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?