Career Change Tip: Breaking Into a New Industry

When you want to break into a new industry, perhaps after doing some study or as a result of recognizing your true career goals, you need to be strategic about the way that you make yourself known.

Here are a few tips to help you target your networking and to make good contacts within the industry whilst finding out about the industry from an insider's perspective.

Targeted networking


Join LinkedIn and set up your profile if you haven't already done so
Join the professional level of LinkedIn, inexpensive and definitely worth the money for the connections it can give you.
Join a few groups directly related to your professional interests and start making some pertinent comments within the group so they know you are there.
Read the profiles of organisations that you think you might be interested in working for (through Google or direct to specific websites) then on LinkedIn look for high level execs or HR people from these organisations and contact them directly to ?see if you can have a chat with them.
Buy a few business magazines and professional journals and use these for additional research, profiles etc.

Informational interviewing


Contact people respectfully and appropriately through LinkedIn, journals or through anyone you know (friends of friends etc) who work within the industry or companies that interest you. ?I emphasize "respectfully and appropriately".
Don't approach them with the intention of applying for a job, but rather with the attitude of asking to talk to them about the reality of their industry and their advice about getting the sort of work that you are considering.? Make it very clear to them that you aren't looking for a job just seeking their expertise and opinion about breaking into the industry, so do it before you are seriously job-hunting.? Don't expect to get more than 15 minutes of their time.
Have a few really good questions ready, but not too many because they won't be happy if you take up too much time.
End on a really positive note and send them a note or an email to say thanks for their time.

Let me know how you go. ?I'd love to hear about your successes through targeted networking and informational interviewing.

http://JenniProctor.com Jenni Proctor is a career consultant based in Brisbane Queensland Australia. Through her Career Counselling business http://CareerClarity.com.au she specializes in mature aged career change. Many clients recognised online business as being a portable business model that could develop into an income stream to enhance their retirement savings. In response, Jenni now offers internet business coaching as part of her services to her clients.

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The Real Difference Between Job Hunting and Job Search

Any active job seeker will find that these terms are used interchangeably in articles, blogs and other literature. There is in practice a fundamental and distinct difference.It is important to embark on both a structured and a more flexible approach to job hunting to secure a new role successfully.

In a recent study, a group of executives were studied prior to making a presentation. By observing these executives at an evening party, prior to making their presentations the following day, researchers were able to correctly predict the winning presentation, just by observing and listening to the way these executives. Their language, the way they talked and listened were all valuable clues about the level of the effective interaction and communication skills.

Job search can be defined as the systematic and structured process of searching for a new role, as a result of outplacement or the desire to change roles or careers. Common methods include job search engines, job boards, newspaper ads, recruiters and company web sites.

Job hunting is a more creative, unconventional and non-rational process by using a variety of effective methods to find new employment, but relying more on informal networks and unconventional approaches to find jobs in the hidden market.

Let me share with you one example in my own career of using job hunting effectively to secure good roles. Years ago I decided to immigrate to New Zealand and during my first holiday trip I was talking to my immigration agent. When I mentioned I had a strong interest in technology she suggested I meet with an IT company. After a couple of meetings the company created a new position and offered me this role, which I held for three years. It was never advertised and I was the only applicant. All it required from my side was effective sharing of my skills and connecting with the right company, using effective networking skills.

Since that role, I have also been appointed into two other roles that were never advertised:

(1) As part of my consulting practice I was doing a strategic assignment for a large recruitment company. After the assignment, they mentioned to me that one of their clients was looking for a new head of HR. After a meeting with the MD and another meeting with the Board, I was offered the role and worked seven years for this company.

(2) After being invited to complete a strategic consulting assignment with a listed company that took six months, they asked me to join their executive team. I was known the MD and Board, there was little due diligence required, and again the position was never advertised.

Let me close off with a good example of job hunting. If you have ever been to Africa, one of the things most people on a wildlife safari strive to do is to take pictures of the Big Five (elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo, and leopard). Finding these five animals on an African safari is no mean feat.

How would you go about making sure you get these five animals in your sights? Well, first of all you would want to go to a safari camp that have all these animals in their reserve. Then you would want to get a good tracker and game ranger to help you find these animals. You would need to bring with you a good camera and ensure you are in the right position to take your picture, so that months and years later you can still savour the memories of taking those perfect pictures.

As you embark on your job search, ensure you incorporate a bit of the primitive hunter in your job hunting, using your instinct and gut feel. In today's competitive market, it is really survival of the fittest.

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Job Hunting Tip: What Employers Are Looking For In You

One of the most dramatic changes in the 21st Century job market is in the way employers consider you when they first lay eyes on you.

For example, if you think that it's your resume that will get you a job, you're in for a long, LONG job search!

Or if you're intent on proving yourself based on your work history . . . what you used to do for someone else . . . get ready for disappointment and rejection.

And if your confidence is based on your ability to passively answer all the questions an interviewer throws at you, you already lost.

Today's employers are looking for people with energy. And they pick up on your energy before they even formally meet you. Do you exhibit the energy employers are looking for?

Energetic people exude vigor, enthusiasm and drive. They want and need to be active. Employers can sense this quality in a person almost as soon as they enter the room. They have a spring in their step and a drive that puts a sparkle in their eyes.

All this occurs even before you open your mouth. We know from experience that an employer or interviewer will make a go/no-go decision about you in a matter of seconds all based on the sense of energy you communicate when they first lay eyes on you.

So, if you are not this type of person, it would be wise to practice how to look and act energetically so that you can make a good first impression. It really makes a big difference because job opportunities are literally won or lost depending on how you enter a room.

Being aware of employers' expectations is critical to your job search success. The old-fashioned job hunting techniques focused all the attention on YOU . . . your work history, your past accomplishments, your academic and other credentials, your qualifications, your objectives.

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Career Change - 7 Tips For Survival

What do you do when you are dealing with a career change or shift?

If you have been downsized? Have lost your job due to a company merger? Are feeling misery and complacency in a career lacking in passion?

Then I say, "You are knee deep in shift(TM)" in your career!

Sometimes, we just get "signs" from God, Spirit, The Universe, whatever you want to call it. We know it is time to move on in our career, but we feel stuck. We need the money. We do not have the energy to update our resume and do a job search. We are exhausted already!

When these feelings are very prevalent in your life, it is time for a career change or shift. If you do not take action when you are feeling these feelings, you may suddenly experience a job loss, unexpectedly.

Based on the principles of the Law of Attraction, what you put out comes back to you. Sometimes you may be thinking that you need a break from work and you are fantasizing about leaving your job. If you do not take action to voluntarily do something about it, then the action may just happen to you! That is the Law of Attraction showing up, responding to your thoughts.

What do you do, if all of a sudden, you are hit with a job loss, a company downsize or a blatant firing... or maybe you just decide to walk out and quit?

Here are 7 initial tips to deal with the career change:

Tip 1. Although it is very difficult to do, try really hard not to get into the 'blame game' and become a victim. That puts you into an extremely dis-empowered state.

Tip 2. Do something that you have wanted to do for a long time, that you did not have the time, or did not take the time to do. Something that brings you joy and uplifts your spirit.

Tip 3. While it is important to allow yourself to feel your feelings around what happened, do your best not to wallow in them. Look at the bright side, you have a new journey ahead of you. Even though you may experience a lot of fear and anxiety around your career shift, trust that it happened for a reason, a "higher purpose" is waiting for you. Believe and trust in that!

Tip 4. Write down things in a journal or on a piece of paper that you know you do really well. Take an inventory of some stories in your last job or other jobs of 'how good/talented you were' in certain situations. Focus on your gifts and talents. We all have a few things that we shine at, what are yours?

Tip 5. Do some extreme self-care to help you heal. If you have some extra money, go get a massage or to a spa and get a few treatments. A massage, body wrap or facial can put you into a "heavenly state" and relieve a lot of stress. Spas are not for women, men deserce to be pampered too!

Tip 6. Depending on your financial situation, you can take a real break or you may need to get that resume updated and brush up on your job hunting skills. The book, "What Color is Your Parachute" by Richard Nelson Bolles is a wonderful book you can buy or get at the library, that can provide you with many insights into your next area(s) of career shift.

Tip 7. Hang around people who really care about you. If you are really down, ask them to help you figure out some of your gifts and talents. Sometimes we need to be uplifted by others who look at us with loving eyes vs. listening to our own self-recriminations!

What is most important is to not crawl up in bed, under the covers and wallow in your misery. It is human nature to want to do that, and you may do it for a little while. But, do not allow yourself to do it for very long. It will keep you stuck and not able to move forward. Pull yourself up by the boot straps to get up and get out!

You have special talents and gifts that you were given to bring to the world. If you have not used them at your fullest potential, the time is now. It is time for your career shift to give you the opportunity to shine in your magnificence! Yes, we all embody magnificence. It is up to you to find the gift(s) in your shift and move on to bigger and better things!

Believe you can and you will!

All the best in your career shifts,

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Career Exploration - Career Change Done Right!

Career exploration-career change done right - so let's get started.

You're ready to take the next step in making a career change. Now you have to find the right career for you.

You've looked carefully at you talents and skills. You've listed all of your interests including what you do not want to do as a career. Now you need to find and gather up all the information the careers in which you have an interest.

Critical career information that you need to uncover in your career research includes: job descriptions, experience requirements, educational needs, current salaries, special training requirements and trends with industries and where you might be employed.

More career information is better than having gaps in your research. The information on the proposed careers can at times be overwhelming. You'll be able to make sense of it all by taking it one piece at a time. Keep notes and write out possible questions or additional areas of research.

Search the internet and find a national or better yet a local association based on the proposed career. They should be able to answer your questions concerning the career; also, their website will contain additional career information. Normally these associations have regional and national meetings. It may be productive to attend these meeting and get additional questions answers and to network with those working in your targeted career.

The association will have members in your area. Also, search Linkedin for those working in the career. Make contact with a dozen or so professionals working in the career. Contact them and ask if they would be available for a short, fifteen minutes or so, informational interview. Do some research on how to get the most out of your contact. Write out your questions.

In the informational interview you are not looking for a job but rather you are looking for career information. Ask for referrals on the names of others that may provide you with additional information. It's polite to send a thank you note. Keep your network informed on your progress.

Be aware that career information is rapidly changing. Industries that were important a few years age are morphing into other activities. Are the careers are keeping pace with the exciting changes?

Additional sources of information in your proposed careers can be found on the internet. Articles, videos, and other information are on a variety of web sites. Look at the job announcements in you proposed career. Web sites of employers who employ individuals in the career could be another source of valuable information.

Job and career internet forums are another great source of career information. You can ask questions and review the career related answers. All will give you current career based information. Moreover, industry trends and projects are discussed in these forums.

You may find that a career at your first look or recommendations from others you thought would be a good fit but you now decide to go in a different direction. Thank yourself in finding this out now rather that a year or two into an unsatisfactory career change. Keep looking, keep gathering information, do your due diligence and you will find the right fit.

Stay flexible; to qualify for the right career might require several interim jobs. Your research will outline the path for you.

Overall career knowledge is power. It will point you in the direction of your dream career, give you information to qualify for the wanted position and make the career change on your terms rather than something you cannot control. Happy hunting and exploring.

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All Time Worst Career Change Mistakes

Ultimately I hate writing about mistakes because I always feel like I am the bearer of bad news. I don't like things that insult people or that make them feel bad for doing things that they were sincere about but just went about in the wrong way.

But, the truth is...

We make some really crazy mistakes, especially when it comes to our careers, and for some reason, career changers are the worst offenders.

Maybe it is because they have that anxious, almost desperate quality about them (I can say that because I have been one!). When you make the decision to switch careers, it is a big deal.

(1) You are in a hurry to get out of your current situation. You feel frustrated or fet up or just tired of whatever it is you have been doing.

(2) You've finally figured out what's next for you in life. Maybe you chose your first career to make your parents happy or because it seemed like the most lucrative option when you were 20. And now you have outgrown it. Or maybe you've been extremely successful and are just looking for a new challenge. Either way, now that you have figured it out, you can't wait to get started!

(3) You're getting older, still have bills to pay, and a certain lifestyle to uphold, so you are just anxious to get this thing resolved.

All that excitement and nervous energy is a good thing, but if you aren't careful, it can lead to some costly mistakes. Here are some of the worst ones I have come across when working with career changers:

o Giving Up Too Early. We live in a society that simply cannot wait for anything. We've made up our mind, and it has to happen now! All job seekers want the job search process to go as quickly as possible. It is a painful process at times, and that is definitely an understandable reaction. However, when it comes to career changers, in particular, we need to learn how to wait. A job search for a career changer can take twice as long as one for someone looking in their field. But, again, we don't like to wait. And as soon as things don't seem to go our way as quickly we would like, we quit. I understand, you have mouths to feed, right? Well, that should have been taken into consideration in the first place. There is a cost to pay for going after your dreams. That doesn't mean you don't pursue them, but you must do so understanding the market you are in and the sacrifices it might require.

o Wasting Time with Recruiters. Here is a concept that seems to elude most job seekers. Recruiters are looking for the best, ideal candidate to present to their employers (because that is how the recruiter gets paid). If you are a career changer, that is NOT you. You are just getting your feet wet. You aren't going to have the years of insider experience and the top credentials.

o Submitting a Functional Resume. Without going into too much detail about the functional resume, let me just say that unless you are right out of college, the functional resume is not the tool for you. I could tear my hair out at all the bad advice out there that has many seekers stuck on using a functional resume. They seem to think they can hide things from potential employers this way. The problem, of course, is that potential employers are not stupid. And they like what they like. And they like chronological resumes! Employers want to see what you have been doing, where, in what context, and what achievements you have had. Now this doesn't mean that you can't prepare a profile section at the top of the resume that highlights some of your transferable skills, but at the end of the day, you need to line up your accomplishments with your work experience. And you know what, that's OK. Be proud of your past career and use it to show how it leads to where you are today. That is your best selling feature. Let's face it...a career change is an uphill battle, but it is better to deal with it head on than to hide from it.

By now I think we have pretty much covered the fact that a career changer's job search is likely going to be longer and slower than most candidates' searches. But it is certainly not an impossible task, and it can be extremely rewarding at the end of the day. So don't be afraid to make that change. Just make it with your eyes wide open.

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Job Hunting Strategies

Tips for your Job Search

In the old days, finding a job was easy. All you had to do was get your hands on a flint-tipped spear and skewer a few mastodons and you were considered gainfully employed. The only headhunters were people who were after your skull, and "getting your name out there" meant painting it on a cave wall. As much as we may long for these simple times, the job search of today is a much more complicated and often vicious process. After all, they don't call it job "hunting" for nothing. Today's competitive and fast-paced job market has forced job seekers to develop a variety of techniques in order to stay ahead of the evolutionary curve. The only way to go about your job search is to think as though you're employed in the business of finding yourself a job.

For most people, having a job means that they go to work at a certain time, do their best to finish a certain number of tasks, and leave at a certain time. While the actual amount of time and energy spent varies from employee to employee, the formula remains the same. But when most people look for a job their search often turns into a free-for-all. Many job seekers don't realize that organization and time management pose just as much of a problem for them as it does for the employed. This is especially true for people coming out of college, who may or may not have held a long-term full-time job.

If you think about it in terms of our ancestors, you're not going to bring home any fish if you're not standing in the stream with your spear in hand everyday. In an effort to bring you back to your prehistoric roots. Don't Procrastinate Looking for a job can seem like an impossible task, leading to frustration and disgust. If you find yourself reading every magazine in the house, rearranging the furniture, and sewing new curtains because you're too overwhelmed by your job search, it's time to get a grip and reprioritize. The best way to avoid procrastinating is to set manageable goals for yourself. Don't hesitate to put a padlock on your Nintendo and rid yourself of any distractions that will keep you from focusing on the task at hand: job hunting.

Set Goals for Yourself and Prioritize Them

At the beginning of each day or week, set your goals. Your goals should not be overwhelming ones like "Have a well paying job by the end of the month," but rather a series of smaller goals that will lead to employment. That way, each time you check something off your list it will be a victory.

Possible goals might include finding out the best person to contact about an interview or returning a prospective employer's phone call by the end of the workday. By giving each of these tasks a priority level--low to high--you begin, you can make sure you use your time wisely. The priority level of these goals will change daily, and the smart job seeker learns to roll with the punches in order to complete high-priority tasks.

Plan to Work Regular Hours at Your Job Search

Regular and steady hours when you hunt for work. This doesn't mean that you have to sit hunched over your computer for a full eight hours, but you should be doing things that will move your job hunt forward. Sample tasks might include phone calls to get the proper spelling of the names of hiring managers; drafting a cover letter; researching a company; networking with a neighbor over coffee; and training yourself on a computer program that will make you more hirable. When you do these things doesn't really matter, but make sure at least some of your working hours fall during the business hours of the companies you're contacting.

Make Sure You Have What You Need

If you were out hunting for food, you'd need certain equipment to be successful. You'd have your spear (more effective than bare hands), comfortable moccasins (to protect your feet from thorns), and furry loincloth (because it looks good). Searching for a job is no different.

Set your desk up with office supplies, folders for tracking information, and anything else you might need to work comfortably. If you don't have these things on hand when you begin, you'll spend a lot of time running to the copy shop and office supply store when you should be looking for a job.

Don't Work Yourself into the Ground

Unless your job is working on sleep-deprivation studies, you want to be fresh when you're interviewing and when you start work. If you toil 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at your job search, you're going to burn out. The last thing you want to do is to work so hard trying to get interviews that when you finally enter one, you're only able to communicate through grunts and whistles. Get plenty of rest, drink plenty of fluids, and stay healthy so you don't start your brand-new job on sick leave. This includes making sure you don't get stressed out. Looking for work can be tough, but if you do what you need to do to keep your spirits up, you should be fine.

Get Your Friends and Family to Help

The people you're close to can do more in your job search than bring you pizza and listen to you complain about looking for a job. Depending on their temperaments, your friends and family can help you research companies, conduct mock interviews, and proofread your résumé and cover letters. They are also a great source for networking. And chances are they'll be more than willing to help as long as you're appreciative. Just as a prehistoric hunter would bring meat back to the cave for the whole tribe, promise to take them out on the town as soon as you get your new high-profile, high-paying job.

As you go through this rite of initiation, keep looking forward to the feast. It will get you through the lean times, just as it did for the cave people

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Job Hunting After Age 50: Help For A Stalled Job Search!

Job hunting after age 50, can be a new, unusual and if you allow it; a discouraging experience. It's like you woke up one morning in a foreign country. The roads are different, the transportation and communication system seems to have a language all their own. All very confusing.

Add in the economic and business decline, the falling demand for certain jobs and careers, and the daily birth of new jobs that the title can only be deciphered by those in the know. Add in that many employers who will be playing it safe and hiring the younger less costly job applicant. In the face of all this many job hunters after 50 have given up the job hunt or accepted positions well below their skill and qualification level.

Let's see if we can get your midlife job search back into the game and increase you changes of getting hired into the right job. Here are some useful ideas and actions you can start taking right now:

Build Your Online Presence: Social networking has grown tremendously in the past several years. One of the first things hiring managers and recruiters do after receiving your resume is to search LinkedIn and Facebook to review your online presence. If nothing shows up, it's more than likely your resume will be moved to the bottom of the stack, never to be heard from again.

At a minimum you must have a profile on LinkedIn and Facebook. Study the profiles of others; search their archives and the internet for articles on how to write a compelling profile. Concentrate on writing a profile that differentiates you from others in your field. Why should someone want to talk to you? Post a professional picture and you'll be well on your way.

Build your connections on LinkedIn, and have personal recommendations written by others and posted to your profile.

Start a blog about an aspect of your career, your jobs or the industry you've worked in. Make frequent posts and write articles and post them to article directories. Search for other blogs in your field and make appropriate comments. All this activity will help establish your authority in your career field, and when the recruiter Googles you name a whole list of positive information will show up.

Accomplishments Sell Skills: Recruiters and hiring managers are trying to find someone who can solve their problems. They really don't care that you've had 25 years experience in a series of jobs or are over age 50. It's accomplishments they're after. And that's what you have to give them.

You understand return on investment (ROI). Sell the prospective employer on how you saved money, made money, improved something, did something faster and less expensive or otherwise created a benefit for your previous employer.

Focus your resume's list of accomplishments on the needs of the employer. For example, if the employer's number one requirement is cost cutting your first listed accomplishment may be, "developed plan to consolidate functions and cut costs resulting in an annual savings of over $210,000 with increased customer satisfaction."

If you clearly demonstrate you can make or save money for your employer the hiring manager will see how you can bring value to the job. Your achievements will overcome age as the employer can see how you will help the bottom line.

Now Transform Your Resume: Get rid of the dates on your resume. Going back 10-15 years, remove older work history. If you need to include older work history put it in a section called, "Other Professional Experience."

Take out the educations dates and the dates you may have taken other professional courses.

Write your accomplishments to closely reflect the needs of the specific employer. This means that each job submission will require an original resume. Once you have developed a body of accomplishments it will become a cut-and-paste exercise.

To further show you are up-to-date; add a section to your resume on "professional education." Over the past three to five years list all additional education that specifically relates to the job requirements. Self-study, seminars, workshops, conferences and in-house training are all fair game for your list. This will further show to the employer that you are up-to-date on the latest in your field.

Control What You Can Control: Age bias when hiring is a fact with some employers. Your years of relevant experience could be valuable to any employer. You don't have to apologize for your age or your years of experience. Be positive and sell benefits and age will fade into the background.

Another area you can control is your overall attitude. Keep up-beat, associate with others with the same mind-set, read and listen to motivational books. It's been proven that positive, can-do job hunters get quicker and more satisfying results from their job search.

If you concentrate on what you can control, remain positive and sell the benefits you have to offer, your stalled job hunt after 50 will get back on track.

John Groth has changed careers seven times during his working life. Learn more about changing careers and job hunting after age 50 at http://careersafter50.com. Discover how others over age 50, built winning career plans and found the right careers by successful job hunting after 50.

5 Tips For Using the Internet For Making a Mid Life Career Change

The Internet can be an invaluable asset to somebody looking to make a mid life career change - if you know how to use it to your advantage. Whether you're looking for attorney jobs or nonprofit jobs, almost anyone can utilize the web to find the job of their dreams. To help you get started, here are five tips for using the Internet for job placement:

1. Google yourself. These days, almost every employer uses Google before making a final hiring decision. What does Google say about you? You want search engines to find nothing but positive things about you - not a newspaper article about an old DUI or bankruptcy. This is especially important for people looking for high profile positions, like attorney jobs.

2. Update your resume. Before you can get started on the path to a mid life career change, you need to have a career change resume. Update yours to include information specific to the type of job you want. For example, if you want to work for a nonprofit, highlight any volunteer work you've done for past organizations.

3. Post your resume online. The more websites you maintain a presence on, the more people will come across your resume. Try Monster, CareerBuilder, Yahoo! Hot Jobs, anything and everything. Go beyond just posting your new career change resume on these websites - use them to actively search out the type of job that you're looking for. You've got nothing to lose by putting yourself out there, and everything to gain.

4. Network your way to the job you want. Websites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter aren't just for kids. Your future employer is probably on these sites, too - and you could be missing out on opportunities by not having a presence there. Have a specific company that you want to work for? Follow them on Twitter, and you'll be the first to know when they're hiring.

5. Don't give up if you get frustrated. Getting the hang of using the Internet for job placement can be challenging if you've never done it before. Don't give up! Eventually, you'll become an Internet job hunting expert...but it takes time. Sooner or later, your dream employer will find you!

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Bruce Blackwell, President, Career Strategies International, has two decades of corporate marketing and management experience. His company Career Strategies International specializes in Attorney Career Change and Career Change Attorney.

Job Hunting Online - Some Good Reasons To Post Your Resume Online

Online job hunting and career hunting websites have been increasing over the years. Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com are two websites that are very popular even today. One nice thing about these websites is that you can look through a huge number of jobs ranging from hundred to over thousand and also look for them near your locality.

Many of these job hunting and career hunting sites will let you look for jobs around the place you live. This can easily be done with a little help form your side. Your zip code and how much distance you are willing to travel is all you will need to enter. You can also change settings in such a way that you can choose what kind of a job you want to take up and also jobs that are related to a certain industry. You can also look through these websites without having to create an account most of the times. However, if you want to apply for any sort of job you will need to register here. Many of the job hunting and career hunting websites are free to use most of the times.

When you do apply for a job online through these websites, the process of the application will depend on the questions of the site. A small from will need to be filled sometimes. A little information from you and also job experiences will be asked. A resume will also need to be attached. Many of the sites do however let you create your resumes then and there on the site itself. It is very necessary that you attach a resume as it will give more job opportunities to you.

Many of the sites let your resume be looked upon by employers who are looking for people. This also helps you in an extra way as you will not need to run around and search as the site itself helps you get a job. All you need to do is simply upload your resume. Most of these websites will make your resume be seen only by employers and hence you may get more job offers. You do not need to worry as they will not go into the wrong hands.

With hardly any work on you, you can be sure to get a job by simply uploading your website and making it available to the employers. The employers also do find this method convenient as they do not have to go through the trouble of searching the one million resumes that are posted. You never do know who is going to give you a job and what sort of a job you will be getting at the end of the day.

Most of these job hunting and career hunting websites do allow you to make use of their services with no charge form their side. You can also upload your resume by paying nothing. You may therefore do this as you have nothing to lose but a lot to gain at the same time.

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