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Need advice on how to get a foot in the door with a new career path!?

I am currently the Assistant Director of a child care centre, and have had enough. I have applied for job after job in a range of industries, and find I cant even get to an interview stage... anybody have any tips/ideas?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Not sure from your question if this has been your only job, or if you have other experience in your background that you can pull out to make yourself more diversified. You are in a rather specialized field, so make your resume more 'generic' that is, highlight the skills and responsibilities that will easily translate to other fields. You might need to settle for a lower level position at a company doing a job you really want to get your foot in the door, and then work your way to the top.

  • 4 years ago

    for someone with a technological information history, business enterprise is a snap. If he remains in college now, i'd take an intro to accounting type and an intro to finance type, and that is all he quite needs functionally to do properly. Pharma and biotech are large industries today. He ought to nevertheless pick to pursue a job there besides, and turn roles in the business enterprise in some unspecified time sooner or later to the business enterprise aspect. At that element, it may then be a lot a lot less puzzling to move into consulting or finance. With somewhat marketplace journey and some history in finance, he may be in a position to artwork at an funding monetary corporation with a biotech or pharma marketplace crew. it is humorous. i'm better of a technological information individual and wound up doing an MBA and funding banking and kind of desire i'd change right into a health care specialist. i guess the grass is continually greener elsewhere. His history is amazingly solid for cutting-area interest marketplace, in spite of the indisputable fact that. i'd quite have a level in chemical engineering today than an MBA. Your ideas may be better constrained, in spite of the indisputable fact that the boom potentialities are good and also you're competing with a lot less human beings. blend in a pair business enterprise practise, and also you're even better. good success! replace: The econ and administration practise are good, yet accounting and finance may be better. i imagine it may well be ideal for him to adhere it out with the chemical engineering. Get a job in that field and then leverage it into better of a business enterprise position if it is the route he needs to bypass in.

  • weswe
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    You need to make sure talk to someone in a hiring position, before you fill out an application. Call and ask about openings, requirements, try to build a relationship with that person. Then when you go in to fill out the application, tell the person handing you the application that you've already talked to Mr.----- and he was expecting your application. If that is not possible, fill out the application, get the hiring person's name and call back later asking for that person- If you can get through tell him you filled out the application and were told to talk to him. The important thing is- Don't fill out applications and just wait- most companies want motivated employees who really want the job.

    Source(s): I am a preschool teacher now, but worked as an employment consultant for 10 years.
  • 1 decade ago

    Remake your bio-data and your covering letter and see the results or you can check some sites in the net which will provide you tips on how to write a good resume. try your luck.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Go to college, study hard for 4 years, graduate, then apply and amazingly you'll start getting interviews. It worked for me.

  • 1 decade ago

    need to know more about your education, but, most people get jobs by networking thru friends,

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