There is a great article on Yahoo today about the "new rules" of job hunting. I realize that many new grads already know these, but in case you have your parents and family members breathing down your neck with, "When I was looking for a job..." you may be able to rest assured that if you're using the latest approaches, you're doing good.
Some of the highlights are:
You can't just send out a resume anymore. Love this. Because it used to be that you could and you would at least get a response, but for some reason it takes more than that these days. Maybe society is too impersonal? For whatever reason, you've got to do much more than send out a resume if you want to hear back from most large companies.
Get a digital-friendly resume. Not only will you need a Word version, but if you really want to make the grade, so to say, you'll have to have a text version and a scannable resume. I'm going to cover this in a future post, so stay tuned!
Network, network, network. This is hard for some people. Especially when you are fresh out of college it's like, who will I network with if I have no experience? But even getting a LinkedIn profile can help. The article mentions that employers will likely Google you, so not only networking, but having a positive online reputation is key.
What "new rules" are you using in your job hunt? I'd love to hear them--leave a comment!
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Great article! Also there are great online job hunting sites now too such as UbiqueApps Jobs http://www.ubiqueapps.com/jobs we really have evolved haven't we!
If the company advertises directly and it isn't a scummy agency where the job doesn't exist. Then simply go there to the company and ambush them.
Email it? Make a fancy website? Post it to them and it can go oh so quickly into the bin shredders etc. While if you go and harrass them personally you won't be ignored as much. I got 2 big jobs this way.
Really good advice, ESPECIALLY networking!!!!
I was looking for such post.I would like to read more about this topic.
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Networking is soooo important...wish that would have been stredded during college.
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