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1000 things you don’t want in your job hunt

By: K. Karpenter

Do you stick only to the top name job boards or portals? If yes, you might be denying your chances of being able to get into specialized jobs. Specialized groups or non-enterprise providers often steer clear of top names. Choose your resume posting based on the kind of recruiters that visit a given job boards.

OUTSOURCING YOUR JOB HUNT
And if you're being able to get a peer or a consultant to do your job hunt to the level of making contact with a prospective employer - stop doing this now. You can get help to the level of someone gathering job order description or information for you. You make connect - use the opportunity to create an impression.

RESUME BLASTING
Do you treat your resume like a promotional mailer? Distribute it all over the place or get a corporation email ID and broadcast? This means (1) Your cover letter or your resume is not customized for the job order in hand - Resume customization in lieu of arranging the skill sets for the given job order. (2) You do not follow up; there is employers who seek to measure your interest with the follow up formula that you adopt. Plus your prospective employer or their job consultant knows that you are hunting around, which will reduce your market value.

Some other aspect of mindless blasting is clicking the APPLY FOR THIS JOB button wherever you see it. When you submit your resume to a job where you do not have minimum qualifications - and you have a reason to doing so - make an offline connect.

75% of email traffic received by a generic ID such as careers@bestemployer.com is junk. And if you rely only on email to get your next job - forget it. Your resume is most likely in the junk folder.

PRIVACY
Do not write a tell tale resume with private info. We’ve heard enough and more about misuse of private information. Some other aspect of privacy - using Internet at work to coordinate your job hunt. Wake up - Even a mom & pop street corner store can afford a network and a firewall in it.

INTERNET JOB HUNT BALANCE
You do not wish to rely entirely via the internet for your job search. You do not would love to deny the abundance of info that is available online either. Depending on your skills and where you would love to be working next, see if your target employers and their head hunters are hanging out in Print Classifieds or Job boards.

BEING COOL
E-mail is new age - it has been for over 15 years now :), but an e-mail ID such as kewldude800@xyz.com is not a great identification. Also see what your social networking page is saying about you - from the eyes of a headhunter, hiring manager or recruiter. Please blogpost here about ‘Big Brother is watching‘. Also your resume or your job hunt webpage is a business document; it is not your platform to express political views.

Balance 994 things you do not want in your job hunt come under ‘common sense application’. We do not would enjoy to question your CSA quotient by putting down all of those 994. (Actually, 6 things as a title did not sound grandiose enough to attract your attention)

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BEING COOL E-mail is new age - it has been for over 15 years now :), but an email ID such as kewldude800@xyz.com is not a great identification. Also see what your social networking page is saying about you - from the eyes of a headhunter, hiring manager or recruiter. Please blogpost here about ‘Big Brother is watching‘. Also your resume or your job hunt webpage is a industry document; it is not your platform to express political views. Balance 994 things you do not want in your job hunt ...

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