8 things you should know if your job search skills are rusty

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If you prepare for a job search, but has not removed his resume a lot in the past decade, ready - to some changes. The job search has itself changed in some important respects in the past 10 years, both in terms of what the experience is like for candidates and strategies that are effective and have lost favor.

Here are eight of the most important changes you should be prepared when your skills are rusty professional hunting.

1. Recruitment often takes longer than normal. If you are used to companies to place an ad, interview candidates and a vacation all in the space of, say, to make a month, you could be in shock. Most companies take to rent months. Some companies still moving fast, but do not be surprised if you hear from companies month after the first round shall take, or if they spend weeks back before heard after an interview.

2. You may be asked to interview several times in the past, add many employers additional steps in setting -. Telephone interviews before they personally with a wide range of researchers, take complete several interviews, including colleagues and managers are different levels to requests for contributions, the assessment of skills and other functions.

3. Almost all applications must be submitted online When the last time hunting job, getting a job -. Deals in the newspaper looking through your resume and on vellum, they know that the times have changed. Today the vast majority of jobs is to apply online, often refusing to accept paper, receives ever again. This may be more efficient (and will save money on postage definitely), but also the struggle with the stubborn electronic systems can mean not with ease of candidates in mind.

4. You may be asked to reveal an uncomfortable amount of information to get your application for review online -. Need applications usually candidates to their share previous salaries , remuneration and social security numbers, often refuses to accept it applications that do not contain that information. And this is all before they had the chance to talk to a human.

5. At the same time the process has become more intense, but has also become less personal. With companies looking for candidates much time and energy to invest in addition to process more involved, candidates are surprisingly often treats them impersonal. You can consult with a company, maybe even more than once, and then never heard back with a final decision by them. It is increasingly common for companies not interfere releases origin or even react direct requests from candidates for an update of the situation of the recruitment process.

6. You may be asked to take a first video selection. Some companies ask candidates to make a first court to answer questions, pre-recorded video before to move it an interview with a live person. This can be frustrating for the candidate, because it means time in a "interview" to invest, without asking their own questions in a position or an idea of the culture of work or business.

7. CV conventions have changed. The old CV is not quite 10 years ago, updated with his latest work, and accept that it is good to go. Modern CV dropped at the top of the page the old lens, "References on request" once all properly communicated to and the rigid rule that applies only to one side. They are still limited to one side, if you, but if two sides are a recent graduate in order.

Display 8. The old advice about your application control applies endurance. If you said, remember to call your application to check after you sent or handed over from one company and ask to speak personally to the hiring manager, remove the strategies of modern textbook of job Search. -C These days, directors of human resources employed hindered by aggressive monitoring . And stop by can in person to point out that it is the way modern office work out of touch.