1. Welcome to Virtual Job Coach
2. Plan your job search campaign.
2.1. What job do you want?
2.2. What company do you want to work for?
2.3. How much time will you devote to the search?
2.4. How are you going to divide your time?
2.5. Do you need a back-up plan?
2.6. How will people contact you?
2.7. What to have scripted?
2.8. Support network.
3. Managing your job search campaign.
3.1. Avoid activity clumping.
3.2. Always set a next action.
3.3. Balancing your activities with your availability.
3.4. Do something different, even totally self indulgent.
3.5. Maintain a hobby, or exercise.
4. Dealing with Procrastination.
4.1. Break tasks down to small enough steps.
4.2. Create little successes for yourself.
4.3. Just do it, it doesn’t have to be perfect.
4.4. Practice in a safe environment.
4.5. View each risk as an experiment. Have fun with it.
5. Networking.
5.1. What is networking?
5.2. The aim of Networking.
5.3. Types of relationships.
5.4. Start networking.
6. Generating list of target companies.
7. Informational interviews.
8. Interviewing.
8.1. Preparing for the interview.
8.2. Phone interviews.
8.3. Pre Interview.
8.4. The interview.
8.5. After the interview.
9. Prepare your references.
10. Constructing an elevator pitch.
10.1. Using the elevator pitch in an informal setting.
10.2. Using the elevator pitch when you’re networking by phone.
11. Resumes.
12. The Chronological Resume.
12.1. The Traditional Chronological.
12.2. The Technical Chronological.
12.3. The Prior Experience Chronological.
12.4. The Education Focus Chronological.
13. The Functional Resume.
14. The Hybrid Resume.
15. Resume sections.
15.1. Contact details. (Required)
15.2. Summary statement (optional).
15.3. Objective statement (optional).
15.4. Selected Achievements. (Optional)
15.5. Key Skills. (Optional)
15.6. Technical skills (optional).
15.7. Employer Section. (Required)
15.8. Position Section. (Required)
15.9. Achievement Section. (Required)
15.10. Education and training. (Required)
15.11. Prior experience. (Optional)
15.12. Membership and affiliations. (Optional)
15.13. Volunteer. (Optional)
15.14. Certificates. (Optional)
15.15. Licenses. (Optional)
15.16. Publications. (Optional)
16. Cover Letter.
16.1. Contact Information and Addressee (Required)
16.2. The opening. (Required)
16.3. The first paragraphs. (Required)
16.4. T-style (Optional)
16.5. Bullets. (Optional)
16.6. Closing Paragraphs. (Required)
16.7. The Closing. (Required)
16.8. Enclosures (Optional)
17. Marketing Letter.
18. Reference Letter.
19. Thank you.
20. Acceptance Letter.
21. Rejection Reply Letter.
22. Action Verbs
23. Find Jobs Page
24. Saved Jobs Page
24.1. Add jobs from the Find Jobs page
24.2. Save jobs manually
24.4. Track your progress through the selection process
24.3. Import positions from 'pipe' (|) delimted file
25. Companies page
26. Contacts page
26.1. Add contact information
26.2. Import contacts
27. Calendar page
. vCard format (.VCF)
. CSV exported from Outlook or Outlook Express (.CSV)
. CSV exported from ACT
. CSV exported from Gmail
. CSV exported from Yahoo
. CSV from another source
26.3. Exporting Contacts
27.1. Adding a calendar event
27.2. Importing calendar events using iCalendar
27.3. Exporting events
27.4. Adding a To-Do
28. Documents page
28.1. Create a new Resume
28.2. Create a new Cover Letter
28.3. Import a document
28.4. Make a copy
28.5. Preview a document
28.6. Email a document
28.7. Print after download a document
28.8. Show Links
28.9. Delete a document
29. Quick add
24.2. Save jobs manually
Once you click on “Add New Position” you can manually enter the job title, the job description, where and when you found it.
Even if you have the URL entered it’s a good idea to save the full job description.
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