2.10.08

How to find the perfect job?!?!

Looking for the perfect job? Take your time and read the next 10 points. I collected the information from the web and managed to cope it with my personal experience. (I'm a pro now, thinking about opening a consulting bureau for job hunters):

10.Online job sites tend to overwhelm people.

9.It is too easy, to spend hours using job sites instead of doing the harder work of calling and meeting people.
“You have to do a performance check on yourself: I’ve spent so much time on the computer, and how many times did I get to the person I’d be working for, not just H.R. or a recruiter?”

8.It’s no wonder that people become addicted to the online searches. The Conference Board, a business research organization, estimated that 4,833,700 job vacancies were posted online last month.

7. The trouble with many of these sites, especially the bigger ones, job hunters say, the numbers of appliers can be in the thousands. Many job hunters are abandoning the job sites in favor of what are called social networking sites such as Facebook. A word of warning, get anything that looks bad off your page like that photo of you drunk at a Halloween party.

6 .When looking for a job, especially in these tougher economic times, the trick is to cast as wide as possible. Check alumni and professional associations.

5.I suggest limiting yourself to surfing such sites only after dinner. Use the daytime to get out and meet people as much as possible.

4.Learn how to use the system. Many companies don’t even glance at all the résumés they receive, but have programs that search for keywords to weed out the ones they don’t want. For example, if you apply for a job that says you should have ‘strong media relationship skills,’ use that phrase in your résumé and cover letter, that may get the résumé to the top in a keyword search.

3. Make sure your résumé doesn’t simply list job descriptions, but focuses in on what you’ve achieved.

2. The lesson is that job hunting has been transformed to some extent. You can do a lot more of it at home in your pajamas.

1. But... some things never change. You still have to put on a suit and go out and meet people.

1 comment:

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