find a job

Things to do to find a job

YOUR GOLDEN RULE 1:

I WILL CALL PEOPLE ON THE PHONE

RULE 2:

I UNDERSTAND THAT MOST JOBS ARE NOT ADVERTISED

and therefore I won’t find them advertised on the internet

RULE 3:

I WILL STOP SPENDING THE ENTIRE DAY

SENDING RESUMES TO PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW ME

RULE 4:

MY CONNECTIONS ARE THEEASIEST AND FASTEST WAY TO

FIND A JOB: I HAVE MANYCLASSMATES, FRIENDS, FAMILY, TEACHERS ETC

To simplify, we will assume that The manager recruiting is female

The manager is busy gets too many Emails

reads only the most important onesworks on too many projects and could DO EVEN MOREif you worked in her team

She has little or no time to find you

NOTE:Jobs are not advertised because:

The procedure takes precious timewrite job description, update the advertisement, receive

and read all CV, invite for interviews etc The procedure can be expensive

The manager (from experience) does not believe she will find the right person

The company is not allowed to advertise externallyThe company does not want/know to advertise externally

etc

TO DO ACTIONS:

Call people on the phone Many stop everything they do

to answer the phoneSome are too busy to read every Email

Phone = important

Find the best person to contact in the business:

the manager who may need you in her group

or can help you find the colleagues who need more staff

and their contact details

Send your CV to the technical manager=

the person who is the most interestedto have you work for her

after you called her on the phone

or saw her face to faceor after she heard about you

On the phone ask questions aboutopen projects, skills required

Understand what the manager needs

If you find out that other managers need more staff do not hang up

before you get their contact details

Ask as many questions as neededto understand what the manager needs

The manager doesn’t always know!!but can find out more by talking to you

The notes you take can be used to rewrite your resume, cover email & during the interview

to say the things the manager wants to hear

Look for products that interest youIt’s easier to get a job

when you are truly interested

Research which companies are making this product or providing the service

Find via Internet, magazines, newspapers.

ASK YOURSELF

WHAT DO I LIKE?

Call the business, research on the internetto get the name of the manager

responsible for the product, producing it,designing it or whatever

depending on your expertise

This is the person you should contact

Some teams publish their findings in technical publications that you can find online

with their contact details

If you want to talk to someone in particularthanks to the internet

with the name of the person and businessyou will find a way to talk to her

Online networks can be usefull to find contact details

depending on the country:Linkedin, Xing, etc

Add your profile on Linkedin!

Get yourself nice business cardsYou don’t need many but high quality

A business card reflects who you are

Don’t wait to get a job to have your own

Find your employer at fairs, trade showsIn London: ExCel, Earls Court…

Look for FREE entries to fairs and events on topics that interest you

Don’t lie to yourselfGo where you like

not where you think it looks good to be

There are fairs about EVERYTHING

EVERY INDUSTRY needs staff

Travel, fashion, HR, advertisement, furniture, gaming, toys, books, fitness, pharma, sports, investors, optics, software

etc etc etc

At the fair, talk to peopleAsk questions about their product

Be curiousTake their business cards

Don’t wait for them to call you backThey are too busy!

Even if they could really need you!You have to call them

If you can’t go to the fair, look on the website which companies

were present the previous year

The size of the stand is representative of size of the business

Meet companies from different countries!Great if you want to work abroad

Go to start-up eventsthat are advertised online

(Meetup.com, Linkedin etc)

Read blogs about start-upsGo to co-working spaces

Get in touch with businesses that already have a product

THE DON’T LIST:

Do you believe that if you send an email

someone will read it ?

During your first contactif the person doesn’t know you

and you are unsure who you must approachdon’t say right away that you are

looking for a job

or you will be sent to Human Resources=

GAME OVER (in most cases)

Don’t send your resume to HR without having contacted

a technical manager before

Say that you are looking for a jobis rather passive

Better say that you would like to “work on a product” or “work in finance”

Use vocabulary that reflects ACTIVITY

Don’t go to fairs for studentswhere you meet another 1OOO

who have the same skills

(Unless you plan to talk to a manager for longer than 5 minutes)

Don’t send you CV and wait for something to happen

Nothing will happenYou have to talk to people

Don’t think for hours what you could write in the “cover letter”

After talking to the manager who needs you you will know what to write

A short Email is better

The manager has no time to read long letters

Don’t send your resume without having a clue

what you could do in the business

You have to find out before… talking to people

Please do not ask for a job in a businesswhere you are not interested in the service or the product

The universe is thanking you

Do not speak about things you do not know how to do

Do not speak about your weaknesses

Speak about what you can doThink about what the manager

wants to hear

Do not send a massive amount of resumesday after day

Choose QualityOver Quantity

Do not believe your resume is perfectWe’ve seen too many REALLY BAD ones

FINDING A JOB ABROAD?

You know someone who works abroadcontact her

You know a company next door with a branch in an interesting foreign country, contact the one next to you

Essentially you can use the same method to find a company in your

own country or abroad

Send your resume in English or in the language of the foreign country

Do not say that you want to work for the company to improve your English

(you are interested in the tasks)

Do not say that your English is bad everything is relative

Make sure that whatever you write can be understood by a foreigner

Ask yourself if a foreigner who did not live your life

can understand every line of your resume

REMEMBER

A negative answer does not mean that the company does not want/need youThis is your interpretation

The person you will contact is not = the business

in most cases

REMEMBER

DO WHAT YOU LIKELISTEN TO YOUR HEART

GOOD LUCK!

Alexandra Grandpierre