Trish’s Jobsearch Tips

Day two-it’s time to get organized.

· Setup professional email address for your resume- there are plenty of free email account for example gmail, yahoo, aim etc. (don’t use your cute email address for your resume or for potential employers to have to send responses to) use if your name is John Smith jsmith @ or JohnSmith @ or John.Smith @ these are best, so just keep it simple-stay away from the cutsie/sexy etc.

· Power think, make a list of the employers you think you might like to work for. Go find their websites, check their internal jobs boards that are not posted on the commercial boards, setup job alert for this company, or companies.

· Create job search alerts on the various web sites

Career builder
Monster
Yahoo
Dice

· Make a space for your self so you can work on your resume, plan(who), schedule (when), interviews(where)

· Plan ahead for the upcoming week

· Make a schedule try and stick to it-allot your self ample time to surf the web for jobs, check email, fax resumes, print resumes, have phone interviews.

· Brush off that old dusty resume, you need to spell check the resume not once but 3 or 4 times, give it to someone else to review for spelling, grammatical problems etc. Update with your last job duties, write and rewrite-take some time to look at the jobs you are trying to land-change the language to match these jobs (don’t lie) If you did excel spreadsheet reporting don’t tell them you used another program. But if you did advanced formulas be sure to include this, I will get into this in greater detail next week when we get into the do’s and don’t for your resume.

If you have a face book or my space account-Run don’t walk to change the settings to personal friends only or by invitation only. I will walk you through setting up an Linked In or Kickoff business networking sites. I will explain about this further, but please trust me this is the most important thing you can do for your self today. Do your self a huge favor don’t wait do it NOW….

Now I had an interesting day, I sent about half of the resumes I did yesterday but got a few nibbles, no interview but responses to my inquires, so all in all productive day. I am still perfecting my resume and setting up network links.

Spent the morning setting up my PDA with all of my tasks(everything, every detail) and then updating it to the days, time, I even included my personal projects to integrate them so I won’t fall behind on them too. It’s hard to stay on task but if you work at it you will find you get more done, then you did before. I feel like I had a very productive day and made some very important contacts for jobs that will make me happy. Now it becomes a bit of waiting game.

Well I am running behind (Task on starting dinner).
That’s part of the bonus I actually have found I have time to make dinner for my family, Homemade Nachos, better and cheaper than going out for Mexican, besides who can afford to go out. I am unemployed, well between my ideal position.

Will get into the My Space and Face book issues more tomorrow, working on getting some of those interesting articles on this.

Have a nice evening talk to you again tomorrow.

Trish