Your job search is more than a resume, a job posting, or an interview. It is a journey that can take you to unfamiliar territory with foreign terms and new technology. Exploring isn’t comfortable, and yet, it stretches you and takes you places you want to go.
If you think of your job search as a process with a finite number of steps or a road with a certain number of mile markers, it doesn’t seem so endless. You can chart your progress.
This may be your first job search, the first one in many years, or one of a series. In any case, you’ll likely find some surprises.
Your first job search
First-time job seekers have been anxious about the high unemployment rate and recession. Unfortunately, though the recession appears to be easing, the job market usually lags behind the economic market. You may be facing a longer search than others who have gone before you.
You may or may not have received good advice from friends, family, and professionals. They want the best for you, but they may not know the intricacies of the career industry. College career counselors may spend much more time helping you decide on a career path than preparing you for a search, and that’s OK; that’s their job. Parents and grandparents mean well, but job hunting has changed significantly since the time you could get 50 resumes set and duplicated at the printer and drop them off up and down the street until someone called.
Your first job search in years
But what if you’re the age of those parents or grandparents? What if you’re the one whose last resume was printed at the print shop? You will be in for some surprises, too. The fact that you’re reading this online means you’re keeping up with some of the technological advances, so that’s good. Do you also know how to guard against age bias? Are you up to date on hiring manager’s preferences in resume styles? How are your interview skills? If you’re changing careers as well as jobs, you also need to determine your transferable skills.
One of a series of searches
Perhaps it isn’t that you’re unfamiliar with the search terrain but that you’re too familiar. Unfortunately, a job search that ends with a job isn’t always successful. If you’re back to looking again soon, it probably means you needed more research into the company or position. How you conduct your job search is critical to the results.
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