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Standing out at a Career Fair can make a difference in your career search. Career Fairs are starting to pick up, and Dice is running some nice ones, called Targeted Job Fairs. At a Silicon Valley Job Faire in early 2010, 10 companies as showing up, and Dice has 82 career faires scheduled for 2010 across the US.

How do you compete at a Career Fair? The competition can be considerable, but you can help yourself stand out from the herd with early homework. At AA-Careers, we have a simple 6-step process to prepare. Plan to go? Here’s how to prepare:

First, investigate the companies that are going and pick your targets. Use the web to check out the companies that are there before you even decide to go. Go to their sites and see if they have their job openings listed. Pick a rational number to target, and get ready to spend about an hour researching each one. It’s hard to do more than 10 in a day, and four to six is a much more reasonable target. For each company, you want to know: recent news, key product lines, and contacts you know. Try to see if you know anyone at the target companies. You’ll end up with a page or two of research for each company/job.

Second, if there are job openings on the web, read them to see what the organization is looking for. Create a mapping of your accomplishments and skills to the requirements of the job. Make the nomenclature match. If the hiring organization calls customers "clients", your resume should do the same thing. The accomplishments should be written in the style of the hiring company.

Third, create a ‘mini sales pitch’ for each likely organization/job combination. Write down a ninety second ‘thumbnail’ that you can repeat verbally describing why you are a fantastic prospect for that job. You’ll use this in your resume and when you meet the company at the job booth.

Fourth, modify your resume for each opportunity. The objective on your resume should exactly match the position you’re targeting. The executive summary should be a written form of your “mini sales pitch” for the job. Then choose the accomplishments and skills that most clearly match the job requirements. Especially at a Job Fair, the purpose of your resume is a sales tool for you – to get you on-site job interviews. It should be a no-brainer to see that you’re a match based on your resume.

Fifth, rehearse your ‘mini-sales-pitch’. Collect your research and the resume for each position – bring a couple of copies for each – and put each in a intelligibly labeled folder. Keep them in a lightweight briefcase or folio.

Finally, dress and prepare as if you’re doing on-site interviews. Dress well and be properly groomed. Avoid strong cologne or perfume…use any cologne or scent sparingly, if at all.

Remember to smile, and good hunting!

Solar power has time and again been hailed as the solution to all problems of exhaustible energy. While non-renewable sources of energy such as coal and petroleum are meant to be preserved as they are depleting faster and faster, finding alternate forms of energy has become the need of the hour. The focus is on finding sources of energy that can be used endlessly without causing damage to the environment. and it is for this purpose that solar power has come to be widely appreciated.

Solar power costs depends upon a variety of factors. The size, type, effectiveness, purpose to be served, category, functionality of the solar power system being used as well as the local climatic conditions of the region all play an important role in determining the degree of expense when using a solar power system.

Let us take a brief look at solar power cost and the factors influencing it. If the solar power system is complex and made up of a number of materials and components, the cost of purchasing will inevitable be high. Complex systems such as solar fields are used for large scale production and utilization of solar energy and as this involves superior technology and multifaceted system, the cost of the system immediately goes up.

However, the solar power cost in the long run, in terms of expenses, is actually negligible when you compare it to the amount of money being saved on electrical expenses as well as maintenance and upkeep.More home security and other things.