Download - Find A Job
Things to do to find a job
YOUR GOLDEN RULE 1:
I WILL CALL PEOPLE ON THE PHONE
RULE 2:
I UNDERSTAND THAT MOST JOBS ARE NOT ADVERTISED
and therefore I won’t find them advertised on the internet
RULE 3:
I WILL STOP SPENDING THE ENTIRE DAY
SENDING RESUMES TO PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW ME
RULE 4:
MY CONNECTIONS ARE THEEASIEST AND FASTEST WAY TO
FIND A JOB: I HAVE MANYCLASSMATES, FRIENDS, FAMILY, TEACHERS ETC
To simplify, we will assume that The manager recruiting is female
The manager is busy gets too many Emails
reads only the most important onesworks on too many projects and could DO EVEN MOREif you worked in her team
She has little or no time to find you
NOTE:Jobs are not advertised because:
The procedure takes precious timewrite job description, update the advertisement, receive
and read all CV, invite for interviews etc The procedure can be expensive
The manager (from experience) does not believe she will find the right person
The company is not allowed to advertise externallyThe company does not want/know to advertise externally
etc
TO DO ACTIONS:
Call people on the phone Many stop everything they do
to answer the phoneSome are too busy to read every Email
Phone = important
Find the best person to contact in the business:
the manager who may need you in her group
or can help you find the colleagues who need more staff
and their contact details
Send your CV to the technical manager=
the person who is the most interestedto have you work for her
after you called her on the phone
or saw her face to faceor after she heard about you
On the phone ask questions aboutopen projects, skills required
Understand what the manager needs
If you find out that other managers need more staff do not hang up
before you get their contact details
Ask as many questions as neededto understand what the manager needs
The manager doesn’t always know!!but can find out more by talking to you
The notes you take can be used to rewrite your resume, cover email & during the interview
to say the things the manager wants to hear
Look for products that interest youIt’s easier to get a job
when you are truly interested
Research which companies are making this product or providing the service
Find via Internet, magazines, newspapers.
ASK YOURSELF
WHAT DO I LIKE?
Call the business, research on the internetto get the name of the manager
responsible for the product, producing it,designing it or whatever
depending on your expertise
This is the person you should contact
Some teams publish their findings in technical publications that you can find online
with their contact details
If you want to talk to someone in particularthanks to the internet
with the name of the person and businessyou will find a way to talk to her
Online networks can be usefull to find contact details
depending on the country:Linkedin, Xing, etc
Add your profile on Linkedin!
Get yourself nice business cardsYou don’t need many but high quality
A business card reflects who you are
Don’t wait to get a job to have your own
Find your employer at fairs, trade showsIn London: ExCel, Earls Court…
Look for FREE entries to fairs and events on topics that interest you
Don’t lie to yourselfGo where you like
not where you think it looks good to be
There are fairs about EVERYTHING
EVERY INDUSTRY needs staff
Travel, fashion, HR, advertisement, furniture, gaming, toys, books, fitness, pharma, sports, investors, optics, software
etc etc etc
At the fair, talk to peopleAsk questions about their product
Be curiousTake their business cards
Don’t wait for them to call you backThey are too busy!
Even if they could really need you!You have to call them
If you can’t go to the fair, look on the website which companies
were present the previous year
The size of the stand is representative of size of the business
Meet companies from different countries!Great if you want to work abroad
Go to start-up eventsthat are advertised online
(Meetup.com, Linkedin etc)
Read blogs about start-upsGo to co-working spaces
Get in touch with businesses that already have a product
THE DON’T LIST:
Do you believe that if you send an email
someone will read it ?
During your first contactif the person doesn’t know you
and you are unsure who you must approachdon’t say right away that you are
looking for a job
or you will be sent to Human Resources=
GAME OVER (in most cases)
Don’t send your resume to HR without having contacted
a technical manager before
Say that you are looking for a jobis rather passive
Better say that you would like to “work on a product” or “work in finance”
Use vocabulary that reflects ACTIVITY
Don’t go to fairs for studentswhere you meet another 1OOO
who have the same skills
(Unless you plan to talk to a manager for longer than 5 minutes)
Don’t send you CV and wait for something to happen
Nothing will happenYou have to talk to people
Don’t think for hours what you could write in the “cover letter”
After talking to the manager who needs you you will know what to write
A short Email is better
The manager has no time to read long letters
Don’t send your resume without having a clue
what you could do in the business
You have to find out before… talking to people
Please do not ask for a job in a businesswhere you are not interested in the service or the product
The universe is thanking you
Do not speak about things you do not know how to do
Do not speak about your weaknesses
Speak about what you can doThink about what the manager
wants to hear
Do not send a massive amount of resumesday after day
Choose QualityOver Quantity
Do not believe your resume is perfectWe’ve seen too many REALLY BAD ones
FINDING A JOB ABROAD?
You know someone who works abroadcontact her
You know a company next door with a branch in an interesting foreign country, contact the one next to you
Essentially you can use the same method to find a company in your
own country or abroad
Send your resume in English or in the language of the foreign country
Do not say that you want to work for the company to improve your English
(you are interested in the tasks)
Do not say that your English is bad everything is relative
Make sure that whatever you write can be understood by a foreigner
Ask yourself if a foreigner who did not live your life
can understand every line of your resume
REMEMBER
A negative answer does not mean that the company does not want/need youThis is your interpretation
The person you will contact is not = the business
in most cases
REMEMBER
DO WHAT YOU LIKELISTEN TO YOUR HEART
GOOD LUCK!
Alexandra Grandpierre