Standing out at a Job Fair can make a difference in your job hunt. Career Faires are starting to pick up, and Dice is running some nice ones, called Targeted Job Fairs. At a Bay Area Career Faire in early 2010, 10 companies as showing up, and Dice has 82 career fairs scheduled for 2010 across the States.

How do you stand out at a Job Faire? The rivalry can be sizeable, but you can help yourself jump out from the gang with advance preparation. At AA-Careers, we have a straight-forward step-by-step process to get ready. Plan to go? Here’s how to prepare:

First, research the organizations that are going and pick your targets. Use the World Wide Web to check out the organizations that are there before you go. Go to their web sites and see if they have their jobs posted. Pick a reasonable number to target, and get ready to spend an hour researching each one. It’s hard to do more than 7 in a day, and three or four is a much more reasonable target. For each company, you want to know: recent news, key product lines, and contacts you know. Try to see if you know anyone at the target companies. You should end up with a page or two of research for each company/job.

Second, if there are job openings on the web, read them to see what the organization is looking for. Create a mapping of your accomplishments and skills to the requirements of the job. Make the language match. If the hiring company calls customers "clients", your resume should do the same thing. The accomplishments should be written in the style of the hiring organization.

Third, create a ‘brief sales pitch’ for each likely company/job combination. Write down a sixty second ‘thumbnail’ that you can repeat out loud describing why you are a great candidate for that job. You’ll use this in your resume and when you meet people at the job stall.

Fourth, modify your resume for each position. The objective on your resume should exactly match the job you’re aiming for. The executive summary should be a written form of your “mini sales pitch” for the job. Then choose the accomplishments and skills that most clearly match the job prerequisites. Especially at a Job Faire, the purpose of your resume is a sales tool for you – to get you on-site job interviews. It should be very easy to see that you’re a match based on your resume.

Fifth, dress and prepare as if you’re doing on-site interviews. Dress nicely and be fittingly groomed. Don’t over do-it (this isn’t a date!) and don’t underdress (no jeans or t-shirts, no matter how much you paid for them). Avoid strong cologne or perfume.

Finally, practice your ‘mini-sales-pitch’. Collect your research and the resume for each opportunity – bring a couple of copies for each – and put each in a distinctly marked folder. Keep them in a lightweight briefcase or folio.

Remember to smile, and good hunting!

Just reflecting on the past two weeks and thought I’d share a little bit. Let me show you some sites that impacted me recently. Look through these sites and my experiences and let me know what you think.

Camping Tent

We went on a family camp trip a few days ago. The family was supposed to drive to a cabin and hike a mile or two for some real camping. Found just the right camping tent for the rugged area we were going to be in. We were stressed that the tent wouldn’t make it to our house on time. It did! It sure was a relief to see that we had the right product tent shipped direct to our house. Luckily there was an expedited shipping special. Camping in the country was awesome. Fresh air, awesome scenery. Rejuvenating experience!

Security Systems

Home security was a top priority to get done before our vacation trip. You know it’s time to secure the place when you’ve been there a couple years. If I had to guess, I’d say the computer is most valuable. It took a day or two to decide on a solid home security company that would install a security system. Installing the security system was a breeze. It is awesome, I felt so good on the camping trip because I knew our home was secure.

Enregize

Energy is required in large amounts for hiking, cooking, living in the wild. We decided to take some of our efusjon energy drinks along with us and let me tell you, they kept us sane! With two kids running all over on top of hiking, camping and fishing – it was a relief to feel energized all day. We joined the ‘a’ team at efusjon and bought in for the drink alone. Go for the opportunity if you can, it’s young and worthwhile now. Visit the link above today.

Until next time, I’m out. Hope these sites are useful for you!

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Many of the top and elite developer machine models can be located via resellers or redistribution, so if a company is intending to gain ground for a specific used model or just a decrease cost on a list of used ultrasound equipment as a whole. Being a regular customer of new and used medical equipment it is vital to have options with what is purchased and hooked up in your place of business.

There are high powered equipment and utilities and free range ultrasound patches ranging from quality developers like GE, Medison, Phillips and Toshiba. Additionally with this way of doing things you tend to look for a very specific equipment model and brand and rely on a distributor to have it in the inventory for your purchase down the line.