1. How to Get a Job:
Searches, Dossiers, Portfolios, Resumes,
Letters & Interviews

2. Steps to Follow to Get
Hired
• Analyzing your strengths and restricting your job search
• Enhancing your image
• Looking in the right place for a job
• Assembling a dossier and a portfolio
• Preparing a resume
• Writing a letter of application and filling out a job
application
• Going to an interview
• Accepting or declining a job offer

3. Analyzing Your Strengths
• Make an inventory of your significant accomplishments in
your major or on the job
• Decide which specialty within your chosen career field most
appeals to you
• What types of working conditions most appeal to you
• What are the most rewarding prospects of a job in your
profession?
• What are some of the greatest challenges you face in your
career today – and in 5 years?
• Which specific companies or organizations have the best track
record for hiring and promoting individuals?

4. ENHANCING YOUR
PROFESSIONAL IMAGE
{See Blackboard for Handout}

5. Looking in the Right
Places
• Networking
• Campus Placement Office
• Internet Sites Posting Jobs
• Newspapers
• Federal and State Employment Offices
• Professional and trade journals
• Human Resources department
• Resume database service
• Professional Employment Agencies

6. ONLINE STRATEGIES FOR
FINDING A JOB

7. Where to Look
• Online job-posting sites
• Riley Guide: Employment Opportunities and Job Resources
• Online newspapers
• http://jobmarket.nytimes.com
• http://www.careerjournal.com
• Federal and State Employment Offices
• http://www.usajobs.gov
• http://www.federaljobs.net
• http://www.studentjobs.gov

8. Social Networking
• Companies maintain pages or profiles on social
networking sites
• Networking Sites
• http://www.twitjobsearch.com
• http://www.linkedin.com
• Facebook

9. PROMOTING YOUR BEST
IMAGE: DO’S AND DON’TS
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