Searching for a job is always stressful. The majority of job seekers experience stress, nervousness, anxiety and tension during their search for a job, regardless of their work experience, their current compensation level or the industry of their choice. There will be many factors at play that are not in their control, such as a bad economy, hiring freezes, unexpected corporate mergers, buyouts, etc. However, it is in your control to learn to navigate through these factors and find your dream job.
Job Search Secrets by Sagarika Verma and Subir Verma is a practical manual for finding jobs. Here are some key takeaways from their book.
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Take the first step and decide what you really want to do. Knowing yourself is an important factor in choosing your career. There are many career options available and knowing yourself will certainly help you choose the right career for the long run.
Here’s what the authors suggest you do.
- Do not follow others, but choose a career in which you will be happy.
- Do not get influenced by career choice of others. You must choose your career based on your education qualification, personal attributes, SWOT (template given below) and interest.
After you have finalised your career options, you must remember these points while selecting a job or a company.
- Know about career options available to you and choose from them after careful consideration.
- There are many career options available that you are not even aware of. Get to know what they are.
- Most of the vacancies in companies are not publicly advertised.
- There are influencers outside the company and key people within who can help you get your desired job.
- Identifying influencers and building relations with them hold the key to your getting your dream job.
Now that you have narrowed down your choices, these tips on how companies recruit candidates will come in handy.
- Know the hiring channels through which a company recruits people.
- Focus on three of the ten channels of hiring to maximize your results.
- Identify external references who can help you in finding your job.
- Identify the internal people at the company where you are looking for a job.
- Keep in mind the points mentioned in the chapter while shortlisting your external and internal references list.
After you’ve researched about the vacancies and recruitment processes, you must know how to best use job portals and job aggregators.
- Focus more on job search aggregators than on job sites.
- Edit and use the ‘Settings’ feature if you are actively searching for a job.
- Treat your profile as your CV and keep it updated.
- Use advanced search features.
- Create job alerts.
These key takeaways from Sagarika Verma and Subir Verma’s Job Search Secrets will help you in building a strong candidature and find your dream job.
