Tips for Improving Your Job Search - CareerAlley

Tips for Improving Your Job Search - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. There are tons of great ways you can improve your job search experience with little to no effort on your part. Herein you will find a couple great tips that you can put to use today and start seeing better results right away. Be Careful What You Ask For Whatever you hold in your mind as your ideal job will be what you gravitate towards, so be careful what you wish for. Focus your mind on the career you truly want, that would make you the happiest and be the most fulfilling to your life goals. Sure there are tons of sites all over the web like this Government search site that can offer you jobs in every category you could possibly dream of and even more here but you dont want just any job, you want the best job. Hold the thought of your ideal job closely in your mind and you WILL make it happen. Use Tools Wisely There are some great tools out there that can be a true blessing and there are some that can be a total waste of time. Here you will find a couple that we have found to be great tools that will help you be much more effective in your career search. Phone apps such as one of the great Android resume apps or iPhone apps where you can have your resume ready to send professionally packaged right from your phone can really make you look like youre on top of your game. You get a call youre on the road and they dont want to wait for you to get home, no problem, push a button and youre the one they want to hire just so they can find out how you did that. Your own website can also be one of those things that separate you from the pack. Being able to give multiple links to your site pages so they can download your resume, view your bio, see your community involvement and the actual photos of your accomplishments can make you a real person in their eyes. Show them youre a winner people like winners and want to add them to their teams. The Power Of Authority Sure there are lots of job search tips and interview tips out there but none quite like this one. Heres how you become an authority in your chosen job niche and increase your visibility possibly hundreds of times over with very little work on your part. The people hiring and running companies in your industry read and watch videos just like everyone else. So, you simply write articles and make short easy videos giving advice or tips in your niche. 1. The articles dont have to be written with Harvard level abilities just make them interesting by maybe telling a story or giving people really valuable tips they can take away and use. Make them 500 words or longer and make sure the headline would make you want to read the article. If its boring and dry would you read it? No, then neither will they. Have your headline make a big promise of what they will get inside, those types of headlines pull well. Then put a link to your resume online in the author box at the bottom of the article for them to go find you. Now simply submit your article to all of the free article directories online to gain exposure. 2. Next make super short videos of 2 to 5 minutes long using screen capture software that you can get for free or very little cost online. Just Google free screen capture software and you should find several. In this way you wont ever have to appear in the videos yourself, they will just be made with whatever you have on your screen for which power point works rather well. Once your video is ready put it on You Tube with a link back to your resume and youre all set. Dont just write one article and post one video and think youre done. Instead put out at least 10 of each to really kick start your visibility and build authority in your niche. You can do anything you 1st believe you can and finding the perfect job to balance your life is no different. Get going and focus on the above tips, implement them starting today and watch what happens to your job search. Edd Rennolls passion in the HR field is matching up the right personal with the right position like those found at Wrangle.ca He absolutely loves giving people job acquisition tips strategies and providing real value to the HR industry that he loves. This is a Guest post. If you would like to submit a guest post to CareerAlley, please follow these guest post guidelines. Good luck in your search. Joey Trebif