SEVEN ADVICES TO FIND A JOB

 

 

 

1. You’re the best salesman. Consider yourself a company.
 
See yourself as a company, with your skills and knowledge being the product you must sell. The conventional tools you will use are your CV, letter of presentation and yourself, as well as the job interview.
Prepare your own MARKETING PLAN, which is the most important aspect.
 
2. Finding a job.
 
You must be willing to make an effort to find a job.
You will not find a job by sending your CV to twenty e-mail or postal addresses you have obtained during a weekend while having a coffee in a bar or looking for offers over the Internet in ten minutes. The probabilities are very slight and you will not achieve any results!
Analyse sectors, investigate companies that continue to recruit staff and, if you read the economic press, be constant and keep motivated.
 
3. Let others know what you can do or whey they must choose you. Do some Benchmarking.
 
Even though you think your CV is updated, perhaps it is not the most suitable for the job you want to apply for: We therefore advise you to review both the structure and the content and attach a recent passport photo.
Don’t prepare your CV as if it were a report, just one summarised page is enough. You can extend it on the day of the interview.
 
Adapt your skills to the needs of the company, as each offer is different and your CV must be different too.
Most candidates exaggerate about the information in their CVs or their letters of presentation when looking for a job and those who lie are always caught.
Don’t invent stories that will later be discovered.  You can’t know everything, but only what you should know for the job.
 
If you dare, write a customised letter of presentation showing that you know the company and the job being offered. A letter of presentation is a good option for showing your interest in the job, and also your skills for occupying the post. Customising your application is very attractive to most interviewers.
But above all, you must know who your competitors are, what type of candidates will apply, what they have to offer, what they know, what they want to earn, what they are willing to do and how. Once you know them, surpass them and if you don’t, that will be because you have not thought out your Plan properly, or chosen the job properly. Start again.
 
4. Aim well, not high or low but on target.
 
Don’t leave choosing your new job to chance. All too often people send in CVs without reading the job offer, and this usually causes them to lose value in the company selection process, which rapidly detects this.
The offer must suit your profile. If not, the company will rule you out due to not meeting the requirements necessary for the post.
 
Think to yourself, what job would you like to do? The specialisation required in the employment market is increasingly greater and it is advisable to obtain some kind of guidance for your future profession. Even so, companies are looking for professionals who are increasingly more versatile.
It is important that before attending a job interview, you update your knowledge and find out about the latest developments that could affect the sector in which you are interested.  It is always good to have a certain amount of knowledge, to show you are a person with concerns.
 
Try to find out who is behind the offer and obtain information beforehand about the post and workplace.  This will help you adjust your CV to the needs and objectives of the company. If not, you may run the risk of being caught out by the following question: "Why are you interested in working with us?".
 
Above all, emphasise the characteristics of each offer and the reasons for selecting it or not selecting it. That information will help you obtain your own ratio of probabilities, and this tool will help you to be your own staff selector!
 
5. Networking.
 
Don’t try to do in one week what you have not been able to do in five years. Networking is a two-way tool, and one must not ask but give.
 
Rework old contacts, but don’t burn your bridges; offer information but don’t be too insistent. And above all, never call anyone after five years without showing an interest in that person.
The best way to do networking is to combine it with Visibility, by attending conferences, meetings of former fellow students, meals, courses, frequenting the places and venues visited by your potential contacts and establish contact with them again.
 
Use the Internet, the potential of social networks is important, but following the same criteria as those set out above. Your contacts or network should be of high quality to be useful to you, and if you have not had any real professional relationships with anyone, it is not a contact. Don’t say “Join my network” just because it sounds good, but because you can offer something that the other party may find interesting.
When looking for a job, you must be able to produce your own list of contacts and follow them up. This will be your roadmap and will offer you better guidance in searching for new offers.

 

6. 24*7.
 
Be available, be receptive, listen and always pay attention.
In your CV you will have given certain contact particulars.  These must be updated, as if not, when anyone tries to contact you, they will not be able to and you will have missed your opportunity.
On the other hand, interviewers are often unable to locate candidates during work hours. It is advisable to leave an e-mail where you can be contacted so that you can use it to arrange the interview as quickly as possible.
Staff selection processes in companies are becoming shorter and shorter and if you are not available immediately, you may miss a great opportunity!
 
 
7. Cool Hunting.
 
Keep one step ahead of events, if you know the trends, you’ll know where there are opportunities before anyone else.
If you think you may have certain difficulties in meeting these demands, then get updated. You must offer what the market needs and so you have to be able to adapt. What counts most is not what you know or have done, but what you will do in your new company, and what you will contribute to it.
 
Felipe Santiago y Margarita Torres