Christy Noel - Your Career Survival Guide: How to Get and Keep a Job in Times of Crisis

YOUR CAREER SURVIVAL GUIDE

@2020 Christy Noel

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ISBN: Print 978-0-9909725-9-4

ISBN: Ebook 978-0-9909725-5-6

Your Career Survival Guide is published by: BBL Publishing, a division of Build.Buzz.Launch. Media 8718 Redondo Dr., Dallas, TX 75218

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I hope the advice in Your Career Survival Guide helps you survive and thrive in a changing world. If you are ready to jump in and get started right away, I have additional resources to help you find a job, plan for whats next, and establish a rewarding career, including:

• 7 Resume Dos and Donts That Get You Noticed resume guide
• Your Complete Guide to Cover Letters (with templates)
• Your Complete Guide to Informational Interviews (with templates)
• 8 Simple Things That Will Get You Promoted career guide

In my upcoming book, Your Personal Career Coach: Real-World Experiences for Early Career Success , I am joined by 25 professionals who share personal stories from their careers to create the definitive guide on how to get hired, get ahead, and succeed in your career.

Follow me on social media for career advice and tips (links below). My latest career advice stories and posts can be found on christynoel.com and additional free guides and resources at christynoel.com/resources .

If there is informational you are seeking or questions you have regarding your career, reach out. Id love to hear from you and assist you in finding a job and excelling in it. Heres to your career success! Christy

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

- Robert H. Schuller

COVID-19 reared its ugly head just as I was finishing the final launch plans for Your Personal Career Coach: Real-World Experiences for Early Career Success. As excited as I am to bring Your Personal Career Coach to the world, it quickly became clear that getting information to help you tackle the unique challenges brought about by finding and keeping a job during a global pandemic and economic crises was needed immediately.

COVID-19 has upended lives and disrupted businesses worldwide. The way we interact with people, shop, operate businesses and perform our jobs, are all being impacted. Succeeding when extreme influences are disrupting our normal way of life is something few of us have experienced or practiced.

I wrote Your Career Survival Guide: How to Get and Keep a Job in Times of Crisis to address the specific issues we are all suddenly facing. From being out of work to working from home, the coronavirus pandemic has forced upon us new ways to communicate, interview, get hired, and do our jobs.

Your Career Survival Guide is the step-by-step guide to manage your career through any crisis. It delivers the straight talk and guidance to set you on a path to finding a new job or securing the one you have in a disrupted, distracted, and distanced world.

Within these pages youll find real-world advice on how to conduct your job search, even with unemployment numbers not seen since the Great Depression and how to be effective in your position when companies are furloughing, laying off, and modifying work schedules. You will learn strategies and tactics to establish and keep you on solid footing as the workplace, and the world, figures out our new normal.

As with previous crises - housing crisis, dot.com bubble, energy crisis, the great recession - the changes brought about by the coronavirus pandemic will be with us for some time, maybe forever. Once COVID-19 is safely behind us (and it will be one day!), we will still be faced with challenges, changes, and difficulties in turbulent times. Which is why the principles and lessons found within Your Career Survival Guide will continue to be relevant beyond this one moment in time.

Conducting a job search and advancing your career is always hard, but the struggle grows even tougher amid uncertainty about what is next. My hope is that Your Career Survival Guide help you not only survive but thrive in a changing world.

Pop Quiz: What is the primary purpose of your resume? If you said to present your work experience, sorry, you failed! The objective of your resume is to get you job interviews! Remember to keep that in mind as you write, format, customize, and hopefully, perfect your resume.

Job searching during an economic crisis means there will be a significantly higher number of applicants for every open position. Here are my top tips to make sure you optimize every component and maximize each section of your resume. This will help your resume break through the stack of applications and get you interviews!

Include who you are and how you can be contacted at the top of the resume. This should include your name, email address, and phone number at a minimum. It is not necessary to include your complete address. However, If you want to demonstrate you are geographically desirable to the position, you can include your city and state. Otherwise, it should be left off. I also recommend including links to your LinkedIn profile and professional website if you have one.

Use a professional email address. Your job-hunting email address should be some form of your name and not your hobbies or things you like. For example, . If your current email is through Hotmail, Earthlink, AOL or other dated email service provider, create a new one through Gmail for use when job hunting.

Create a customized LinkedIn public profile URL with your name in it, which is very