lincedpt Post subject: 1000 things you don't want in your job hunt
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:13 am Lieutenant Joined: Fri
May 18, 2007 4:19 am Posts: 1 GOING ONLY FOR BRANDING Do
you stick only to the top name job boards or portals? If yes, you are
denying your chances of getting into specialized positions. Specialized
groups or non-enterprise companies often steer clear of top names. Choose
your resume posting based on the kind of recruiters that visit a given
job boards. OUTSOURCING YOUR JOB HUNT If you are getting
a peer or a consultant to do your job hunt to the level of making contact
with a prospective employer - stop doing this now. You can get help
to the level of someone gathering job order description or information
for you. You make the connect - use the opportunity to create an impression.
RESUME BLASTING Do you treat your resume like a promotional
mailer? Distribute it all over the place or get a group email ID and
broadcast? This means (1) Your cover letter or your resume is not customized
for the job order in hand - Resume customization in lieu of arranging
the skill sets for the given job order. (2) You do not follow up, there
are employers who seek to measure your interest with the follow up method
that you adopt. Plus your prospective employer or their job consultant
knows that you are hunting around, which will reduce your market value.
Another aspect of mindless blasting is clicking the APPLY FOR
THIS JOB button wherever you see it. When you submit your resume to
a job where you do not have minimum qualifications - and you have a
reason to doing so - make an offline connect. 75% of email traffic
received by a generic ID such as "careers@bestemployer.com" is junk.
If you rely only on email to get your next job - forget it. Your resume
is probably in the junk folder. PRIVACY Do not write a tell
tale resume with private information. We've heard enough and more about
misuse of private information. Another aspect of privacy - using Internet
at work to coordinate your job hunt. Wake up - Even a mom & pop
street corner store can afford a network and a firewall in it.
INTERNET JOB HUNT BALANCE You do not want to rely entirely on
the internet for your job search. You do not want to deny the abundance
of information that is available on the internet either. Depending on
your skills and where you want to be working next, see if your target
employers and their head hunters are hanging out in Print Classifieds
or Job boards. BEING COOL Email is new age - it has been
for over 15 years now:), but an email ID such as kewldude800@xyz.com
is not a great identification. Also see what your social networking
page is saying about you - from the eyes of a headhunter, hiring manager
or recruiter. Please blogpost here about ‘Big Brother is Watching‘.
Also your resume or your job hunt webpage is a business document, it
is not your platform to express political views. Balance 994
things you do not want in your job hunt come under ‘common sense application'.
We do not want to question your CSA quotient by putting down all of
those 994. (Actually, “6 things” as a title did not sound grandiose
enough to attract your attention)
Posted 11/12/2012
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