and a conversational tone – get some ideas for your own resume!
Reclaiming Our Stories
Stories are incredibly important to a job seeker, from the big story of your career so far to the tiny stories that let an employer know how you’ve made things happen for the better in your past jobs. Most of us don’t have a long list of stories or know how to think about and tell our stories. This Ebook reminds you of your incredible stories (life is nothing more than a bunch of stories, right?) and how to reclaim your powerful past.
Selling Your Expertise as a Consultant
It’s hard these days to reach age 40 (or even younger) without having stocked up a ton of knowledge about all sorts of different things. Many of us never try our hand at consulting, and that’s a shame – we’d be great at it! This Ebook talks about deciding what your consulting area will be, talking with clients about consulting work, and selling work using pain techniques – you can even consult alongside a job search! Get in touch with your inner consultant and gain some career mojo in the process.
Start the Reinvention
This Ebook is the transcription of a podcast Liz made in July 2011, talking about what happens to people in reinvention mode and what sorts of activities help the reinvention process along. This is an inspiring read prompted lots of articles and presentations Liz had been writing and giving on the topic of reinvention and renewal. Check it out!
The Job Winning Interview
Job-seekers get so freaked out about job interviews, and who can blame them? The stakes go up enormously when you talk through the door into the employer’s facility. But you may have forgotten the power that you hold in that job interview situation. “The Job-Winning Interview” helps a job-seeker prepare for, feel great about and sail through a job interview, shaking off the “Please your Majesty, I hope you find me acceptable” baggage along the way.
Understanding Career Altitude
At Ask Liz Ryan, we support job-seekers and career-changers on the one hand, and employers on the other. Our business-to-consumer division is called Career Altitude™, and that’s also the name of our professional development club (The Career Altitude Club) and our job-search-and-career-management approach. This Ebook describes what Career Altitude ™ is and how to gain altitude on your own career.
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Anatomy of a Pain Letter
Along with the Human-Voiced Resume™, Pain Letters ™ may be the job-search (and business-development) innovation Ask Liz Ryan is best known for. This popular Ebook explains what a Pain Letter ™ is and what it’s for, how to compose a Pain Letter ™ using the four elements (hook, Pain Hypothesis™, Dragon-Slaying Story ™ and closing) and how to do the research you need to do in order to craft a compelling Pain Letter ™. A sample Pain Letter ™ is included in the Ebook. Let’s talk about employer pain!
Enlisting Your Network in Your Job Search Army
To us at Ask Liz Ryan, a job search has three equally important channels: 1) Responding to posted job ads (but never through the Black Hole) 2) reaching out to promising employers who don’t have jobs posted (or may have them posted, but we haven’t seen them) and 3) networking. We know that networking is critical on a job search, but how do you get your job-search networking going and how do you actually do it? Read this Ebook for great ideas and tips on networking with people you already know and expanding the networking circle from there.
Job Search Essentials
This hefty Ebook is the transcription of a webinar Liz led that walked through the 21st-century job search process, from setting a career direction to negotiating a job offer. There’s a ton of useful information in this Ebook, if you’re ready to dig into your job search in earnest.
Personal Branding & Your Job Search
Most of us didn’t grow up thinking twice about personal branding, but these days a personal brand is a must. We have to know ourselves before we’ll be able to get employers and/or clients interested in working with us. Understand how personal branding is intertwined with your job search and start to think about your own personal brand with this Ebook, one of our most popular.
Put a Human Voice in Your Resume
A boring traditional resume full of “results-oriented professional”-type zombie language won’t help you anymore. “Put a Human Voice in Your Resume” is Liz’s best-selling Ebook, laying out a way to rethink your brand and bring more of your power across on the page to hiring managers who don’t know how amazing you are. This Ebook focuses on the Summary at the top of your Human-Voiced Resume™. Maybe it’s time for a new perspective on your resume, your brand and your career!
Stop! Don’t Send That Resume
Stop! Don’t Send That Resume makes the case for NOT responding to posted job ads through the dreaded Black Hole career portal. (As Liz Ryan says, the Black Hole career sites are like the witch’s cottage in “Hansel and Gretel…” covered with candies on the outside but lethal on the inside.) You’ll never get a great job lobbing resumes into the abyss. We can reach hiring managers directly with powerful messages about how our perspective and our history relates directly to their business issues. Next time you spot a promising job ad, note it – but Stop! Don’t Send That Resume.
Tapping the Hidden Job Market
We know that there are more un-posted jobs out there than posted ones. How do we go after them? This Ebook explains how to reach out to employers with compelling pain messages even when they don’t have jobs posted. We believe that this job-search channel (one of three that we recommend, along with responding to posted jobs and networking) is more important than replying to job ads, and gives a job-seeker like you tons more control over the process. Read “Tapping the Hidden Job Market” to learn how to contact any employer today with a message that breaks the standard “Please your Majesty, I hope you’ll consider me for employment” mold.
Using LinkedIn In Your Job Search
Lots of us got a LinkedIn profile at some point and haven’t thought much about LinkedIn since then. But LinkedIn is a massively important job-search and career-reinvention tool. Learn how to use LinkedIn in your job search with this popular Ebook.
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Career Altitude Inventory
The Career Altitude Inventory ™ is our in-depth assessment tool, to understand where your career energy will best be focused. The Career Altitude Inventory ™ walks you through a detailed set of questions (240 of them) about your career goals, your network, your branding and tons more – to help you gain altitude on your situation and generate ideas. People rave about the Career Altitude Inventory ™ — get some clarity on what’s working and not working in your own career with this robust tool full of “Ahas!”
Enlisting Your Network in Your Job Search Army
To us at Ask Liz Ryan, a job search has three equally important channels: 1) Responding to posted job ads (but never through the Black Hole) 2) reaching out to promising employers who don’t have jobs posted (or may have them posted, but we haven’t seen them) and 3) networking. We know that networking is critical on a job search, but how do you get your job-search networking going and how do you actually do it? Read this Ebook for great ideas and tips on networking with people you already know and expanding the networking circle from there.
Job Search After Fifty
Pegging, Broaching & Negotiating Salary
Learn how to determine what you’re worth in the talent marketplace, how to bring up the subject of compensation and how to handle the dreaded “What were you earning at your last job?” question, as well as how to negotiate salary and benefits to get a great job AND a great comp package.
Surmount Any Resume Problem
Lots of us have resume problems or blemishes that we fear will tank a job search. In this Ebook, a transcription of a webinar Liz presented in 2010, Liz holds up and demolishes lots of strongly-held beliefs about why employers hire certain people, how to brand ourselves, and how to bring our power across in the recruiting equation.
