JOB SEARCH AND EMPLOYMENT:Planning Your Career

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Lesson 33

JOB SEARCH AND EMPLOYMENT

The Job Search Communication

Understanding Today's Changing Workplace

Numerous Forces are Changing

Work place is today influence by numerous forces such as globalization, advancing technology

information overload grown diversity team based organizations certain other issue such as corporate

downsizing and cost-cutting initiatives growing dependency on flexible employment techniques such as

outsourcing and increasing entrepreneurism.

How Changing workplace affect Job

Employment is more flexible no lifelong employees temporary worker & consultant on a project

by project basis. If we conduct survey few people intend to hold the save job for 5 yr self-employment is

attractive to more faremore worker.

Hiring Practices

What Today's Employer Seek in job Applicants

· Employer Seek Who

Can adopt to new situation

Are unafraid to change

Continue to learn on the job

Are sensitive to cultural differences

Planning Your Career

· Before selling a product know what that product is all about

Setting realistic objectives

· You one not expecting to be managing a major corporation or earning 100,000/- Rs. similarly not

expecting to do some petty job this is a phase of self-assessment process.

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Know your Major Strengths and weaknesses

What you have done at school.

· Good with number.

· Get along with people

· Gaps in work history

· In experience

· Over-qualification

· Long term employment with one company

· Job termination

Establish some goals

· Long & short term goals.

· Picture yourself as a successful person

Envision the ideal day at work

· Talk to people your envisioned profession

· Read out various occupation

Determine your specific compensation you expect

Envision size of company & location

How can you make yourself more valuable to employers

· Keep an employment portfolio

· Collect anything that shows your ability to perform

· Take interim assignment

· Temporary or freelance work

· Work on polishing and upgrading your skill

· Firm networks of professional colleague & friends to be kept up with occupation & industry

Narrow Down the Field

Let's look at the functional areas of business and their activities as first step in narrowing the field

Finances

Investment bank, commercial banks savings and loans corporation and brokerage houses

Accounting

Public account firms or work as controllers or financial planners jobs range from financial records

or balance sheets to monitoring business plans.

Marketing & Sales

You want to go for a company that

Sell Consumer product industrial product, high-technology

Human relations / personnel communication

Management Information Systems.

Organizing your Approach

· Organize your Approach to the Employment Process

· Find out where the job opportunities are

· Which industries are string

· Which part of the country are booming

Stay abreast of Business and Financial News

· Major newspaper

· Trade magazine (print or line edition)

Subscribe to a major newspaper

Scan business page/watch television

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Research Specific Companies

Make a list of desirable employers identify a promising industry

Learn about Organization

Find out if a company maintain website

You'll find information about org's mission, products annual report employee benefits;

Respond to Job Opening

Send resumes quickly and cheaply through e-mail and send focused cover letters directly to

executives doing the hiring

Find Career Counseling

College placement offer individual counseling on campus interview job history

Analyze your Purpose & Audience

· Study your purpose and your audience to tailor your message for maximum effect.

· Gather relevant information about you and the employer your are targeting.

· Establish a good relationship by highlighting those skills and qualifications that match each

employer.

Writing Resumes & Application Letters

Preparing Resumes

Send your messages such as resumes, application letters, job inquiries, and follow-up letter.

Sending out such employment messages, you have an opportunity to showcase your

communication skills skills valued highly by the majority of employers. In fact, your success in

finding a job will depend on how carefully you plan, write, and complete your resume.

Analyze your purpose and audience

A resume is a structured, written summary of a person's education, employment background,

and job qualifications. Resume is a form of advertising. It is intended to stimulate an employer's

interest in your.

A successful resume inspires a prospective employer to invite you to interview with the

company. Thus, your purpose to create interest not to tell readers everything about you. In fact, it

may be best to only hint at some things.

Fact

Fallacy

A resume will kindle employer interest and

Don't think of a resume is to list all your

skills and abilities

generate an interview

Get you the job you want

Get you in the door

In fact your resume probably has less than

Read carefully and thoroughly by an

interested employer

45 seconds to make an impression.

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Investigate pertinent information

Include pertinent personal history. The specific dates, duties, and accomplishments of any previous jobs

you've held. Collect every piece of relevant educational experience that adds to your qualifications, such as

formal degrees, skills, certificates, academic awards, or scholarships.

Information about personal endeavors: dates of your membership in an association, offices you may

have held in a club or professional organization? Presentations you might have given to a community group.

Adapt your resume to your Audience

Because your resume will have little time to make an impression, be sure to adopt a "you" attitude and think

about your resume from the employers perspective. Ask yourself: What key qualifications will this employer

be looking for? Which of these qualifications are your greatest strengths? What quality would set you

apart from other candidates in the eyes of a potential employer. What are three or four of your

greatest accomplishments, and what resulted from these accomplishments?

A Good Resume

A good resume is a flexible and can be customized for various situations and employers.

Seven Qualities that Employer Seek

1. think in term of result

2. know how to get things done

3. are well rounded,

4. show signs of progress

5. have personal standards of excellence

6. are flexible and willing to try new things

7. possess strong communication skills.

A good resume is a flexible and can be customized for various situations and employers.

Seven Qualities that Employer Seek

1. think in term of result

2. know how to get things done

3. are well rounded,

4. show signs of progress

5. have personal standards of excellence

6. are flexible and willing to try new things

7. possess strong communication skills.

Appropriate Organizational Approach

To focus attention on your strongest points, adopt the appropriate organizational approach make

your resume chronological, functional, or a combination of the two. The "right" choice depends on your

background and your goals.

The Chronological Resume

In a chronological resume, the work-experience section dominates, immediately after the name and address

and the objective. You develop this section by listing your jobs sequentially in reverse order, beginning with

the most recent position and working backward toward earlier jobs. Under each listing, describe your

responsibility and accomplishments, giving the most space to the most recent positions. If you're just

graduating from college, you can vary this chronological approach by putting your educational qualifications

before your experience, thereby focusing attention on your academic credentials.

The chorological approach is the most common way to organize a resume, and many employers prefer it.

This approach has three key advantages:

(1) Employers are familiar with it & can easily find information

(2) it highlights growth and career progression

(3) it highlights employment continuity and stability

The chronological approach is especially appropriate if you have a strong employment history and

are aiming for a job that builds on your current career path.

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