You’ve responded to all the job ads and you’re networking like crazy. What else can you do?
Here are eight ways to get the word out and find new opportunities:
Add a signature line to your outgoing email messages. Remind your friends and contacts that you’re still looking and what you’re after.
Include your LinkedIn profile URL to your email signature. Add this (www.linkedin.com/in/davidsiecker) to the signature line – make it easy for people to check out your credentials.
Use Twitter to broadcast your progress. A daily (or even more frequent) Twitter ‘tweet’ from you keeps you well-wishers abreast of your latest job-search happenings. If you tweet to say “Got an interview at COMPANY HERE tomorrow morning,” then your friends with friends at THAT COMPANY can jump into the scene and help you out with a side-door connection or referral. BTW, it also updates automatically in Facebook too.
Make your Facebook page work for you — not against you. Smart job-seekers fill their Facebook pages with useful and relevant information about what they’ve accomplished and define your strengths. And take down the party pictures before your prospective employers see them.
Add a specific quote praising your work to your resume. Include a short quote (<20 words) from a boss who praised your work and put it at the end.
Buy mini-Moo cards. These are great conversation starters and they can be easliy be given away in social settings because they’re small and attention-grabbing. If want to stand out a little, order your mini-Moo cards online at moo.com.
Add a voice on your job-search profile by adding an audio file to your LinkedIn, Facebook or other social-networking profile to help job-search targets and influencers get a feel for who you are and how you think. Buy an inexpensive headset and use Audacity for free to make high-quality audio files.
Humanize your resume by deleting the empty corporate language out of your resume and give it a human voice. Replace the “results-oriented professional” with “I love to solve sticky problems that slow down product development” or other human-like statements that describes you. Write in more of a conversation tone. Maybe consider recording yourself as if in a interview and transcribe it.
What else has worked for you? Write below in the comments.
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