YOUR JOB SEARCH IS A FULL TIME JOB!
June 18th, 2006
I you are not working and looking for a new opportunity, your full time job is your job search! You should be spending every day getting that much closer to your goal of securing a new opportunity.
Review the last thirty days of your job search and answer the following questions:
1. How many resumes did you mail out DAILY?
2. How many calls do you make daily following up on the resumes you have sent?
3. How many new companies and new hiring authorities do you surface daily?
4. How many networking events did you attend?
5. How many job fairs did you attend?
6. What sites did you utilize to post your resume?
7. What new sources have you identified to uncover job opportunities?
8. How many informational interviews have you scheduled?
9. How many interviews with a prospective employer did you schedule?
10. If your resume is not resulting in interviews, did you revise your resume?
11. Are you registered with search firms who specialize in your occupation?
Are you getting the idea? Every single day you need to be marketing your experience, education and skills to prospective decision makers who could become your future employer. The Internet makes research extremely accessible.
At a minimum you should do the following:
1. Mail out 10 resumes every single day to a prospective employer
Handwrite the envelope and put personal and confidential in the left hand corner, so the decision maker
is actually the person who opens your envelope
2. Research additional companies in your profession
3. Call into those companies to identify the person who would be your supervisor
4. Read classified ads, Internet posting any other sources who identify opportunities
5. Subscribe to your trade publication - read articles that uncover possible positions or expansions
6. One week after mailing out your resume, call in to attempt to schedule a face to face meeting
7. Tell every person you meet that you are a “FREE AGENT IN THE OPEN JOB MARKET” so they can also
network for you
8. Don’t make up your mind BEFORE an interview. Go on the interview with one mission…TO GET AN OFFER!
9. Realize a job search is very FAIR - what you get out of it, is very commensurate to the effort you have put
in to your search.
Your new opportunity is not going to find YOU, you need to become extremely PRO-ACTIVE in your search!
If you do make 10 new contacts per day, it will only be a matter of time until you are working for your next employer in your great new position!
Good luck in your job search! Barb Bruno, CPC