Help Your Career on Job Action Day

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BLOGGERS JOIN IN JOB ACTION DAY EFFORT

Quintessential Careers has declared today, Nov. 3, 2008, Job Action Day worldwide -- a day for job-seekers and workers to confront the current economic crisis head-on and take action steps to improve their careers.

To rally those who have lost their jobs or are facing possible job loss in the current devastated economic climate, Job Action Day 2008 aims to empower workers and job-seekers to take proactive steps to shore up their job and career outlook.

For job-seekers, Job Action Day is a chance to take a break from the daily grind of job-hunting to take a look at the bigger picture of their careers and job-search strategies. It's a day to strategize plans for developing new job and career options and devising new and better ways to track down job leads and position themselves for employment opportunities.

For workers facing possible job loss, Job Action Day is a time to not only examine their current job and employer, but also evaluate both the stability of that job and employer as well as their personal fulfillment with their jobs. It's a day to take stock of their careers and develop a plan for their next career steps.

We have deliberately set Job Action Day 2008 for the eve of the U.S. presidential election to encourage voters to think about job creation and the avoidance of further job losses as they cast their votes. Beyond the election, workers and job-seekers must hold the next president's feet to the fire. Echoing Hillary Rodham Clinton's battle cry at a recent rally in Orlando, FL, the concept of Jobs, Baby, Jobs" must be a top priority for the new leader.

Our challenge to you, our readers, is to ask you to do at least ONE proactive thing TODAY, Job Action Day 2008, to improve your job and/or career situation. Whether you update your resume, develop a backup plan in case of job loss, or add contacts to your network, take at least one action Today for Job Action Day.

As our regular contributor Joe Turner says, "Don't let all the hype about the economy spook you into a state of panic and inaction."

To help you do that, we've brought you an assessment and five articles with action steps you can take right now to safeguard and propel your career.

Although we conceived Job Action Day very recently, we are heartened by the huge reaction of career experts and bloggers who are joining us in this effort. Dozens of them contributed tips for the article, Attacking the Job Market and Workplace Proactively in Tough Times: A Roundup of Expert Advice. Others are writing about Job Action Day in their own blogs and newsletters.

Other article topics we tackle in this issue include assessing the security of your job, recognizing layoff warning signs, developing a plan in the event of job loss, making the best of a bad economy, and -- for new grads and college students, job-hunting in uncertain times.

By the way, after we set the date for

Job Action Day, we realized the day

was coincidentally the 12th anniversary

of Quintessential Careers. We are

confident the Job Action Day effort is

a fitting way to celebrate our dozen

years of empowering workers, students,

and job-seekers.

One of your proactive steps could be to

check out our job-search portal at

http://quintcareers.4jobs.com/JS/Form/SearchForm.asp

And one more plea to our U.S. readers:

Vote, baby, vote.

-- Katharine Hansen, PhD

Master Resume Writer

Credentialed Career Manager

editor at mailto:kathy@quintcareers.com

-- Randall S. Hansen, PhD

Founder, Publisher, Webmaster

Quintessential Careers

Blog Links for Job Action Day

BLOGGERS JOIN IN JOB ACTION DAY EFFORT

We are thrilled that on very short notice, these bloggers have joined the effort to blog about taking a proactive stance with your job and career on Job Action Day:

Alexandra Levit: Alexandra Levit's Water Cooler Wisdom http://alexandralevit.typepad.com/

Barbara Safani: CareerSolvers:

http://www.careersolvers.com/blog/

Career Management Alliance Blog:

http://www.careermanagementalliance.com/blog/

Curt Rosengren: The M.A.P. Maker

[Meaning Abundance & Passion]

http://mapmaker.curtrosengren.com/

Diane Danielson: THE WOMEN'S DISH

with Diane & Friends:

http://womensdish.typepad.com/the_womens_dish/

Jacob Share: JobMob

http://jobmob.co.il/

Darrell Gurney: In The Line of Hire

http://inthelineofhire.wordpress.com/

Dave Rigotti: Career Fire

http://www.careerfire.com/

Deborah Brown-Volkman:

Surpass Your Dreams

http://surpassyourdreamsblogger.blogs.com/blog/

Jason Alba: Jibber Jobber Blog

http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/

Lindsey Pollak: Lindsey Pollak Blog

Career Advice & Commentary:

http://lindseypollak.com/blog/

Louise Fletcher: blueskyresumesblog:

http://www.blueskyresumesblog.com/

Maggie Mistal: what if...:

http://www.maggiemistal.blogspot.com/

Miriam Salpeter: Keppie Careers:

http://keppiecareers.wordpress.com/

Rich Milgram: EmploymentMetrix.com

http://www.employmentmetrix.com/

Steven Davies: JobPerfect Job Search

Techniques

http://perfectjobsoftware.blogspot.com/

Steven Rothberg: CollegeRecruiter.com Blog:

http://www.collegerecruiter.com/weblog/

Wendy Terwelp: Rock Your Career:

http://rockyourcareer.wordpress.com/

Willy Franzen: One Day, One Job:

http://www.onedayonejob.com/

Of course, the Quintessential Careers

family of blogs also features

Job Action Day entries today, including:

Quintessential Careers Blog:

http://www.quintcareers.com/career_blog/

Career Doctor Blog:

http://www.careerdoctor.org/career-doctor-blog/

Quintessential Resume and Cover Letter Tips Blog:

http://resumesandcoverletters.com/tips_blog/

A Storied Career: http://astoriedcareer.com/

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