How to Find a Job? Best Job Search Tips

Job searching is always challenging, especially on these days, after-all, it is all about finding the right fit for yourself. Job searching is sometimes, a frustrating process but with the right guidance and enough preparation, you can enjoy your next dream job. Here you can find probably the best job search tips you can find curated from the best human resources experts.

1) Don’t Forget to Research
2) Use the Phone
3) Speak the Other Person Language
4) Invest in Your Resume (CV)
5) It’s Not About You, It’s About Them
6) Keep It Professional
7) Don’t Fall into Traps
8) First Apply (Questions After)
9) Get a Second Opinion
10) Go beyond the Web
11) Make Your Personality Shine
12) Use Jobs Search Websites Effectively
13) Use Your Human Network
14) Become a Social Media Savvy
15) Find Out How Other See You

1) Don’t Forget to Research

Knowledge is power, the more information you will have prior to the interview, your interview will be more successful. Make sure to research and understand the organization culture. You can use Goolge, the company’s website and social media including Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter to gather all the information you need.

2) Use the Phone

While submitting the application is done online, candidate forget about the phone. Make sure that when you’re searching for a job, to answer your phone, even to numbers you cannot identify as this could be your next employer.

3) Speak the Other Person Language

A great sale technique is to connect to the interviewer in the company’s or his own language. Make sure you read through the job description and select a few words, terms, or phrases that the employer uses. Then use those words both in your cover letter and resume and when you’re talking to the interviewer.

4) Invest in Your Resume (CV)

Invest time in your resume. It can take up to 40-50 hours to craft the ‘perfect’ resume to make you shine. Also make sure to adjust your resume according to the job you’re applying and the company. Have you heard the expression “one size doesn’t fit all”?, same apply here, simply adjust your resume based on the job you are applying for.

5) It’s Not About You, It’s About Them

Never focus about yourself rather on on the employer’s needs. If you stress your own needs in the cover letter, you’ll look, badly and needy. You need to demonstrate your value and how you can be a team player by addressing the prospective employer’s specific needs.

6) Keep It Professional

Make sure you are professional and looking professional with everything but surely when it comes to your email address. Do not use stupid, or strange names in your email. If needed open a new email account with your name, Gmail is a great option to do so.

7) Don’t Fall into Traps

Make sure to add a cover letter to your resume as many employers use this as a screening technique. At the very least, write a short personal note to the employer when applying.

8) First Apply (Questions After)

It’s not about you, at least not first, so before you start firing questions, make sure you apply first as the employer does not want to waste time answering questions before they know if you’re a good candidate is a bad call.

9) Get a Second Opinion

Get a good friend to read your application and make sure you’ve understood the important points that the employee wanted you to get. Many times we find that someone else point of view can take your application to the next level.

10) Go beyond the Web

Everything now is done using the internet but sometime going beyond the Web could make a difference and make you stand out, remember employers wants employees that will go above and beyond thus you should start this already in your job search. After you submit your online applications, try to connect to people online who work at companies of interest, you can use LinkedIn for this activity.

11) Make Your Personality Shine

Probably just a small amount of people will be hired only based on a resume or cover letter and while these are important to begin with, so is the work culture you are entering. Be memorable by personally connecting to the hiring manager during your interview. You need to remember, interviews are two-way streets so you need to figure out if you will work well in each place of work.

12) Use Jobs Search Websites Effectively

Use the best job search websites in the most effective way. You can use the list we’ve prepared for you. Don’t forget to create your own profiles, where available to maximize your accessibility to the potential employers.

13) Use Your Human Network

Most people don’t know or forget that not all job opportunities are advertised online making it valuable for you to tap into your human network to utilize and find hidden jobs that can only be found by talking to others. Call, share, tall everyone that you know that is relevant that you’re looking for a job, share it on your Facebook page as well as your other social media accounts.

14) Become a Social Media Savvy

Almost everyone is on social media these days. Facebook for the social side or LinkedIn for the more professional networking. Make sure to be active in all of them and use them to you advantage. Track, like and follow companies and key people of your interest to catch the job listing before they are distributed across the web.

15) Find Out How Other See You

Potential employers are now going to the social networks such as Facebook & LinkedIn and google to see who you really are, things that might not be said in an interview. You need to make sure that you’re comfortable with what comes up and it does not hurt you.

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