Career Marketplace Blog

In this article from Simply Hired’s Simply Blog, Kiersten Ferreira explains, How to Launch Your Career in Physical Therapy.

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Physical therapy emerged as a critically important profession following the polio epidemics and World Wars in the first half of the 20th century. With over 200,00 physical therapist jobs on Simply Hired, it is among the fastest growing fields in our ever-changing healthcare environment.

A career in physical therapy is a golden opportunity, but only if you are willing to invest the time and energy necessary to attain the education and training needed to excel at helping people help themselves. If that inspires you, it’s never too late to start working toward a lucrative and rewarding career.

What do Physical Therapists Do?

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Employers looking to hire candidates around Summit County won’t want to miss the AkronWorks.com Summer Job Fair.

The annual event is Wednesday, July 17, 2013, at The Sheraton Suites Akron/Cuyahoga Falls from 11am-3pm.

Hosted by AkronWorks.com, the summer job fair gives employers the opportunity to promote their seasonal, full-time, and part-time jobs to local job seekers. The company’s spring job fair attracted 50 employers and more than 600 job seekers.

Employer registration includes, a recruiting booth, access to a private interview room, and refreshments throughout the day. In addition to these booth amenities, employers can enjoy an Employer’s-Only Networking Brunch before the job fair opens to the public.

Employers can take advantage of an early registration discount until Friday, May 24, 2013. Employers can purchase a booth by calling AkronWorks.com at (330) 454-5627.

Locally owned by CareerMarketplace, Inc., AkronWorks.com is an online job board serving Summit County. The local job board enters its seventh year of hosting job fair events for Summit County.

To learn more about the Summer Job Fair, visit http://jobfairs.careermarketplace.com.

In this article from U.S. News and World Reports On Careers, Lindsay Olson explains, Finding a Job Through Networking Groups.

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Everyone keeps telling you to network to help with finding a job, but you’re apprehensive about doing so. You’re not sure where to start, or what to do once you get to an event.

Relax: you’re in the same boat as a lot of other nervous job seekers. With a few tips, you’ll be ready to start swapping business cards and building relationships to help you find your next position.

But first, a word about networking. Many job seekers think that going to one event will score them an interview at a great company. That’s not how it works. Networking is about building relationships, and it takes a while. So start before you’re really ready to quit, if possible, so that you have time enough to develop relationships with the people you meet, then move on to getting invited for a job interview.

Rather than thinking “how can this person help me” when you meet someone new, consider how you can help that person. It might be as simple as referring her to a salon you like. And while this little favor might seem insignificant, your new contact will remember you helping her, and want to do the same for you down the road.

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In this article from the Wall Street Journal, Lindsay Gellman tells students and alumni to, Tap Your School for Job-Hunt Help

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It wasn’t until after Christopher Morel graduated from Pennsylvania State University that he realized how helpful the school could be in his job search.

Mr. Morel had visited the career-services office a handful of times as an undergraduate for a résumé review. But after graduating in December 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in hotel, restaurant and institutional management, the 23-year-old turned to the school’s online jobs database to look for openings tailored to recent Penn State graduates.

“Everyone who’s posting in the database is looking for a Penn State grad, and some of them did the same [hospitality management] program I did, so they know my background,” Mr. Morel says. “I got at least two interviews using the database.”

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In this article from Lifehacker, Melanie Pinola explains how, Stand Out from Other Job Applicants by Bringing More Than Just Your Resume to the Interview.

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In today’s tough job market, anything you can do to stand out from the crowd of applicants can help you land a job. Two ways you can impress the interviewer in a short amount of time are bringing work examples and creating a presentation for the interview.

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In this article from Brazen Life, Kelly Gurnett answers the questions, When Should You Work for Free?

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If you’ve ever had a potential employer/friend/fill-in-the-blank ask you to provide work free of charge, chances are you’ve been torn.

Should you do it as a gesture of good faith , to demonstrate your skills or to gain experience? Or should you put on your pro hat and refuse to share your skills with anyone unless they make it rain?

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In this article from LiveCareer, Jenny Treanor writes, Attack your Job Search: Schedule Informational Interviews.

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If you’re about to graduate with your degree in hand, you’ll want to move quickly past the period of uncertainty that sometimes extends between the end of college and the beginning of a professional career. Even if you step into an entry-level position that you don’t plan to hold for very long, you’ll want to start accumulating professional experience and working your way onto the first rung of the ladder.

To do this, you’ll need a resume that highlights your education and accomplishments, and you’ll need to stay in touch with your professors and mentors. But to put yourself on the fast track to your first serious job, you’ll also want to schedule a few informational interviews.

What is an Informational Interview?

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StarkJobs.com will host a Spring job fair for local job seekers. The event will be held at The University Center at the Kent State Stark Campus Wednesday, April 17 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Representatives from over thirty companies will be on hand to promote their local job opportunities in Engineering, Manufacturing, Education, Customer Service, Automotive, Human Resources and more. College students will also find internship opportunities.

The job fair is a free for job seekers to attend.  Professional interview attire is expected.

To find out who is hiring at the Spring Job Fair, visit www.StarkJobs.com

StarkJobs.com Spring Job Fair

Wednesday, April 17, 2013
11:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.
The University Center at Kent State Stark
6000 Frank Avenue NW, North Canton

Free Admission and Parking

About StarkJobs.com

StarkJobs.com is the Jobs and Careers site for Canton, Ohio. A local company, StarkJobs.com connects local employers and job seekers through online services and job fairs. For more information, visit our website at www.StarkJobs.com.

In this article from The Daily Muse, Jenny Foss writes, Unemployed? The Right (and Wrong) Way to Brand Yourself.

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I recently came in contact with a former technology executive turned job seeker. He was navigating a lengthy, frustrating job hunt, and not surprisingly, he was mad, depressed, and growing somewhat panicked.

I knew this about him before we’d even talked, because he’d been all over a couple of the LinkedIn Groups I follow, lambasting the world for not realizing how amazing he is.

But interestingly, when I actually talked to him—for as loud as he was coming across via social media—he didn’t seem at all confident in what he had to offer. He wasn’t clear on his target market. And he certainly wasn’t going out of his way to earn favor with the influential technology players in his city.

Instead, the unemployed job seeker was branding himself, all over the Internet, as a difficult, indignant guy who hated recruiters and hiring managers.

That’d be a prime example of how not to brand yourself when you’re unemployed.

So what does the other end of the spectrum look like? As terrifying as it may be when you’re out of work, this is no time to run for the hills or come undone. Instead, consider these key strategies to help you brand yourself well.

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In this article from The Daily Muse, Anne Niederkorn describes, Getting Back Together: Interviewing at a Company You Used to Work For.

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Over time, your career path can take some pretty unexpected twists and turns. Like—when you suddenly find yourself trying to rejoin a company or team you once left behind.

If you’re lucky, you were approached by your old boss or co-workers—and they really want you back. But maybe you realized that you made a mistake by leaving in the first place; or, after spending time elsewhere for a few years, you see a great new opportunity available. No matter what the reason, though, that first step back to reconnecting with your former company is one that needs to be handled carefully.

So, how do you make the initial connection and interview a little less awkward and a lot more productive? In order to get some useful tips, I talked to a few professionals who were once in your very same shoes. And while their “return stories” were all a little different, their suggestions hit on some similar themes.

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