Top Tips For Finding Work

In the current climate there are more jobs being created by government and companies so there’s no hope to be lost when you start your job search.

To help you land a job that you are after, we have got to thinking and come up with a number of helpful tips for finding work. If you are just starting looking for a job because you have either just come out of education or in between jobs, the following will help you succeed.

How To Find The Jobs

It is all well and good to do a traditional job search and read through all the advertised positions either online or in print. This is a good way to get the ball rolling and perhaps easier to start off with, however, a lot of positions are taken up before you will ever hear about them being available. So how can you know about them? Simple, find the contact details for the HR Manager in the companies you have been looking at and approach them directly. Showing this type of initiative will definitely impress any potential employers.

Tidy Up Your Profile

Be sure that your online presence will represent you well and strengthen your application for any job, so if you are on LinkedIn, Twitter etc. then you will want them to reflect well on you. Social media is a highly used to better understand an applicant and it can be beneficial to you but also, if you haven’t been smart about your accounts then they could be what are holding you back.

Now, here it is important to consider all those awkward photos you are tagged in throughout your social media accounts. Do you really want a manager to do a quick Google search on you and have them see those drunken New Year’s snaps? Probably not! If there are too many to hide you can easily just alter your profile name so it won’t pop up when looking up your name.

Your Qualifications

Ticking all the boxes for an advertised job is great, well done to you! But, since leaving your studies or your previous job have you been keeping up to speed with any changes and developments in the field you graduated in? Business is forever evolving and what used to be the status quo one week could be old news the next. To keep an up-to-date understanding of your areas of expertise will be just one more thing to impress your interviewer.

Also, even if you haven’t been applying your qualification in a professional sense, you can always put together a personal project that allows you to apply what you know to keep it fresh in your mind.