Job Searching Tips
Posted By AnuSiva on January 17, 2009
You may experience certain difficulties at first finding a job if you’ve been at your old job for years and years. Your job hunting skills will be rusty or non-existent as you would never have had the opportunity to look for a job.
But with recent lay-offs, you probably need to or the threat of imminent closure of the company may make you go job hunting. You may have never visualized a scenario where you needed a job and that too urgently.
Every job needs some careful research. If you’ve been at the old job for years, you may have been getting a steady salary which matches your current skills and experience. But the daunting prospect of finding a new one at this age requires a new set of skills. You need to find a job which matches your qualifications exactly with that of the potential employer’s requirements.
Since it’s your first job hunt in years, you may have counted on the advantage of “first-impressions”. But now that everything is online, you will be required to fill out applications and send resumes online which needs a different set of skills like using certain key words which are keeping in with the industry’s jargon and show your knowledge of the required areas.
Your resume definitely needs to be impressive. It should stand out as potential employers can have their pick of the pack.
You’ll need to brush up on your net-working skills.
And if you’re still in the old job and looking for a job, you’ll wonder about the ethics of hunting for a job while on a job. But there’s no need to feel guilty as it’s the most common thing to be happening in today’s scenario. Your prospective employer probably did the same thing. Research shows that the age group of 20 to 35 change jobs every one to two years. And they’re all hunting for a job while on a job.
This is where the internet can come in handy. It’s a handy tool to research the fields and industries where your skills can be used and to locate companies which you are interested in right from your work place. And it can be used at any time of the day, from anywhere where there is Internet connectivity.
Make sure you don’t agree to a telephonic interview. You have the risk of being overheard by the rest of the people working in the office and that will definitely mar your chances of sounding good.
Schedule your new job interviews for the end of the day as it calls less attention to your self. You can cry off from work early sighting some personal work. Only you need to make sure the way you are dressed doesn’t call attention to you. Don’t be “dressed up” for the interview or schedule a different, mutually convenient time. Most interviewers are quite accommodating that way.
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