Seventeen Tips for a Successful Job Search
1. Go inside and get to really know yourself – what are your skills, strengths and experience? Your greatest accomplishment? Your weakness? Determine WHAT you’re selling.
2. Work on your delivery for presenting yourself in an enthusiastic way.
3. Put together an Infomercial to answer “tell me about yourself”.
4. Target your best fits in terms of industry and organizations.
5. Select the desired driving distance and target organizations who could employ you; 70% of the jobs aren’t advertised.
6. Do Information Interviews to find out what’s happening.
7. Start networking, directing your network where they can help
8. Study the ads. Who is expanding and hiring, regardless whether it’s your particular job or not.
9. Answer ads while networking and collecting data
10. If you’re not on Unemployment Insurance, go on interviews for the experience.
11. Identify a problem in the market where you could fill a need, design a job and sell it.
12. Conduct your search six-eight hours a day. It’s a job with deferred pay.
13. Take some time to refocus on something else. A job search is 24/7.
14. Remember the Law of Attraction. What you throw out there comes back.
15. Study the most often asked questions for interviewing. Make sure you’re ready.
16. Dress professionally no matter what the job.
17. Ask for the job!
