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5 Steps to Focusing Your Job Search

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Know how to sell yourself while looking for a job

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - The reviving economy will make for an even more competitive job market. A recent survey by the job placement service Manpower indicated 84% of American workers want to look for a new job in 2011. According to Eagan based career strategist Catherine Byers Breet of www.arbez.com that means the job market is going to be flooded with a mixture of both employed and unemployed workers.

Making yourself standout among the other applicants will be more important than ever before according to Breet. She says one of the most common mistakes job seekers makes is not being able to effectively communicate what they do and how they can help a prospective employer. Breet says the real message of what they can do gets lost in translation on both a person's resume and in their job interview.

Breet offers a 5-step process of focusing a job search:

Know what you want
Know what you do for a living
Know what you deliver for a company
Know why you do it (what excites you about he work?)
Practice telling this to everyone you know

Zebra

My inspiration For ARBEZ™ ("ZEBRA" backwards) and the Change Your Stripes™ theme came to me while on safari in South Africa. I was looking for my own four-legged friend. Yes, I own a zebra! My husband is from South Africa and his parents bought me a zebra as a wedding present. My zebra lives on their farm with them in South Africa. As you can imagine, every time I go to South Africa, I want to find my zebra.

People

Catherine started her career working as a youth counselor for troubled teens, and her passion for helping people has never waned. In 1997, Catherine unwittingly landed in the recruiting industry and has never looked back. As Director of Recruiting, she orchestrated the turnaround of the recruiting organization and developed the #1 team in the country (team of twelve). Her team produced the following results: reduced turnover from 46% to 20%, increased acceptance of job offers to 89% and reduced overall recruiting costs.

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Company

ARBEZ™ is committed to helping job seekers and employers find each other, and make the right choices for their career and organizations. For job seekers, that means picking the right job.

For employers, that means picking the right candidate. ARBEZ™ started in 2006 as a search firm, devoted to helping companies hire the right talent, not just the first talent that would fit. ARBEZ™ was equally committed to helping candidates take the right job for themselves, not just the first job to come along. ARBEZ™ still offers high-touch search services to companies large and small, and is proud of its track record in this space. However, we have expanded our services to help candidates go get their dream job, because the request for this assistance was growing at a wild rate. The need became clear: help more people! Not just those who fit the jobs we had available on a given day.