5 time-tested job search strategies you can use now
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When you are conducting a job search, hope is not a strategy. Action -- ideally, consistent action implemented in a systematic way -- is the only strategy that will help you move closer to your goal for landing a new job. These 5 job search strategies that you can take action on today, will help propel your job search forward and help you to land a new job more quickly. For more tips to help with your job search, resume writing, personal branding and career marketing, visit www.distinctiveweb.com or follow us at: Twitter: http://twitter.com/distinctivedocs Facebook: http://facebook.com/DistinctiveDocuments Google+: http://plus.google.com/+Distinctivewebofficial LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/michelledumasTRANSCRIPT
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5 Time-Tested Job Search Strategies You Can Use NOW
People are currently filling the jobs you may have had in mind. They were smart to plan theirjob searchlast summer and got serious about it in the fall.
Make your job search your idea. Do not wait to be downsized or laid off. Do not wait to be passed over for the next promotion. Nothing feels better than leaving a job on your own terms!
Tip #1Do Not Wait
Tip #2Unless the job comes looking for you, you need time to clean up and organize your finances, your social media history, your references, and work history.
Plan Ahead
Tip #3Focus On Target JobsDetermine what job title, workplace, and income you want to chase. Without ajob search target, you will not know what to do next or how to prioritize your time.
Tip #4Put Yourself At The CenterImagine yourself at the bulls-eye of a target; then run two exercises:Label each concentric circle a distance of 20 miles and identify the employers in those ranges.Label each concentric circle for a community you belong to and regularly network in those circles
Tip #5Learn To NetworkLet people know what you are looking for and how you are right for it. If you cannot sell those you know, you will never sellan interviewer.
Networking is not a whimpering plea for help. Approach your contacts with confidence and with focus.
You cannot go forward withoutcleaning up your past on social mediawhere everything you have posted has a life of its own.
At the same time, prepare a current professional rsum (or better yet,work with a professional rsum writer).
Finally, it never hurtstosubmit your resume to headhunterswho work to match open positions with professionals such as you. They need and value an inventory of qualified candidates.
Michelle Dumas runs of one of the longest-standing and most respectedprofessional rsum writingfirms on the internet, Distinctive Career Services, LLC (dba Distinctive Documents).
Since 1996, Michelle has empowered thousands of professionals with rsums that get results and win jobs fast. Get insider rsum writing tips that you won't find anywhere else at her website. Go now towww.distinctiveweb.comThe Internets Rsum & Career Marketing SpecialistsSince 1996www.distinctiveweb.com [email protected] (800) 644-9694Copyright 2014, Distinctive Career Services, LLC
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