2. What we will be covering today Looking at job search websites Setting up a hotmail account for job seeking Ensuring you have your LATEST resume and cover letter in your inbox Copying these documents to your laptop Attaching these documents from your desktop to your internet job application
3. Job Searching Go to seek and find a job You can change ‘sort by’ to sort by Date. That way the latest jobs will be on top
4. You can sent up an ‘email alert’ for yourself. So any new jobs are sent to your email account
5. Practice setting up an email alert for 2 job seeking websites (you can use as many different key words as you like)
10. Use our job seeker website at home In google Type www.cim. jobhuntersonline. com
11. Press enter to bring it up Add to your Favourites so you don’t have to type it in each time.
12. Why have a job seeking email account You won’t be reliant on your USB key to download your resume You can do job seeking from ANY computer with internet access and attach your resume – without your USB You can receive replies to job applications on your email account
13. Setting up a hotmail account Sign in Password Catalyst
14. Go to inbox in & find email with resume & Cover Letter Resume & Cover letter Double click to open
15. Open Document & top left ‘save as’ Save to desktop Gillian Day CatalystIM 15
16. Repeat this step. Close documents & you should see your resume and cover letter on your computer desktop Your resume should now be on your desktop ready to be added to job application
17. Practice doing this till you are confident that you can put your resume & cover letter on your desktop
21. Go to Google or MSN and find job seeker websites Go to desktop and find resume Gillian Day CatalystIM Go to desktop and find cover letter 19
22. Recording the Jobs you have applied for Write details in your Catalyst Log book Print out job description so you can refer to it later (write date you applied on the bottom) Destroy after a few weeks so you don’t get bogged down with paperwork Optional – follow up with a phone call. Ask Do you get my application Have I been short listed If not, any suggestions Any other jobs going
23. I want to change my cover letter or have 2 versions Open your cover letter on your desktop. Change wording and ‘save as’. Save with new name on desktop OR USB. Saved on desktop with new name
24. Practice saving a new version of your cover letter on the desktop OR your USB
25. That’s all! Thank you for coming today Look forward to seeing you next session
