GOING ONLY FOR BRANDING
Do you stick only to the top name job boards orportals? If yes, you are denying your chances of getting into specializedpositions. Specialized groups or non-enterprise companies often steer clear oftop names. Choose your resume posting based on the kind of recruiters that visita given job boards.
OUTSOURCING YOUR JOB HUNT
If you are getting apeer or a consultant to do your job hunt to the level of making contact with aprospective employer - stop doing this now. You can get help to the level ofsomeone gathering job order description or information for you. You make connect- use the opportunity to create an impression.
RESUME BLASTING
Do youtreat your resume like a promotional mailer? Distribute it all over the place orget a group email ID and broadcast? This means (1) Your cover letter or yourresume is not customized for the job order in hand - Resume customization inlieu of arranging the skill sets for the given job order. (2) You do not followup; there are employers who seek to measure your interest with the follow upmethod that you adopt. Plus your prospective employer or their job consultantknows that you are hunting around, which will reduce your marketvalue.
Another aspect of mindless blasting is clicking the APPLY FOR THISJOB button wherever you see it. When you submit your resume to a job where youdo not have minimum qualifications - and you have a reason to doing so - make anoffline connect.
75% of email traffic received by a generic ID such [email protected] is junk. If you rely only on email to get your next job- forget it.Your resume is probably in the junk folder.
PRIVACY
Donot write a tell tale resume with private information. We’ve heard enough andmore about misuse of private information. Another aspect of privacy - usingInternet at work to coordinate your job hunt. Wake up - Even a mom & popstreet corner store can afford a network and a firewall in it.
INTERNETJOB HUNT BALANCE
You do not want to rely entirely on the internet for yourjob search. You do not want to deny the abundance of information that isavailable on the internet either. Depending on your skills and where you want tobe working next, see if your target employers and their head hunters are hangingout in Print Classifieds orJob boards.
BEING COOL
Email is new age -it has been for over 15 years now
, but an email ID such [email protected] is not a great identification. Also see what your socialnetworking page is saying about you - from the eyes of a headhunter, hiringmanager or recruiter. Please blogpost here about ‘Big Brother is watching‘. Alsoyour resume oryour job hunt webpage is a business document; it is not yourplatform to express political views. :SugarwareZ-060::SugarwareZ-060::SugarwareZ-060::SugarwareZ-060:clapsclaps:SugarwareZ-093::SugarwareZ-093:
Do you stick only to the top name job boards orportals? If yes, you are denying your chances of getting into specializedpositions. Specialized groups or non-enterprise companies often steer clear oftop names. Choose your resume posting based on the kind of recruiters that visita given job boards.
OUTSOURCING YOUR JOB HUNT
If you are getting apeer or a consultant to do your job hunt to the level of making contact with aprospective employer - stop doing this now. You can get help to the level ofsomeone gathering job order description or information for you. You make connect- use the opportunity to create an impression.
RESUME BLASTING
Do youtreat your resume like a promotional mailer? Distribute it all over the place orget a group email ID and broadcast? This means (1) Your cover letter or yourresume is not customized for the job order in hand - Resume customization inlieu of arranging the skill sets for the given job order. (2) You do not followup; there are employers who seek to measure your interest with the follow upmethod that you adopt. Plus your prospective employer or their job consultantknows that you are hunting around, which will reduce your marketvalue.
Another aspect of mindless blasting is clicking the APPLY FOR THISJOB button wherever you see it. When you submit your resume to a job where youdo not have minimum qualifications - and you have a reason to doing so - make anoffline connect.
75% of email traffic received by a generic ID such [email protected] is junk. If you rely only on email to get your next job- forget it.Your resume is probably in the junk folder.
PRIVACY
Donot write a tell tale resume with private information. We’ve heard enough andmore about misuse of private information. Another aspect of privacy - usingInternet at work to coordinate your job hunt. Wake up - Even a mom & popstreet corner store can afford a network and a firewall in it.
INTERNETJOB HUNT BALANCE
You do not want to rely entirely on the internet for yourjob search. You do not want to deny the abundance of information that isavailable on the internet either. Depending on your skills and where you want tobe working next, see if your target employers and their head hunters are hangingout in Print Classifieds orJob boards.
BEING COOL
Email is new age -it has been for over 15 years now
, but an email ID such [email protected] is not a great identification. Also see what your socialnetworking page is saying about you - from the eyes of a headhunter, hiringmanager or recruiter. Please blogpost here about ‘Big Brother is watching‘. Alsoyour resume oryour job hunt webpage is a business document; it is not yourplatform to express political views. :SugarwareZ-060::SugarwareZ-060::SugarwareZ-060::SugarwareZ-060:clapsclaps:SugarwareZ-093::SugarwareZ-093: