This is an educative and informative presentation for the average job seeker having challenges locating his or her dream job.

1. How to Make a Success of Your
Job Search
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2. How to Make a Success of Your
Job Search

3. How to Make a Success of Your
Job Search
Making a success of your job search is hard work. In point of fact it could be the
hardest job in a job hunter’s life. From our story above, it requires innovation and
creativity to make it a reality. It has never been a stroll in the park and it will
never be. As a job seeker therefore, you have to bring a lot of ingenuity into job
hunting to make it effective and result oriented. Since you are also marketing a
product which is you the job seeker, therefore as in marketing it requires
positioning, process, persistence, performance and personality. You also have to
exhibit enough dexterity as a job seeker marketing yourself to prospective
employers. My experience as an HR expert has however shown the following as
those steps you should take to take you from a mere job seeker to a potential
employee.

4. How to Make a Success of Your
Job Search
● Personal Assessment/Audit:
Knowing what you can do or cannot do is important in focusing your career
objectives and consequently making a success of your job hunt. It is important to
know your feelings about work itself. You need to know what your goals are in
one or five year’s time. What are your work preferences, your values, your interest
areas, skills you possess and personal traits. You may also assess your feelings
about working alone or in a group. All these will keep you in a good stead in
determining the kind of career and jobs you should pursue.

5. How to Make a Success of Your
Job Search
● Focusing your job search:
After carrying out a personal audit of yourself and learning about your career
objectives it then becomes necessary to focus your job hunting on specific jobs
that matches your interest, work preferences, passion, traits, skills and values.
You can use job search engines to locate jobs by using keywords that matches
your interests and locations where you prefer to work. Other methods of finding
employment includes listing in newspapers, referrals from databases, professional
magazines, employment agencies, executive search firms, consulting firms,
outsourcing agencies, informal inquiries, mass mailing of resumes etc. Narrowing
of search criteria brings about focus of the job search and consequently provides
more relevant listings to review and less relevant listings to weed out.

6. How to Make a Success of Your
Job Search
● Create enabling profiles on networking websites:
To make a success of your job hunt it is equally essential to create professional
profiles on networking sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Skillpages and VisualCV.
Branding yourself in a professional manner will attract recruiters, employers and
contact thereby portraying you as a candidate worth being interested in. The
benefits of branding yourself on these networking sites can therefore not be
overemphasized.

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Job Search
● Endeavor to search for unadvertised job openings:
It is not all the job openings that are normally advertised. Some job markets are
hidden because recruiters and employers often recruit job seekers that are
recommended to them by colleagues, friends and sometimes associates. I
personally have once been employed through this means. You should therefore
get acquainted with potential employers with a view to having a pre-knowledge of
available jobs before they are advertised by developing your contact network. To
advertise your availability in the job market, you need to get the names of the
professionals in your field. You need to ask faculty, alumni and peers on how to
contact such persons. Also, directories, association listings, professional bodies,
alumni associations, job search clubs and telephone books are veritable source of
such names. To get reliable information about any job listing in any organization
the best person to contact is the supervisor or manager of the position you are
interested in.

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Job Search
● Search for advertised job openings:
This is another step in having an effective job hunt. You can find employment
adverts through newspapers, journals, publications, professional associations,
internet and eRecruiting systems. All these need to be pursued if you really want
to make your job hunt successful and result oriented. Following all these leads
(together with the unadvertised) will increase your chances of uncovering
openings that matches your desires. You should however keep your search
focused and apply for only jobs which you are qualified. Employers only notice
applicants whose skills and experience matches the one they are looking for. If
not your resume and cover letter will be ignored and even discarded.

9. How to Make a Success of Your
Job Search
● Connect with your network of contacts:
Having created profiles on networking sites (like LinkedIn and Facebook for
example) and your off-site networking (with acquaintances, associates,
professional associations and alumni associations) it is now time to connect with
these contacts. Connect with everyone you know. You never can tell which one
may help with your job hunt or connect you with those who can.

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Job Search
● Build a list of probable companies:
To make your job hunt more effective, you will need to build a list of companies
you are likely to work for. Do you have companies you are interested in working
for? You should carry out research on those companies and focus your search on
them. This way your hunt will become more effective. All the information you
might possibly need on prospective companies are online. Therefore you do not
need top stress yourself that much.

11. How to Make a Success of Your
Job Search
Your Resume and Cover Letter need to be targeted:
Endeavor to craft your resume in a professional manner such that it will be a
perfect match with the job on offer. Same with your resume cover letter. This is
the only way your chances of being invited for interview can be enhanced.
Without their being targeted to fit the requirements of the job they will be
ignored.

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Job Search
The Interview:
You should learn as much as possible about the company you are targeting if you
are offered an interview. Prepare adequately before the interview. Prepare with
likely interview questions. Hold mock interviews with your friends to identify
your lapses. Dress appropriately for the interview and be relaxed during the
interview. You should make adequate effort to convince the interviewer with your
skills, abilities and accomplishments with a view to convincing him that you are
the perfect candidate for the position on offer.

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Job Search
● Follow Up:
It is important also to make a follow up on your job search after you might have
attended the interview. You need to thank everyone that might have made your
invitation possible and endeavor to convince them that you are interested in the
job and will be perfect for it if selected.

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Job Search
● Acceptance or Declining of Job Offer:
When an offer for employment has been made you will need to take some time to
think it over whether to accept or decline the offer. Certain factors will have to be
put into consideration in reaching your final decision. These will include growth
possibilities, working conditions, salary and benefits, location, size of
organization, travel, stability of organization, amount and level of work, freedom
on the job, organizational culture and philosophy of the organization.

15. How to Make a Success of Your
Job Search
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