5 ways to streamline your job search

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Alison Green

If you are always on the job search advice over ten years, it is very likely that you will unwittingly sabotage their own chances of being hired. And if you think that you have to have in this case too young, think again: it's not just employees with decades of experience that fall into it - even 20 years and some are victims because they shut down to Policies of Workers' Councils based parents who do not realize that the conventions have changed jobs or even college career centers have their knowledge of how things work currently being updated.

Here are five ways to streamline your job search competition in 2014.

1 Clear. Purpose of your resume. Yeah, years ago, you have learned that every resume should start with a goal , but the Council is long gone. The goals are now looking your resume contact with modern conventions. In addition, the goals are are what you want, what you want instead of the employer - and in the initial stage of the recruitment process, employers are much more with the skills and experience they can share their hopes and dreams to offer. In addition, most of the goals and generic tones have unnatural anyway. It has long been a fact that favors a candidate for a position.

After removing the lens, replace it with a profile section - a few sentences or bullets that show who you are as a candidate, and what makes them different. Now they can serve the entire development of the application, to explain the employer of the essential facts that you want them to know about you. In fact, the profiles have the Popularity start as a resume without a cover, look gained a little worn.

February. Do not add, two decades ago. Offers you work have done is unlikely that a long time ago strengthen your application today , and experience and the day. If you have had an impressive career in the last 15 years, why waste space talking subordinate roles rather than before? Remember: A resume is a marketing document, not a complete list of everything you have always done.

Three. Delete "References available upon request." Anticipate employers that you, so no need to give references available when asked for them known in advance. It is a convention, on the left side of another time. No employer you decline include, but are need space better used for something else and want to make your resume feels dated.

Selling kills Iness April. In their approach. Counseling and job search is used to focus on the aggressive tactics that now seem to be uncomfortable for most employers. For example:

• The inclusion of a line in your letter that you will call in a week for an interview. (You are not the one who decides an interview if you have expressed interest in the application to the expression, the ball is in the employer.)
• Send designed biscuits or chocolate to the hiring manager or other gimmicks to make your resume noticed. (He comes on, as if you do not understand professional boundaries, and if you do not believe that their grades are for their own merit. Moreover, fewer people these days accept food from strangers, so is likely to end the gift of food in the garbage .)
• Overnighting you make your application to the hiring manager. Take each work ten years ago, the job search, and you will still find this advice in it. But these days, it is more likely someone who does not follow the instructions are similar - and worse, your documents can not be considered because you do not have to get into the electronics business application.

5 No "hitting the pavement" to their parents or people who do not listen to a long-sought work at the companies you want to be submitted to the work and send your resume in person, but ... With the exception of a handful of employers who explicitly requires is no more and come across as naive and boring for most employers. In contrast, most of the research work carried out in these days especially online -. Watching online ads, send resume and cover letter, filling and networking online applications on sites like LinkedIn course you should always connect to the network in person, but the concept of "pounding the pavement" looking one before all necrotic work.

Alison Green writes the popular Ask a Manager blog where she advises on career issues, job search and management. She is the author of "How to Get a Job: Secrets of a" human resources director, co-author of "Managing to Change the World: The Manager's Guide View charitable purposes Results" and former chief of staff successful nonprofit, where he for the day-to-day staff.