Jobs Search

For a longer period may be frustrating at work, financially painful and confusing.

You can lose perspective. Are you so busy "doing", that you forget to analyze the results and if necessary to make the adjustments.

So how do you measure the success of your search path? A few things strike me based on my own research process history as well as discussions with other job applicants:

1. Do you have astrategy feasible?

In my opinion, success comes when finding a job hard work and preparation meeting with good timing. If you are without a strategy, it is likely that "finding acorns" basis and to provide a result but not good. My advice? The specific objectives for the week includes phone calls, networking events, networking calls, or coffee, etc., and then evaluate at the end of each week.

2. Take Action smartevery day in order to advance the research process?

It 's true that they are not looking for a job 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, you must be active. If you own is sitting at the computer waiting for e-mail alerts to get or scan and a new scan job boards with different keywords, you are not working smart.

3. Get your calls returned?

This is avery important and measurable metrics. The reality of this metric is important. In my experience, is an excellent result in 10 3-4 persons. A pretty good success rate in baseball, but a result very frustrating if you work diligently put out a couple of well-designed communication and only return very little to see. These discussions are recruiting network operators, employees who work on a target company. If you return to the top of all calls - NO - you areobtained is too high (wrong level in a company) or too far away (people who come who are too far away from you relational). I've always 10.2, not bad, but one wonders why these two and see if you drew on your next round of talks, the goal that people can make a better reason / motivation to help.

4. For calls recruiters?

Here I am not talking while you work - that are easy to obtain (we all callPersons who are employed, is not it?). Parliament therefore called for his interest in an open search, while you are unemployed. So if you call what does this mean? It means a few things. First, people for networking and sharing with your name recruiter. They do this because I'm your availability, but, more importantly, are willing to share your name, because they believe in you. Your recruiter calls are not a measuring instrumentOnly a successful research effort, but also a measure of how well you are treated and respected in the network.

5. Six people seem to want someone to talk?

If you have a typical networking event, where everyone is going their elevator speech *, there is always a period of informal networks at the end. Pay attention and you will notice are 7-8 smalls groups of 2-3 people. At the center of each group of four people. They are: the eventOrganizers, speakers, a job, the network has decided for you and for 4 or 5 people that actually had interesting things to say in their speeches lift. Have made him well, showed a confidence and make eye contact with everyone in the room as he spoke. How was your speech? If you are approached to have your speech? Without a dynamic elevator speech, infringe the rest of the crowd lining up at the net with one of the other four people (a difficult start to theseparate).

* (An elevator speech is a presentation of 30-60 seconds that sums up your experience, your area of destination, the geography of the target, the target position, target companies and hopefully some memorable anecdote about your success - to be remembered, it never hurts! Job has a pair of the group as she) makes you valuable to others.

6. For telephone interviews?

Telephone interviews are a measure of your CVAbility to clearly and quickly communicate your credibility and the public company fit the description of the work. If you do not have a phone interview, is likely to be, the demand for all the wrong places (six or under-qualified) or your resume is not strong enough to create an impression. Moreover, disappointing results on telephone interviews are also a reflection of over-written, "tries too hard" cover letter. Get too cute with your cover letter andcan take off in a negative way, immature and unprofessional - the purpose of your resume / cover combo in the trash.

So, to look at the results you get and how people react to you. If they ask you to others or move to find a comfortable ground up ("Hey, the buffet looks good, nice to meet you")? How to compare the results with others in search of work in your network. If all the other interviews and he was responsible for filling out your LinkedIn profile to get to 100%have to do!

Take time once a week to stop "doing", write your results and plan for adjustments to get back on track.

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