JOB SEARCH

Steps in the Job Search Process:

1. Build a network of Contacts

2. Identify appropriate jobs
3. Find your employer
4. Prepare the application document
5. Continue job search activities

1. Build a Network of Contacts:

a. Broaden your circle of friends

b. Get in touch with influential relatives
c. Get to know your professors
d. Meet business executives
e. Make contacts through internships
f. Work with community organizations

2. Identify appropriate jobs:

a. Analyze yourself in terms of

• Education
• Personal qualities
• Work experience
• Special qualification (if any)

b. Analyze outside factors

The geographic area, family obligations etc. and other factors that is relevant
to your long term suitability……..

3. Find your employer:

a. Placement centers
b. Network of personal contacts
c. Classified advertisements
d. Online database
e. Employment agencies
f. Web pages
g. Prospecting (you go out with your resume and submit unsolicited CV)

4. Prepare the Application Package:

a. The traditional Resume/CV

b. Application letter
c. Other job search letters (Acceptance letter, joining letters, rejection letters etc.)
d. Have all your certificates ready for presenting

5. Continue Job Search Activities……………….

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 RÉSUMÉ & JOB APPLICATION LETTER

Definition of Resume:

A persuasive summary of a person’s qualifications.

While constructing/writing the Resume follow the following guideline

• Select the background facts

• Arrange facts into groups
• Construct the Headings
• Include contact information
• Include a statement of career objective (optional)
• Present the information
• Organize information for strengths
• Write impersonally and consistently
• Make the form of the Resume attractive

1. Assess your qualifications by focusing on

• Communication Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Technical Skills
• Leadership Skills
• Computer Skills
Remember whatever you write in your application Package that must be backed by evidence
(eg. Certificates)

2. Research Company and position:

• Online sources
• Other employees of the organization
• Annual Reports/Directories
• Newspapers, Magazines. Trade Journals

3. Emphasize information that:

• Is relevant to the job that you want
• Is recent (last three years)
• Shows your superiority over other candidates

4. Stress your Key points by:

• Putting them in Headings
• Listing them vertically
• Providing details

5. Use concise, Dynamic language

6. Use sentence fragments
7. Use action verbs (achieved, developed, planned etc.)
8. Use “ing” verb form when relevant

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 9. Present information usually in the reverse chronological order. (The most recent
information comes first and so on)

(* In a Resume never write a full sentence)

Difference between a Resume and a Job Application/cover letter:

• A resume is adapted to a specific position

• A letter is adapted to the needs of the particular organization
• The résumé summarizes all your qualification
• The resume uses short parallel phrases and well written sentence fragments
whereas
The job application letter uses complete sentences in well-written paragraphs.
• The Job application letter shows
2. How your qualification can be beneficial for the employer
3. How you differ from other applicants,
4. It proves that you know something about the organization you are
applying to.

In a job application letter you must show and prove how your BBA/MBA will help the
employer.

How to show you are different in your Job Application Letter and Resume?:

By being original. Use different and unique formats customized to suit your unique
preferences. This is a situation where you have to blow your own trumpet. No shyness or
undue humility yet you must not sound arrogant. Sound confident but not arrogant. Have a
clear idea about the organization before writing the Job Application Letter and the Resume.

How employers use resume?:

1. Employers use resume to decide whom to call for an interview

2. The search committee skims resumes (initial screening)
3. Employers assume that your Job Application Letter and the resume represent your
best work so far
4. Interviewers usually re-read your resume before the interview to refresh their
memories.

Resumes must contain:

• Name, Address, Contact numbers

• Education details
• Experience

Resumes may contain:

• Career Objective
• Special Skills
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 • Honors
• Extracurricular activities
• Volunteer work
• Presentation / paper delivered
• Publications
• Certificates and Licenses
• References
• Any other relevant Category that adds value to yourself

How Long a Resume?:

• Fill at least one page.

• Longer is OK if you have a diverse background or have worked for several years.

In a Resume always put the important information in the first page.

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