Career Development and job hunting suggestions
2009-12-07
Good suggestions but some info might be too old.
Life Changing job hunt:
Make sure what, where and how, do certain homework on yourself and make sure first what you wanna offer to the world, where (field, location) you wanna contribute your capability and how to get the job.
Life changing job hunt: 1. keep the occupation change field first, then change occupation; or 2. stay in the same field while change occupation, then change the field.
3 enemies in Job hunting: Hype, Rejection shock, misplaced energy.
View the rejection as a process to learn, life changing job hunting will help you to learn the valuable skills of job hunting that will benefit you through your life.
Five best way to find a job:
1. Asking for job leads from family, friends... Networking networking!
2. knocking on the door of the employer from the organization that interests you, whether they are known to have a vacancy or not.
3. calling up employer by yourself
4. calling up employer by yourself with other job hunter.
5. doing a life changing job hunting.
(Conclusion: networking, go face to face, bring proof of your competency/experience, go into the field first!)
Tips for Job hunt:
Effort, Persistence, go after the job that interests you instead of looking for a vacancy, dont stop job hunting until you really start to work, Pay no attention to whether there is vacancy or not, to speed up, concentrate on small agencies, thank you note, go face to face, call them,
websites:
www.netcafe.com; commercial internet cafe
Resumes:
www.nrwa.com
www.parw.com/home.html
www.resumewriters.com
job hunting website:
www.monster.com
www.hotjobs.com
www.flipdog.com
www.joboptions.com
www.careerbuilder.com
www.salary.com
www.jobs.com
www.eurojobs.com