careersherpa.net: Companies don’t like hiring. It is a painful and time consuming process. Not to mention, a risky proposition. When you invest the bulk of your time only pursuing posted jobs, you are missing out of the opportunity to meet with individuals inside companies that could potentially hire you and this is where the real opportunities lie!
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Finding a job is difficult and within the world today I can only imagine that it is even more difficult. It seems the old adage "It's who you know gets you the job, and what you know keeps you the job" is very true in this situation. The only part of the article I found useful was checking for your key words and matching them up with job postings. So I will do my best to keep in contact with people I meet and try not to burn any bridges. Since knowing people within a company is the best way to land a job
The comment that author made about using the job postings to tailor your resume and cover letter to the demands of potential employers seems to be common sense, but changing your job titles to match what people are hiring seems to be verging on the line of fraudulently advertising yourself. Searching for an internal employee is great and if you want to work your way up in an organization there seems to be an increasing trend back toward that in the current economic environment but for those of us coming out of the grad program here I think that we would rather not have to start out at the very bottom of the totem pole. This internal hiring trend then is a major problem for us unless we want to work for Tate or one of the other major employers of CMU alumni. Being proactive and getting the training and certifications needed for the jobs before you get the job seems to be a great way of landing a job but is impractical for many of the certifications that our profession might require especially the ETCP rigging and electrical certifications which are fairly expensive to try to get while unemployed. This program is great at getting us certified and trained by our vendors but if these certifications are so crucial it would be nice to see if we could get more certification classes.
The comment that author made about using the job postings to tailor your resume and cover letter to the demands of potential employers seems to be common sense, but changing your job titles to match what people are hiring seems to be verging on the line of fraudulently advertising yourself. Searching for an internal employee is great and if you want to work your way up in an organization there seems to be an increasing trend back toward that in the current economic environment but for those of us coming out of the grad program here I think that we would rather not have to start out at the very bottom of the totem pole. This internal hiring trend then is a major problem for us unless we want to work for Tate or one of the other major employers of CMU alumni. Being proactive and getting the training and certifications needed for the jobs before you get the job seems to be a great way of landing a job but is impractical for many of the certifications that our profession might require especially the ETCP rigging and electrical certifications which are fairly expensive to try to get while unemployed. This program is great at getting us certified and trained by our vendors but if these certifications are so crucial it would be nice to see if we could get more certification classes.
This is all really good advice and some of it ive even heard before like the part about most job openings already having a person picked out while you are interviewing. I really liked the tips on what to use job opening listings for too. They kept saying how instead of going to meet with companies who have posted a job opening that you should meet with companies who havent posted them yet. But I dont understand how you are supposed to do this. I wish they would add some tips on that. are you just supposed to walk into the building of the company you want to work for and tell they you want to interview for a job that doesnt exist yet? because that doesnt seem like a very effective way to get hired either.
I think this article is very much geared toward people already in the work force looking for another job. Those people have a much larger built up network than us (exception: Grad students), so can be more successful hearing about a job before the posting goes public. For a just out of college person, applying to job postings is probably the best bet. That's the only in for many of these companies, especially ones that hire a larger workforce of entry level workers.
This article is totally right in the way that companies hire people and that they don’t like hiring new people because there is a lot of what ifs and unknowns. I know that if you are willing to do an internship with a company for some time at a lower pay they may offer you a job that pays better money because they know your work extremely well with their system. Also with all of the people that are looking for work right now, there is a ton of people that would be looking at the job that they don’t get defeated and keep their spirits up when looking for a job.
This article makes sum great points in terms of the realities of the way people are hired and also about the way that job postings can help you to glean more information in order to refine your job searches and expand your skills. However, I don't think this article acknowledge the fact that "chasing jobs" is sometimes the only option. As students coming straight out of a university, it is not always easy to exploit contacts for jobs within the company, if you even have contacts in the field you wish to go into. If you truly need a job, it is still worth applying to those jobs in which you are one in a sea of many resumes, because you never know what might catch someone's eye. Obviously companies are more likely to hire people they know or to hire from within, but sometimes it is not possible to only pursue job openings that are within companies you are familiar or connected with when you are searching for a position.
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