Job search with cover letters and follow-up

What are the main ingredients of a good cover letter and why is it important?

Want to set yourself apart from the masses sending resumes to every open position open on the worldwide wed? The proper development and use of a cover can do just that for you. The cover letter is a letter of introduction that allows you to highlight your major accomplishments and why you believe you are a fit for the position, company or organization. The cover letter allows you to personalize content in such a way that demonstrates you understanding of the responsibilities of the position you are applying, as well as highlight those skills and abilities that would suggest you are a good fit for the position. The cover letter provides a method of you being specific about what you are looking for in a job and how your background and experience aligns with the position. The same rules apply to a good cover letter as a good resume. It should be clear and concise and to the point. There should be no misspelled works, run on sentences and should focus specifically on value you believe you could add to the team and why your background and experience makes you a good fit for the position and the company.
As with a resume it is important to follow-up on those position you have a special interest with a phone call to verify the resume and cover letter were received and if the position was still available. The use of a cover letter to accompany your resume is a personal and professional call on your part to assure your interest in the position gets noticed.

Life style alternatives

Think you have had enough of the nine to five and are ready to take the leap into small business ownership. What are some of the first things you should do before you quit your job? Based on past experience that list could be a mile long. But say if the plan isn’t to talk your-self out of doing it then you don’t want to make it too complicated. However, at a minimum the list needs to be reduced to the critical decision making and planning factors to position your-self for success. The first things that come to mind are do you have enough capital to start and sustain a start-up business, have you selected an area of expertise, is it something you have a passion for, do you have a specific location in mind, have you done your research industry and locally? Have you looked out 5-7 years and tried to access what would be success for you? Have you developed a business plan that is comprehensive enough to generate capital if you need to do so? All of the above are essential even if you are buying an established business because you need to build your model of success not someone else’s.

What's in Your Job Search Tool Box?

The challenges of a job search today are very similar to what they were even in a good economy. What I mean is similar but not the same, because weather you are in a search for your first job as a teenager, high school senior, college graduate, displaced worker, career changer or promotion to a higher level within your current environment a job search requires a certain level of focus, tools and resources to be effective. What are some of the basis requirements to mount an effective job search and why?

- Internet Resume
- Paper Resume
- Cover Letters
- Job Search Resources
- Networking
- Key words
- Branding
- Social Media
- Positive/Optimistic

As you can see there are items in the above list that are traditional and others that reflect newly developed resources that assist in a job search in 2010. Well in a tough market like today it is incredibility important to utilize every available resource to position your search for success. First what are the goals of your job search are you looking for a job or career, part-time or full-time, level of pay, benefits, environment, ability to leverage yourself and your skill set. All of these factors play into the preparation of your search. Another important factor is how long can you realistically afford to be in a job search? This usually depends a great deal on your professional and personal circumstances. The length of time will vary and it goes without saying the more focus, time and effort you apply will ultimately shorten that window. The truth being more times than none, time becomes the primary driver of finding a job and many of the goals and objective of your search get overlooked because your response is I just need a job!

Realizing this maybe the case it doesn't change the importance of the attributes required to launch an effective job search. First things first, a well written resume is paramount in gaining a foot hold in market. Most of us probably had our first resume writing experience in high school or college which in both cases we would have had limited amount of exposure to the workforce and what is essential in writing an effective resume. The resume is like the key to get into the door, once inside you have an opportunity to take the tour and experience the possibility of acquiring a position or job that will hopefully meet your goals. However, there is an expectation by the employer that this is the minimum requirement to gain their attention about you and what you might have to offer to their company. Most of us have heard the statement spare no expense (which ever applies money, time and effort) well in the case of have a well written and effective resume needs to fall into this area. This is not to say you have to spend a month salary on your resume but then again consider how much you want to make a month and maybe you should re-consider. What I'm saying is you need to asset your goals and objectives of your job search and invest appropriately in the development of your resumes and related documents (Cover Letter) to assure you are positioning for success. You should tap into every available resource to acquire the best resume possible for your search. The resume takes on many forms today electronic, digital, email, template based, experience based, career based, skill based just to mention a few. Each requires techniques and approaches that focus on what is effective in today’s job search marketplace. The list of job search resources (online, books, job placement specialist and organizations) seems endless and focusing on the right ones and utilizing them appropriately can reduce the time you are out of work looking for a job significantly. Branding what is that you say. Well it is marketing who you are, what you have to offer and what you are looking for in return. There are so many ways get the word out about you and branding is very much on the radar screen. It allows you to engage in the fast track internet marketplace utilizing things like social media (Face book, My space, Twitter, Plax to mention a few) keywords (Words that will result in getting you to the front of the line in searches) and networking (Engaging people you know and don't know with similar issues and objectives) at a whole new level.

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Thinking About Doing Something New

With a tough job market many are switching to doing their own thing in the way of a small business ventures. The time between being released from a job and getting re-employed has gotten longer and using that time to re-invent yourself might be the answer. The best strategy is continue looking where you have proven track record of performance and experience but at the sametime investigate some alternatives that would provide job satisfaction, income and a match for your acquied skill set. There are no lack of opportunities in this area but determining the best fit for the investment of time and effort to research it, is the key.

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New Age Job Search

With un-employement at the highest rate across the country since the great depression what is the anwser to getting re-employed in a tough economy.

First you need to focus your job search efforts and leave nothing to chance by covering the basic of having a targeted well writtern resume and cover letter. Then make sure you utlize all the resources available, to perfect your search starting with a computer and the telephone. It is essential in this day and age to utilize online job search tools however, a mistake many job searches make is they put all their effort into sending out resumes using the online tools but forget the important of a age old tool the phone for job availability confirmation and follow-up.

A brief call after sending out a resumes and well targeted cover letter to hopefully speak to a decision maker in the process, to re-enforce your interest in the company and position and verify the position is still available and your resume was received. There is no assurance you will get a decision maker on the phone in all cases but in the ones you do, it provides the potential opportunity of setting yourself apart from the hundreds of resumes and cover letters they get a day from in some cases from people who have done little to no real research about the company and if it is a place they would really want to work?

Use the well known online job search engines and distribution tools to get your resume out there and save time. Create a list of references. Contact these people in advance to ask their permission to be used as a reference and gain insight into just what they will say when called to provide inputs to your performance, skills and professional attributes.

Utilize your network of friends, family and previous co-workers to make sure the right ones know you are in a search, what you do and how to contact you if they get a lead. There is a great deal of truth in sourcing of canadiates about it is who knows you in many cases being viewed and more important than what you know.

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The Market Has Changed Have You?

It would seem by all the statistics on the current job market across the United States, is that we are in it for the long haul. The recovery is going take longer than we would like or some would anticipate. What does that mean for the average person current looking for a job or concerned about keeping the one they have today. It doesn't take much research to understand we are in an extremely difficult job market and that all indication say will probably be here for the next five years or so. What are people doing to cope with the reality of the situation? Some are choosing to stay in college for a looker period of time to wait it out. Others have come to the realization that a career change maybe in the best interest of riding it out and hopefully gaining a few new skills sets along the way. While some have given up based on a belief there are no jobs to be found in their area of desire and expertise. What is the right answer for this current situation of the worst job market in decades? Well it is not giving up because there are jobs out there for people willing to deal with change in career, salary, resident, environment, skill set and the list goes on. What does this add up to for the person that feels they have worked harder than ever before to find a job? It means you more than likely are going to have to work harder still. My first time out of the job market after being employed for almost 20 years by the same company was met with mixed emotions. Since I had always been employed from my teen years until then from cutting grass, to bagging in the local supermarket, driving a pickup to pick-up and deliver fork lift engines for overhaul and repair, I was convinced I wouldn't be unemployed for long. It took me about 3 months in 1995 to find a job but even then I had to re-locate my family, accept a position essentially making the same amount of money and take on a new career to achieve it. How many of us are willing to make those kinds of changes to have a job? My point being that even at a time when the market was still considered to be quote on quote ok I had to make some fairly significant changes to get re-employed. This is an extremely competitive market we are in and only the strong and persistent will be able to ride the wave. It wasn't until 2000 before I had to do it again and that time it took 11 months but the message is not how long it takes to find the job it how much effort you apply to finding one that may last a day or even a lifetime.

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Job Search 2010 Set Yourself Apart

The career opportunity landscape is changing very rapidly for young men and women coming out of college with a bachelor's and/or master's degree. There are clearly traditional career areas currently available and forecasted into the future like nursing, accounting and school teaching. However, a single degree in some cases may not be enough to be considered a real player given the competitive playing field, and as a result many are moving to getting multiple degrees to be competitive in today's job market.

This is not to say single degrees don't matter because without at least one degree you will get screened out in the first round, even if you have skills and experience in your area of interest. The benefit of multiple degrees in the right disciplines is that they will improve your ability to demonstrate additional practical skills and knowledge in your area of interest.

The 10 year projections for the before mentioned career areas are good and are clearly career areas to pursue. However, it is still essential that you position yourself to stand out and bring unique skills and abilities into play by going beyond just getting a degree but working hard to compliment it with addition degrees, hands on experience and pratical knowledge in the appropriate discipline areas that will ultimately better position you for success.






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Job Search Engines

What you you look for in a good or great job search engine? The list of job search engines seems to be growing more everyday a kin to internet search engines like google, yahoo, bing and the many more. So with so many choices how do you select the one that is right for you. What you want is a site that automatically; searches, finds all new jobs matching your criteria, applies with your resume to all matching jobs, personalizes your cover letter for each application & provides a history report of jobs you've been applied to but isn't that becoming the basis of most of the well known job search engines. (If you compared say the following simplyhired, yahoo hotjobs, Dice, Careerbuilder, Craiglist, Indeed and Linkedin you would find a number of similarities in the basis functionality of the these search engines.)

The thing to be aware of is that most employers want to find qualified applicants within the first group of resumes they receive. This being the case it is extremely important to get it right the first time with whatever search engine you chose to work with for your job search. You want the tool that puts the best you forward specific to the position you are appling for with your resume and cover letter. You want a tool that help you narrow down your attributes, experience and specific interest in that job for that employer. Many job seekers get caught up in the ease of use of the job search engine and foeget about the imporatance of the content of the resume and cover letter in getting the response they desire.

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Make Sure You Rise to the Top

Search engines have become the tool of choice for recruiters and hiring managers to source potential employees. So how do you set yourself a part from the masses appling for the same positions online? While job search engine have made the task of appling for positions easier it is no less important to leverage everything you have going in your job serach including the development and distribution of your resume. It is not enough to just get it out there if it lacks the information critical to a hiring manage or recuiter picking up the phone and giving you a call. So the energy saved by not having to knock on doors and submit resumes personally, needs to be channel to developing the best cover letter and resume possible. This suggest you approach your resume and cover letter very similar to the use of key words used in online search engines like Yahoo, Google and Bing. Position your resume ands cover letters to be at the top of the list for a search of potential employees for those open positions.

Sell Your Self

The times they are a changing and it is essential that you change with the times in regards to your approach to selling yourself as the best candiate for a position you are interested in acquiring. The copmpetition for positions is highly competitive given the economic landscape. The workforce continues to grow as less people can seriously consider retiring and more college graduates come into the workforce.

It is going to be a while before the economy is able to recover and in the meantime many employers are looking to alternative approaches to getting the job done than in the past. The hiring of permanent employees is slowing in many sectors and being replaced with a temporary workforce. this serves two very real needs for the employer; it provides a level of flexibility in the workforce to align with supply and demand and the other is an opportunity to screen the potential future employee in the role as a temp.

So it has never been more important to approach each opportunity as a chance to highlight all the attribuites you bring to the position. While a position may be posted as a temporary position it is very important to view it as a opportunity for more if this is indeed a temporary hiring strategy for the employer. This means never sell yourself short always bring all of your skills and experience to the forefront. This will better position you to sell yourself in any job opportunity regardless if it is for 3 months or an indetermined amount of time.

Get Organized

This is an area where so many job seekers fall short and miss an opportunity. The ease of submitting resumes and cover letters tend to take the focus off of the importance of tracking, follow-up, research and maximizing the use of the tools available. While you want to maximize your efforts by applying on every applicable career sites possible. With there being so many good ones out there, but you have to do it in an organized approach or your efforts will be loss. You ultimately want to organize your search & distribute your resume and cover letter as quickly as possible. However, if you are not organized in your approach to accomplishing this goal it will be very apparent to that potential employer that you did just that; got your resume and cover out as quickly as possible without doing your homework.

A few tips on tracking you job serach efforts is to keep a log of the search engine you are using, the dates and positions you applied for to assure timely follow-up and closure. It is very easy to get so far ahead of yourself that when you get that important call back that you have nop clue about the position, company or if and when you applied?