Alan Sherwood’s “Successfully Unemployed” Show welcomes back Marie Zimenoff as guest host.

Marie is President of A Strategic Advantage, working with clients across the nation to uncover their talents, create opportunities, and market themselves to earn their worth. She is also the incoming President of The National Resume Writers Association. She will share her insider resume strategies, from the basics to how you can stand out with more powerful marketing materials.

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 Show #24:  Dec. 8, 2011

Alan Sherwood is back in the Host chair of Successfully Unemployed.

This week Alan shared the Final Five Principles of the Successfully Unemployed person.  If you embrace and implement these principles, you will be successfully unemployed.  As a result, you will be better able to find or create a job faster, and with greater fulfillment; you will again be successfully employed.

We will also discuss the surprising results of a recent New York Times/CBS news poll of jobless Americans.  The top reasons cited for not getting work?  “Too many applicants.”  I will show you how to avoid those jobs and find the hidden positions – the ones with the far fewer applicants and less competition.

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 Show #23:  Dec. 1, 2011

Ben Jones again serves as Guest Host.  Topic for the show is a discussion on developing your “Value Proposition Statement”.

It is important to identify your abilities, experience and knowledge, and demonstrate how you can meet the needs of the company and the job. It is the company’s needs that you must fill, not your own. However, by meeting the companies needs, your own needs will also be met.

Most company needs fall into the following areas: increased productivity, greater efficiency, reducing waste, solutions to problems, reliability of people, industry contacts, specialized skills, and creativity. Understanding the value you bring to the employer is so much more than just telling them what you do; it is telling them why you are good at what you do. The Value I bring to the potential employer is…..

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 Show #22:  Nov. 17, 2011