Whatever your reasons, be it you don’t like your current job or you’ve just finished school or you want a change of career, try and resist the temptation of just sending your resume out to every potential job on every single job website. This will invariably lead to one of two things: a) landing a job that doesn’t suit you or b) getting a load of rejection letters and thus maybe missed opportunities.
Before hitting the apply button, there are several things you need to take into consideration first, things that will help set you up for success. As such, we have compiled a list of things that you should consider doing before embarking on the tenuous task of finding and applying for new jobs. So, here they are.
- Make sure your online appearance is good.
When a potential employer receives your job application, whether it be their talent acquisition department or your potential line manager, someone will scout you out online. It’s the natural step. They will probably look at your LinkedIn profile first to get a better understanding of your career so far, or at least your qualifications, and then they will go onto social media to find out what you are like as a person. What we’re trying to say is, that profile picture of you passed out holding a bottle of vodka probably won’t help you land the job. It may also be worthwhile checking how to find out if you have a warrant. It may be unlikely, but you don’t want to find out that you do once it is too late.
- Know what you want.
If you’re straight out of school and trying to land your first job, this may be tricky because you probably just want a job so that you can start having some money and start paying off your student loans or whatever. But try and think about what you want from a job. Is it experience, or to learn skills, to simply build up your resume, to do something charitable, to climb the corporate ladder. Think about it. If you are leaving a current job, think about why you are leaving. It could be that it wasn’t testing you enough, or you struggled with the tedium, or there wasn’t enough client-facing opportunities, or the lack of pay-rises or your current boss is a sexist, megalomaniac with a Messiah Complex. This will help you land a new closer aligned to your wants and needs.
- Do your due diligence.
It is worth doing a solid amount of research on your potential employers. This means researching the company, what it does, what its journey has been, what its ambitions for the future are and its ethos. It also worth doing your own bit of digging on the individuals that run the company. Look at their LinkedIn profiles, and their Facebook pages. See if you can find some common ground that will give you a leg up, something you can talk to them about as an ice-breaker. Maybe they have children or like soccer or films. Anything.
Mia Guerra
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