Professional tips are not all the same. In fact, some actually looking for a job or violate career. Here are seven tips awful career you should ignore:
1. "At the end of the school you will be more marketable." Graduate School will make you more marketable when you when you consider that found in an area that requires a high degree or honors, but in one of the many areas employers the corresponding class.
The worst part is that graduate school can be employed in many cases also make it harder for you, because if you go for the jobs that apply require the degree that employers may believe that your work is not what really want to do.
2. "Treat your job search like a full time job if you want to succeed." The time finding work very differently from one field to another and from one person to another. If you are in your career and junior application to a wide variety of items, it is possible that the letters written, tailor your resume and networking could take a significant portion of their time (although not yet at 40 hours per week get, and that's fine).
To learn more, or just in an area with few openings, you probably do not need to spend in their research (or pass) 40 hours per week. And besides, for most people, when it comes to applications that is more important than the quality of quantity.
3. "No matter how long your resume is." It is true that the old rule one page CV decreased for all but very young university graduates, but significant length CV. Resumes that are three or more pages at the end dilute the impact of your content and make you come across as someone who can not be changed and do not understand what matters more information.
In addition, the strongest candidates to limit their resume to two pages, so if a hiring manager with experience will go a long resume, they immediately prepared to wait a weaker candidate.
4. 'offer to work for free for a week to an employer. Get "In most cases, this is illegal because it violates the laws on minimum wages. With few exceptions (such as some non-profit organizations and government agencies) the employer is obliged to the people who pay to work for them. But even if it is not illegal, most employers do not sign it anyway, as there is a huge amount of time to have new recruits. The first week is almost always a loss to the employer.
5. "When an interviewer asks about your weaknesses, respond with something positive." When you have collected no guidance for employment in the last ten years, you probably have the message of the assertion that his greatest weakness is that to see You work too hard, or you are a perfectionist. But most researchers and therefore at this point, these answers sound cliché and dishonest. Also, make it like or do not have a lot of self-confidence or if you are ready to make a honest discussion about the shape of the role for which you are applying have become.
Good researchers do not want to talk about weaknesses, so that they can play "Gotcha", but because they want to make sure that they are not in a job where you have problems.
6. "follow up with employers after shows for a job, perseverance and enthusiasm." This advice remains a staple of many career centers, but these days, showing persistent monitoring most of the time you will not meet hiring managers time and do not clear how the recruitment process works are. For the employer know that you are interested in; Your request has been shown. Now the ball is in their court to decide whether she is interested in talking more with you or not. Most employers are not responding to calls for monitoring at this stage.
7. "so that you can send stalking the name of the hiring manager your letter to the right person." It is not necessary, and most hiring managers do not know whether or not he -. and much less care, if the name of the hiring manager is readily available, it is of course good, go ahead and use it, but you do not have to call or stalking. to find another detective work. Hiring managers are concerned about the subject of your inquiry, if you do not try spent 20 minutes and their names are to be found.
Alison Green writes the popular Ask a Manager blog where she advises on career, job search, and management issues. She is the author of "How to get a job: Secrets of a Personal Chef", co-author of "Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Manager's Guide for results" and "former chief of staff of an organization without a successful nonprofit purposes, where he worked for employees every day.
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