Showing posts with label Fashion. Show all posts
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Friday, August 6, 2010

Jobs in manufacturing - Rise & Fall of clothing and fashion

If you are on the rise and fall of the Garment District in search, this is a good example of how production has changed over the years. Many immigrants, when they first arrived in this country lacked a lot of skills, so he went to work in factories, so they can better themselves and their children better opportunities than they had strong growth in Eastern Europe.

During this period the production of clothing in the factories where they worked from morning until finishedNight. The designers work with people in the back, the clothes sown. These garments, a number of stores were sold after 1960, the inner story began to change slowly. So many of the projects started after the rooms back in sweatshops to move and became known as celebrity. Just think of Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, etc.

If the Garment District was unionized, 100% of the production of clothing was made in the USA. 'StateWhen John F. Kennedy became president, and has allowed 4% of the production in fact the entire production abroad has begun to change clothes. In 1975 80% of all clothing manufactured in America in 1985 to 70% of all parasites were produced in America in 1995 50% of all garments manufactured in America and in 2009 only 5% all garments are made in America. The government, influenced by deregulation, changes in the manufacture of productsAmerica.

During the '70s and '80s, the greed is the impact on public spending habits. During this time, companies began to design clothes coordinated separates and determines the buying habits of the general public. This is also a time when the designer has not only become celebrities, as well as the models wearing her clothes and strutted their stuff on the catwalk.

Like all Klein finally implodes and falls to the ground. This started happeningin Garment District, there was always more of a production made abroad. Why do people who rely on production in the Garment District as income, was not used.

This is just an example of what happened and workspace, but if you are having on board the manufacturing to locations where they are in clothing or building materials, trade unions, the U.S. market price of labor, the production moved the Third WorldCountries like China and India. So if you want to have a job, you should begin to increase after the model of integration technology for employment opportunities. I have repeatedly said that jobs were 10 years ago do not exist today, jobs that do not exist today existed 10 years, and will be in future jobs has not been invented.

Instead of complaining about how the labor market, pulled in just overseasRemember that low-paid jobs have been killed by immigrants who were held by, when she came to America. These were the parents caused their children to be educated, hold positions in the market for professional work, and learn to use technology for employment opportunities.

If you moved during the past hundred years seem to work practically back where we were when Europeans came here. Think of it this way:

that Europeansarrived in this country, sold their goods in wheelbarrows to the street corners. Their children were the first generation born in this country in a time when young people's workforce went to work for the company and how Worked up the ladder into management, were their expectations . The children like the baby-boomers were known, and followed their parents footsteps of corporate work, but during that time, companies began to measure and therewas an unwritten law that You Have the job for a life company that offer buyout packages to employees who had worked there for 15-20 years. Any subsequent generations, as Generation Y, Generation Next, and generation of technology no longer have a job guaranteed to company, so you need to start thinking about the possibility of the future with you, times have paid work Others

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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Internet Presence and Resume Writing - Skills and Strategy to Help Your Job Search

Your resume writing ability and your personal Internet presence are critical to reducing the amount of time it takes to land a career opportunity. Some say it takes on average 1-month for every $10,000 of annual income you earn to find your next job when you are out of work. I'm not so sure I agree with the correlation, but I do agree that as you move up the corporate food chain it can take longer to land that next assignment. For some executives it can take longer than they can financially stand to wait.

What's worse is to a certain degree hiring is also somewhat seasonal. It probably won't shock anyone to learn summer is typically the slowest hiring season of the year. This can be extremely tough on a job seeker's moral - especially if they aren't aware of the seasonality associated with hiring. If you aren't landing that next opportunity during the summer months, it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with your employability.

A better question is: How can I shorten the time it takes to find a job?

Do you find yourself (or know someone) in a situation where you need or want to conduct a proactive job search campaign?

Regardless of your reasons, need, or desire to engage in a proactive job search, conducting a proactive job search can be one of the most frustrating challenges for anyone at any level and at any point in their career. Why? Because the outcome is often a function of timing, and has nothing to do with how marketable you are. That said, increasing your marketability and exposure to opportunity only improves your ability to capitalize on being in the right place at the right time to take that next step in your career.

With the right strategy and approach not only can your increase your exposure to more opportunity, you can also increase your exposure to better opportunities.

It isn't complicated, but it can be a lot of hard work and it's critical you have access to the right tools to get the job done.

The first thing to realize when embarking on a proactive job search campaign is that it all starts with your resume writing skills if you are going outside of your immediate "friends & family" business contact network.

Most executives fall into the trap of trivializing the importance of having the best possible resume by saying, "I communicate my value and the substance of my career best in an interview."

If your resume isn't -pin sharp- in its ability to concisely articulate your unique differentiated career value proposition by quantifying the scope and scale of responsibility you've held and the business impact your efforts have produced in a -measurable- way for each position you've held in your career, you are dead before you even start. You will simply get lost in the pile of resumes that end up in electronic or physical recycle bins without a second thought - let alone without an interview.

You really need to understand the quality, content and format of your resume (especially for an executive) is a strong reflection of your capabilities and focus.

Executives are given a -measurable- scope and scale of responsibility, and they are paid to produce -measurable- business impact. Nobody is paid to simply produce effort.

It is amazing how many executive resumes fail to articulate this -measurable- information. Most resumes contain nothing more than unquantified statements of effort that beg the question: "That's nice, so what did that effort produce in the form of any -measurable- business impact?"

Don't fall into the trap of poor resume writing that fails to articulate your -measurable- scope and scale of responsibility, and the -measurable- business impact you've driven in your resume.

Also give serious thought to abandoning the traditional 1-2 page resume format. Constraining yourself to a traditional 1-2 page resume format is the equivalent of committing job search suicide. Instead, focus on devoting enough physical space to adequately differentiate your career. Why? Because if you try to jam your career value proposition into a 1-2 page resume, you risk being lost in a sea of 1-2 page vanilla resumes.

Some may think this is heresy, but it is simply common sense.

If you are trying to differentiate yourself, it probably isn't a good idea to have a resume that looks like everybody else's.

Want to see how -everybody- else looks? Just look at the -AFTER- "Samples" that e-Resume (examples), Career-Resumes (examples), and even Monster's Resume Center (examples) touts as massively differentiating "Stellar" resumes to see how -EVERYBODY- looks when they constrain themselves to this 1-2 page criteria.

If your goal is to conform and look like EVERYBODY else - and as a result - compete head-to-head in today's job market, then by all means follow their advice. If you want to change the game in your favor and get interviews that others with the same vanilla resumes won't - then don't follow their advice. Simply ask yourself if you want to work for someone that believes the length of someone's resume is a valid hiring criterion, and make your own decision.

Be very careful in reacting to feedback that "Your resume is too long." Why? Because the -only- person you should listen to that comments on the length of your resume is someone that can actually benefit by hiring you. Any other feedback is coming from someone that does not need to hire you, and as such can't benefit from the information that is actually in your resume (i.e., the feedback is totally out of context).

Don't put your success in the hands of a "professional resume writer". Why? Just ask yourself, who knows better what the value of your career accomplishments are - you or someone else that hasn't even come close to having a career like yours? Would you leave the execution of your career responsibilities up to your secretary? Of course not. Then why would you consider depending on someone else's resume writing skills by letting someone else represent/articulate your career accomplishments and value proposition by letting them write your resume?

Resume Advice - If you're not landing a job in a timely manner it is for one of two reasons:

1. Your career isn't a strong fit for the roles you are exposed to.

2. Your resume isn't a strong fit for the roles you are exposed to.

Are you willing to bet it's because your career isn't a strong fit? Are you willing to bet your resume couldn't be improved?

The only thing standing between you and being able to write a -pin sharp- resume that differentiates your career value proposition - is having access to the right tools.

Where can you identify the tools and techniques?

I wrote an article about 3 years ago called: Conducting a Job Search Campaign That's a pretty good place to start. It discusses many things a job seeker can do to increase their coverage and exposure to possible employment opportunities.

Conducting a Job Search Campaign provides job search advice on topics such as resume writing, how to approach recruiters, to how to build a personal Internet presence so someone can actually find you in Google and much more.

After you're written the best possible resume, then the challenge shifts to your personal Internet presence. In other words, can you be found when someone does a search on your name in Google? Do you have an Internet presence? Execunet surveyed their executive recruiters and found 63% of them Google a candidate before reaching out to them and half make a determination whether or not to reach out to a candidate based on what they do or don't find. The easiest way to create an Internet presence is to join an on-line networking platform that gives you not only the ability to build a profile, but to also create other content such as blogs and articles. A networking site with high traffic combined with constantly changing content will rank high in search engines typically. LinkedIn his a site with high traffic, but all of the content is static. Ecademy is a site with reasonably high traffic, but most of the content is contently changing as a result of all of the blogging and article traffic that the members post. As such, a member profile on Ecademy will typically rank much higher than a corresponding member profile on LinkedIn when doing a search on the member's name in Google.

Essentially, any content you create on an on-line networking site that combines reasonable traffic and more importantly contantly changing content will create a kind of preferential ranking scenario in search engines that you can use to your advantage to build a personal Internet presence.

By leveraging a "search engine" friendly networking platform you can quickly create a visible Internet presence. Combine this with other blogging and article publishing activity and your ready to be found by a recruiter.

So take control of the outcome by getting proactive with your job search.

Happy Networking.

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