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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!

The Fourth – a great time to network

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Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, Independence Day, and a great time for networking. Throughout the U.S. are cookouts, parties, barbeques, festivals, and other social gatherings making it a terrific time to build and maintain your network. In our teleclass Rebuilding Your Network 5 Minutes a Day, one of the tips was to incorporate your networking into things you’re already doing… if you’re already attending a fun social gathering, make networking a part of it.

A quick tip for networking tomorrow: Listen. That means really listen to your guests for opportunities, problems, or situations during a conversation listen to how you could help them. It could be a nice opportunity for you or someone who is in your network already to help one of your guests. One of my clients, an electrical engineer, was visiting a friend during a holiday. My client’s friend was just hired at a software company and invited my client for a tour. Next thing my client knew, he met the owners happened to be walking around during the tour and my client landed an interview. The interview was much more relaxing rather than a standard grilling because the interviewers had more time to spend with my client because of the standard holiday shut down. It was a more casual and pleasant interview, rather than a standard grilling. This person was more introverted and had been thinking about passing on the party but went and now he’s hired at a new wonderful job.

Something to think about when networking to your next big gig. Enjoy!

Interview Self-Awareness Quiz

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by Ian Christie, Monster.com

Many employers are looking for candidates with a strong sense of self-awareness. So when you go in for the interview, are you ready to talk about yourself in a convincing way? It can be trickier that it sounds.

Go over this list of statements, indicating if you agree or disagree with them, to determine where you stand. Then we’ll give you suggestions on what you need to work on and how to do it.

Take the quiz here.

Network like a girl – it’s a good thing

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Check out this cool survey by ExecuNet:

Do you network like a girl? If so, you have the advantage. In our gender analysis of data from our 15th annual Executive Job Market Intelligence Report, women assessed their networks more positively than their male counterparts, giving themselves much higher “excellent” ratings.

Source: ExecuNet, 2007

Dave Opton, CEO and founder of ExecuNet, offered a couple of non-scientific reasons for the divide. “Two-thirds more women than men said they worked on building their professional networking relationships ‘very often;’ and self-assessment is subjective and without universal measurement.”

Despite their super networking skills, women are still less visible in the corporate executive suite than are men, and a 2004 study in the American Journal of Business outlined some of the influential factors.

“Female executives do not achieve top ranked executive positions at the same frequency as do male executives. However, top female executives are significantly younger, and have fewer years of service with the company and in their job positions, than their male counterparts. This may be indicative of the movement to encourage and support women to achieve higher corporate positions, but it could also provide a reasonable explanation for the observed compensation gender gap,” write Joanne Healy Burress and Linda J. Zucca in the report.

ExecuNet’s proprietary research produced encouraging news: while the title and compensation gap exists, the differential was roughly just $20,000, and both genders expected about the same increase in wages from 2006 to 2007 — 7 percent.

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Now all we need is more cash, right girls?