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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

by Staff Writers

Business ventures build on top of one another like Lego towers — they don’t spring Athena-like from the foreheads of entrepreneurs, no matter what some may claim. Anyone with a strong idea, a lot of luck, and even more hard work can succeed in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. But they need to intently study the victories and mistakes of their predecessors before embarking on any sort of entrepreneurial journey. No matter their background or industry, the following folks have plenty of advice and inspiration to offer while future innovators compile their research.

1. Muhammad Yunus with the Nobel Foundation, Oct. 13, 2006: This distinguished Nobel Peace Prize recipient pioneered the use of microcredits through the Grameen Bank, which he established in his native Bangladesh in 1983; many for-profit and nonprofit ventures these days utilize the same concept when investing in underprivileged regions. Muhammad Yunus stands as a sterling example of the social entrepreneurship phenomenon...Read More

Injured Worker Help Desk: Why you are not getting interviews

If you have been job searching for a while and are not getting interviews or haven’t in the last few weeks then it might be due to lack of follow up.  This is a crucial step in the job search process and one only you can do to ensure you get interviewed and offered a job!  Double check your cover letter and resume to make sure the contact information is accurate first of all.  If it is, give each a review to see if there is anything that stands out to you that may be impacting how employers view you – remember employers typically only take a few seconds (6 – 15) to decide who to screen out and who to look at more closely.

If your letter and resume look good, it is likely that you are not doing enough follow up!  You should use the job logs provided to organize yourself so that you are calling on each employer applied to the previous week.   You may also have a small batch from prior 2 or 3 weeks that you will want to try to follow up with.   If you keep your jobs chronologically and write notes for yourself where provided it will make the task easier. 

No need to write book, a simple lm 4/12 in the notes area will remind you that you left a message on 4/12.  If you tell an employer or are asked to follow up at a future time, it is a good idea to write a new entry on your current weeks job log so that you do not keep track of it.  For the job leads I give you, you can write on the leads themselves or transfer to a job log, whichever is easier!

Let’s make sure to review your follow up efforts at this week’s meeting – bring your last month’s worth of job logs with you (including the ones I give you).  We’ll review how you are keeping track of your efforts on your own and my job logs to make sure you are approaching this task in a way that will allow you to be successful!   

Here is an article just posted on the www.injuredworkerhelpdesk.com site that may help further!

Injured Worker Help Desk: Why you are not getting interviews: Thousands of job seekers man their computers hour after hour applying for the same jobs everyone else is also applying for.  Applying for jo...

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Jobless during Easter or Passover?

By Mary Sherwood Sevinsky

How do you cope with unemployment a during Easter or Passover? Like any loss, a job loss results in grief.  The negative emotions can be especially magnified at holiday time when Delaware familes join together and expect happy times.  Well meaning friends and relatives often increase the sense of frustration and anger that can come with a sustained job search.

In this article, job seekers can find practical suggestions for how to ease progress through typical stages of coping with job loss. While not everyone will progress neatly through each stage, most of the jobless will be able to identify with these stages and take solace in the normality of these emotions. Understanding that

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Jobless During the Holidays Part II (Practical suggestions for coping)

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By CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert, Mary Sevinsky

How do you cope with unemployment a during the holidays? Like any loss, a job loss results in grief. In Part I outlined some basic stages you may pass through in dealing with job loss. You can read that article in full by clicking here. In this sequel, you will find practical suggestions for how to ease your progress through these stages.

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Mary is a Masters-prepared Career Counselor with over 18 years experience in resume writing, personal branding, career assessment and counseling. Specializing in non-traditional specialized careers and career-transitioning, she has the ability to synthesize and focus your unique skills and abilities to obtain interviews for the positions you want with the employers you want to notice you. Follow her on Twitter at @MarySevinsky.

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MARCH 7, 2012 BY MARY SEVINSKY LEAVE A COMMENT 

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One of my hardest working job search clients got a job offer for not only a good job, but THE JOB he told me he wanted at our first or second meeting. Both of us were on top of the world – back to work!

We talked on the phone several times to ensure he was completing everything required of the employer for the hiring process:

• Drug Screen Completed
• Drug Screen Passed
• Formal Application Submitted
• Background Check Requested
• Background Check Passed
• References Submitted
• References Received
• Contract Received for Review

Everything seemed to be going along swimmingly. We met the Friday before he was to start work, bringing with him the signed contract and employment packet – 41 pages!  He had downloaded it, but not yet reviewed it, planning to do so following our meeting.

No problem – all the hard work was done and he was ready to start… or so we thought! I mentioned among the 41 pages would be an I-9 documentation request or form. He would need a social security card and license or birth certificate and license or just a passport if he had that.

My client reported his passport was expired, but he had a birth certificate and his license (of course). I released him with a handshake and hearty congratulations to his new role asWORKER. We were both quite happy.

Until I got an e-mail from him later that day, “I can’t find my birth certificate and Social Security is closed. What should I do?” What can you do at that point? “Should he go to Social Security at 8:00 AM when it opens and hope he makes it to work on his first day on time (8:45 AM)?” This didn’t seem like a good plan.

I used to request I-9 information at my second client meeting – I am returning to this practice IMMEDIATELY!

The best advice I could give him was to visit MVA and see if he had enough documentation for an enhanced license, if possible. BUT, to present to work on time for his first day – the Human Resource Manager he was to meet with had doubtless had this happen a time or to before.

The client e-mailed me Saturday to let me know that his mother had his birth certificate… I hope this is true. I say this because my husband and I recently applied for a passport and what he thought was his birth certificate was actually a registration of a birth certificate.

The actual certificate was on file with the Bureau of Vital Statistics or the Health Department in the city or county of birth.

While I await an update from my client I decided it was probably a good idea to brush up on I-9 requirements and make sure my clients were as well. Here is what I found:

In short, you can either bring ONE document from List A or ONE EACH (2 total) from List B or List C:

• LIST A DOCUMENTS – PASSPORT, CARD OR EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZATION
• LIST B DOCUMENTS – DRIVER’S LICENSE OR STATE ID CARD
• LIST C DOCUMENTS – BIRTH CERTIFICATE OR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD

Starting a new job is stressful enough (good stress, but stress nonetheless!) – no need to feed the fire!

In fact, you can verify yourself ahead of time through the US Citizenship and Immigration Service.

You will probably wow the socks off your new employer! That having been said, bring the documentation with you your first day. Since this is such a new service, your employer might not be familiar with it…

Be prepared to start work now and avoid the scramble to get the documentation your employer is required by law to obtain from you – a passport or authorization to work is all you need!

Mary Sevinsky is master’s-prepared and has over 18 years of experience in vocational assessment, counseling and testimony, primarily assisting clients who are changing careers.

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