Job Search Success - How To Win The Job You Want

Job search can feel like nothing more than a numbers game with the odds stacked against you. You know what I mean? You send out 300 job application letters and get maybe six invitations to interview. But don't be tempted to just keep mailing at random, it won't help!

If you're lucky, you might be rewarded with one job offer. And you are grateful, after all it's a job. But if you don't get that offer, you start your job search again...

You send out another three hundred job application cover letters with your resume etc. etc.

What you need is to find a way to shorten the odds and that can be easier than you think.

Let Me Explain

Most people still work the numbers and with the unemployment rate increasing across all economies, the competition is just getting bigger. It means that more people are sending out those application letters as their main job search activity and any organization that IS hiring is becoming more overwhelmed with job seekers who are desperate. The only ones who win are the mail services.

This is where you have the opportunity to shorten the odds.

I'm sure you would agree that even a small improvement in your job search skills would put you way in front of most other people in the market; if you can make small improvements in each of the key areas that really matter, you can give yourself a MASSIVE ADVANTAGE and win more job offers.

These Job Search Skills Really Matter

Understand Your Own Job Skills
Transferable skills, those skills that can be utilized in numerous fields, are the key to a successful career change. Consider your qualifications to date. What experience have you acquired that can be transferred across industries? When you link your skills with your personal qualities you will have a winning package that ensures your career change goes smoothly. Most people don't realise that up to 80% of ALL job skills are transferable.
Know Where You're Going
Career Planning is an important part of your career management process as it involves being totally honest with yourself about where your career is going. You need to ask a number of questions to do with careers planning and once you have them answered, you will be able to outline a career development plan that will guide you throughout your career.
Practise Talking About Yourself
The preparation of some self-marketing, personal “Presentation” statements can give you a real edge when it comes to your turn to talk about yourself. These statements can easily be learned and delivered when you need them.
Your personal describing skills can be developed and some of us are better than others, but many of us can get a little tongue-tied at the time when we need to be at our most eloquent.
A solid framework of personal statements which you have already carefully thought through, means you can respond quickly in any given situation. Personal Marketing Statements.
Write A Resume or CV That Works
To write a resume or CV from scratch when facing a blank page can be very scary, but please don't let that put you off, there are tons of examples and resume tips on this site to help get you started. Basic resume writing is quite easy if you approach it methodically and use the information available to you. Resume Writing.
Learn Cover Letter Writing Skills
Including a cover letter with your resume is not a plus anymore, it's a must.
If your resume catches the eye of the recruiter, your application will be selected to the next step. Now the hiring manager will take a look at your resume cover letter to get a feeling of your personal side and to evaluate your written skills.
If you failed to include a cover letter or included a poorly written one, without any real content, your application will be discarded. Go to Cover Letter Writing for some cover letter examples you can copy.
Prepare Answers To Top Interview Questions
Although interview preparation is everything it's sad to say but perhaps as many as half of all interviewers you’re going to meet will be unprepared or incompetent. It’s not all their fault, it's just lack of interview preparation time or responsibility; some of them will be co-opted at the last minute to meet you and won’t have had time to prepare.
However there are those who just think they’re great interviewers and fly by the seat of their pants!!
It’s not all bad news though; you can turn this to your advantage. You can be better prepared than they are by following a few simple rules. Interview Questions
Learn How To Find Unadvertised Jobs FAST
Lots of people will tell you not to waste your time trying for a new job if there are no advertised jobs; yet I say the opposite and I will teach you to understand why you have even more opportunities to job search in the hidden job market because some people will just give up - but not YOU!
The truth of the matter is that thousands of jobs are being filled every day, people are being hired, all the time without any job being ever advertised! Networking For Jobs

To achieve success in the job search market AND achieve the career change you need will demand:

Energy and determination;
A positive mental attitude;
A clear definition of your target;
A consistent marketing message;
Positive attention to the task;
Excellent communication skills;
Persistence, patience and perspiration (Napoleon Hill);
And Confidence In Yourself

So Job Search Is Easy Then?

If you carefully follow the stages I’ve laid out for you, the success you richly deserve WILL be yours. But that does not mean that you are going to find a new job easily - this economic downturn means that the jobs that are available are not being announced so you owe it to yourself to work on your skills, because other people are lazy and you can leave them behind.

So to shorten the odds in today's difficult job market you can no longer rely on what you thought of as being the right way to find a new job; you need to develop a new approach altogether so you can shorten the odds and you'll feel the difference when you approach each step of your career change more confidently.

Do Things Differently

If you are finding things difficult at present, then YOU HAVE TO DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY!

As the saying goes: "if you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.

Or perhaps even more pointedly: "IF YOU ALWAYS DO WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE DOES, YOU'LL PROBABLY END UP BEING DISAPPOINTED".

The differences that we have created together, however small, in lots of important areas will mean a major and distinct advantage to your success rate.

Attitude Is The Key To Job Search

To some extent we can all have some influence over what happens to us. I don’t mean to say that we can make everything go right all the time, but we can hold an attitude of expecting things to go right. So you must believe you DESERVE to win the new job and know that it is right for you.

If we expect things to go well they’re more likely to.
If we expect things to go badly they probably will.

So even if everything doesn’t go right, with the right attitude, we can get past the things that go wrong so much easier.

Learn The Skills - Shorten The Odds

Because it only takes one slip-up when the competition for new jobs is so fierce, you owe it to yourself to learn the job winning techniques that are proven to work, just as they have for many men and women just like you before.

Self-marketing, or 'selling' yourself; writing cover letters and great resumes / CVs are all skills that most people could do better with the right information. When it comes to interview skills, too many people are prepared to 'fly by the seat of their pants'. Don't let yourself down and leave it to chance like that, GO NOW and get the latest and most complete career change information and you'll feel the difference when you approach each step of your career change more confidently - knowing you have what it takes!

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