Over 90% of job applications are made during working hours. This means the majority of people who are looking for work do so on company time. Whether you’re actively downloading and printing application forms, or passively browsing for a job online during your lunch hour, this is not what you’re paid to do.
Here are some top tips on how to manage your job search at work:
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Your CV is the first, and possibly the last, impression that a recruiter gets of you. And yet so many people get it so wrong. Questions about CVs are the most common – usually “why’s my CV getting ignored?” Luckily, most CV issues can be solved really easily.
Below is a bad example of a CV from a perfectly good candidate. The new version shows the tweaks needed to create a really effective selling document.
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Even as the market picks up again, skilled people of all ages are finding it difficult to get a job. It's easy to say, but thinking positively is a start. Don't focus on your age as the factor holding you back; instead, concentrate on what’s going to push you forward.
‘Experienced’ or ‘senior’ doesn’t need to be a bad thing, so long as it refers to your worth or level rather than your age. More than ever, it’s about picking the right jobs (i.e. ones you can get) and then presenting benefits to the employer (not features of your employment history).
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The good news is that now hiring is on the up, you are more likely to find a job in 2011 than you were in 2010 (according to recruitment market reports). But many people have found themselves ‘on the shelf’ for a year or more, making it more difficult to get a recruiter to put you forward for interviews.
Unfortunately, some recruiters’ definitions of ‘worthwhile candidates’ are people who are either currently in work or who have only recently left their job. So all those people who’ve been out of work for a year or more don’t even register on some recruiters’ radar.
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I have had the good fortune to look for jobs quite a few times in my career…sometimes because I was fired, and sometimes because I wanted a new lease on life. And these days I regularly meet people in my day job who are at a crossroads and need some ideas to get them started.
In my experience, the hardest part is often getting started... and keeping going.
“I’m going to take a break for a few months,” is one of the scariest things that newly unemployed people tell me.
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