02 Oct 11 Tips for Online Job Search

Online job search has become quite a common phenomenon among aspirant job seekers. But being ignorant about proper method of job search or searching in inappropriate sites make one land into wrong job. But Internet as a medium offers a huge pool of job resources. You just need to know how to use it and bag a good job. Here are some guidelines for your help.

A proactive effort

Instead of just posting your resume in a job portal and sitting back in a relaxed mind why don’t you become little proactive and design a website or online portfolio blog of yours, where recruiters can come and take a look of your work, get an idea of your skills, goals and personal contact information.

Narrow your options of search

Make sure you upload resume and look for a job only in a website which has good narrowing options by criteria like – by region, by industry and experience, by job titles. You may super narrow your search by criteria like – salary expected, job designation, company names etc. Filtering and refining job search will help you to find better job offers.

Visit company websites directly

Instead of just applying to a given job opening and sending resume, get little proactive. Shortlist some best companies where you would love to work. Now visit that company’s website, target that company and check their career/job opening page. Check out the current vacancies. In case the company is hiring send your resume to the given address. Else, you may write to the human resource manager. Company pages may ask you to fill up a form, detailing your profile for their future reference. If the company is not hiring at present, keep coming back to it again and again to keep a watch.

Industry related websites

You may refine your job search by registering and following the desired industry related websites. You may find national or regional jobs posted in industry related websites, which you may not come to know otherwise. Individuals may post such jobs, hoping for getting response from a bigger pool of qualified applicants.

Job portals can be helpful

Online job portals can solve your problem by doing an extensive search. Recruiters will help you by matching your skills and experience with related jobs and bringing the same to you. You may refer to job portals like recruiterlink.com, onlinerecruitersdirectory.com, searchfirm.com and i-recruit.com.

Subscribe to job alerts

Most of the job portals have this feature of subscribing to their job alerts. You need to sign up in the site to receive email alerts about latest job openings. Or you may subscribe to RSS feeds. This way, even if you forget to visit the job portal regularly and look for relevant jobs, you will be reminded by frequent job alerts.

What are you waiting for? Get started, today!

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04 Jan 10 Job Searching Right Out Of College

Finding an entry level position out of college is essential. That’s the first major step into making the career you’ve been planning, become a reality. But finding an entry level position when you’re just out of college isn’t always easy. Especially in this economy the road has become increasingly hard for student starting out and starting their career paths.

Your fist tactic should always be networking. Before you leave college make sure that you’ve got your name out there to the right people. You want to stay in contact and make yourself known to a few of the select students around you, and your professors. They will be a great resource for work down the line, so remember that, and keep those relationships avenues open.

Keep networking outside of school. Try professional sites like linkedIn, etc, that offer connections with other professionals in the field. Create lasting professional relationships, as these are where the best jobs will come from. Companies frequently don’t openly advertise their best positions, and the only way you’ll hear about them is through somebody that you know.

Try your local newspaper, you won’t find fantastic jobs here most of the time, but you will find some decent options to pad your resume and provide income in transition. Usually jobs advertised in a local newspaper don’t have a high applicant rate, so your chances of landing the job will also be better.

Finally, remember to stay professional. Whether networking, or applying to the jobs, keep your demeanor professional, as your attitude says a lot about what manner of employee you will be at that company. One of the biggest complaints about college graduates in the job market lately is that they have a false sense of entitlement.

Many recent grads almost feel as though a high paying job should be instantly available to them. But that isn’t the case. You have to work at a company and career to make it succeed, sometimes from the lower ranks of the ladder. Stay courteous and polite always, be proud and confident, but also humble and realistic. You don’t want to come off as a cocky self important applicant, because companies tend to stay away from them. They aren’t hard workers, and they have no long term loyalty. Both bad strikes to have against you.

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20 May 09 Find Your Dream Job, Whether They’re Hiring Or Not

You’re not going to find your dream job by searching internet job boards, or Google-ing for openings at companies that you would love to work for. Mostly because a large majority of corporations just don’t have the time or effort necessary to commit to that scale of a job search. Simply put, it takes much too much of a company’s vital resources to start a hiring period, unless it’s absolutely necessary. Mostly because the company needs somebody to overlook and run the process, usually a dedicated employee concentrating only on finding the right people throughout the hiring process. Not everyone can free up a salary and spot in the corporation for such a person.

Which is exactly why it’s much more proactive and you’ll net better results by finding jobs for yourself, instead of waiting for them to pop up on the job boards. What you need to do is network yourself. Find the companies you would like to work for, or the jobs that you want, and get connected to them.

First, search for the people you want to work for, whether they seem to have any job openings or not. You might just have exactly what they didn’t even know they were looking for. Next you want to get in touch with their human resources department, as in almost every case, HR handles employee hiring and terminations. Although another common tactic, but one with a lower rate of success, is to contact management heads. This can either pay off completely, or fail miserably, as managers usually have very busy schedules, and if you don’t impress almost immediately, you are doomed to be completely forgotten.

From here you basically want to send a friendlier variation on the sort of cover letter you would send with your resume. Make your intentions clear, that you’re interested in a job, introduce yourself, and personalize everything to let them know your qualifications shortlist and why you want to work for that company. Try that enough and you’re bound to find somebody that didn’t even know they needed you, thereby landing a much better job than you could have found searching Monster.com for the umpteenth time.

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