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1. WHERE YOU SHOULD LOOK FOR JOBS?WHERE YOU SHOULD LOOK FOR JOBS?
By: VINCENT RAJ

2.  Local news paper advertisements.
 Trade Magazines.
 Web sites of the companies.
 Job fairs.
 Your current employer or former employer.
 Jobs that are listed with your friends and family.
 Jobs listed at professional conversation and meeting.
 College placement centers and their alumni groups.
 Private employment agencies, including retained search and contingency
firms.
 The state unemployment office also routinely lists the jobs there.
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job opportunitiesjob opportunities

3.  Cities with sound financial situation.
 Temporary agencies.
 Online job posting / job boards.
 Yellow pages.
 Social networking sites such as community social- networking sites,
media sites, Social bookmarking sites and Blogging social networks.
 The major sites are LinkedIn, Face book, and Twitter.
 The best way to learn about social networking is to get started by
visiting and joining LinkedIn face book and twitter.

4.  LinkedIn profile is considered your online resume. Companies and other
business contacts will be attracted to you based on the value you create, and
your profile will often be the very first impression you make on them. You
can be successful in your effort by developing contacts and converting
contacts in to connection. Develop your contacts by uploading your email
contact list and conduct searches for classmates, colleagues, and friends.
These come from your profile. LinkedIn identifies others who have joined
who may be connected to you because they attend the some schools, worked
for the same organization or lived in the same towns and so on.
 By converting contacts to connections, you will know these individuals well
and are willing to be one degree of separation from them. It also allows you to
see whom your contacts are connected to. There is a special feature that
prohibits even those you are connected to from viewing your other contacts.

5.  The job-search pyramid is a visual representation of job- search process. You
can use it to determine what level you are at and what options are available to
move you up the pyramid (R. William Hollond, 2012, cracking the new job
market, P.87).
The job search pyramidThe job search pyramid

7.  At the very top of the pyramid, these opportunities exists where you work and where the value
you create has already been recognized. This is the most desirable of the job-search situations
and the position most of us prefer. An organization has reflected on the skills it needs and has
identified those who most closely fit the till – and chose you.
 However, until you become a well known employee and a number of companies
are tracking your career, a well- written resume is still the best way to summarize your
accomplishments and the value you create.
 You are invited to Apply
 Unsolicited invitations from another organization or search firm are the next most
desirable situation in the job-search pyramid. The companies have heard of your work and
think that your candidacy makes sense.
 Networking Referrals
 From time to time you will be able to connect directly with a networking referral,
but at other times, you will not .your chances are directly tied to the kind of personal brand
you have established, the value you create , and how fully you have developed your network.
InsideInside promotions and Lateral movespromotions and Lateral moves

8.  Unsolicited Applications
To move up the pyramid you need to do at least job-centered networking with family,
friends and a wider set of contacts through social-networking websites such as Linkedin,
Facebook, or Twitter
These three sites currently are great sources for networking your way in as a job seeker.
 Door –To- Door Job Search
Here as a job hunter, you are looking for unknown or future job vacancies. It is a
tough way of searching for a suitable job. To make this method of job Search effective, you
must collect the address of a list of business from yellow pages and other relevant sources and
identity. The types of companies that can use your skills, qualifications and experiences and
check with each company about the available vacancies. This type of job search can be done
door-to-door, on the phone or by sending e-mail. Around 2.5 percent of all hires in the Career
-Xroads survey come from unsolicited walk-ins. Though you may get a lot of no’s, you need
only a single yes to make your effort worthwhile.

9.  Successful Job –Search through Social- Networking
There is ample evidence about the popularity of social networking. In
2009, 54 Percent of the fortune 100 companies had twitter accounts, 32
percent had corporate blogs, and 29 percent had a face book fan page. The
numbers are growing at great speed. Over half of the direct sourcing hires
counted in the Career-X roads survey comes from LinkedIn. (Source: Jerry
Crispin and mark Mahler,” Career-Xroads annual source of Hire Study:
Meltdown in 2009 and what it means for a 2010 Recovery”,
www.careerxroads.com,accesed February 2010).

10.  According to Mr. Richard N. Bolles, one of America’s top expert career Adviser, the
following are the five best ways to hunt for a job.
 Doing extensive home work on yourself
According to Richard N. Bolles, “this doesn’t sound like a job-hunting method but it
is….it involves doing extensive home work on yourself..The goal is to better understand
who you are, what you have to offer to the job market and what kind of job would match
that”.
(What color is your parachute? 2013 Edn, P.35)
 This method now has 86 percent success rate, the highest by far of any job- hunting
method(Bolles).this means, out of every 100 job hunters 86 of them can get job through
this method of job hunting (Bolles, ibid, P.35). Doing home work on yourself works
very well and will have a 1200 percent better chance of finding a job than if you send out
resumes!
The Five Best Ways to hunt for a JobThe Five Best Ways to hunt for a Job

11.  There are certain reason for the great success of self analysis as a method of
job hunting .With a self analysis; you can search for jobs in multiple job
markets as you will be able to train you to take up many challenging jobs .
 By a self analysis you can tell your friends, family members and mentors,
exactly what types of jobs you are looking for and so can get better help from
them.
 A self analysis will also give more energy and better motivation to search for
the position of your dreams.
 With a self analysis, you will be better able to choose places and companies
where you would like to work and then approach them, which in turn might
enable you to get a job without much difficulty.
 A self analysis will also help you to perform better in the job interview as you
can clearly and concisely tell the interviewers your unique qualities and why
you are the best fit for a particular job, which the other candidate cannot.

12.  In his famous book ‘What color is your parachute?’ (2013, Edn, P.33) career
experts Richard N. Bolles writes that, “A job- club “with other job-hunters
using the phone book’s Yellow pages to identify subjects or fields of interest
to you In the town or city where you are and then calling up or visiting the
employers listed in that field, to ask if they are hiring for the type of position
you can do, and do well… Here you work in a group and you choose a partner
to work with in identifying job-leads. This method has nearly a 70 percent
success rate as 70 people out of 100 job seekers can find the jobs.
 Using your phone books, yellow pages and calling up or visiting the
employers listed there and asking them to hire you for the jobs you can do
well. This method has about a 65 percent success rate and so out of 100 job-
seekers, 65 of them can find jobs (R.N.Bolles, P.33).
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13.  Knocking on the door of any employer or organization, that interest you,
whether they have job vacancies or not. This approach works well mostly
with small organizations having less than 50 or less employees. The method
of job search has nearly 47% success rate (R.N.Bolles, P.33).
 Asking for job-leads from family members, friends and people you know, in
the society. According to Richard N. Bolles, This job –search method has
about a 33 percent success rate. By asking for job-leads from your family and
friends, you have an almost five times better chance of finding job, than if
you had just send out your resume.

14.  According to Richard N. Bolles, the following are the five worst ways to
look for jobs:
 Looking for employers job-posting on the internet, there is only a 4% to
10% success rate.
 Posting or mailing out your resume to employers, there is only a 7%
success rate.
 Answering ads in professional or trade journals, appropriate to your field.
There is only 7% success rate.
 Answering local newspaper ads-only 5% to 24% success rate.
 Going to private employment agencies or search firms for help- only 5% to
28% success rate.

15.  Job-hunting is an activity that repeats itself over and over again.
 Job-hunting is an art.
 Job- hunting is mysterious as you may never understand why things sometimes
work, and sometimes do not.
 There is no definite and right way to hunt for a job or to change career.
 Job-hunting always depends up on some amount of luck.
 Anything may work for Job-search under certain circumstances, or at certain
times, or with certain employers.
SummarySummary of Conclusion for Job-Searchof Conclusion for Job-Search

16.  Find out what you know and what your favorite fields of interest are.
 The kind of people you wish to work with.
 Identifying what are your transferable skills and what you can do for
the organization.
 Identifying your favorite working conditions-Indoors or outdoors or
small company or large company.
 Self assessment of your preferred salary.
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