Career Search
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7 Tips For a Successful Career Search

If you know the industry or field you want to work in, doing a career search for your ultimate dream career can be quite fun. Usually this will depend quite a lot on your skill sets or qualifications... The internet is the most important career search tool to use and email the fastest mode of submitting resumes.

You can search by industry...

 For instance, if you know you want to work at an airport... you just need to find all the companies affiliated with the airports in your city or work location, usually a search on the internet will turn this up... then you can check the websites for job postings, or send all the HR managers of these companies an unsolicited resume outlining how you could come in useful to their line of work.

You could also refine your search by Location...

For instance if you know that you want to work in New York in the hoteling industry... You just need to find all the hotels in New York city, pick the ones you prefer to work in , check their websites for job postings or just send an email to their hr managers.

Other Places to search are...

Job boards or various job sites, online classifieds, government HR job listing sites, individual websites of companies. You can find these easily, by making a search on the internet.

7 Tips for a Successful Career Search

1. Google.com is one of the best search engines for a career or job search. It's 'search within results' feature located at the bottom of the search results is excellent.

2. When searching on the internet, do searches for both the words 'careers' and 'Jobs' independently. They usually unearth a whole lot of different websites.

3. First check each company website for job listings, these are usually listed on the 'careers' page or sometimes the link may be on the 'about us' page. Even if you don't find anything interesting send your email resume to the HR manager. A lot of jobs remain unadvertised.

4. Remember to customize your cover letter and resume specific to each company requirements. Try to highlight the ways you could serve the company's interest. Remember the hiring powers are only interested in what you can do for them and not in your extensive qualifications or achievements.

5. If you send your resume as a word attachment, your email will not get opened 99% of the time for fear  of viruses. So always send an 'inline' resume, outlined below your email. Make sure to format it properly for a professional look.

6. The body of your email works as the cover letter, so you don't need to send a cover letter for emailed applications. In this case your email needs to be just as polished as your cover letter, so work on it.

7. If you are a high level professional, you could even try approaching (through email) the chief executives or department heads of the department of your interest instead of the HR person. In this case, make sure you have good networking skills, as you could even follow up your email with a phone call to the department head.

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