To get a job, one must: 1) Analyze their strengths and restrict their job search to positions that match. 2) Enhance their professional image through networking, resumes, and online strategies. 3) Look in the right places like networking events, placement offices, job boards, newspapers, and professional publications.

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
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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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