All in Job Search
What you put in your profile can profoundly affect how others react to what they see when they look at your profile. If you only do these five things to create the most well-written, detailed, and informative profile, then you will attract fellow LinkedIn members. This can result in increased connection requests and even job opportunities. Isn’t that worth your time?
The expectations and realities of working in the US are often in conflict. Worker voices are now being heard about what they expect and how they want to be treated. This survey gives a snapshot of the state of work and job seeking in 2022. Use this information to make better decisions.
Informational interviews are an often overlooked part of your job search strategy. It can take some effort to do the research and make the outreach, but the information you can receive will be invaluable for your job search. It can help clarify the right career path and provide you with insider information that can be invaluable and give you a leg up over your competition, and it can help grow your network. All this from a conversation. Isn’t that worth your time and effort?
Reaching out to agency recruiters may be an important part of your overall job search strategy. Agency recruiters may have access to opportunities that are not otherwise advertised on job boards or even on the company website. Knowing how to best work with agency recruiters can help them do their job effectively and help you to get intelligence about the job market and information about opportunities now and in the future.
Whether you have had the experience of working remotely or would like to try it, there are things you must take into consideration. If you have worked remotely before, remember that your experience at a new company will be different from what you may have experienced before, especially when you already know your boss, your team, and your job expectations.
The start of the new year has always been a time when many people think about switching jobs. The new year often gives thoughts to personal improvement, and certainly, many are thinking about work as an area that could use improvement in their lives.
So, wouldn’t it be helpful, if you are in a job search or thinking of one, to learn from the people that successfully found a new job in 2021?
Often references are an afterthought in your job search. You may be so focused on making your resume stand out from your competition or practicing hard interview questions that you forget that employers may want to check your references. Then when you see this ask on an application or after an interview, you scramble to come up with names and contact information.
Many employers use testing before employment to screen applicants so that only the best-qualified move on in the process as determined by the company. The types of testing that an applicant may be asked to complete are numerous. They can be anything from testing your knowledge, critical thinking skills, personality, integrity, and even physical skills like the ability to lift a certain amount of weight.
