how to research your next career and find job opportunities

How to Research Your Next Career and Find Job

Opportunities

1.Be Positive and Always Hopeful

2.Stay Motivated and take Action

3. Create a 1-Page Personal Marketing Plan

4. Improve your Resume to stand out from others

5. Practice job interviewing – your timing,

tone, and delivery

6. Learn how to Network effectively

7. Use LinkedIn as a Networking and Research

Tool

8. Never stop Learning about your Industry and

Expertise

9. Consider relocation or expanding your area

10. Join or start a Job Search Group

11. Pay it Forward - Help others succeed

12. Make yourself a “Smack-in-the-Forehead” obvious fit –

Align with their Needs, Wants, Culture

13. Don’t limit yourself to Online Applications

14. Remember that your Resume and LinkedIn

profile should continue to change

15. Thank everyone - Thank you matters

16. Participate in Professional Development

opportunities

17. Reconnect with your References

18. Professionalize your Online presence

19. Create an Online Portfolio of your best stuff

20. Get going and do something today and

everyday

21. Do some offline, face-to-face networking

22. Know where you want to go and why

23. Narrow your applications to a few

target positions

24. Do your research before you reach out to

the employer

25. Leverage your connections to network

your way into the company before you apply

26. Ask your contact if the company has an employee

referral program

27. Get help from a Coach

28. Create Your Own Templates or Hire Someone to do it

29. Use job search engines

30. Sign up for email and text job alerts

31. Be more than prepared

32. Keep a job search notebook and track your

progress

33. Create a professional job search email address

34. Set big goals

35. Show off your personality, it’s your

brand

36. Look the part

37. Volunteer to connect and contribute

38. Be available and receptive to opportunities

39. Work on your nonverbal, body language

skills

40. Invest in learning technical skills needed

41. Be prepared to take a test, they’re common

42. Practice for the phone interview

43. Schedule a period of planning and organizing

before you search

44. Schedule a downtime for you

45. Celebrate your wins!