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Show me the money – Top Best-Paying Jobs

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Here are the 20 best-paying jobs. This information has been excerpted from “150 Best Jobs for Your Skills” (Michael Farr & Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D.) This list denotes occupational category and annual earnings.

Internists, General – $145,600+
Obstetricians & Gynecologists – $145,600+
Psychiatrists – $145,600+
Chief Executives – $142,440
Family & General Practitioners – $140,400
Lawyers – $98,930 Marketing Managers – 92,680
Sales Managers – $87,580
Financial Managers – $86,280
General & Operations Managers – $81,480
Public Relations Managers – $76,450
Training & Development Managers – $74,180
Post-Secondary Education Administrators – $70,350
Medical & Health Services Managers – $69,700
Advertising & Promotions Mangers – $68,860
Physical Therapists – $63,080
Dental Hygienists – $60,890
Market Research Analysts – $57,300
Clinical Psychologists – $57,170

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Do you have what it takes to land one of these gigs? To find out more about these careers check out: The Occupational Outlook Handbook (www.bls.gov/oco/) and the Ocupational Information Network (http://online.onetcenter.org/).

Sizzling Summer Job Search Tips

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Sizzling Summer Job Search Tips Here are some terrific tips to jump start your job search in the summer months – courtesy of my pal Kim Issacs of Monster.com and PowerResume.com:

Are you taking a break from the job search and surrendering to the lazy days of summer? The conventional wisdom is that almost everyone is in vacation mode from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Consequently, many postpone job searching until September.

Is this a mistake? Could you be missing opportunities if you take the summer off? We asked the career experts to find out.

Summer Job Searching — Worthwhile or Waste of Time?

“I often hear job seekers say that they want to take the summer off,” says Wendy Terwelp, career coach and president of Mequon, Wisconsin-based career management firm Opportunity Knocks. Terwelp says that by the time the summer ends, job seekers who took the summer off will be competing against even more job seekers who have followed the same strategy.

Read on!

What’s invisible to you may be most valuable to others…

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Had to share this fantastic article with you today by Michel Neray, Essential Message. Want to find your inner rock star, check out the article:

You’ve got to be pretty special to make it to the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

According to the cover story, Amy Winehouse’s ‘stylized collection of R&B throwbacks that sound like a British hip-hop brat’s interpretation of Sixties Motown soul in the best possible way, gave Winehouse the highest-charting U.S. debut ever by a British female.’

It goes on to say; ‘Those who have only heard her voice express shock upon seeing the body that produces it: The sultry, crackly, world-weary howl that sounds like the ghost of Sarah Vaughn comes from a pint-size Jewish girl from North London, world-weary though she may be.

But what really caught my eye in the article was Amy’s own admission that she couldn’t believe it when a friend in the music business had seen one of her earliest perfomances in England and offered to hook her up with some studio time to record some demos.

“I didn’t believe he’d actually let me do it,” she says. “I was like, ‘What’s in it for you?” I just don’t get why he would be so willing to help me. Because I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.”

Not anything special? That’s something I hear a lot from members of the Bull Pen — who all have their own special expertise, skill or way of doing things, but it comes so naturally, so effortlessly, it’s obvious to everyone but themselves.

Is it possible that you have your own special expertise, skill or way of doing things that comes so naturally and so effortlessly, it’s obvious to everyone but you?

Do you think it might be worth finding out what it is?

10 Worst Jobs

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So, you think you got it bad? Check out this story:

Scientists get down and dirty on job
By Beth Sussman, USA TODAY

Tired of sitting in a cubicle punching numbers and pushing papers? Imagine searching for whale feces or diving into the waste lagoon at a pig farm.

Those are among the 10 worst jobs in science, says the July edition of Popular Science magazine, out Tuesday.

Jobs on the list range from studying garbage to diving for hazardous materials to gravity research subjects and Olympic drug testers.

“We realized that the best jobs in science are just kind of boring,” Popular Science editor Mark Jannot says.

“But bad jobs are bad in amazing and funny and gross ways.”

The staff of Popular Science votes on the rankings based on personal judgments.

Read on!

Have you got some “worst job” stories to top them? If so, I want to hear from you! Share your story on this blog or feel free to send me an email (consultant@knocks.com).

Your Resume: To Video or Not to Video

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To video or not to video – that is the question. Check out Gerry Crispin, SPHR and Mark Mehler’s post in CareerXroads (June 2007):

Video Resumes versus Video Screening

Video resumes have been a flash in the pan for 30 years and never gotten much traction (possibly because the notion of plodding through candidate videos – digital or otherwise – is about the most unappealing thing a recruiter can do). Now however, the video horizon has tilted with all the attention on v- blogs, YouTube and the like. Two efforts we’ve been reviewing, Hirevue and InterviewStudio , are interesting and potentially efficient alternative solutions for phone screens once the initial sourcing and database searches sort out the most likely applicants.Someday (but not today) we’ll also be able to search the actual video of applicants answers to questions posed in a job descriptions and tee up a paired comparison of the best responses to select the finalists. Interviews, whether live and in-person or, remotely and digitally taped, have much in common. In either case you would be hard pressed to prove that one is significantly more likely to lead to better selection decisions than another.

We’re seeking data from corporations that have adopted video screening processes and consistently employ them for a specific job or job family.

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To that end, check out the following student’s video that has Wall Street howling. Yes, Yale senior Aleksey Vayner, goes far beyond the usual in his resume video. How much is too much information? See for yourself.