Take Stock of Your Job Search to Stop Wasting Time Doing Things That Don’t Work [Job Search]
When you're unemployed or looking for a better job, it can be easy to just shovel your resume out by the boatload through a job board to every company that has an opening vaguely matching your qualifications and hope you get phone calls, but that's just one tool in your job-hunting toolkit. We've already discussed how you can get your resume past HR databases and into the hands of real people, but tailoring your resume to suit every job you want isn't enough. If you're not seeing results scouring job boards or corporate web sites, it's time to stop, take stock of what you're doing, and figure out what is and isn't working so you spend more time on the things that get you interviews and less on the crap that doesn't. More »
When you're unemployed or looking for a better job, it can be easy to just shovel your resume out by the boatload through a job board to every company that has an opening vaguely matching your qualifications and hope you get phone calls, but that's just one tool in your job-hunting toolkit. We've already discussed how you can get your resume past HR databases and into the hands of real people, but tailoring your resume to suit every job you want isn't enough. If you're not seeing results scouring job boards or corporate web sites, it's time to stop, take stock of what you're doing, and figure out what is and isn't working so you spend more time on the things that get you interviews and less on the crap that doesn't. More »