So you keep telling yourself, “I want to find a job now!” But what have done to begin the job process? Things don’t get done on their own until you get started. Alright. You want a new job. What should you do?
1. Get out a piece of paper and a pen. Use your hand to sweep everything on your desk. Do it aggressively! This technique will lift your energy and create an empty work space. Start writing your resume. If you are reading this article from work, wait til you get home to start step one. I don’t think your boss will appreciate your work crap on the floor.
2. The next day, after finishing your resume, re-read your resume and look for any errors or omissions. Then give the resume to multiple trustworthy people who can help you review it. Find someone who is willing to give you constructive criticism, meaning someone who will be unemotionally in your resumes critique. The point is to find the best parts and weakest parts in your resume. You should be fully prepared for this and not feel attacked. Not all criticism is negative and you should be using this criticism as a way to improve your chances at finding work. Only a real friend would tell you the truth.
3. After receiving the criticism, make the corrections. Search for jobs you might be interested in at badeconomyjobs or larger work and job sites, Indeed or USA Jobs. Look into your local neighborhood jobs. Libraries, schools and newspapers typically post new jobs. These 3 steps should take no more time than a week.
4. Create multiple copies of the new resume with all your final changes. Have the resume in many common digital formats like text format, HTML format, Word format and PDF format. This way you can easily submit to the job websites. Find the jobs you are interested in and upload your resumes.
5. This is the part where persistence and a bit of resume spam comes into play. Make sure to apply to at least 3-4 jobs on one night. Everyday thereafter, apply to 3-4 jobs. Make sure you are keeping track of your applications. By the end of two weeks, you should have applied to at least 42 jobs. The math works out to 7 days x 3 resumes a day x 2 weeks = 42 resumes. A resume upload should take no more than 1 hour. That’s 3 hours of job posting work a day.
6. Follow up with email or calls from the earlier job postings if they have not responded. This is where your job tracking journal makes things much easier. Use the journal to help you track job interview dates. Make sure not to schedule interview dates on the same day.
7. Repeat the process til you get the job. Do not get discouraged. This last step is as crucial to the job process as the first step. Good luck!
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Job In Recession
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Job Scenario In US
Unemployment did decline in July too, but only to increase in August, September and October. My suspicion is that this time, unemployment is close to its peak, and this is the beginning of a long, but slow, improvement in the labor market.(Job portal USA)
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is forecasting that unemployment in the U.S. will peak in the first quarter of 2010 but won’t fall below 9 percent until the fourth quarter of 2011. This seems about right.
Also encouraging was evidence that the pace of job losses had slowed. But this should be tempered by the fact that there is little evidence of job creation. Employment still is falling in manufacturing and construction. The main sectors where job growth is occurring are health care and temporary-help services. Not much, but it’s a start and the best news in the U.S. labor market since the spring of 2007.(Part Time Job USA)
Looking for Leaders
To be convinced that a decent recovery is established, I’m looking for strong job growth in some sectors -- a construction- led boom, for example, would see the number of construction workers growing. To this point it is unclear which industries are likely to lead a recovery. It’s hard to see financial services or construction being among them.
The decline in economic output has been 4 percent in the U.S. from peak to trough, compared with 14 percent in Ireland, 10 percent in Japan, 8 percent in Sweden, 8 percent in Germany and 6 percent in the U.K. In the cases of Japan and Germany, greater dependence on exports has hurt output. The run-up in housing prices was more pronounced in Ireland, Spain and the U.K. than in the U.S.
In spite of these output numbers, the U.S. has few rivals in terms of the recession’s impact on jobs. Among OECD members, the U.S. had the third-largest increase in unemployment, 5.8 percentage points to its October peak of 10.2 percent, behind only Spain (11.4 percentage points) and Ireland (8.5 percentage points). By contrast, the unemployment rate has risen by just 0.4 percentage points in Germany, 1.6 percentage points in Japan and 2.7 percentage points in the U.K
Unemployment hurts, and not just the unemployed. The empirical evidence from around the world suggests that in normal times, a 1 percentage point increase in unemployment has twice the effect on happiness as a 1 percentage point increase in inflation. In these deflationary times, an increase in inflation may well raise our happiness rather than lower it. So the central goal of economic policy right now should be to create jobs.(Corp-corp jobs USA)
There has been some improvement in economic conditions since September. Governments need to keep the stimulus going. It is all about jobs
High paying jobs USA
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is forecasting that unemployment in the U.S. will peak in the first quarter of 2010 but won’t fall below 9 percent until the fourth quarter of 2011. This seems about right.
Also encouraging was evidence that the pace of job losses had slowed. But this should be tempered by the fact that there is little evidence of job creation. Employment still is falling in manufacturing and construction. The main sectors where job growth is occurring are health care and temporary-help services. Not much, but it’s a start and the best news in the U.S. labor market since the spring of 2007.(Part Time Job USA)
Looking for Leaders
To be convinced that a decent recovery is established, I’m looking for strong job growth in some sectors -- a construction- led boom, for example, would see the number of construction workers growing. To this point it is unclear which industries are likely to lead a recovery. It’s hard to see financial services or construction being among them.
The decline in economic output has been 4 percent in the U.S. from peak to trough, compared with 14 percent in Ireland, 10 percent in Japan, 8 percent in Sweden, 8 percent in Germany and 6 percent in the U.K. In the cases of Japan and Germany, greater dependence on exports has hurt output. The run-up in housing prices was more pronounced in Ireland, Spain and the U.K. than in the U.S.
In spite of these output numbers, the U.S. has few rivals in terms of the recession’s impact on jobs. Among OECD members, the U.S. had the third-largest increase in unemployment, 5.8 percentage points to its October peak of 10.2 percent, behind only Spain (11.4 percentage points) and Ireland (8.5 percentage points). By contrast, the unemployment rate has risen by just 0.4 percentage points in Germany, 1.6 percentage points in Japan and 2.7 percentage points in the U.K
Unemployment hurts, and not just the unemployed. The empirical evidence from around the world suggests that in normal times, a 1 percentage point increase in unemployment has twice the effect on happiness as a 1 percentage point increase in inflation. In these deflationary times, an increase in inflation may well raise our happiness rather than lower it. So the central goal of economic policy right now should be to create jobs.(Corp-corp jobs USA)
There has been some improvement in economic conditions since September. Governments need to keep the stimulus going. It is all about jobs
High paying jobs USA
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