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There are indeed a thousand certified professionals around the world
who have taken all those perfect jobs who were actually meant for you.
Well now it’s your time. With these actions you don’t have anything to
loose, but these might help you to find the best job on the planet,
prove that your are ready to be interviewed. It’s time to let them find
you. So here's your action plan: |
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1. Create an additional email account, as professional as possible.
Time needed: 10m
Create one unique and professional id and use it only for your job related tasks. Your goal is to be as professional as possible. You can use a firstname@secondname.com or firstname.surname@gmail.com format. Also you can buy your own domain via GoDaddy.com for $9 and create your email account there for free. Use this email to send all your resumes and to contact with recruiters.
2. Create a brilliant CV (Use these 10 Tips To Make Your Resume Shine!
Time needed: 2-3h
Out of all the resumes that the employers receive only the first 10-20 resumes are read line by line while on the rest, recruiters only glance through the education, experience and certifications columns. This is why you must create an optimal CV.
3. Create a LinkedIN Account.
Time needed: 10m
LinkedIN is still the number one place to receive a job offer. Create your account as professionally as possible and make sure you add all the information from your CV like your experience, trainings, certifications.
4. Optimise Your LinkedIN Profile for Certifications.
Time needed: 30m
LinkedIN, like Google, has its own search engine. After typing any keyword, like CCNA or MCSA some people appear on the first place and some on the last. Why? The keywords are the key! Use your highest certifications and experiences as your key words. Recruiters doing a research start with the first page, so make sure you are there!
5. Connect with recruiters and HR people.
Time needed: 30m
This is indeed important because when you connect to a person there is a chance that they will look you up whenever they have a job offer that fits you. Secondly, keyword optimisation on LinkedIN works even more effectively when the researcher is directly connected to the person's profile.
Search the recruiters with your certification, for example recruiter ccie. Then connect with those people and write two-three sentences about you.
6. Become a member of LinkedIN groups.
Time needed: 30m
Join groups on LinkedIN. You can belong to 50 groups and use this privilege. Find groups connected with your certifications and your skills. You can find tons of job offers. Try also to answer some questions and create some interesting topics to become more visible.
7. Login to Branchout.
Time needed: 15m
It’s a quite new career network on Facebook. You can find more and more recruiters here. So complete your profile, add information about your experience and certifications. You should also connect with some recruiters via Branchout.
8. Login to Telent.me
Time needed - 15m
Talent.me is also a career networking site. Just create a profile and update information about your certifications. In your free time, connect with recruiters and other professionals.
9. Follow recruiters.
Time needed: 10-30m
Use Twitter to follow recruiters. A lot of them tweet new job offers on Twitter. Make a connection with them, retweet their job offers to your friend. Make sure they know about you.
10. Upload Your CV everywhere with ResumeRabbit.
Time needed: 15m
You can upload your CV to all job portals, but it’s an easier way. Use ResumeRabbit. It will post your resume to 85 job portals and you do not need to think about updating each site. Just send once and forget.
11. Use Topsy.
Time needed: 10m
Topsy is an amazing tool to search all Social Media networks. Just type any keyword (ccie job, hire MCSA, CWNA, etc.) to search Twitter for new job offers. You can also create an alert or RSS filter. When someone types your keyword on twitter, you will receive a message about it.
12. Become a Professional on 1st page in Google.
Time needed: 1h
If a recruiter already has your CV, he might then search for you on Google to find something more about you. So make sure that Google provides only professional information about you on the first page of search results. Just move to the Incognito Mode in your browser and type your name in the search box. And if you are finding something inappropriate about yourself on the first page, don’t worry, You can change that. Create pages which are more respectable in the Google search engine like create a page on About.me, create a Quora account, and make sure your LinkedIN account is updated. You can also create your own page-resume.
13. Networking.
Time needed: Whole Life
This is probably the most important and time taking actions from all what we have mentioned here. Friends and colleagues are indeed the most important asset for you if you want to get hired at the right place. Think of an employer asking his friend if he knows any brilliant candidate for any particular opening. And your friend says, “Ofcourse, I know an amazing guy and he will be the best suited for this job.” Now you do not need to worry about the requirement process.
So take your time and connect with other professionals, let them know about job offers your know, share your knowledge with them. Go to each conference and connect with people. Maybe someday one of them will tell you about your new dream job.
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