http://www.consultblog.com Careers in Consulting, Consulting Jobs and Business Consultants Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:19:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://www.consultblog.com/2007/04/12/changing-careers-avoid-these-5-classic-mistakes/#comment-2 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:05:27 +0000 http://www.consultblog.com/2007/04/12/changing-careers-avoid-these-5-classic-mistakes/#comment-2 [...] The most common problem in discovering a great opportunity is usually a problem with the candidate’s definition of their expectations. Begin by asking yourself what your talents are and what you want those talents to do for you: know your strengths and goals. A post on Consult Blog suggests that inaccurate knowledge of your own talents and career goals are the top two barriers to job discovery. And those findings are echoed time and again by recruiters and hiring managers. Both Janice Worthington and Billie Sucher, long-time candidate consultants and contributors to the Career Hub blog, list lack of direction/career goals as their candidates’ most common mistake. Spend some deliberate time thinking about what you’re good at and what you’d like to do with it. [...] […] The most common problem in discovering a great opportunity is usually a problem with the candidate’s definition of their expectations. Begin by asking yourself what your talents are and what you want those talents to do for you: know your strengths and goals. A post on Consult Blog suggests that inaccurate knowledge of your own talents and career goals are the top two barriers to job discovery. And those findings are echoed time and again by recruiters and hiring managers. Both Janice Worthington and Billie Sucher, long-time candidate consultants and contributors to the Career Hub blog, list lack of direction/career goals as their candidates’ most common mistake. Spend some deliberate time thinking about what you’re good at and what you’d like to do with it. […]

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