SO MANY JOB SEARCH TIPS…
- Don’t put off your job search
- Better to job search while you have an income
- Don’t get distracted
- Be a giver before a taker, you never know where it can lead
- The best networks really are built before needed
- Start by auditing your situation
- First decide what you’re looking for
- Focus on the right things
- Leaving options open makes you lazy
- Internal moves are smarter than job hopping
- Review which job search websites can help
- Find 10 people who have the job you want and model your job search on theirs
- Get career path inspiration by researching people on LinkedIn with your credentials
- Get career ideas by taking personality tests
- Get career ideas by job shadowing
- Get career ideas by interning
- Showing your skills grows self-confidence
- If you don’t qualify, don’t apply
- Note one thing you’re grateful for happening today
- Gather career materials before leaving a job
- Only approach recruiters when it’s relevant
- Don’t refer to yourself in the 3rd person online
- Have a daily routine
- Prepare stories for your job interview
- Ask 5 people who trust and know you about career path
- If you attract the wrong recruiters, your resume has the wrong content
- Bad Facebook and Twitter comments can haunt you
- Know how to correctly pronounce your interviewer’s name in advance
- Know when to talk salary first
- Use fewer pronouns (I,my,me) in your cover letter
- Make sure your resume is focused on your direction
- Aim for companies who hire by audition, not resume
- Don’t lie on your resume
- It’s ok to omit resume information that doesn’t help you
- React well to job rejection
- Reject recruiters well too
- Say the salary you’re seeking, not the one you’re making
- Your resume should not be a PDF, unless it’s required to be
- Before job interviews, practice walking into the room
- List credentials (PhD, MBA, etc.) at resume top
- Group barter hack to get a job with your friends
- Know how to find a hiring manager’s contact info
- Beware of suspicious companies
- Use personal business cards
- Relax more
- Learn to negotiate
- Older job seeker? Find a younger mentor
- Don’t make yourself look older than you are
- Pay attention to what you envy to discover work that you love
- Have a job? Always be prepared to leave
- Always be on time
- Learn how to strike up a conversation
- Use rejection-response letters
- Don’t spam hiring managers
- Highlight job duties instead of job titles
- Remember names, not just faces
- Call your alma mater’s career services
- Get attention with a personal job search website
- Search for recruiters before jobs
- Use Wordle to focus your resume
- Find leads via forum networking
- Follow job listing instructions perfectly
- Get a job search buddy
- Follow-up with your own contacts
- Know your competitive advantages
- Learn to think like a recruiter
- Aim for hidden jobs first
- Job fairs aren’t a waste of time
- Not every job fair is for you
- Talk job search at parties
- Avoid looking jobless
- Research companies on LinkedIn
- Leverage contacts’ contacts
- Being flexible opens you to more jobs
- Don’t print your resume at work
- Online resumes are trusted more
- Follow up post-rejection to learn from mistakes
- Keep a plain-text version of your resume handy
- Be a better listener
- Learn how to be creative
- Use guest posting to get exposure
- Blog your expertise
- Don’t look for a job, look for a company
- Impress employers by demonstrating skills they need
- Don’t make employers download your CV
- Be authentic
- Make eye contact often
- Don’t wait for job ads to appear
- Avoid job postings that look too good
- Use LinkedIn events to find networking opportunities
- Stand during phone interviews
- Use external recommendations in cover letters
- Add video to your LinkedIn profile
- Know the right way to email people for requests
- Address being overqualified before they ask
- Being first runner-up can mean being next in line
- Follow up later on recently-closed job openings
- Use a resume benefit statement if you have too much to list
- Talk to insiders before taking a job
- Stay in touch with ex-bosses
- Never say you’re perfect for the job
- Interviews are for you to show you’re perfect for the job
- If an interviewer tries to sell you on a job, let them
- Use positive words when making salary objections
- Prepare a cover story if you want to change careers
- Avoid recruiters that won’t forward job descriptions
- Prepare a “why hire me” story for interviews
- Don’t use your work email address
- Help other people find jobs too
- Look for ways to increase your perceived value
- Prepare a references list in advance
- Choose references who are ok to be contacted
- Prepare reference letters in advance
- Arriving too early is as bad as arriving late for interviews
- Use video to improve your interviewing
- Always bring a good mood
- Drive interviews to questions for which you have great answers
- Scan your resume files for computer viruses
- Show you have a proven success record
- The older you are, the more you need to be up-to-date
- In a recession, don’t read the newspaper
- At interview end, ask for the next steps
- Roles may take months to fill, so apply to older ads too
- Fully understand the contract before you sign
- Summer job search doesn’t end when summer starts
- Get your resume as close as possible to the hiring decision maker
- Only send updated resumes
- Bring resume copies to job interviews
- Bring resumes to job fairs
- Bring resumes to networking events
- Never badmouth anyone in interviews
- Less popular job boards mean fewer competitors
- Check resume links aren’t broken
- Use popular job boards to gauge demand
- Schedule interviews for time of day when you’re best
- Quantify your achievements as much as you can
- Be prepared to back up your resume claims
- Never say you’re “willing to do any job”
- Failing interviews doesn’t mean you’re a failure
- Job search doesn’t end with your interview
- Job search doesn’t end when you get an offer
- Always give companies the impression you’re interviewing elsewhere too
- If you blog about work, include it in your resume
- Move where there’s the most demand
- Put your LinkedIn url on your resume
- Job listings specify salary to filter out candidates
- Dress for success with colors you look good in
- Spend half your day looking, half your day improving your skills
- Choose references who have great things to say about you
- Aim to be referred internally
- Be gracious
- Know your compensation priorities besides salary
- Let companies bring up salary numbers first
- Tell friends about your job search
- Tell ex-colleagues about your job search
- Tell ex-clients about your job search
- Tell family about your job search
- Stay in touch with updates until you stop looking
- Volunteer your work skills to get experience
- Don’t flirt in interviews
- Keep your job search secret if you’re employed
- Use a dedicated job search email address
- Don’t use your personal email address for job search
- Respond to job ads with point-by-point cover letters
- Know your market value before talking salary
- Aim for multiple job offers
- Don’t send out more resumes than you can track
- Connect with targeted companies on social media
- Spellcheck your resume
- Get someone else to proofread your resume
- Get someone else to proofread your LinkedIn profile
- Only apply to companies you’ve researched
- Only apply to companies where you have the recruiter’s contact information
- Email recruiters with attention-getting subject lines
- Keep work jargon to a minimum for HR
- Remember names by using them out loud repeatedly
- Freelance consult on the side while looking
- Be ready to justify resume gaps
- Ignore spam titled “I would like to offer you a job!”
- Date your resume in the footer
- Treat job interviews like company consults
- Check if past bosses want you back
- Say you’ll follow up and do it
- Make a work portfolio
- Resumes should include language proficiency
- Mention having other offers when it’s true
- Ask for interviews in cover letters
- If you’re not a good fit, give the job lead to someone who is
- Ask recruiters for resume feedback
- Prepare interview questions in advance
- Practice with questions they’re likely to ask
- Follow online job search forums where experts hang out
- Include relevant keywords in resumes
- Answer one work-related question online per day
- Know your weaknesses
- Know your strengths
- Follow forums where industry recruiters hang out
- Don’t blast resumes
- Don’t use resume distribution services
- Use a job search organizer
- Don’t spam recruiters
- Ask people how they found the job you want
- One page resumes are best
- Exercise regularly
- Sleep well
- Chase stress with a good laugh everyday
- A cover letter’s goal is to get your resumes read
- A resume’s goal is to get interview invites
- The more targeted a message, the more likely to be heard
- Every time of year is job search time of year
- Job listing language is the one to communicate in
- Newly-funded startups tend to hire
- Venture capitalists can recommend you for their portfolio companies
- Don’t do free work as part of the interview process
- Job interviews are about how you can help the employer, not vice-versa
- Be careful when copying other people’s resume templates
- Do what you need to stay positive
- Only apply to companies you’re passionate about joining
- Keep track of your successes with numbers
- Include your best LinkedIn recommendation on your resume
- Know the signs of job search depression to avoid it
- Resumes should have no more than 3 font sizes
- The biggest text on your resume should be your name
- Google yourself before companies do
- How your name appears on your resume is how companies will google it
- Create social media profiles to improve Google results
- Use LinkedIn as your online CV
- Use Twitter to network and share advice
- Use Facebook to reach out to people after-hours
- Use Reddit to answer work-related questions
- Use Pinterest to pin images of your best work-related tips
- Use Instagram to show pictures of yourself in action
- Use YouTube to show yourself in action
- Use Slide Share to post presentations given in action
- Use Google+ if it’s popular in your industry
- Always follow up after interviews
- Always send thanks after interviews
- Follow up again later, such as when you have an offer
- Learn to recognize bad employers before applying
- Never include ‘references available upon request’ in your resume
- Sharing expertise online attracts jobs
- Don’t only job search online
- Don’t only job search offline
- Your resume filename should be Firstname_Lastname_resume.docx
- Store resumes online where they can be easily shared
- Keep resume copies on your smartphone
- Ask an ex-boss for a practice interview
- Never assume it was discrimination
- Use LinkedIn to prove if companies hire people like you
- Only apply to companies that have hired people like you
- Propose creation of a role by showing how much revenue you would generate
- Propose creation of a role by showing how much money you would save employers
- Be wary of signing anything that isn’t a contract
- Get help if you’re depressed
- Research companies by talking to ex-employees
- Keep in mind industry resume standards
- Talk with your partner before accepting anything
- Unemployment is not a good time to start a company
- Make your job search viral with a bounty
- Get inspired by guerilla job search tactics
- Free-to-post job boards are mostly worthless
- Persistence does pay off
- Don’t wait for recruiters to respond
- Get recommendation letters before your last day of work
- The best time to research companies is before applying
- Track resume views with tools like Mailtrack.io
- Interview dress should be one level above what employees wear in company photos online
- The moment you feel comfortable in a job is the moment to start thinking about your next one
- Mention your full-time availability in your email signature
- Mention your full-time availability on your social media profiles
- Never accept the first offer (really)
- If a company rejects you, ask them if they can refer you to partners or clients
- Resume testimonial > summary > objective
- Check company news headlines before applying
- Target no more than 5 companies at a time
- Join a job search club
- Your LinkedIn profile can include everything your resume couldn’t
- Optimize your LinkedIn headline to get more views
- Optimize your LinkedIn profile for referrals
- Take advantage of free job search consults for second opinions
- The more you target a company, the more likely you are to get their attention
- Do as many information interviews as you can
- Speak at industry meetups to gain exposure
- Speak at startup conferences to position yourself as someone to hire
- Treat recruiters as you’d like to be treated
- Plan to be in a quiet place for phone interviews
- Record phone interviews on your smartphone for analysis later
- Test your computer setup before video interviews
- Model your resume on a targeted company’s employees’
- Learn at least one new work skill for which demand is growing
- Volunteer your skills for organizations that might be able to hire you
- Aim to apply to as few companies as possible
- Use positive action verbs in resumes
- Show promotions on resumes
- Resumes should focus on achievements, not responsibilities
- Use Facebook Ads to target people directly
- Use Google AdWords to target people directly
- Manage your job search like a marketing campaign
- Look for ways to get around gatekeepers
- Ask your alumni association for help
- Ask chambers of commerce which companies are arriving and need to hire
- Replacing employees on maternity or sick leave gets your foot in the door
- Gauge skill trends with industry job boards
- Be polite unless being rude will help more
- Be someone people want to work with
- A resume hobbies section makes you relatable
- Prepare a 30-60 second elevator pitch
- Fax machines are barely used anymore but still checked
- Dumbing down your resume will make you bitter
- Consider adjacent roles if they’re more in demand
- Propose trial-by-freelance as an audition for both sides
- Target employees at companies that reward them for referring candidates
- Contribute content to a company blog or social profile
- Keep in mind teleworking and remote jobs
- Career changes are easier when employer-driven
- Ask for leads in non-work settings
- Ask recent hires what worked for them
- Ask recent ex-employees why they left
- Better to reschedule than be late
- If you’re going to be late, call ahead asap
- Keep video testimonials on your smartphone
- Warn references when you think they’ll be contacted
- Don’t answer when a recruiter calls unless prepared
- Always give supporting examples in interviews
- Only apply to companies you can legally work for
- Rehearse your interview stories to make them as compelling as possible
- Post videos of yourself in action
- Volunteer online by joining an active open-source project
- A good excuse to follow up is to confirm resume reception
- A good excuse to call a company is to check if an ad is still open
- Practice a winning handshake
- Be polite when you can’t shake hands
- Accept all interview invites so you can get practice
- The more leads you have, the less nervous you’ll be
- Quality of boss is most likely to determine quality of work life
- It’s ok to walk into a company and ask point blank about openings
- Look for ways to help a company before applying there directly
- Attracting job offers leads to better results than searching for them
- Do NOT vent online after a bad interview
- Use a creative resume as a way to demonstrate relevant skills
- Your personal website should showcase achievements while providing downloadable resumes and full contact information
- Never pay to submit your resume
- Managing an industry job board is a great way to hear of openings first
- Use Google’s Advanced Search to find job listings that have been buried
- Post a job wanted listing on Craigslist
- LinkedIn job listings signal if you’re connected to anyone at the company
- Stock screener's can tell which companies are growing
- Reply asap to any inquiries about your resume and status
- The interview starts when you arrive on site
- Use social media to teach recruiters how to hire people like you
- Network with industry recruiters online
- Network with industry influence rs online
- Be someone that industry recruiters want to follow online
- Get a smartphone with a data connection so you can react quickly
- When asking for recommendations, provide a template to make responding easier
- The more placeable a candidate, the more likely a placement agency will help you
- Get a recruiter’s attention by helping them
- Ask friends to bring along relevant contacts for coffee
- Attend events to meet specific people
- Always personalize messages when contacting strangers online
- Send a recruiter a memorable gift
- Know your industry’s biases
- Ask random industry people out for drinks
- When thanking, gift > phone call > handwritten letter > email > social media message
- Learning to code is a hot skill in any industry
- Don’t give up
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