Daily Job Hunt Journal

Here’s something for you to much on while you’re unemployed, “Only three to five percent of job seekers find employment through online job sites.” Whoa, now that’s a depressing statistic for those unemployed right now. How do you make sure you’re on that three percent?

Companies receive a lot of applications through job sites; and the bigger your company, the more resumes you get. So instead of hiring people to look at each resume, they do keyword searches o the whole database of applicants.

What does this mean for you? If you don’t place enough of the keywords they’re looking for in your resume, then you might as well not submit it at all because there would be no way they can filter that many applications. What you do then is to know the keywords associated with the job opening and ensure that the resume you send would have enough of them.

Going through old job ads and getting a job may seem to be impossible, but it does happen! Normally, you’d just browse over these openings and move on through to the new ones.

However, most jobs are posted once and never given “refreshed dates” as this would mean more expense for the company. A new post for the same position would not be good for the company, so usually they just leave it there as it is and keep mum about it. There might be even be a chance that the the chosen candidate decided to not take the job. So what’s this to you?

It means that these jobs may still be open and available. So don’t be afraid to apply for these old ads.

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Most of those who fail to land top jobs are those who at the examination level, have already wilted and failed.

It is therefore so important that if one would hope of good job spots, the high-paying ones, it is a must to perform as early as the examination phase.

Remember that most of these job examinations are singularly IQ Tests and communication skills test. So go to the nearest bookstore and get yourself an IQ test reviewer and communication skill enhancers.

If you keep on practicing and honing that examination prowess, you can perfect it one day. Practice makes perfect they say.

If you try to have a test demo in your test over and over again, about a week before an examination for a job application is to take place, then that’s for the better.

Focus on your English and give attention to those abstract reasoning segment, they would surely be given and hold great weight for examiners.

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Our fears have been realized and jobs are being lost and not created(except for the Federal Government which claims would be creating jobs), the rest the thousands of job hunters who cannot get a job are left out on a limb. Try to use the full spectrum of job searching, online, social networks, job hunt networks and don;t forget the traditional go out an get it approach.
Jobs are out there, just that you cannot be to picky due to the scarcity, for one opening has several hundred available applicants. Make yourself stand out from the rest and use your failures as motivating factor. Update your resume and take out all add-on’s(entries that have been quite blown up), so you get an honest resume they can trust. Some of these firms really do check ups so when they do, you get the facts nothing more nothing less. You might also want to change the photo(you might still have the one straight from graduation), they might be small changes but they make big changes.

Accessing job sites while at work can be a stressful thing to do, yet a lot of people do it. You and even your boss does it, so don’t feel too guilty. However, we suggest that you pick your time carefully just to be sure that you still have a lot of time to do your work and that no one can see you.

When the Recruitment Manager calls, we suggest you reschedule. So you send in that resume and then a call goes through: it’s the company you’re applying for! Instead of whispering during your phone interview, we suggest that you reschedule it during lunchtime or after working hours.

Timing is everything.

Gone are the days of encoding and printing your resume from Word and snail mailing it to the your prospective company. Now, the unemployed can simply log on and apply for a job using anything from the usual email, to monster.com, and now through Facebook.

Yes, social networking has its uses and gaining employment is just one of them. How does it rate up against one of the premiere job networking sites out there: LinkedIn? According to this article, LinkedIn bites the dust:

But you network on LinkedIN? Great LinkedIN is also a great place for job seekers to network….but the numbers are 1/3 of Facebook. Almost overnight, Facebook has grown to be the 6th most trafficked site on the internet, and the number one site to search for people.

Time to update that Facebook account.

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In order to get a job, some people troll or rather they “participate” or network in forums or comment on popular sites or blogs and then leave their emails just in case someone wants to contact them personally. It’s a way for them to promote their knowledge regarding the topic. Usually, when job headhunters reads them, they immediately offer jobs to these individuals.

However, there’s a negative to putting your email address for everyone to see as you’ll read from the story below:

The result? Well, within a couple of years I was getting over 50 SPAM emails per day. No matter how much filtering I did through Outlook or Thunderbird, such junk still got through. With such a large amount of spam each day, I was “under siege.” Not to mention that I had to filter through all the garbage to find the occasionally relevant email or note from a friend.

Solution? Make your personal email safe by providing the address only when you need to. If you’re going to post any kind of email, input another email account.

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In this technology-driven world, it comes as no surprise that people have to keep up with the changes occurring in society. From the way we communicate to how we get things done at home and at work, technology plays a lead role.

Job hunting has become easier with the advent of the Internet. Today, job seekers only need to locate jobs online to find employment. However, as jobs become more accessible, competition becomes stiffer than ever. To improve your chances of getting hired, I suggest you develop your IT skills.

Keep in mind that being computer literate is not enough. You may opt to take courses in programming, publishing, graphic design and web development, them being in-demand IT skills that have a secure place in almost every industry today.

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