The question of finding a new job worries many. But as my many conversations with job seekers show, only a few have a good arsenal of appropriate methods and tools. Especially among those who have problems in this matter and complain about the unfavorable situation on the labor market, trying to explain their failures.
In fact, in most cases, failures in finding a job are caused by the fact that people know how to look for it. Schools and universities do not teach this. Books on this subject, which have appeared on the shelves in recent years, have been read by few. As a rule, people learn from their own experience and from their own mistakes, without receiving qualified answers and advice. Moreover, sometimes using unskilled advice.
For example, one has to meet with a categorical reluctance to read job advertisements (“Ah, all this is useless, sheer“ network marketing ”!”). Or with the fact that people did not even consider publishing their mini-resume in a newspaper. Or with the fact that, after sending out five to ten resumes, they consider themselves to have done a solid job. Errors and errors all the time!
Today we will very briefly consider the main ways of finding a job. All of them are effective in modern conditions, and everyone needs to know them. But for a specific person in a specific situation, something may be more effective.
So, the main ways:
1. Search through friends and relatives. In Ukraine, about one third of specialists find a job in this way. The method is especially good for those who have a wide network of professional contacts. It is very important to provide those who, in principle, agreed to help, with their resume. Having it, your friend will have specific information to advance your candidacy to a potential employer. Experience shows that one needs to “graze” one's “employment agents”. Otherwise, they will always have more important things to do than help you.
2. Job search through job postings in newspapers. In Kiev newspapers weekly published about 2000 of a variety of vacancies. If you really need to find a new job, buy newspapers, carefully choose all the more or less suitable vacancies, call and send your resumes.
3. Publication of your job search advertisement (mini-resume) in a newspaper. If you doubt that this method works, call those who already published their proposal a week or two ago and take an interest in the results. If a person has reasonable claims, then there are always responses.
4. Appeal to a recruitment agency (employment agency). This method is especially good for highly qualified professionals with experience. It is also a passive option for those who are currently working, but are not averse to changing jobs to higher paying, promising, closer to home, etc. The agency offers vacancies - you choose, what if you're lucky? There are dozens of recruitment agencies in Kiev, but only a few of them are stably working and trusted by customers. And in each of them there may be a chance for you (we will discuss this method in more detail in another article).
5. Search through the Internet. More and more specialists are finding work through the Internet, but so far, unfortunately, only in larger cities. Two methods should be used here simultaneously: “passive” (posting your resume on Job sites) and “active” (mailing resumes for vacancies found on the Internet. You should be aware that enterprise vacancies post not only (and not so much) on Job- sites, and not your corporate and industry sites, so the search here must be really active!
6. Direct initiative appeal to a potential employer. You have not seen the announcement of such a company about a suitable vacancy for you, but you assume that it may be there. Moreover, you want to work in this kind of company. When using this method, you need to send out a lot of resumes, preferably with cover letters. Here the score goes to many dozens.
7. Search through government employment centers and their job fairs. There are always a lot of vacancies. But for the most part, these are either job vacancies or job vacancies for specialists with not-so-attractive pay.
In fact, in most cases, failures in finding a job are caused by the fact that people know how to look for it. Schools and universities do not teach this. Books on this subject, which have appeared on the shelves in recent years, have been read by few. As a rule, people learn from their own experience and from their own mistakes, without receiving qualified answers and advice. Moreover, sometimes using unskilled advice.
For example, one has to meet with a categorical reluctance to read job advertisements (“Ah, all this is useless, sheer“ network marketing ”!”). Or with the fact that people did not even consider publishing their mini-resume in a newspaper. Or with the fact that, after sending out five to ten resumes, they consider themselves to have done a solid job. Errors and errors all the time!
Today we will very briefly consider the main ways of finding a job. All of them are effective in modern conditions, and everyone needs to know them. But for a specific person in a specific situation, something may be more effective.
So, the main ways:
1. Search through friends and relatives. In Ukraine, about one third of specialists find a job in this way. The method is especially good for those who have a wide network of professional contacts. It is very important to provide those who, in principle, agreed to help, with their resume. Having it, your friend will have specific information to advance your candidacy to a potential employer. Experience shows that one needs to “graze” one's “employment agents”. Otherwise, they will always have more important things to do than help you.
2. Job search through job postings in newspapers. In Kiev newspapers weekly published about 2000 of a variety of vacancies. If you really need to find a new job, buy newspapers, carefully choose all the more or less suitable vacancies, call and send your resumes.
3. Publication of your job search advertisement (mini-resume) in a newspaper. If you doubt that this method works, call those who already published their proposal a week or two ago and take an interest in the results. If a person has reasonable claims, then there are always responses.
4. Appeal to a recruitment agency (employment agency). This method is especially good for highly qualified professionals with experience. It is also a passive option for those who are currently working, but are not averse to changing jobs to higher paying, promising, closer to home, etc. The agency offers vacancies - you choose, what if you're lucky? There are dozens of recruitment agencies in Kiev, but only a few of them are stably working and trusted by customers. And in each of them there may be a chance for you (we will discuss this method in more detail in another article).
5. Search through the Internet. More and more specialists are finding work through the Internet, but so far, unfortunately, only in larger cities. Two methods should be used here simultaneously: “passive” (posting your resume on Job sites) and “active” (mailing resumes for vacancies found on the Internet. You should be aware that enterprise vacancies post not only (and not so much) on Job- sites, and not your corporate and industry sites, so the search here must be really active!
6. Direct initiative appeal to a potential employer. You have not seen the announcement of such a company about a suitable vacancy for you, but you assume that it may be there. Moreover, you want to work in this kind of company. When using this method, you need to send out a lot of resumes, preferably with cover letters. Here the score goes to many dozens.
7. Search through government employment centers and their job fairs. There are always a lot of vacancies. But for the most part, these are either job vacancies or job vacancies for specialists with not-so-attractive pay.
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