Amazing Businesses from all over the world! Get Inspired by the stories of their visionary leaders.
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With so many high-skilled candidates competing for the same position it is crucial for a job seeker to find ways to excel. Presently, submitting an online Resume is not enough anymore to be invited to an interview.
Despite the new technologies and tools available; reaching out directly to recruiters and decision makers remains the best way to stand out. For both, recruiters and job hunters it is difficult to keep up and learn how to use them all, especially social media and networking platforms, but phone calls will never die!
The hidden job market is not a secret to
anyone. Approximately 80% of jobs are not published; meaning that employers are
filling the positions by promoting their staff or employees' referrals. In this
way is much easier, faster and cheaper.
Accessing the hidden job market is not
easy; HR experts suggest: contact potential employers, use your network, make
new connections on Linkedin, join a job-finding club and a professional
association, visit career fairs, volunteer, attend conferences, speak with
alumni, conduct information interviews, etc. Uff... Exhausted? But what if none
of this is enough and you still cannot find a job?
Good Golem (www.goodgolem.com) tackles the
hidden job market by giving job seekers the opportunity to buy their next job.
What you want to be when you grow up? It is the typical question we face when we are kids. The reality is that a lot of us will have more than one career path in our lives and is not easy to find a job that we really enjoy.
If we are going to spend most of our waking hours each day working, why not spend that time doing something we enjoy and are truly passionate about?, says Sean Aiken, creator of "The One week job project", a true young visionary leader.
Sean Aiken, http://www.oneweekjob.com/about-the-project/seans-bio/
Sean Aiken struggled with the same question throughout his years in High school and into College in Vancouver. "I spend all this years in school, I came out of there with a piece of paper that says Business Administration Degree, but I really had no idea what was next for me and what steps to take", says Sean in an interview with Taimour Zaman from One Million Acts of Innovation.
The thought of choosing one career for his entire life, trade his work for money and then reach the retirement age to finally do what he enjoys did not sound appealing to him. "I made a promise to myself that I was gonna find something that I was passionate about".
In 2008 Sean developed "The One week job project" (www.oneweekjob.com/) to help him and others find their passions in life and define want they really want to do for living. Aiken completed an epic journey around North America, working 52 jobs in 52 weeks. Sean tried every job he could: Bungee Instructor, Dairy Farmer, Advertising Executive, Baker, Stock Trader, Firefighter, radio DJ, Martial arts instructor, Aquarium host, NHL mascot, snowshoe guide and more.
In 2010, he published a book “The One-Week Job Project” and released a feature-length documentary. Now the OWJ project has gone global, with new participants launching their own journeys.
He suggests that we’re experiencing “a revolution in work consciousness. A shift in how we as a culture view work and our relationship with it.”
In 2013 OWJ started raising funds for One Week Job USA and help Linda Chase, a 60 years old woman from Portland, Oregon to work 52 jobs in 52 weeks throughout America. In our youth obsessed culture, ageism in the workforce is a harsh reality.
