If you’re currently embarking on a job-seeking journey, it’s wise to use every possible avenue to obtain your next position. Taking advantage of the wide range of new strategies to land your dream job can enrich your possibilities.
Before you begin looking for new employment, update your resume to ensure it highlights your professional skills. Inventory your personal and social skills to determine if you’d like to make some positive changes that could help you obtain the position you desire.
To bridge the gap between employment and unemployment, use temporary solutions to keep cash flowing in to your household.
Because of the vast opportunities that exist on the internet, consider online employment.
Use online networking, both professionally and socially to expand your field of contacts as a way of finding work. Even volunteering can increase your contacts, exposure, and work skills that can lead to a new job.
2. Use every possible avenue to
obtain your next position.
Take advantage of a wide range of
strategies to land your dream job.
This will enrich your possibilities.
Finding a Job
3. • Before you begin looking for new employment,
update your resume to highlight your
professional skills.
• Review and fine-tune your personal and social
skills.
• To bridge the gap between employment and
unemployment, use temporary solutions to keep
cash flowing in to your household.
4. Update Your Resume
Goals are new, forward-moving objectives.
They magnetize you towards them.
- Mark Victor Hansen
5. Avoid panic.
Take a good look at your work
credentials.
Cater your resume to each
position you’re seeking.
6. Enhance and Polish Your Resume
The secret of success in life is for a man to be
ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
7. • Add relevant information that best reflects your
professional persona.
• Re-word anything that sounds awkward.
• Focus on clearly defining your skills.
• Highlight your training, education, and
experience that show expertise in your field.
Show that you’re the expert they
want.
8. • Use words like these on your resume:
Perform, complete, write, develop, design,
implement, coordinate, assist, manage,
represent, facilitate, ensure, supervise, advocate,
conduct, prepare, serve as, educate, formulate,
compose, assess.
• Resume experts recommend using present-
tense verbs to describe your prior work tasks
when editing your job descriptions.
Use action verbs when describing
the work you've done in the past.
9. • Utilize bold print to set off the names of prior jobs
you've held.
• Include your contact information at the top of
your resume to facilitate easy, quick contact with
you by those who review your credentials.
• Limit your resume to two pages if at all possible.
Format your resume to make it
memorable.
11. • Practice excellent personal and social skills
while job seeking.
• Leverage your personality to relate well to
others; be friendly, especially in new social
situations.
• Establish new contacts constantly while job
searching.
12. • People that remember you favorably will
consider you when they need to hire someone.
• Because your contacts have their own contacts,
every good impression will count.
• Inventory your job skills as well and work to
continue developing these as much as you can
while you’re off.
13. Temporary Solutions for Work
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
14. • Looking for work can be daunting, especially
when you do not see results over a period of
several weeks.
• Temporary solutions may be necessary to help
you find work.
• Utilize these strategies to bridge that gap
between past employment and your future
employment.
15. Temporary Services
Make contact with temporary services offices in
your local area.
Go in person to practice your job interviewing
skills.
You may find many temporary work businesses
in your area, like Elite Staffing, Kelly Services,
AppleOne, Randstad, Aerotek, and Manpower.
In some cases, you might even find a permanent
job through placement by a temp service.
16. Create Your Own Work
Sell your services for quick cash.
• Mow lawns, trim bushes or sweep porches and walk ways.
• Sewing, knitting and mending.
• Wash cars.
• Use a power washer on houses, driveways, and walkways.
• Clean out garages and basements.
• Clean and organize pantries and closets.
• Painting - interior and exterior.
• Hang pictures, clean houses, wash windows or walk dogs.
• Baby-sitting.
• Care for houses or pets when their owners are gone.
• Handy-man tasks like light home repairs.
• Personal shopping or running errands.
17. • Spend time creating a list of services that you
can provide.
• Taking advantage of temporary work solutions
will relieve some of the pressure associated with
your employment search.
19. Full time positions available online.
Research major companies in search of online jobs. Telecommuting is a rapidly growing industry.
Sell professional services on the internet.
Use sites like Elance and Odesk
to post work skills and resume
online.
Use online forums like Sitepoint
and Warrior Forum.
Avoid using sites that require you
to pay to find a job.
Become a virtual assistant.
Provide office support and back-up to businesses
from home.
Respond to emails and offer customer service.
20. Online Professional Networking
• Utilize professional networking such as LinkedIn
to expand your horizons during your job search.
At LinkedIn, click on “looking for a job” and open
positions will appear on the website. Sometimes
as many as 55,000 jobs are available on the
website.
Access professionals in your field for advice and
networking strategies so you can further your
career.
22. Online Social Networking
Social networking is necessary when job
seeking.
Facebook can expand your field of contacts.
Advertise that you are looking for work on your
profile.
Ask Facebook friends to help you find a job.
The potential is great to reach hundreds of
people in your job search.
23. Volunteer to Find a Job
Your success depends on
what you do yourself,
with your own means.
- P. T. Barnum
24. • Volunteering can open up employment doors for
you.
• You will meet new professional contacts when
you volunteer.
• Volunteering will literally show people what you
are capable of.
25. Where to Volunteer
• Social service agencies
• Healthcare organizations, hospitals and clinics
• Churches also often need volunteers.
Political and Social Activism
• Make contacts while learning valuable skills.
• Get active in a cause that you believe in.
• Put your effort into doing something with personal
value.
26. Learn New Things by Volunteering
• Expand what you know to prepare yourself for your
next job.
• Volunteering provides you with free and on-the-job
training.
Show Others What You Can Do
• Show off your capabilities.
• Demonstrate that you are a smart and effective worker
through volunteering.
• Increase your chances of finding work.
27. A Wise Philosophy
If money is your hope for independence you will never
have it. The only real security that a man can have in
this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and
ability.
-Henry Ford
28. It’s not what you know, it’s who you
know.
• Who do you know that owns their own business?
• Who do you know that just took a new job?
• Who do you know that hires professionals for
temporary work?
Who you know and who they know is most
important.
• Who you know online may determine your next
job.
• Don’t underestimate the power of online
Remember online contacts.
29. Follow Up on Communication
Adults are always asking little kids what
they want to be when they grow up because
they're looking for ideas.
-Paula Poundstone
30. • Perform some type of follow-up after making
contacts in your job search. Follow-up via telephone
call, written letter or email.
• When employers remember you favorably, they are
much more likely to recall you when hiring new
employees.
• When you consistently provide follow-up
communications, people will definitely remember
your good manners and stellar work ethic.
31. Take Advantage of Time Off
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line
between work and play.
-Arnold Toynbee
32. Use your time off to expand your professional horizons.
Sharpen job skills, take a class or
get more education and training.
When that next job opportunity
comes along, you'll be ready.
Make your time off count by getting training, gaining
knowledge and developing new work skills.
Strengthen your
typing/keyboarding
skills.
Take a class.
Seek out any other
training or education
you desire.
33. • Although looking for a job when you don’t
already have one is stressful and scary, keep in
mind that it could also be the opportunity of a
lifetime!
• Use these tips to help you create your own
opportunities and you could end up happier and
better-paid than ever!
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