This section contains a vast amount of common mistakes makes by job seeker. Read about them here so you can avoid making them yourself. Don't be discouraged if you haven't been asked for an interview! Just pay attention to the 8 common mistakes, and be alert. Many people found jobs every year, and so will you!
The 8 common mistakes are:
1. Expecting someone else to find you a job (online job sites, friends, ex-colleagues, etc.).
Job Searching is a do-it-yourself mission! No one will be concerned in your future as much as you are, and no one else knows what you want as much as you do.
When you have identified a position that you wish for and submitted an online application, follow up! Contact the recruiter or human resource consultant directly yourself, via email as well as telephone. Passive job seekers get left behind in the current market.
Make use of employment agencies, they will match you a job.
2. Not leveraging the broad Internet Search to assist your job search.
Use the Internet to identify potential employers, evaluate them, and get in touch with them. Customize your resume and cover letter and then dazzle them in the interview with your insight into their market, their products and services, their competitors, etc.
Make use of employment agencies, they will do the research and teach you how to land yourself in the job.
3. Forgetting e-mail provides employer with the powerful first impression.
Using a weird or crazy e-mail address (e.g. "theman@hotmail.com" or "bbbbbb@hotmail.com") undermines your credibility and almost guarantees a message will be deleted or ignored.
Make use of employment agencies, they will send your resume to your potential employers.
4. Using the blasting method of distributing your resume.
Posting your resume at hundreds of job sites or emailing it to hundreds or thousands of recruiters and employers is a self-defeating strategy. Very unlikely that anyone might be interested to read your resume as they know that everyone else has a copy of it, too. If the recipient is a recruiter or an employment agency, they will ignore it because they will know that they will have a tough time earning through your placement (an employer may also have received it directly or competing recruiters may have "sell" your resume to the same employers). An employer probably won't be interested in competing with several other employers.
Make use of employment agencies, they will customize your resume before sending it to their clients.
5. Applying for jobs without meeting the minimum qualifications.
Applying for every job that looks interesting is easy but if you don't have the minimum qualifications, recruiters and employers will ignore your application.
Make use of employment agencies, they will only recommend you to their clients if you met the job requirements.
6. Using your employer's computer, Internet connection or telephone to search for job during work.
This will cost you your job, if you have one, by inappropriately using company assets, by violating the company Internet "acceptable use" policy, or simply by revealing to your employer that you are thinking of leaving your job.
This applies even if you do search for job outside of your normal working hours, during lunch, or during some other authorized "personal" time.
You still need to search for jobs but remember don't do it at your working place.
7. Not using good e-mail etiquette.
Sending a resume through e-mail without proper subject or a weird-named attachment shows a lack of understanding of e-mail etiquette. Recruiters will not spend time opening up an email without proper subject. An e-mail message containing a virus is usually quarantined and deleted. It's not viewed! And, it leaves a very bad impression of the intelligence, computer-skills, and Internet-savvy of the sender. A weird-named attachment are frequently viewed as potential threats and stopped or deleted without being opened.
You still need to put a proper title as the subject. Employment agencies will not waste their time opening up a junk mail.
8. Using only the big name online job sites.
Many of the "big names" are great sites, but they can also be expensive for employers to use and not focused for some job opportunities. So, in bad economy times like now, employers save money using smaller, less expensive or "niche" sites that may have exactly the applicants they want, like an industry- or location-specific job site or even the Web site of a professional or industry association.
Employment agencies only advertised the "tough" job on the "big names" online job sites. So, don't waste too much time there.
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