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November 2005: Issue 36

Editor:  Tara West

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> Article: Get Inspired About Your Career by Richard Hanes

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> Article: Industry specific advice for your résumé – Accounting / Finance Roles

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ARTICLE:

Get Inspired By Your Career
by: Richard Hanes

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Do you linger in bed long after your alarm goes off on work mornings? Do you dread Sunday nights because they lead to Monday mornings? Do you watch the clock and wonder if the day will ever end? Do you look outside your workplace and ask, “Is there more to life than just this job?”

If you suffer from any of these symptoms, it is time for you to create a new career! In her CD book, Advanced Energy Anatomy, Carolyn Myss, Ph.D. lays out a seven-step process for bringing an idea to physical creation. Here’s that seven-step process applied to creating a new career inspiration.

1. Get Inspired. Inspiration comes from the Latin words that mean, “to breathe in”. To infuse your career creation with life, passion, and excitement, ask yourself

• What would I do if money were not an object?
• What did I love to do as a child but left behind?
• What activity do I do so intently that I don’t notice time passing?
• Am I interested in turning down the road not taken, at a past career fork in the road?

Dig deeply, don’t censor your answers and write each inspiration on a separate piece of paper.

2. What Do You Think? Run each of your inspirations through your head! Ask

• Can I see myself doing this?
• Does it make sense?
• Do I think I can do it?
• Am I willing to think about it?

Be honest in answering these questions, and record your answers on each idea page. Rule out the inspirations that don’t survive here.

3. What About Your Will? Run each of the surviving ideas through your will! Your will houses your mental capabilities for choosing, intending, wishing and desiring. Ask yourself

• Will I be able to do this?
• Am I able to communicate it?
• Am I able to make the right choices and decisions to do this?

Again, write down your answers for each idea. Narrow your list of ideas once more to the ones you believe you’ll be able to do, communicate or make the right choices for.

4. What Do You Feel? Run your survivors through your heart! Ask yourself

• How do I feel about this?
• Does it feel right to me?
• Can I follow my heart on these inspirations?

Write the answers to these questions for each idea; rule out the ones your heart isn’t into.

Here’s where the going gets tough. The first four steps are energetic. They’re ephemeral, they don’t affect your physical life, and they’re cheap and easy. The next three steps involve assessing your surviving career ideas in the physical world.

5. What Will Others Think? Run your surviving inspirations through your self-esteem. Ask yourself

• Can I endure criticism for this choice?
• Will others think I’m foolish?
• What if others laugh at me?

Write your answers for each of the surviving ideas and go to the next step.

6. Can I Afford It? Run your surviving inspirations through your financial life. Ask yourself

• What will it cost to change?
• Can I live on what I could make in this new career?
• Can I learn to live with less?

Record your answers and go to the next step.

7. Am I Willing to Deal With My Fears? What, you have no career ideas or inspirations that survived? Congratulations, you have met your fears!

Relax, you’re not alone!

It’s important that your mind, will and heart are all aligned, or you’ll run into problems.

Careers your mind likes but your heart doesn’t will be short-lived. Careers your heart might like don’t even get consideration if your mind allows its fears to stop you dead in your tracks. Your will doesn’t have clear direction if your head and heart aren’t aligned.

Run each of your inspirations through your mind, will and heart. Release those inspirations that don’t have energy in all three of your mind, will and heart. You won’t have enough energy to try them effectively. Hold onto the inspirations for which your mind, will and heart are aligned.

Run those inspirations through your self-esteem. Ask yourself

• Do I have the guts to pull off this career change, even if others disapprove?
• Can I grow up and not need others approval to change?
• Am I willing to change my social group to pursue this new career?

Now that you’re feeling bold and independent, run the ideas that survived through your financial screen again. Weigh your desire for a career that satisfies you with your need to remain unchanged economically. Ask yourself these tough questions:

• What economic changes must I make in order for this career to be feasible?
• Would living more simply (read: less expensively) feel better if I felt better about my career?
• What expenses that help me cope with my current career won’t be necessary if I change?
• What’s more important -- feeling good about myself or having things?

Finally, take the hardy career inspirations that remain and ask

• Can I see myself putting this inspiration into practice?
• Am I ready to birth this career inspiration into the world?
• Am I ready to share the energy of my career idea with the world?

Shake the tree of your fertile imagination and see what career inspiration falls from it. Some ideas are ripe for picking; others need a bit more time on the tree to ripen. Hold onto those inspirations that didn’t survive – you’ll want to review them when you change careers next time!

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Copyright 2005, Fruition Coaching, All Rights Reserved. Rick Hanes is a life and career coach, writer, outdoorsman, gardener and tireless advocate for living life with purpose and passion. He founded Fruition Coaching in 2004 to lead the fight against leading lives of quiet desperation. Check his website at http://www.fruitioncoaching.com to contact him about rekindling the fire of your life!

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QUOTE

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"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

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ARTICLE:

Industry Specific Advice For Your Résumé

© 2005 Aussie Résumés

Over the next few issues we’re focusing on some industry specific advice relating to the content in your résumé.  These same issues / questions crop up quite regularly, so we’re sure you’ll find the advice helpful.  If you have any particular questions about your industry please drop us a line at advice@aussieresumes.com

July issue saw us expand on Sales Orientated Roles – you can view it at the

following location: www.aussieresumes.com/newsletter/Archive/july2005.htm

September issue saw us expand on Admin Orientated Roles – you can view it at

the following location: www.aussieresumes.com/newsletter/Archive/sept2005.htm

Accounting / Finance Roles:

·     It's imperative you tailor your résumé for the type of work you seek.  If you apply for a bookkeeping role within a small business and a divisional accountant role within a large organisation, you will obviously need a different focus for each. 

·     For instance: the bookkeeping role at a small business may entail you performing all facets of bookkeeping, payroll and accounts payable / receivable. Whereas a divisional accountant role for a large firm would entail you performing higher responsibilities – more than likely accountable for reporting, control of assets / expenditure, staff management, etc.  It would be achievements based.  Thus, you wouldn't highlight bookkeeping type of tasks.

·     Ensure you include a brief company description about the companies you have worked for – this is particularly important when the company name gives no clue about the business.

·     For instance: you may be applying for a role at a construction firm who contracts their services to the mining industry.  You may have worked at Zatto Industries Pty Ltd which, on its own, says nothing at all – however, if you were to state that this was a small mining company in the outback of Queensland, then the construction firm would be highly interested in you and your skills as you have an understanding of their industry.

·     When compiling your résumé look at everything from the hiring manager's point of view.  Most hiring managers are interested in what you can bring to the organisation… are you a go-getter?  Does your résumé demonstrate it?  Ask yourself some pertinent questions to ensure inclusion of punchy, relevant achievements.  

·     It's important you include figures.  For instance: you process payroll for how many staff?  You oversee an asset register comprising a fleet of how many vehicles and valued at how much?  You manage the accounting function for a business which involves how many companies? Etc. 

·     Your Profile and Key Strengths sections should demonstrate your capabilities that are applicable for accounting / finance positions – pick out the key elements that are required which may be: analytical skills, attention to detail, good teamwork abilities, etc.

·     If you haven’t been in finance related roles throughout your whole career, then tone down prior employment history.  It’s irrelevant so no need to highlight it.

·     And the last rule which should be applied in all instances – irrespective of one’s profession – is to target the cover letter and résumé for the job you’re applying for! This may mean altering the order of relevance in relation to some key accountabilities or highlighting certain achievements over others.  There is no quick fix solution; thus, you can’t always use the same résumé for each and every job.  You need to read each vacancy carefully and scrutinise your application – each and every time.

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