5 Steps to Focusing Your Job Search

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:
 

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

Video (left): Breet recently outlined the strategy during an interview on FOX 9 News.