A Complete Job Search Book

In the previous article, I have talked about how to prepare for your job search if you are looking for a junior position. Today, I am going to cover the topic for mid-level positions.

Follow these steps:

1.  Prepare a revised family budget and calculate the salary you must earn in your next job.

2. Prepare your own resume using the professional format.

3. Get it properly formatted on your computer ready to email or print. (If you don’t have a computer or printer, identify a supplier who can inexpensively print and copy it for you.)

Do the above in one day and get right into your search. You probably are aware of many of the companies in your industry for which you would like to work, but you are not aware of all of them. You can do yourself a great disservice at this stage of your search by assuming that you know too much. You, too, can benefit from the Yellow Pages or any source which lists all the companies in your area.

Now have a quick look at company websites and see if they have any jobs listed (usually under a ‘Careers’ tab). You should also immediately subscribe to newspapers or go online for those in other cities in which you think you would like to live.

By all means, respond to all these ads and listings and call employment agencies and management consultants, in addition to your main job of prospecting, contacting, and interviewing. Read the chapters on these sources before you use them.

From this preparatory stage onward, it’s simply a matter of following the advice given in other chapters of the book and using your own knowledge to select that job you want.

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A Complete Job Search Book

In the previous article, I have talked about how to prepare for your job search for your first job. Today, I am going to cover how to prepare for your job search if you are looking for the junior position.

3. When you are prospecting, you won’t be as unrestricted as the person applying for a first job. You’ll have some idea of the kinds of companies that can employ people like yourself. You can also be a little more selective; for example, you may want a company of a certain size or a specific industry, and so on. As you go through the Yellow Pages or other sources which list all the companies in your area, make your prospecting decisions quickly and prepare the prospect list. A word of caution – eliminate only those companies you are certain will not provide the kind of job you want.

4. Use the same contact approach as the person applying for a first job: start by telephoning fifty companies and then alternate to the cold call approach. Your search should progress faster than the person applying for the first job because you will be able to define to prospective employers the kind of job you want with a little more precision and this will make it easier for employers to make decisions.

A few things that are important to you at this stage of your career:

a)     The job you now take should offer you oppor-tunities for advancement;

b)     It should be the kind of work that you think you’ll be happy with for some time to come;

c)      It should correspond to the plans you have in your personal life; for example, if you intend to get married or have children in the next year or so and you will be supporting your spouse, it must provide the possibility for increased income.

At this stage in your career, you should be defining more clearly the kind of work you like as well as that which will fulfill your personal needs. People who at this stage of their working lives are fortunate enough to get involved in the kind of work they are going to do throughout their careers often have an advantage over those who jump around for several years. However, if you don’t make that decision now, don’t worry about it. At this stage of your career, you can make several more moves without adversely affecting it in any way.

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A Complete Job Search Book

In last article, I have talked about how to prospect the employers. In the following articles, I am going to talk about how to prepare for your job search for all levels: first job, junior position, mid-level position and senior position. Today, I will talk about how to prepare for the job search for your  first job.

First, decide on the kind of job you would like to have. This will take you a little more time than people who have worked for several years because you really have nothing to base your decision on except what you think you’ll like. But spend a few hours doing this and make a decision.

Next, spend a couple of hours and decide what you think you offer any potential employer. You may only come up with a willingness to work hard and to learn quickly. But even though you’re not experienced in the job market, you have had several experiences in your life, and these will have contributed to some assets which will be of value in a job. In any event, to the best of your ability, decide within a couple of hours what you offer to any employer.

Next, determine the salary you must earn in order to meet your present financial commitments. If it’s a low figure, don’t inflate it just for fun. This may be one of your best assets – the fact that you don’t require a high salary.

So now you know the kind of job you want, what you offer an employer and the salary you must make in your first job. Armed with this vital information about yourself, start your prospecting.  After all, this will be your first job, so your lack of experience will make it difficult for you to know which companies to contact or eliminate.

Sit by the telephone, and taking numbers directly from the Yellow Pages (either the book or on your computer), call the first fifty companies that could offer you the kind of job you want. Eliminate only those that you are certain would not  have a job for you.

If this does not pay off, adjust your strategy to the cold call approach, which is invariably more successful. To keep from getting bored, alternate between the two approaches every other day, remember that if you make enough contacts you will get that first job.

For more tips and advice about how to find the job you want quickly during your job search, please check out the website: www.passworldcorp.com/book

A complete job search book

For the previous article we have covered how to prepare a good resume for your job search, after preparing a good resume, the next step will be prospecting for employers.

Having decided what kind of work you would like to do and the kinds of things you would like in a job, the next step is to decide which employers appear to offer you that kind of employment. In making these decisions, you have taken the initiative; don’t lose it now by calling employers who can’t offer you the kind of job you want. With the above parameters in mind, go to any source which lists most employers in your area. In some areas google can be a big help. If you’re fortunate enough to want to work in, for example, the automobile industry, you will find your prospect list is already done for you because all employers connected with the automobile business will be listed under “Automobiles”. If you are not this lucky, search through all the categories in the Yellow Pages and other sources, looking for the kinds of companies you think will offer you the type of employment you want. Prepare a list of all these employers; if in doubt about any companies, include them on the list. You will be surprised to discover how quickly this becomes a very long list of companies and organizations. This is now your “Primary Prospect List”.

Before your search is over, you may make several such lists but this one includes all the organizations and companies which you now think can offer you the kind of employment you want. So a good part of your work is already done – all that remains is to start contacting and following up with interviews….

For more tips and advice on how to find your job as quickly as you can during your job hunting, please check out the complete job search book: How to Get Off Your Ass And Find The Job You Want, or check out the website: www.passworldcorp.com/book.

An Excellent Job Search Book

When you are doing your job hunting, is it very important to have a good resume? The answer is “yes” and “no”. 

Basically, the resume is merely a calling card; it introduces you in outline form to a prospective employer. Your only aim is to make this introduction as painless as possible for the reader by not attempting to say too much. But a poor resume  which is ugly to look at, poorly organized, and fails (sometimes in spite of several hundred words) to quickly give the reader an outline of your background  will harm your chance to have an interview.

Here are the keys to prepare a good resume:

1. A resume should never be longer than a covering page and 3 additional pages.
2. A resume must look good; it must be well typed, well spaced, and have wide margins on both sides of each page. (This allows the reader to make notes which they may refer to during their interview with you.)
3. In the EXPERIENCE portion of your resume, start with your present, or last job, and work backwards chronologically.
4. Never leave any gaps in dates on your resume.
5. Whenever possible insert achievements; this will enable you to describe yourself more briefly than the shortest job description.
6. Whenever possible insert numbers; eg.; the ‘President &CEO’ of a $2 billion company is in a different league than the ‘President & CEO’ of a $200 thousand company. An office manger responsible for 75 employees is in a different league than the one with a total staff of him or herself. Mathematics were invented to facilitate communi-cation.
7. Don’t be modest. The resume is a sales document no different from a brochure selling any product. You must insert all of your major selling points, but you must do it concisely.
8. Make your resume as “general” as possible; use your covering emails or letters to be specific and directionalize the resume for individual applications.

Hope this can help you prepare a good resume and find the job you want. For more tips and advice on how to find the job you want quickly during your job search or see a sample resume, please check out my complete job search book How To Get Off Your Ass And Find The Job You Want or visit the website www.passworldcorp.com/book.

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How To Get Off Your Ass And Find The Job You Want is  a complete job search book that base on my over 30 years recruiting experience and it not only will lead you through every step to quickly find the job you want, but also your constant companion, helping you overcome every obstacle you might encounter during your job hunting.

It is an excellent job search book covers all employment levels and will lead you through every single step during your job search, helping you find the job you want as quickly as you can. When you see the contents below you will understand what I am talking about.

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iii.  About The Author

ix.  Foreword

xi.  Introduction

1  Advice From Friends & Relatives

2   Age

4   Application  Forms

5  Attitude

7  Benefits (Employee)

8  Black Marks On Your Record

10 Commissions, Bonuses and Profit Sharing

12 Companies – Large, Medium or Small?

14 Confidence

15 Contacting Prospective Employers

17 Contacting Employers: Cold Call

19 Contacting Employers: Letter

20 Contacting Employers: Resume

21 Contacting Employers: Telephone

23 Cost of A Job Search

25 Covering Emails And Letters for Resumes

26 Deciding What You Want In Any Job

28 Decision – Making

29 Discouragement

30 Education

31 Employment Agencies

33 Employers – Assessing Them

35 Experience – Or The Lack Of It

37 Fun – and How To Have It While You Search

38 Geographical Relocation

39 Governments

40 Honesty

41 If You Are Not Unemployed – Just Changing Jobs

42 If You’ve Been Unemployed For A Long Time

44 Internet Job Sites

45 Interviews

46 Interviews – Preparing For

48 Interviews- Follow-up

49 Interviews–How Many Does It Take To Get A Job?

50 Job Search: Nature Of

52 Management And Executive Search Consultants

54 Media

55 Menial Work

57 Mistakes

58 Newspaper And Website Ads

60 Newspaper And Website Ads – How To Reply

62 Non-Profit Organizations

63 Notes For People Changing Careers

65 Old Boy Net

66 Offers: Waiting For Them

67 Offers: How To Consider & Decide

69 Offers: How To Accept

70 Offers: How To Reject

71 Preparing For The Search – First Job

73 Preparing For The Search – Junior Positions

76   Preparing For The Search – Mid Level Positions

78   Preparing For The Search – Senior Positions

81   Prospecting For Employers

83   Prospect, Contact, Interview

85   Psychological Tests

87   References

90   Rejection

91   Responsibility

92   Resumes or Curriculum Vitae (CV’s)

95   Resumes – Professional Writers

96   Salary – When To Discuss It

97   Salary – What To Accept

99   Selling Yourself – The Art Of

102  Selling Yourself – A Few Hints

104  Skills Inventory – What You Offer An Employer

106   Television, Internet & Other Diversions

108   Unemployment Statistics

109   Victims and How Not To Be One

110   “We’ll Let You Know Next Week”

111   What Interviewers Mean When They Say ….

115   What To Do When It’s Over

116   When To Stop Your Search

117   Work Habits

118   Worry

119   Your Feedback

120    Your Sample Resume
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The idea was, that not being able to offer them a job myself right away, I wanted to give them something that would ensure they would find the job they wanted quickly, on their own.

It is a job hunting book that base on my over 30 years recruiting experience and it not only will lead you through every step to quickly find the job you want, but also your constant companion, helping you overcome every obstacle you might encounter during your job search.

So, although this book is now being formally published for the first time, hundreds of people at all employment levels have already found the jobs they wanted by following its advice

“It’s not just about how to find a job, it’s about how to live your life.”

So said one grateful person who found the best job he ever had by following the advice in this book.

In writing this job hunting book I used a format and style similar to that of a best seller written several years ago (and if you ‘google’ it today you will see it is still very popular). That book was “Up The Organization” by Robert Townsend.

Townsend’s book was given to me by a friend when I started my first civilian job after serving as a young infantry officer. He was aware that I knew nothing about business and he thought it would help me make the transition from the army to civilian life. It turned out to be one of the best gifts I ever received because the way the Contents was designed I was able to get help very quickly every time I needed it.

I hope this works equally well for you during your job search because this book is not just meant to help you find the job you want but to help you do it very quickly

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