12 things you could do right now to take 60 days off your job search
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12 Things You Could Do, Right Now, to Take 60 Days Off Your Job Search
Ken Lazar Founder, The Scioto Ridge Job Networking Group©, LLCDirector of Business Development, McIntyre Global Executive Search
March 26, 2013
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1. Work Hard.
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. - Lowell Thomas
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2. Focus
No one will remember you if you say “I can do anything.” – Todd Galleher
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3. Develop a long and a short term strategy.
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4. Title your resume.
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5. Trash your functional resume.
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6. Make an appropriate target list of companies.
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7. Perfect your exit speech.
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8. Exhaustively prepare for your interview.
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The indisputable fact of hiring.
All things being equal, people hire people they know, like and trust.
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Ask trust building interview questions.
- What do you like about your job? What else?- How long have you been with the company?- What would you like to be doing in three years?- What significant contribution would you like to make this year?- How can this position help?- Tell me more.
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Personality Matching
- The best interviewees are the ones who have the ability to meet their interviewers at their level.
- “We hire people who are like us.”
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What is the most frequently asked interview question?
Why did you leave your last job?
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9. Spend 75% of your time in face-to-face networking situations.
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10. Age discrimination is a state of mind.
Youth has nothing to do with age.
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11. Get an attitude or lose an attitude.
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12. Include staffing companies in your job search strategy.
Contract employees interview every day. – Bruce Rowles
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