By: Govy
Online Job Hunting can be very exhausting, there is no assurance that opportunity would come in as expected. Job seekers should take time to research all possible options thoroughly and don’t rely on the information posted from the job site.
The online job search engines provides us possible job but no online post could prepare job seekers would face. The online sites don’t tell what to watch out for and more importantly they can’t tell you what the company is really like because they don’t know.
Another frightening reality is that resumes posted on the Internet are sometimes used for other purposes such as spam mails and even identity theft. Resumes are the greatest way to learn everything you want to know about a person including their address, work history, places of residence and education so this could divulge so much information and it could be very dangerous.
Worse yet, there is the possibility that your current employer (if you’re already employed) may do a quick search and find out that you’re looking for another work which might affect their perspective towards you and this could be very exhausting.
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by: Christine Zafra
Have you ever thought of applying to all the job openings you see on the internet or ads? My advice to you is don’t. Just don’t. If ever you think job application is synonymous to lotto (the more you send, the more you get the chance of acquiring a job), then I’m telling you it’s not. Pick the job that interests you the most and apply for it. If you have been mass-mailing your resume to all the companies you see, then in some point of your job seeking escapade, there will come a time that your interview schedules will conflict and so, you do some rescheduling. If you do this often and the company finds out, you might get blacklisted. So, don’t do it.
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15 February 2008
by: editor
by: Christine Zafra
Grades aren’t everything. For the slackers and the delinquents, don’t applaud me for saying that. Indeed you are required by (some) companies to bring your transcripts with you during your job interviews but then, do not despair if you think your grades aren’t that good. Who cares if you got a failing mark in some of your non-major subjects (subjects that were not really related to your course, but your were required to take it anyway under your degree)? Those grades—they’re all numbers. It doesn’t really mean that if you got a failing mark in physical education, cooking, history and the like, then you’re not going to get a good decent job. Companies nowadays look for people with skills—normally what they call the “people person” and/or those who are motivated to do the tasks given to them.
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15 January 2008
by: editor
by: Christine Zafra
When applying for a job, always know the organizational chart of the company you are applying for by heart. Well, that may be exaggerated but it may come handy when the dreaded letter writing comes. If for example, you’re applying for a job and you encounter this email address: hr_manager@company.com. Since you do not have any idea what gender the human resource manager has, you would probably write a letter with the “Dear Sir/Madam” salutation, or perhaps the most common (yet, most awkward if you are applying for a job!) “To whom it may concern”. It would be best for both the company (since they know that their applicant has done his/her homework) and you (since you are knowledgeable about the nitty gritty details of their company) if you start your letter with the proper salutations. In addition to that, you wouldn’t want your resume to end up in trash, do you?
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