Meaning: I continue to experience a level of meaning and fulfillment in my work that meets my expectations.

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Criteria: I know my top criteria for job satisfaction and rewards and can to use them as decision tools in a job search.

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Satisfaction: My work's location and environment, company culture and management style and product or service match my values and fit personal style.

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Choices: I make career choices that enhance my ability to have meaning and fulfillment in my work.

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Positioning

What to Do: I have identified the top fields and the best job titles within them to fit my skills and abilities. 

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Where to Do It: I know where the industries are that employ my type of position and have targeted 20 companies with openings.

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Unique Aadvantage: My abilities and skills as a Business Solution for an employer are clearly defined and give me a competitive advantage over other candidates. 

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Minimizing Gaps: The new learning and training I have acquired has bolstered my desirability to employers and my ability to change jobs and careers.

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Packaging

Value: My resume presents a definitive picture of my accomplishments and achievements without using clichés and overused phrases.

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Identity Creation: All my correspondence on paper and online effectively conveys my identity and strategically positions me with targeted employers.

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Personal: My entire personal presentation is appropriate to the target company's culture and style.

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Logistics: I have a well-organized system a to respond to leads and follow-up on opportunities that conveys a professional image and message to an employer.

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Approach: I have conducted market intelligence on my top target companies and prepared a strategy for approaching them. 

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Preparation

Referral Systems: I am effective at generating contacts from my existing network Networking is one of my strongest sources of new career or job opportunities.

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Connections: I effectively use "information interviews" to foreshorten my career exploration and expedite my job search.

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Recruiters: I have built and maintain solid relationships with reputable search firms and recruiters.

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Where to Look: I use multiple sources to find job openings including career fairs, conferences, professional associations, trade shows as well as online sites.

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Audio Commercial: I have a concise powerful statement that expresses what I can offer and what I am looking for. 

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Relationship: My contacts developed with key people inside target companies will help promote and generate interest in me.

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Presentation

Interest: My thorough understanding and knowledge of the industry and the company demonstrates to an employer my level of interest in the opening. 

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Success Stories: I can relate my accomplishments to employers needs and requirements with behavioral interviewing-type stories.

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Process: I have well-structured and well-organized responses to interview questions designed to inform about who I am and how I can be a value add to an organization.

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Scripts: My basic telephone approach is scripted out and practiced to take a call from interest to action.

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Action Orientation: I am successful in closing the interview. I know what to say and do to move the interview process forward to the offer and maintain my strong negotiating position.

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Politics: I can get things done within complex political settings with sensitivity to people and recognition of political due process requirements.

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Goals: I consistently hit the objectives and produce results across a variety of situations without losing key details, over committing, and under delivering. 

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Mentor: My support system or mentor guides me over the organizational terrain and rely on their advice.

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Balance: I can handle pressure and stress well without a degrading of performance, composure, and behavior when under pressure or in difficult situations.

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Flexibility: I am open to change, new learning and approaches when faced with reorganization, new bosses, plans, programs and differing philosophies and missions.

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Managing: I am able manage up, down and sideways to influence decisions, build or motivate a team and achieve results.

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Strategy: The picture stays in view when working with tactics, details, and I can transition from a technical to a strategic viewpoint.

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Values: I have the necessary sensitivity to the operating values, culture, management style and ethics of the organization.

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Visibility: My accomplishments do not go unrecognized or rewarded as I can effectively communicate my value-add to the right people at the right time and place.

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Planning

Money: I have set up a financial plan for retirement, college, home buying or financial freedom and am on track with it. 

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Risk: Change and risk are welcomed as opportunities and avenues for new personal and professional growth I have contingency plans and preparations to meet challenging or unpredictable circumstances.

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Learn: I stay current or at the forefront of my field's knowledge, theories or practices. I pursue new learning to expand my career options and to remain marketable and competitive.

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Vision: I know have personal and professional goals to reach in 5 or 10 years and have developed a plan to get there with provisions for here and now contingencies.

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Loyalty: I am professionally committed to an organization with my highest and best efforts for the duration of my employment there. Being responsible for my career, financial security and personal fulfillment, I make career changes and job moves appropriate to my best interests.

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Balance: I take time to replenish, restore and explore. I maintain personal and professional connections, strong bonds with friends or family and volunteer or avocation activities.

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Grand Total (out of 195)