People can search for job information {job search} using steps. Study industries, trends, futures, companies, locations, cultures/styles, and sizes. Research trends in your profession or job type and review needed competencies.
review
Review your employment and personal history and list likes, dislikes, achievements, reasons for leaving, skills/knowledge/roles, and current situation as to age, family, monetary needs, and location. Consider your personal interests, motivations, preferences, characteristics, and values. Preferences are location, work schedule, income, and lifestyle. List everything you like to do. Think about your life over next five years and what you want to achieve by then.
writing
Write job objective. Write positioning statement. Write exit statement. Write accomplishment statements and stories. Write resumé and post it on secure sites. Write cover letter. Write followup letter. Define target market. Define target list. Write marketing plan. Practice interview.
actions
Use Internet and other resources to find jobs. Study target-list companies. Contact people at target companies and at job advertisements. Network with friends, colleagues, neighbors, association members, and so on. Record all contacts: date, contact type, name, title, organization, address, work telephone, home telephone, cell telephone, email, URI, other people suggested, company information, and date and nature of planned next contact. Contact type is letter, phone, email, lunch, conversation, or interview. Try to reach managers that are actually hiring. Interview human resources, workers, managers, and hiring managers. Negotiate salary and benefits. Begin properly at new job.
People can have interest and knowledge in economic sector {target market}.
industries
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes identify industries. List industries, which need you, in which you want to work. Learn about possible new technologies or methods.
characteristics
List locations at which you want to work. Write company size, by revenue or employees. State organization style or culture: startup or established, project or department oriented, ethnic diversity, gender diversity, practical jokes or witty humor, formal or informal dress, many or few management layers, formal or informal authority, and mistake tolerance.
jobs
Estimate number of available jobs in target market. Expand market to more related market segments, wider geographic region, or different company sizes and cultures. You need at least ten job applications per month. If there are more than 50 each month, tighten market to limit company number. Consider commute, relocation, objective, company size, and company type.
Companies {target companies} belong to industries, which produce and use specific goods and services. Companies have needs, goals, and problems. Companies have methods to meet needs, reach goals, and solve problems.
methods
Companies have different operation methods relative to customers and staff. Companies can be hard driving and competitive or easy-going and cooperative. Companies have good will with the public. Companies have important people, who have personalities.
jobs
Companies have available and desirable jobs. Jobs at company meet needs, help reach goals, or solve problems. People that work at company have ability to do those jobs, understand jobs, have ideas about how companies function, and have experience in that industry, company type, and job type. Jobs have turnover rate and morale level.
factors
Companies have organizational hierarchy, with politics and problems. Companies are in desirable and undesirable areas. Companies have subsidiaries and/or control other companies.
information
Visiting and talking to people, by introduction or appointment, can obtain information. Libraries, newspapers, and books have information.
Converse {networking}| with people about targets, industries, and jobs more than 20 times each week until you get job. You typically must talk with more than 100 people to get job. Talk with co-workers, supervisors, subordinates, customers, suppliers, association members, team members, project members, friends, and neighbors. Use letters, resumes, emails, and faxes.
Join industry or professional association. Participate in project or committee.
Check back with mentors and teachers.
Add 10 or more people to contact list each week.
Initial contact can start with people whom you know will return call.
Follow up contacts, every two to four weeks.
Cold call and mail directly to company contacts unreachable otherwise.
networking online
Email contact source, possible shared interest, job objective, and positioning statement. Identify yourself. Use respectable email address.
Companies have people {contact person} to whom to talk.
Meet for 30 minutes. Talk about who referred you and relationship and meeting purpose, to discuss industry in location.
Use your job objective, positioning statement, and exit statement. Show marketing plan and targets. Ask for information about people, needs, and finances for targets. Obtain referral name, organization, and title, especially for people in target. Help contact with your own information and referrals. Thank contact.
Follow with letter or email, every two to four weeks.
Inform people that you have contacted their referrals.
Meet with referrals as soon as possible.
initial contact example
Hello M. I was just calling to see how you are doing. I hope everything is going good for you! and your family, too! Let me know if I can help you with anything. If you know of possible jobs for me, I appreciate hearing about them. I will give you commission! I am looking for tech writing jobs in companies that depend on biology or science. Maybe I can earn two salaries at once! Talk to you soon!
Have decision date and meet it {closing the job offer}. Have a written offer or confirmation letter {registered letter}. Do not resign yet. Make sure all references have been checked, all drug and medical tests done, and all clearances received. Do not announce job until final. Search jobs until final.
Negotiate after offer {negotiating}. Always give yourself time to have a written offer and prepare a written response. You can negotiate salary, commission, profit sharing, job description, start date, vacations, holidays, authority, budgeting, support, reporting, relocation, insurance, pension, 401K, contract, memberships, stock, expenses, car, discounts, tuition/fees, dining privileges, travel, housing, services, and bonuses. Insurance can be medical, dental, eye, life, disability, and accident. First, negotiate money, then benefits. Negotiate first the present, then the future.
Follow up after starting new job {starting at new job}.
Notify all contacts that you have new job and thank them. Notify other companies, if necessary. Keep contact with many people. Review your job announcement so you can present yourself well: state your goals, address controversies, state relevant or prestigious background, avoid negatives, and stay energetic and enthusiastic.
List questions for supervisor and subordinates, to know problems and expectations. Start to network with co-workers, based on company and industry knowledge. Support others and ask questions. Learn culture, style, and methods: deference to leader or no single leader, argument or consensus, interruption or leave alone, cliques or open groups, competition or collaboration, joking and wit or serious, boastful or modest.
Plan your development. Score with early successful projects and plan for longer-term projects.
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