In a challenging job market, many career opportunists, from all over the country, have relocated to the Dallas-Fort Worth area in search of jobs and career opportunities.
Because the competition is so fierce, it is even more important to ensure that your career search methods, interview techniques, and career marketing materials separate you from the crowd of applicants and ultimately place you in front of decision makers who have the vision and power to hire you, instead of another applicant.
Job hunting is harder right now than it has ever been. If you look at the statistics, they say one thing. Personally, one need only look at those close to us if they are in a search; at that point, sympathy and empathy are immediate reactions. It is a competitive jungle out there right now — but if you follow some basics, things might get a bit easier.
The first key to job hunting successfully is to know what you want. You need to have some goal in mind. Naturally, for most of us, that goal is to be employed, but in order to drive yourself and to be properly motivated, you have to be just a little bit more specific than that. For instance, would you be happy with a minimum wage job at a fast food restaurant? There is nothing wrong with that by any means — a job like that can help you get some kind of experience and it is typically ideal for high school students as well as students in their first or second year of undergraduate school. However, many of us simply want more than that. We want a job somewhere within the bounds of our chosen field of study.
That is where job hunting can get a little bit more intense. If you want a job that can take you places, a job that offers room for advancement and worthwhile opportunities, then you have to have a good resume. That is not at all negotiable. It is a necessity these days. The job market is so intensely competitive that you have got to have the best possible resume you can build. Now, where some of us run into trouble is the fact that we do not have a lot of Job Hunting experience.
Tailoring your resume, making it look good, can go a long way towards helping you get over that hump. You also need to supplement your resume with a well written CV. That is an abbreviation for curriculum vitae, and what that does is allow you to be more detailed and more specific than your resume allows. Your CV can be longer and more thorough; you can really chronicle your skills, attributes, and qualifications.
The last step in successful job hunting involves including a cover letter with each and every resume you send out to potential employers. You need to specifically tailor each cover letter to the position for which you are applying, and tie it into the skills you have to illustrate how you can bring your experience to the position.
You can try all these tips, but most importantly, you must assess the effectiveness of you campaign on a regular basis. If whatever your tactic, it’s not working, change your approach. I find, that a major part of the problem with the job market, is not just the economy (as most would want to blame), but what we as jobseekers do. Outdated methodologies such as the “spray and pray” approach, don’t work! If you get to a point that you feel “I’ve done what I could, but it’s not working”, get some assistance. As we may have heard, it makes no sense to keep doing the same thing over and over, and expect different results!
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