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There are two main strategies for job searching.
- The first strategy is to look for job postings.
- The second strategy is to offer yourself, your experience,
talent, and skills to a prospective employer.
In the first strategy the job already exists and, in a sense,
you are found by the job, which has its origin in the employer
who encourages you to go into action and apply for the position.
Here you target a job and use strategies to make yourself
fit a job.
In the second strategy you search for the job. The action
has its origin in the job seeker who tries to convince the
employer to hire or contract him/her. Here you target an employer
more so than a specific job, and you use strategies to discover
and/or create a job within a company, based on what you have
to offer.
With the first of these strategies, you can reach the visible
part of the job market, which is actually only a small portion
of the total available market. With the second, you hit a
big share of the hidden job market, which can be stimulated
by your willingness to participate.
EasyJob operates equally well with both these strategies
and, above all, makes the second strategy feasible for you,
because the resume building software includes information
on 11,000 of the largest U.S. employers for you to "stimulate"
by sending them your presentation
package.
There are still two more complementary strategies
for job searching.
Networking
One is the personal contacts network that only you can build
by talking with people you know to find out about the job
market and to get referrals. Many people, however, hesitate
to network because they feel awkward asking for help. What
they don’t realize is that you networking and asking
for help are not one and the same thing.
When you network, you give and take information. You give
information by letting people know that you are available
for employment and have a presentation
package ready to send.
Also, during your job search, you may find a want ad or a
job posting that is not right for you, but is a good opportunity
for one of your contacts, and you can pass this information
on to them. Chances are that when they see something that
looks like a good opportunity for you, they’ll return
the favor.
You can always ask for information, without asking for help
or appearing to be needy. You can ask for advice, industry
information, or where to acquire newsletters that apply to
your desired or chosen field. Networking does not mean that
you go around asking all the people you know for a job! Yet
in the natural give-and-take of information that occurs in
networking, you might very well find the open door to your
next employment opportunity. And, thanks to EasyJob, you’ll
have a great presentation package to send when that opportunity
arises.
Internet Resources: Job Banks and Resume Posting
Internet resources offer another good job-search strategy.
No job search is complete today without surfing the Web.
Among the numerous web sites dealing with employment and
resumes, you can find job-search sites often organized by
advertising firms as Bernard Hodes Advertising (http://www.careermosaic.com)
or Monster
Board through which you can post your resume, attend an
online career fair, search for jobs by key word, location,
industry, company, and connect to college and universities
home pages. In addition to these Internet resources, you can
find more career resources through professional associations’
sites and online magazines.
Job Searching Tools
After you write your own resume
with EasyJob's
resume templates, we recommend JobFish,
the perfect companion to our resume
builder to manage your job search:
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Regardless of how you do your job search, JobFish will help
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up those job offers in no time and choosing the career you
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