March 28th, 2009 by Damian Papworth

In some recent articles, I have broken down the job finding process into its logical components and detailed them individually. With this article I intend on building on those articles by offering tips which will speed up the process for you, looking at job hunting as an entire process.

1. Keep Up To Date With Your Industry – Always

You need to be aware of the conditions in your industry all the time. You should know what is going on, who is hiring, who is firing, where the opportunities are when you have a job as well as when you are looking. Market awareness should be a part of your professional approach to your career. Waiting until you need a job to look into this could cost you months and missed opportunities. So don’t wait till then, get up to date now.

2. Keep your resume up to date

Find a template or layout that you are comfortable with and maintain it. Update it twice a year at least. It will save you the mad scramble to put it together and possibly a lost opportunity because you were unprepared.

3. Recognise Networking Opportunities Every Day

Basically everything you do while you are at work and when you spend time with work people outside work hours, should be seen as a networking exercise. Make an effort to remember everyone you meet in your professional circles. Grease the wheels here. Getting this right will really help you with point 1 above also.

4. Always Go To That Interview – Even When You Aren’t Interested.

Successful interviewing requires touch and it takes mistakes to get that touch. It is a skill you can only learn through practise. You don’t want to learn these skills when you are being interviewed for your perfect job, you want to make your mistakes with jobs you don’t really care for. So go to every interview you are offered, for no reason other than the practise. If you get offered a job you do not really want, have the courage to decline it.

5. Diarise All Your Experiences

Note what you did well with each job opportunity. What worked, what didn’t, improvements you could make, elements you can get rid of. Then, when you next go through an employment opportunity situation, revisit your notes, duplicate the good things and improve the bad things. Recognise the process as having a learning curve, and learn.

6. If You Are Out Of Work, You Still Have A Full Time Job

Your Job Hunt is your full time job now. Get out of bed at the same time you would if you were working in your given field. This will put your time clock in sync with your interviewers. Spend the same hours working on your job hunt as you would in the job. Be disciplined.

7. Maintain Your Focus

You know what type of job you are looking for, don’t be distracted by other offers or ideas. Keep your eyes firmly set on the task at hand and the job you are seeking.

Its never easy to find, win and accept the right job for the next stage of your career. I hope these tips help though. Good luck.

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March 8th, 2009 by Graham Williams

Although we have all heard about home based business scams, credulity still remains an issue as many people can’t believe it could happen to them. There are as many scams as there are ideas and opportunities to make money at home and most of the dangers lurk on the Internet. Here are a few things that should and make you avoid scams and scammers when working online.

First of all, you should start by never believing those who claim that the home based business solutions they have for you generate hundreds if not thousands of dollars every week. Plus, plenty of sites claim that no experience is necessary and the work time is minimum. However, none of these sites will actually tell you what you need to do in order to make the money, further details are available only if you pay a fee or if you make call at a provided phone number.

Yes, a home based business can generate lots of money but it takes time and plenty of hard work to invest in the activity. You are being lied to your face by those who deny the need of experience, therefore, do not rush for easy-made money as only winning at the lottery and or getting an inheritance bring unexpected wealth. Yet, scammers will tell you lots of other lies too. At a close look at the sites that advertise for wonder home based business solutions, you’ll see lots of capitalized words testimonials and other stuff from people who really made it!

The success stories are often improvised and serve for the not so subtle manipulation of the reader’s conscious or subconscious desire to get wealthy. Lots of marketing techniques are put together into the design of such web sites that fool you into believing in the land of fortune and claim to have all the tricks up their sleeve for the management of a home based business. This is an advertising scam meant to confuse the naive searcher and make him/her pay for a package, download option or some other minor service that will reveal its marketing power.

The most basic of advantages you get after paying a scam tax is just a list of companies that may collaborate with home workers. Two more types of messages that should warn you there is something wrong with an offer are related to the negative feeling you get because of not answering the invitation. With such a scam you can come to believe that you may lose the chance of your life if you don’t pay the $15 fee that stands between you and success.

Or in the least aggressive of cases you are invited by a friend, colleague or relative to a reunion where you’ll be offered the chance to enter a great business by purchasing a product and promoting it further on.

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