I had been searching high and low for employment websites, and was not having any luck. Well, not until I simplified my search.
Once I did that, I located the job websites that was what I was looking for. This site will overwhelm you with all of the opportunities it provides. (more…)
In our tough economy, unemployed Americans are taking over. It seems like everyday during the previous summer we are bombarded with stories on the news regarding home foreclosures.
Now as winter approaches, the numbers are still increasing. The economy seems to be at a standstill and the average American people are receiving the short hand of the stick.
College Grants are being taken away, Companies are downsizing and families are striving to find ends meat. It is a recession that many were not planning for.
Thankfully, there is a job search site, or a online job search, that will direct you toward success. How do you find it you ask? (more…)
Many Americans would have never thought the economy would be in the state that it is in currently. We have heard of the Great Depression in history class, but to live in a recession seemed unlikely.
Bailouts seem like the norm and home foreclosures keep increasing. But there is one key difference between the economic troubles of today and the financial troubles of 1929: Americans didn’t have the luxury of an online job search or job websites during the Great Depression. (more…)
Have you just graduated from college and you have no idea where to start looking for jobs?
During your four years in college none of your professors gave you advice on where to start looking for jobs and your counselor provided you with a just a few useless job websites and job search engines.
Now it is two months after graduation. Partying and relaxing is over and it is time to buckle down and find a job. You are good at what you do and you have had plenty of internships.
The only thing is that you don’t know where to start and your resume isn’t too dense. (more…)
Millions of Americans are loosing their jobs everyday. The economy is not booming like it has been in previous years.
It seems like America has been on a steady decline month after month. Congress talks about the improvements in the economy because of stimulus packages and bailouts, but houses are still being foreclosed and refrigerators are not as full as they usually are.
Thankfully, there are job search engines and job search websites to help ease the annoyance of layoffs and pay cuts. With these benefiting search tools, looking for a job seems to be a more attractive option. (more…)
Job web sites are the best and only way to apply for jobs these days.
Unless you have the privilege of meeting the hiring manager or owner of the company in person for any reason, in which case you should print out your resume and cover letter ahead of time (and I recommend using a slightly heavier and possibly lightly tinted paper instead of regular computer paper) and present it in a manila envelope. Other than this special and rare instance, you should be applying for jobs on job web sites for the best and most effective results.
Web sites offer a great way to quickly find jobs that you are interested in applying for. They are fast and easy, often providing step by step directions on how to apply. Be sure to read the job description carefully, because in some cases the person who made the listing says that he/she prefers emails over suing the web site.
In such case, they will provide the contact information and you should reply to the posting via email. But be sure to list which web site you found the job posting on, because the employers are always curious in which web site is working best for them and yielding back the best job candidate results.
Remember to always include a short cover letter with your resume, whether you apply on a site or via email. In some cases, a job site is tricky because it makes it so easy to zoom through the job listings and send out resumes in such a short amount of time and call it a day.
But if you really want the full consideration of the hiring manager and if you want an easy way to stick out from the rest of the resumes include a short, to-the-point cover letter. Start off with the hiring manager’s name, if it is given, and then list in the opening paragraph the position you are applying for with the company’s name and the job web sites on which you found the listing.
You are basically writing in the letter what skills and qualities you possess that would be an asset to the company that can’t be found on your resume or that is in the bottom half of your resume and has a chance of being overlooked.
But remember to keep it as brief as possible, maybe two to three short paragraphs, because the hiring manager does not and will not read through a long essay of your life’s story.
That simply shows that you do not know how to select and highlight the important facts and that you don’t appreciate the employer’s time.
While you are hunting for a job, you will get different opinions and advice about a job search site. Some may claim that they love one job search site and hate the other job search engines.
While it is always a good idea to listen to the advice around you and the opinions of others, it is always very important to pick the site that works best with you and that you are most comfortable with. After all, all the resumes go to the same employer and the employer does not care which website you applied from.
Your parents may tell you that the best way to apply for a job is to go into a company and ask for an application. With all due respect to parents, this is wrong. You must remember that your parents grew up in a very different generations and, baby boomers especially, have trouble excepting the all-encompassing ways of the Internet.
They may think that showing up to a company in person implies motivation, dedication and a desire for a job, but in fact it sends the completely opposite message.
It says that you are willing to waste people time instead of figuring out on your own that most companies nowadays only accept electronic applications. It sends the message that you are outdated and behind the times.
It might also suggest that you don’t know how to use the computer or the Internet. At the very least, you are wasting your own time as well as theirs, since they will simply refer you to the website where they post their career opportunities.
Instead, you want to appear to companies sharp, slick and on the ball. After proof reading your resume a hundred times and then letting three other people proof read your resume, save it as a PDF. This shows that you are professional and savvy when it comes to the Internet and computers.
Also be sure to include a short cover letter that gets right to the point of what you can offer the company. After these steps are taken, believe it or not, the best thing you can do for yourself is to spend your days sitting alone at the computer like a total nerd.
Your parents might think that you are a lazy bum, but they simply don’t and can’t understand how applying for jobs are done in today’s day and age.
Employment websites are the preferred way to apply for jobs these days. In these times of the fast paced Internet, it is outdated and not appreciated to go into a company, ask if they are hiring and then ask for an application.
Some think the fact that you took time out to go to the company and the personal touch of a face-to-face conversation will give you an advantage in the candidate picking process. The truth is that you are wasting your time and theirs.
First off, the only person you’ll probably talk to is the secretary or front desk person. When you ask them the golden question, “Are you hiring?” they will simply tell you to either visit their job search site for a list of career opportunities or to visit the employment websites that they chose to post to their job opportunities on.
Even in the rare case that they let you speak with the person who does the hiring, they will do the same thing.
And, although it’s always a good thing when the hiring manager sees your face and knows your name, chances are they will not remember your name when sifting through the hundreds of resumes received. And they obviously will not get a chance to see your face.
Furthermore, since all resumes are electronic now, employee seekers don’t even have to bother with looking at names. They can enter key words and skills that they want to see in resume into a software program that searches through all those resumes for them to deliver the ones that are most pertinent to the employer’s requests.
So you can see why a face-to-face or over-the-phone meet and greet is most advantageous only after they have already asked you in for an interview. Until then, it doesn’t serve much purpose.
If you insist on visiting the companies in person, you will soon find that it is a real time waster that does go very unappreciated. It may even have the opposite effect, with employers thinking that you don’t know how to use the Internet or employment websites or that you are stuck in old-fashioned ways, which is definitely not a good quality for today’s ever evolving technologies and methods.
If anything, you want to look quick, sleek and ahead of the times. Your parents may tell you to go in anyways and introduce yourself, but remember that they grew up in a completely different era, without the amazing advantage of the Internet, and, as much as you hate to disagree with them, they are wrong.
They may think you’re an unmotivated bum, but the truth is that the best thing that you can do for yourself right now is spend your days at your computer.
There are plenty of job search sites out there in cyber land and it is important to choose the one or ones that work for you. The only way you’re going to know which job search sites you like the best is by getting started with your local job search. So here are some tips to help you with your hunt.
It may take weeks to months for a response from an employer and it may take months to a year to find the right job for you. In the meantime, it is a good idea to get a short internship or part time job until that perfect offer comes along.
Or you may decide to take the first offer that comes to you, which is also a noble move since you never know when the ideal job will happen. You may want to take a job to get your feet wet and, who knows, it may turn out that the job is perfect for you.
Also, although companies don’t appreciate it, you can always quit your job when a better offer comes along. Never tell this to anyone.
Instead, simply say it wasn’t working out at your previous job or you didn’t agree with where the company was going or it wasn’t what you thought it would be while you were going into your job. On the same token, sometimes we take jobs and it turns out that we truly are not happy with what it turned out to be.
It is perfectly acceptable to go back to the job hunting board, so to speak, and try again. But never leave a job until you have another job lined up. Or else you may be stuck with no paycheck for a while.
When you’re using a job search site, you can search for many different kinds of jobs in different locations. It is a good idea to record what keywords you are searching for in those search fields so you can be consistent and search for the same words the next day, since different jobs are posted daily.
Some job search engines actually save your searches for you, but I still recommend writing them down for your own records. Remember to think out of the box when it comes to deciding which jobs to search for.
More often than not, a particular degree or training that one has received comes with skill sets that are valuable in a wide variety of business areas.
When it is time to look for a new or first job, you are better off visiting one of the many job websites. The classified section of the newspaper is outdated for many reasons.
The most obvious reason that an online job search is better is because the ease and pace of job websites far exceed the tedious task of browsing the paper, circling and mailing out resumes.
Also, employers these days simply don’t want the hard copy of your resume. With the amount of inquiries they get for each position that they list, it is far easier for them to save, sort and find resumes that are electronic.
Many companies don’t even consider hard copy resumes anymore. Besides for the fact that they are a huge waste of paper, they just create more hassles and take up more space than is necessary.
With that said, once you found a job website that you like, focus on perfecting your resume before jumping right into pressing the ‘send’ button.
First off, have someone else read your resume for errors that you may have not caught, which happens all the time to writers who have been staring at their work for hours. Your resume will look different to a fresh pair of eyes.
Letting someone look at your personal resume and writing could be intimidating, so pick someone you feel comfortable getting constructive criticism from, like a colleague or classmate, and ask them to be perfectly honest with their suggestions.
After perfecting your resume, save it in a PDF format so that you’re spacing, bullets and fonts don’t change as you send it from person to person. This is the equivalent to printing out your final draft on nice bounded paper.
Finally, you are ready to start applying for jobs. It is alright to use more than one job website because they might list different jobs. But it is important to keep a record of all the jobs that you have applied for, which site you applied for them on and any and all contact information that the job listing offered.
This will help you stay organized and avoid applying for the same job more than once, which is a major waste of time.
When you receive offers for interviews, make sure you reply in an extremely timely manner, the same day if possible, so your eagerness shines through and they don’t think that you’re not interested.
Be sure to keep the same level of professionalism in your response letter or phone call that you exhibited in your resume and cover letter.