Step 1:
The first step in finding a job is to write a resume or prepare to complete a job application. Depending on the type of job you are searching for, you will need a resume, CV (curriculum vitae) and a cover letter or you will need to complete an application for employment.
In most cases, you will need a resume to apply for full-time, professional job opportunities. If you are seeking a part-time job or work in a career field like hospitality or retail, for example, you will complete an application for employment.
Write a Resume
How to write resumes, curriculum vitae and cover letters, including samples and templates.
Complete a Job Application
How to complete an employment application, applying for jobs online, via email and in person.
Includes samples, examples and advice on the best way to apply.
Step Two - Find Job Listings
The next step in finding a job is to find employment opportunities to apply to. You will need to search the online job search sites, like America's Job Bank, Monster, Career Builder, and Indeed, and utilize offline resources including networking, which is still the way most people find jobs.
Job Listings
Job listings, job banks, job sites, employment opportunities listed by location and career field, and other resources to help find a job.
Find a Job
How to find job listings, both online and off-line, networking, using a headhunter and more job advice on how and where to look for jobs.
Get Job Search Help
Need help with your job search? Here's how job seekers can find free, or inexpensive, resources in their geographic areas.
Job Banks
Search the online job banks by by keyword, location or career field. This directory includes job search engines where you can search many databases in one step.
Jobs by Career Field
A comprehensive list of job listings sorted by career field including arts, communications, business, education, not-for-profit, legal, science and technology and more.
Local Jobs
Staying or home or relocating? Search the local job sites that focus on the locations where you want to work.
Job Fairs
Attend a job fair in-person or online.
Networking
Networking can sound intimidating and a little bit scary, but, it doesn't have to be and it really does work.
Follow Up
It is important to follow up with the people who have interviewed you. Send a thank you letter within twenty-four hours of your interview. Also contact the employer if you haven't heard whether you got the job, or not, within a week or so of interviewing. Inquire about the status of your candidacy and ask if you can provide any additional information.
Thank You Letters
Sample thank you letters and other job search correspondence.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
How do I find my dream job?
Interviewing at Google
Why a career is important in anybody's life particularly when applying to world famous industries like "Google"
At the interview
.Good manners and social confidence are important
.Shake hands with the interviewers
.Make yourself comfortable
.Speak up and look at the person who asked the questions whilst you are answering it
.Make sure you know roughly when you'll be informed of the result of the interview
.If you are unsure about any aspect of the job, take the opportunity given to you at the end of the interview to ask the panel questions, e.g. questions about training or career development opportunities, who you will be working with, etc.
Coping with questions
Try and avoid 'yes' and 'no' answers
Be honest
If you are not asked about something that seems relevant and important to you, make sure you find an opportunity to say what you want to.
Examples of interview questions
The panel will use probing questions to help you provide evidence that you have the relevant skills, knowledge and experience to do the job. This will normally involve firstly asking a broad question about the subject area and then asking questions that require more specific information. The panel may also ask you "what would you do if" questions. Here are some example questions:
This job will involve typing reports and letters. What have you done in the past that will help you do this?
What is your experience of dealing with people over the telephone (broad). How did you deal with any difficult people (specific)?
Can you tell me when you have had to answer queries from the public (broad). What sorts of information did you provide (specific)?
What factors would you take into account when providing a service for the elderly?
After the Interview
At the conclusion of you interview you will be told roughly when to expect to be told the outcome.
If you are the successful candidate you will be contacted, usually by telephone, and offered the position. The offer of employment will be subject to suitable references, a medical assessment and sometimes, the satisfactory outcome to a Disclosure Application made to the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB).
If you are not successful, they will write and let you know this.
Feedback
If you would like feedback on your interview performance, you may request this by contacting the relevant Supervisor/Manager who formed part of the interview panel by phone or e-mail.
Things one should never do at an Interview
Some of the main facts candidates should never do:
.Forgetting the consultants name
.Forgetting the name of the company they're applying for
.Forgetting to bring their resume
.Making things up about themselves
.[Making things up] about how much experience they've got
.Forgetting the address, and
.being late
So, you think of any excuse you can think of, we've heard them all.
When you're in an interview situation, an organisation, an employer or recruiter should understand - it's one of the most stressful things a person can do. Changing jobs is one of the most stressful things, next to buying a home, buying a car, having a child, getting married, getting divorced, having some sort of emotional trauma. Right up there with all of those things is an interview and trying to get a new role.
So, anyone doing the interviewing has to have some compassion and understanding. But you see just incredible things. I've seen candidates so tired, falling asleep, forgetting the question.
Talking for too long. You get asked a question, they answer it, then they answer it again, then they answer it again and answer it again. They think, by talking, over and over and over, that will convince the interviewer that they're the right candidate.
You need to think.
I always say to people - The motto, particularly for all of us to remember, is that we have two ears, two eyes and one mouth and a nose and we need to use our senses, our sensory perception skills, in that order.
So, listen a lot, look a lot and speak only as needed. And I think that's the motto for a really good interview.
Important Interview Tips
Interview tip 1:
What impresses me, is when I'm talking to somebody who I can really feel has researched my business, my organisation. So, gone online and done any searches they can for any articles, so they actually understand my business, they know the sort of business I'm in, and they know something about me.
So I think that tells me they're interested. Someone coming and just saying "Well, I'm looking for a job as a recruitment consultant." ... well, they can get a job in hundreds of companies as a recruitment consultant, but why my company? Why me?
I think that's a really important thing, to be interested enough to have done the research. Really, really good candidates know things about my business that I don't, which really surprise me. So they weave it into the interview somewhere. So that's the first thing. To know about the organisation you're applying [to].
There's just so much information out there. There's no reason or excuse that you shouldn't be able to find out something about the organisation you're applying for
Interview Tip 2:
I think the second thing, that I find is really important, is 'Ok, you're a recruitement consultant, but what are you going to do for me?', 'Why are you different?' and 'What are you going to do for my organisation that other people are not going to do?'.
So, think about yourself. Think about your strengths and talk to those things about why you are different, and what you are going to do for me.
A lot of people don't realise they've got to have a reason to buy. An employer is the buyer, the candidate (in an interview situation) is the seller; although in very clever organisations they sell themselves to the candidate as well.
But 'Why should I buy?' should be another perspective, looking at it from the candidate's point of view.
Interview Tip 3:
And thirdly, I think feeling that you have a match, in an emotional sense and a non-employment sense, so you like the values of the organisation.
"I'm aligned to the mission that you have as an organisation, I like the social attitude you put on your internet site, I like the way you have community involvement and you use your employees in the community. I like those things. I like the values and the reason that you want to be, as a organisation."
So, not only am I aligned in a professional sense, I'm aligned in an emotional and value-base sense. So I'm not like this (gestures misaligned hands), I fell I'm like that (demonstrates alignment).
That's really what people want in an employee.
People don't usually leave for money, the reason people leave jobs is about seven or eight. Number seven or eight รข€“ the money. But number one is they feel emotionally detached from the organisation. So, on the way in, you need to be able to say that I've looked at your organisation, your annual reports, the web-site; I've looked at all of these things and I really feel aligned with the values and the purpose of your business.
