6 Clever Ways to Improve Your Job Search Tactics

Since the job marketer continues to get tougher, jobseekers need to evolve. Unless you really focus your energies in the right direction, you can never expect to achieve success with your career. You need to be smarter than ever, smart enough to beat out the competition. You need to use a well-planned job search strategy so that you can grab a job opportunity before anyone else does. If you think you’re not smart enough, this article is just for you.
Given below are a couple of very valuable tips that you can follow to become a smarter jobseeker than anyone else.

#1. Build Your Brand

The very first thing that you need to focus on is start building your professional brand right away. The world has now become a global village, where it only takes a couple of minutes to connect with employers, hiring managers and recruiting agencies. While spending time online (on popular social networking platforms), you need to project a unique professional image. Unless you build your own unique brand, you won’t be able to stand out.

#2. Don’t Waste Time

If you are unemployed, every single minute is valuable. In desperation to get a new job quickly, you can easily waste your time on things which are not important or won’t bring your any result. If you continue to apply to every job that you come across, you’re wasting your time. If you’re networking blindly, you’re wasting time. Likewise, there are multiple job search time wasters that you need to avoid.

#3. Get Active on LinkedIn

You’re never a smart jobseeker, if employers can’t find you on LinkedIn. Even after you’ve submitted your resume to an employer, they might just go and check out your profile on LinkedIn. Don’t just create your account on this professional network, but be more active to connect with influential people, industry experts and potential employers.

#4. Have a Flawless Resume

Yes, your job resume should be completely free of errors. Don’t hesitate to have someone from outside critique your resume. Usually, people become blind to their own mistakes. If you want to create an eye-catching resume, you should always get it reviewed from multiple people who you trust. If you can’t do it on your own, it’s also advisable to work with a resume writing service.

#5. Be a Good Researcher

Research is not just an extremely essential aspect of business, it plays a vital role even when it comes to searching for jobs. Whether it’s about exploring different career possibilities or knowing the details of potential employers, you need to do a good amount of research to achieve success.

#6. Use Relationships

Using relationships in the right way can instantly boost your job search. If you want to evolve as a jobseeker, you should always remember to expand your relationships or network of contacts. When someone else introduces you to a recruiting company, you’re already one step ahead of the competition.

So, are you ready to be a smart jobseeker? Use the above mentioned tips and see where it takes you. In fact, you’ll be surprised by the results you’ll get. Happy job searching!

Resource: The Undercover Recruiter

How Social Media Has Changed Recruitment

Social Media and Social Networking has changed the way that we as users look at employment but also the way that recruitment agencies and companies look at recruiting new talent. These days if a company is contemplating taking you or anyone else on, they look at different factors of social networking.

Previously you would hear about jobs through word of mouth, through job centers and through a couple of other channels but these days, so much is done through the Internet it has truly changed the way that recruitment agencies find roles and positions. The Internet has made companies find it easier to find that missing link, the missing piece to the puzzle.

Visualize your LinkedIn network with InMaps

If you’re a LinkedIn user, you already know the power of your professional network.

What if you could visualize what your network looks like? Would your connections form clusters or groups? Wouldn’t it be great if you could see the way all your connections are related to each other? Even be able to identify the elusive hubs between your professional worlds?

Now, you can! This week, a new LinkedIn Labs product, called InMaps is introduces. More after the jump.

The top 5 UK recruitment groups on LinkedIn

With the UK recruitment sector showing signs of recovery there’s never been a better time to mingle. Sharing thoughts with peers is both invigorating and educational, all the while adding important values to your personal brand.

Many recruiters view LinkedIn as an enormous job board or talent pool, which, arguably, it is. However, to me this belies the premise on which the social media platform was designed in the first place – to help and encourage professionals to make tangible, valuable, contacts; building important business networks along the way.

In our evolving industry we should each be looking at ways to extend not just what but who we know – an age-old adage that should particularly resonate.

For recruiters LinkedIn should be viewed as more than a talent-attraction channel. It’s a chance to accentuate both the personal and company brand. In each of these groups you have the opportunity to do just that.

Get involved…!