Career Exploration and Career Stuff on the Internet: Routines

Series of Blog posts on career stuff. Focus will be on career exploration and Internet job resources. My hope that you will find the information helpful in your career journey.
As with anything you read on the internet, please evaluate the information you read and use the specific information that is helpful to you.

People can have routines in their lives. Work can be a routine for people lives. Routines can be like;

* Wake up at a certain time
* Have an established work routine going to work (eat breakfast, put on work clothes, travel the same or similar route to work, stop be the same coffee shop or gas station and so on)
* Spend time on work tasks at the work place
* Have an established work routine to leave work (stop by the cafe or bar after work, travel the same route back home, eat supper at an established time and so on)

When people lose their jobs, people can feel a great degree of stress. Part of the stress can be the established routine of a workplace disappears. What provided structure for many people becomes lost.

You may find it helpful to establish routine ideas as you search for a job. Below are some ideas to established a routine while searching for a job. Some established ideas for a routine can be:

* Wake up at an established time on certain days
* Have established time periods you spend time searching for a job position
* Go to see a career expert at an established time period that you repeat (like the same day and time during the week). Career Expert could be from a number of different places like Workforce Development, a non-profit organization (like Goodwill), or hiring your own career expert (like a career coach or career counselor). Besides establishing a routine, a career expert can help give feedback on your job search
* Go to a job club (a job club is a social group of job seekers looking for a job position) where people help each other search to find a job. The social component to a job club can be helpful; searching for a job position can be a lonely process and a job club can help provide social support
* Go to other social groups at structured times (going to a hobby group, a place of workshop, a social services group). The social group can be helpful to give you support while searching for a job position
* Meet family or friend members at a particular time
* Exercise – having an established time to exercise may be helpful to deal with stress and keep you healthy
* Listen or watch media programs at an established time (like watch your favorite comedy program at a the same time in the week)
* Eat meals at established time periods

These are some ideas to create routine while searching for a job position. Routine ideas to a schedule may help make your job search easier.

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Career Exploration and Career Stuff on the Internet: Feedback

Series of Blog posts on career stuff. Focus will be on career exploration and Internet job resources. My hope that you will find the information helpful in your career journey.
As with anything you read on the internet, please evaluate the information you read and use the specific information that is helpful to you.

I have found that when I obtain feedback on something, I can often improve doing that something

Feedback I am thinking about is the feedback where you give suggestions to another person on ideas to improve. The suggestions still allow the person to decide if they want to use the suggestion or not. Could be expressed like “Here are some suggestions to improve your resume” or “Here are some suggestions to improve your application” and so on.

When I searched for a job position, sometimes the only feedback I would obtain from a job search was a lot of rejections. I would not get any other type of feedback in a job search – like ways to improve a cover letter, ways to improve an application, ways to improve an interview.
The job search itself would provide no additional feedback except for rejections.
I have sometimes found it helpful to get feedback from other sources – Some of the other sources can be:

* Friends
* Family
* Career Coaches (or career counselors)
* Career experts at Workforce Development office
* Feedback from a job club (a job club a social club that helps people find job positions)
* Career expert from Career associations (a career association where members are focused on a particular profession)
* Talk to people in the profession you have a interest in going into

I have found getting feedback in my job search could improve my job search. So, if you are getting many rejections in your job search; if you are having difficulty creating an effective cover letter, application, interview – or some other aspect of the job search process – look at getting feedback.

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Career Exploration and Career Stuff on the Internet: Search for information

Career Exploration and Career Stuff on the Internet: Search for information

Series of Blog posts on career stuff. Focus will be on career exploration and Internet job resources. My hope that you will find the information helpful in your career journey.
As with anything you read on the internet, please evaluate the information you read and use the specific information that is helpful to you.

You want to find information on something – where do you go off to find it. I guess you could do a variety of different activities to find information. Some ideas could be
* Ask an expert (if you can find one)
* You can ask a person randomly off the street
* You could look at an ancient achieve looking through historic documents
* You could just guess
* You could do a search the Internet using a search engine

You could probably think of other ways to find information than those listed above – some ways to find information are likely to be more effective than others. I would like to focus on using search engines to find information on the Internet.

My guess is that most people are familiar with using search engines – places on the Internet that you can use to find information on the Internet. Google would be a common search engine.
If you are using a search engine, and you are not finding the information you are looking for – try the Help section. Sometimes a search engine may provide a help section. I like to use Google as an example in using a help section.

(going to give some information about the Help section – I am giving a description on how the Google web site looks from my computer screen, you computer screen may look different) (words in italic are words that were on the computer screen)

Go to google web site – www.google.com
You will find at the bottom part of the screen – you can find
Setting option
This will open a menu of different options – you can select
Search Help
Then scroll down to the
Filter & refine your results section
And select the option
How to Search on Google
You read about some ways to help you search on Google
One technique is when you are trying to search a phrase
If you scroll down
In the Expert Search Tips
You can select
Search Options
And you can read about how to search for a phrase in the section called
Search for an exact match
And you can read about putting a phrase (“ ”) when you want to find documents that have a particular phrase

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