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In this article from USA Today College, Billie Streufert breaks down the important elevator-pitch.

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Imagine running into the hiring manager of your dream job. Chances are you won’t be in an elevator. Perhaps you’re like Monica Geller from Friends. She was working as a waitress when a millionaire offered her a chef position. Don Draper of Mad Men was selling fur coats when he introduced himself to Roger Sterling. Chris Gardner from The Pursuit of Happyness was downtown attempting to sell a scanner, but he managed to share a cab with a Dean Witter executive.

No matter where you are, you will need to create and capitalize on opportunities to introduce yourself. Like Hollywood characters, you can stumble on job leads through planned happenstance. From the supermarket to job fairs, you should always be ready to introduce yourself.

The elements of your pitch are simple. Essentially, it serves as your verbal business card and contains the components of any good narrative.

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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, 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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In this article from Lifehacker, Alan Henry explains how, FaceWash Makes Sure Your Facebook Profile is Clean and Interview-Ready.

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If the prospect of going back over years of Facebook posts to determine whether some of them should be hidden or photos untagged is daunting, webapp FaceWash can help. The service scans your posts, timeline, and tagged photos to make sure nothing incriminating is going on, and warns you if it finds anything.

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In this article from LiveCareer, find out How to Evaluate Good and Bad Career Advice

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We’ve discussed before how using your dating skills can help you find a job. But career advice is like romantic advice in some other ways as well. We often need it, sometimes we ask for it and everyone seems to love giving it whether they’ve been asked or not. Without it, we would face an uncharted world alone and we’d be constantly reinventing wheels and working to solve problems that we could easily overcome if we just tuned into the wisdom and life experience of those around us.

But sometimes advice can lead us astray, and sometimes it’s delivered by people who don’t have our best interests in mind. Here at LiveCareer, we’ve seen and heard plenty of both good and bad advice. Here’s what we’ve learned.

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In this clip from the classic comedy series, Seinfeld, George quits his job and wonders what he should do next.

Seinfeld – George Costanza ponders about potential jobs

In this video from Adam Smith College, Gordon Ramsay tells his career story and gives helpful advice on how to become a successful chef.

Career Advice: Gordon Ramsay

In this article for The Wall Street Journal’s, Financing Your Future, Andrea Coombes  reports Where the Jobs Are for Older Workers.

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Growing numbers of older adults are finding a nice surprise in the workplace: a “Welcome” sign.

The number of workers age 55 and up grew by 3.5 million from September 2009 to September 2012. That represents the lion’s share of the gain of 4.2 million for all workers 16 and older, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Two factors help explain the trend.

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