Here's my 5 tips for how to find a job in tough times:
Finding a job requires two main tasks: understanding yourself and understanding the job market. Here are my 5 tips to get a job.(Warning! I've never looked for a job using these tips so I don't guarantee you that you will be successful!)
1. Rethink your resume
It might seems to you as an cliche but it really helps. Despite the wonders of the web and modern technology, there is still no better way to make things happen than go directly to people and communicate to them personally
3. Change your attitude
Winners do what they have to do and figure out how to make ends meet. You send your resume and you go to work. Staying in your bed, checking your Facebook account and thinking that you don't want to do that job or "I'm too good to do that job" isn't going to help.
4. Research the company
5. Watch some YouTube videos about job huntingEven if you don't learn some useful tips you will always feel more comfortable during job interview. One of those videos:
GOOD LUCK!
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2012/08/13/hey-kid-heres-how-to-get-a-job/
http://www.sagennext.com/2009/12/30/how-to-find-a-part-time-job/
I think these tips are very good, but we can do a little more. Our resume is very valuable, because it is the first possibility to attract employer. We should expose our best features and try to connect it with requirements. The employer should think that we have got the features he is looking for. Our motivation to get the job is very, very important. If we are neutral we will never encourage somebody to hire us. When we go for an interview it will be good if we know some basic information about the company. Some employers ask questions to check our knowledge. We should also read some articles and watch some videos how to behave during the interview. We can also find sample questions. We should practice before if we are afraid of it.
ReplyDeleteFor me your guidelines for finding work are helpful enough to get a cool job. I suppose I will be very stressed on my first interview but I want to erect on my authenticity and honesty in resume. If our potential future employer will give us some question about something false, we may burn with shame and i am sure that we couldn't have any chance for this work. So it isn't good for us. We should always be optimistic and make a good impression. We cannot forget to see the world through pink glasses especially at interviews :)
ReplyDeleteI can recommend the "Biuro Karier UW"! It is a good place to talk about your resume - about content and about form! Women, who works there give you a lot of clue to write good resume and to find good job for you. After this meeting you can check in to the portal with the job offer.
ReplyDeleteSecondly very helpfull are freinds. They can recommend you in some place. It is very common situation!
It is sad that we can't find or is hard to find job despite of our education in our country. Piotr wrote that we are hunting when we are looking for a job and it put me under the wall. For employers it is good system because they can chose the best candidate but for us it is stressful and usually we go out office without position. It is simple but hard to make it but to get a job, I think, we have to be the best in every single feature that the employer requires. Figure out what the employer want for new worker and do it.
ReplyDeleteI think commenting on my own presentation is a little bit weird. o_O
ReplyDeleteI agree with these tips, I think they can be very useful to find a job, but I don't agree when you say that "thinking that you don't want to do that job isn't going to help", because I think people want to get a job related with their studies, or with their abilities, not the first job they find.
ReplyDeleteFor me the beast way to find the job is a good CV it's mean good experience in a lot of jobs. If you do a lot in your live you meet a lot of people, probably in the future they will offer you a job, because they know you and your qualification, ( this rule is only for humanistic, economy job market)
ReplyDeleteBeside points one and three, I can't agree. Yes, it is good to know about company, but how can one use such knowledge to have any advantage? Especially when everybody do it if such manuals will become standard method. It is almost impossible to use it as something that just comes up naturally. Therefore it can't be really used.
ReplyDeleteJob offers in newspapers are usually not all that versatile. Sometimes are not even actual. Just are there because such 'advertisement' was paid beforehand to be printed each week for next few months. But maybe there is someone it can help.
I can't really say anything neither good nor bad about advice from youtube, but it will probably end up as session of procrastination on youtube ;).
Otherwise, very good presentation. Not really valuable advice, but good regardless. Could end up giving job opportunity ;).
Tips allways can be usefull, but we should remember every pearson is veeeery different, and some tips very good for ones, can be totally rubish for some oders. There is no qiuck way to get good job without knowing good your own personality and needs.
ReplyDeleteI never had an opportunity to find a job, but this tips sounds reasonably. Specially the third point because I think many people have many problems with accepting their new job with can be not so interesting. In this tough times we should be open for new options and when crisis will end we might find our dream work.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion good CV is the base for the success in the end. Employers note it very much. That's why it is important. It is vell known that on the basis of some basic infrormation employers resign from applicants even on the beggining. Very important is also our attitude. We mustn't give up easy even during failures. So we should stay calm and keep trying.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion these tips are good. Many young people during study or in short time after study try to find a job but it is very hard for them. I think that the people should change their approach to job. On the beginning they should find not require work in order to gain some experience even they have a degree. Of course if somebody offer them well paid job they should take it. I think that should not be discouraging if somebody offer you worse job because you will climb up on the top of ladder like a very rich people who start their carrier in a garage.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, these tips may be helpful in the case of searching a new job. We should write only a truth in our CV- usually all skills would be checked. We should also research the company, in which we want to work. In the Internet or newspapers we can find a false information about some vacancies, or a job requires doing other activities, about which we don’t know at the beginning.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, these tips may be helpful in the case of searching a new job. We should write only a truth in our CV- usually all skills would be checked. We should also research the company, in which we want to work. In the Internet or newspapers we can find a false information about some vacancies, or a job requires doing other activities, about which we don’t know at the beginning.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Piotr's tips, but I think that we can give more: for example second tip " Highlight a job offers you are interested in" it's not enought for me. I think that everyone should asks himself - "what mean interesting for me? What I want to do in my live? What I'm looking for?" Because it doesn't matter if we highlight something or underlined it or get it into circle.
ReplyDeleteAs for me these tips are really true and helpful, but i think that one of the things that will help you to get job is your contacts, at least in small town. It's sick situation - you get job only if you know someone that is big shark in busines, but it is like that, however you like it or not.
ReplyDeleteI agree especially with the first tip. This is the most important thing to have accurate and well developed CV. Unfortunately, nowadays many employers require workers earlier experience that students (like me) or a lot of young people usually don't have. Therefore, CV doesn't impress employers and it will be hard to find job without experience. I think that is a paradox, because it is required of people to have experience at the beginning, but how to get it, if you don't get work without having it? You're right, we should change our attitude and use this tips. But often, despite all efforts... We can not get it because someone will have more experience than us.
ReplyDeleteI think that people often forget that the most important is to start any job. There are many job positions that we don't even know they exist when finishing school.
ReplyDeleteOnce you start working you start learning corporate rules and you learn how business really looks like.
No matter what kind of job you have you always learn something new. Sitting at home and waiting for perfect job is such a waste of time (and money!).
Yeah, instructions and tips how to make a good impression and what to do to find a job may be very helpful, but in my opinion the base and most important thing are job skills. If someone is very very good at doing something, he'll almost always find a way to make success. So, if a person has brilliant skills, then uses some tips.
ReplyDeleteI think those tips are very good. Of course it is important to do some research about the market, employers, emploees, it is important that our resume was complete and rich etc. But I think that this is not enough. We need to remember to stand out. Otherwise, no one will notice and hire us. Is important to be remembered by a potential employer.
ReplyDeleteThe fact is that, today, finding a job is very difficult and there is no one good rule which could ensure us the success.
In my opinion tips listed above are advisable. Of course, poeple who apply to a job should take into consideration the demands of emplyer and try to meet the requirements as much as it is possible. Espacially, it concerns our resume, and thus aplicants should highight the features that are needed by the advertiser. Making a deep research into the company, to which we apply is also vital. In the job interview probably there would be made inquirements about your knowledge of the company. It is absoulutely essetial to leave a lasting impression on the interviewers, so aplicants should be sincere about their personal traits and choose these which make them unusual.
ReplyDeleteI may be wrong, but many young people looking for a job, especially those right after university simply don't understand the job market. Or the market in general.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that they overestimate their value. Most of them don't have much experience, or none at all. The knowledge they have is not of the highest quality - employers often complain that they have teach new staff what is really useful in what they will be doing. Last but not least - those people want to earn a fortune in their first job...
Some may disagree with me, but the first job, which is quite low-paid should be always taken into consideration
I think that the most important in Poland, when searching the job is who we know.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad but it's quite hard to find a job when we are only sending our CV. I saw, not once and not twice how the employees are reading the CV.
I think that the key is to go to place where we want to work and make very good first impression, it's very important!
Very good tips! I found my job in a newspaper and I did all the tips which the author describes here. During job interview we need to feel confident and know everything about the company. We need to be calm and confident in our abilities. There are some psychological tricks and body language that will help us to present good. I recommend to look for it on the internet!
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