Successful Job Search: 10 Steps To Quickly Acquire Your Dream Job And Put More Money In Your PocketWritten by David Richter
This article describes critical path of a job search. You will learn strategies, tools and resources you must employ to be effective in your job search efforts and successfully land your next job. Do you want to continue your costly, time-consuming and exhausting struggle in a frustrating job search using weak, ineffective tools that are getting you nowhere? The job market today is fiercely competitive with few high-paying or desirable jobs available. With repeated downsizings, companies have learned to survive with less. Mediocrity has no place in your job search process. To be a player among huge number of job seekers, you need an edge, a unique compelling advantage. To be successful, you must differentiate yourself from crowd. You must use search strategies that put you head and shoulders above your competition. You must possess knowledge and skill in your area of expertise, and know how to demonstrate that to world. You may be best candidate for a position, but someone better skilled at interviewing gets offer. Here are strategies you need to use to run a successful job search: 1. Determine your best-suited career You need to sit down and assess your talents, strengths and core competencies, as well as what it is you truly want to do. It may not be enough that you have a skill set in a particular area if you lack desire to move forward in that direction. To be a successful career builder and have a fulfilling career, find your passion and do what you love. If you don’t, no amount of money will satisfy you. 2. Leverage your skills to highest possible level You may be a design engineering guru, a top marketing specialist or a graphics design genius, but unless you know how to present your talents -- in your resume and during your interviews -- your expertise will go unnoticed. You must also present your skills to right person. A candidate weaker than you will ease you out of an opportunity just because they spoke directly to hiring manager while you discussed your candidacy with someone in human resources. It's not always best candidate who receives offer. 3. Set yourself apart from your competition With up to nine hundred candidates responding to one advertised job opening, it is easy to lose oneself in vast sea of job seekers. You must learn how to differentiate yourself from crowd. Creating an attention-grabbing resume is a good start. You must also learn how to prepare for and succeed at interviews. Tapping hidden job market and networking are by far most effective strategies for finding right opportunities and getting ahead of your competition. 4. Create an attention-grabbing resume One of best ways to achieve this is to clearly state your value proposition, your strengths and several uniquely defined differentiators that set you apart from your competition. Add to that a set of well-crafted accomplishments that incorporate three critical factors -- extraordinary task you fulfilled, how you achieved it, and results -- and you have basis for a winning resume. 5. Write a captivating cover letter Your cover letter is critical to your success. It sets tone. It is read before your resume and includes vital information about you that every potential employer needs. If you don’t have a cover letter, or if you have one that is poorly written, you’re setting yourself up for failure. Knowing crucial elements of a cover letter is imperative to moving your candidacy forward.
| | The Hidden Job Market: Real Or Imagined?Written by David Richter
The hidden job market has been touted as place to go if you want to find best jobs. It’s been said that this sector of job market accounts for seventy-five percent of all job openings out there. If that is true, then what we see in classifieds and on Internet job sites account for only twenty-five percent of all job openings. So question becomes, is hidden job market a myth or does it truly exist? The hidden, or unadvertised, job market does exist, and can be located. When a company advertises a job opening in classifieds and on various job sites, it takes three to four months for that position to be filled. Since companies lose money every day a position remains open, advertising a job opening is seen by many as a non-viable approach. Roughly seventy-five percent of all job openings are therefore unadvertised, which means you will not see them posted on any of job sites. You will not be aware of their existence. They are indeed hidden opportunities. It is absolutely worth your effort to find these opportunities. Companies have learned to search for viable candidates using three fundamental strategies other than advertising: networking, using recruiters, and probing job sites. So how can you take advantage of these approaches to tap hidden job market? Networking isn't an approach exclusive to hiring companies. You, too, can engage in networking with all people you know. As an extremely powerful strategy accounting for roughly 80% of all job fills, networking allows you to get in doors that would otherwise be impossible to enter. You can network your way into potential opportunities that can turn into right job created just for you. Networking is one of best ways to tap hidden job market!
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