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The document provides advice on improving one's job search and discusses various job search strategies and tools. It recommends having a resume, using direct approaches to employers, employment agencies, and expanding one's network of friends and relatives who can help. It also emphasizes having courage and perseverance during the process. Additionally, it warns that an online presence will likely replace traditional resumes in the future and that employers now commonly search for candidates' digital profiles and activities online.
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- 1. WHAT CAN IDO TO IMPROVE MY JOB SEARCH? Do I Need a Resume! Is it Worth Thousands of Dollars? AHaller
- 2. MR. WANTTABE 123MAIN STREET TAMPA, FLORIDA Telephone: 813-555-1111 E-mail: BorntobeWild@aol.com Skills One big vivid imagination Not being independently wealthy I am seeking any emploment. Education: PhD Astroid Physics. Originator of the Heisenberg principle of uncertainty Experience Consultant to the Stars
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- 5. Direct Approach Many JobsNever Appear to Us as Others Approached Directly. They were hidden from us or we decided not to apply – example joining the military
- 6. Employment Agency • Employersdo not need to spend $$$ on internal Human Resources Department. Employers are afraid of who might be hired. • They get to preview employees and not pay workers unemployment if it does not work out. • The agency receives 15% as a placement fee if the job turns full time. They want to place you! • Some agencies are dead-end unwanted positions due to poor working conditions or low pay.
- 7. Cold Calling Searching theWeb – Odds greater than 1 in a 1000 •Indeed.com •Craigslist.com
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- 14. Employers List ofWhere to Find New Employees People on any given day •Retire •Get Fired •Quit •Get Ill or Injured •Get Promoted •The Company Grows Hire Internally Ask Existing Employees if they know of someone Look at list of recent direct approach candidates Post on the Company Website and hope someone applies Call up an employment agency In desperation post it on the web with Monster or others – await hundreds of resumes to appear
- 15. Unemployed Look In desperationgo to the web with Monster or others – get no answer as hundreds applied for the position or got there first. Call up an employment agency Look at a Company Website and may be apply Do a direct approach to various firms. Ask a friend or relative or let it be known to a wide circle of friends. Do they have any ideas? Get discouraged and quit
- 16. Study: Nearly 1in 3 U.S. Youths Will Be Arrested by Age 23 Startling Numbers Are a 'Wake-Up Call' That Can Harm Health of Youth and Community By Rita Rubin WebMD Health News Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD Dec. 19, 2011 -- America’s youth are in trouble -- literally. Parents and non-parents alike might be shocked to learn a new study estimates that roughly 1 in 3 U.S. youths will be arrested for a non-traffic offense by age 23 -- a “substantively higher” proportion than predicted in the 1960s.
- 18. Why the Risein Arrests? The researchers cite some “compelling reasons” for the increase. “The criminal justice system has clearly become more aggressive in dealing with offenders (particularly those who commit drug offenses and violent crimes) since the 1960s,” the authors, all criminologists, write. In addition, “there is some evidence that the transition from adolescence to adulthood has become a longer process.” From the 1920s through the 1960s, the proportion of the population that was incarcerated remained remarkably stable at about 100 inmates per 100,000 people, researcher Robert Brame, PhD, of the department of criminal justice and criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, tells WebMD. Today, Brame says, that figure has soared to 500 inmates per 100,000 people.
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- 20. Expect rejection Avoid SelfDefeatism I’m too young or old I’m too that or this I have this visible or invisible handicap Courage: To do that which is difficult or risky
- 21. Expect rejection Avoid SelfDefeatism I’m too young or old I’m too that or this I have this visible or invisible handicap Perseverance: Courage that does not quit
- 22. WHAT CAN IDO TO IMPROVE MY JOB SEARCH? I Need • A Resume • Direct Approach • An Employment Agency • More Friends and Relatives • Courage and Perseverance • Use of Social Media
- 23. WHAT CAN IDO TO IMPROVE MY JOB SEARCH? Your online presence will replace your resume in 10 years. Dan Schawbel, Contributor at Forbes.com
- 24. 83 Percent ofRecruiters Look for Digital Dirt Job seekers, beware! That social media photo of you dancing on a table top may get a few laughs from friends, but it's no laughing matter in the job market. Employers scour the Internet for "digital dirt“. At least 43% employers admitted to eliminating candidates based on the negative information they find. Racy social media profiles, scathing posts on community message boards, arrest records etc. are to blame. Perfectly qualified candidates miss out on great job opportunities. The Internet might reveal that you're a member of a controversial association whether religious, political, or advocacy group. Sharing a common name with people who work in the same field or live in a similar area can be extremely problematic. Prior worker compensation or civil law suits for job seekers could lurk out there.
- 26. Tutorials on LinkedIn AnsonAlex.com 1.Introduction and Overview 2. Creating a LinkedIn Profile 3. User Interface and Navigation 4. Adding Connections on LinkedIn 5. Interacting with LinkedIn Connections LinkedIn Tutorial Introduction