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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