How to Find and Get a Job

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Everything You Need to Find a Job

Step 1: Prepare

Using a combination of various methods and tactics for finding a job will increase your options, expand your networking pool, and decrease your overall search time.

1. Update your resume – This will help you recognize your strengths and past successes. Remember, the average resume is read in 10 seconds.
2. Update your LinkedIn Profile – 91% of hiring managers use social networks to screen candidates. 100 million professionals use LinkedIn to exchange information.
3. Clean up your Facebook profile – 44% of employers look at Facebook profiles of potential hires. Remove anything offensive. Add a few good posts that would represent you well.
4. Clean up your Twitter account – 27% of employers check out job candidate’s activity on Twitter. Remove anything controversial. Add a few tweets that highlight your better side.

Step 2: Search

Job-seekers are most likely to find a job using the following search methods:

• 41% Networking – A whopping 41% of job-seekers find a job through networking
• 25% Internet job boards – 25% of job-seekers find a job through internet job boards
• 11% Agency or firm – 11% of job-seekers find a job through an agency or firm
• 8% Direct approach* – 8% of job-seekers find a job through using a direct approach
• 4% Online network – 4% of job-seekers find a job through an online network like Facebook
• 2% Advertisement – 2% of job-seekers find a job through an advertisement in the classifieds

*Knowing where you want to work, who is “in charge” of making hiring decisions at that location, and making a case to them about why they should hire you, even when you haven’t been told they’re hiring.

Step 3: Stay Positive

General Rule: For every 100 applications you submit… you will be extended 10 interview opportunities… and offered 1 job

• Don’t take rejection personally
• Treat job-hunting like a full-time job
• Identify roles that suit you
• Learn from your mistakes
• Be patient!

Tip: Add one month of search time for every $20,000 you wish to earn in annual salary

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Infographic Sources

www.drphil.com/articles/article/606, www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2013/02/19/five-top-resume-turnoffs/, www.forbes.com/2010/09/28/direct-contact-job-seeking-leadership-careers-employment.html, www.forbes.com/pictures/efkk45ffell/software-developers-applications-and-systems-software/, www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2013/09/20/five-ways-to-break-out-of-a-job-search-rut/v, www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2013/10/17/9-lessons-for-job-seekers-and-recruiters-that-might-surprise-you/, www.careernetwork.msu.edu/jobs-internships/finding-a-job/job-search-strategy-and-research.html