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Job Search. What is a Career?. A career includes all the roles you undertake throughout your life - education, training, paid and unpaid work, family, volunteer work, leisure activities and more. Questions You Need to Asks?. What Do You Want to Do? What Can You Do? (Skills and Occupations)

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Job Search

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  1. Job Search

  2. What is a Career? • A career includes all the roles you undertake throughout your life - education, training, paid and unpaid work, family, volunteer work, leisure activities and more.

  3. Questions You Need to Asks? • What Do You Want to Do? • What Can You Do? (Skills and Occupations) • What skills do you have, what interests, etc. Identify general occupations that interest you, not specific job titles.

  4. Ways to Developing Job Leads • Networking • Professional Organizations • College Career/Alumni Officers • Cold Contact/Direct Mail • Job/Career Fairs • Online Job Site/Job Board • Corporate Career Center • Recruit/Headhunter • Want Ads • Pounding the Pavement/Hitting the Streets

  5. Networking • The art of building alliances • You are networking when you.. • volunteer for a local park "clean-up" day • visit with other members of your social clubs or religious groups • talk to your neighbors • strike up a conversation with someone else waiting at the veterinarian's office • talk to sales persons who are visiting your office

  6. Networking • Chat Rooms and Web Forums • Social Networking Websites • Facebook • My Space • Mailing Lists

  7. Professional/Trade Organizations • Every career field has at least one • Offer some sort of job posting /resume exchange program • One way you can find a organization • General Professional Organizations and Associations

  8. College Career/Alumni Offices • Use Alumni in your field who would be willing to help you advance your career. • Contact the professionals from your alma mater's career services and/or alumni office

  9. Cold Contact/Direct Mail • A lost art of job-hunting • Involves the job-hunter compiling a list of potential employers. • Including business and trade periodicals, company directories, even the phone book • Collect key research on each company • Lead managers • HR managers • Mail out (either via postal mail or email) a specifically-tailored cover letter and resume to each employer. • Target a direct-mail campaign; mass mailings don't work.

  10. Job/Career Fairs • Companies send employees to these fairs • Meet and recruit top prospects. • Your goal • Prepare beforehand and identify the key employers in attendance • Develop a strategy for breaking through the clutter of other job-seekers.

  11. Online Job Sites/Job Boards • The trend in job-hunting, at least from the job-seeker's perspective. • Should just be one small source of your job leads -- not your only source. • Three basic categories of job sites are available to job-seekers. • Big “general” job sites • many different career fields from numerous employers. • Industry-specific niche job sites • Job postings for jobs within a specific industry. • Geographic-specific job sites • Job openings specific to a certain region of the U.S. or other parts of the world.

  12. Corporate Career Centers • One of the fastest growing sources of job leads • Often includes: • job openings • guidelines for submitting job-search materials • a wealth of information about the company • such as corporate culture, career paths, benefits, and more

  13. Recruiters/Headhunters • Professionals who are employed by companies to screen and select the most qualified candidates for positions the company has open. • Avoid any employment agency where the applicant must pay the fee. • Work for the employer, not for you • Must have the qualities their clients are looking for

  14. Want Ads • At one time, the main source of job leads for job-seekers. • However, as more companies now post job openings on their corporate sites and/or with online job sites • The importance of want ads has declined. • Can be helpful to those seeking entry-level positions.

  15. Pounding the Pavement/Hitting the Streets • The oldest method of job-hunting and developing job leads • Entry-level positions and blue-collar jobs, • A specific geographic area • Going door-to-door and submitting job applicationsto employers. • Useful if you are relocating • Can make a trip prior to moving and spend that entire time submitting applications and meeting with prospective employers.

  16. References • 10 Ways to Develop Job Leads: http://www.quintcareers.com/developing_job_leads.html

  17. Job Search Video • http://www.aptv.org/Videoroom/viewprogram.asp?FileID=289

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