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You think you know everything you know about a job? Not so fast. There are many myths circulating that people have come to accept as fact. Check out some of the most common myths below, and you get one step closer to scoring a job you'll love.

• Help wanted ads are the best place to look for a job. The first places people look when they want or need a new job is online job boards and newspapersClassifieds. Why? Because it is simple and requires virtually no effort for jobseekers' s part, which is why everyone does it. This is a huge problem in a tight labor market. It can be very good at what you do, but you're better than every 50,000 people on the basis of the same ad that you are? By all means use the help wanted ads as a starting point for the search, but if you stop, you are looking for work for a long, long time. Contact the Career Center at your almamater, contact employment agencies (which is formerly known as "temporary facilities"), and talk with people you know about job leads.

• I have no one to network with.'ve Often network is the most difficult way for job seekers, but can achieve the best results. Nobody wants to feel like a charity case by friends and family members to hook them with a job, but the art of networking is to think it as a relationship-building process on.Go outside of your immediate circle of people talking and all the other parents in your community to your child about your fundraising colleagues in health club goers. Ask them about their careers, their aversion to companies and what they like and about the two. Everyone likes to talk himself, and before you know it, you have established a relationship. Finally, these new friends will be happy to lead to job losses and share contacts.

• There is no need to re a resume. They sentYour application to Company X two years ago, were dispatched to a job which they are interested, so they probably still true they have on file, no? Wrong. Most organizations and over again for one year () on the edge, so clever, if you send a couple of weeks, you re there. By the way, if it's been a while since she saw your resume, you've probably-hopefully!-Broke several services that they should know.

• You can not bring a resume gap. If youcurrently between jobs, you may think that employers send your resume directly to the circular file as soon as they see that gap in work history. Because of this myth, some job seekers try to blur the lines of truth, to conceal it. Not. Especially in today's difficult economy, where thousands of talented people have been reduced in size by no fault of their own, employers are quite willing to accept some out-of-work time as a standard.

• Your resumeYou should demonstrate your mastery over everything in the world of work. Of course, you come out as an expert in your field, but the employer does not care and can not believe that you can design a skyscraper, all noticed one million tax laws and can not perform brain surgery if the need arises. You need to concentrate on a few areas that the task for which you are applying match. If you are an excellent salesman, and have completed an intensive care, you need two Resumesto display tailored to your strengths and the best performance in each area. To make dual-career interesting water-cooler talk, once you are committed, but they are just confusing and unnecessary in your resume.

• Your salary requirements should be as good as nothing. When jobs are hard to come past, it is tempting to say to potential employers that you work for a pittance-heck will you pay to work there. But unless you change careers are completely or just inWorld of work, this is a mistake. It is not unusual for someone to call from the HR and undergo a brief screening before you get to an interview, and part of which usually includes questions about your salary expectations. Give them a number if you do not feel comfortable with an exact number, but be sure you are with a salary somewhere in this area to be satisfied. Companies are not like really given a salary during the screening, and another (higher) salary during the negotiations.

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