How to Research your Next Career and Find Job Opportunities
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How to Research Your Next Career and Find Job
Opportunities
1.Be Positive and Always Hopeful
2.Stay Motivated and take Action
3. Create a 1-Page Personal Marketing Plan
4. Improve your Resume to stand out from others
5. Practice job interviewing – your timing,
tone, and delivery
6. Learn how to Network effectively
7. Use LinkedIn as a Networking and Research
Tool
8. Never stop Learning about your Industry and
Expertise
9. Consider relocation or expanding your area
10. Join or start a Job Search Group
11. Pay it Forward - Help others succeed
12. Make yourself a “Smack-in-the-Forehead” obvious fit –
Align with their Needs, Wants, Culture
13. Don’t limit yourself to Online Applications
14. Remember that your Resume and LinkedIn
profile should continue to change
15. Thank everyone - Thank you matters
16. Participate in Professional Development
opportunities
17. Reconnect with your References
18. Professionalize your Online presence
19. Create an Online Portfolio of your best stuff
20. Get going and do something today and
everyday
21. Do some offline, face-to-face networking
22. Know where you want to go and why
23. Narrow your applications to a few
target positions
24. Do your research before you reach out to
the employer
25. Leverage your connections to network
your way into the company before you apply
26. Ask your contact if the company has an employee
referral program
27. Get help from a Coach
28. Create Your Own Templates or Hire Someone to do it
29. Use job search engines
30. Sign up for email and text job alerts
31. Be more than prepared
32. Keep a job search notebook and track your
progress
33. Create a professional job search email address
34. Set big goals
35. Show off your personality, it’s your
brand
36. Look the part
37. Volunteer to connect and contribute
38. Be available and receptive to opportunities
39. Work on your nonverbal, body language
skills
40. Invest in learning technical skills needed
41. Be prepared to take a test, they’re common
42. Practice for the phone interview
43. Schedule a period of planning and organizing
before you search
44. Schedule a downtime for you
45. Celebrate your wins!