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Job Seeking


Definition, Explanation

Successful job-seeking requires intensive preparation. Via personality tests, you have already got to know your knowledge, abilities, skills, interests and desires. Now your goal is to find the companies and institutions in which you fit best with your profile. To achieve this, it can be helpful to gather information in your circle of friends and acquaintances, to search the internet, and to use all other available information as events, fairs, brochures, literature. When this has been made, the actual job-seeking begins.

Ways of job-seeking:

Tips, Checklist

  • Make yourself a concept of how you want to approach your search for a job
  • Note down an overview of where you are standing: what are your abilities, goals, strengths and weaknesses
  • Define what you demand from a job. What kind of activity do you want to do, in what branch, in what place, on what contractual conditions and working conditions?
  • Regularly go through the related newspapers and magazines, looking for suitable job adverts. Also, most of those media have their current job adverts up to date, online
  • Use the option offered by some job portals to get informed about matching offers automatically by email
  • Choose such adverts to respond to for which you fulfil the most of the prerequisites specified
  • Talk about it in your circle of friends and acquaintances that you are looking for a job, and tell people what you are looking for. Many positions are filled via indirect contacts
  • Search on different job portals. Also here, you will get the more hits, the more precise your searching queries are. Also think what kind of job portals are most suited for you. There are many branch- and subbranch-specific, regional and companies’ job portals
  • If you are going for one particular company to apply with, inform yourself on their webpage about possible free positions, respectively find out the person responsible for recruiting and send a brief application by email to that person
  • Make use of the job portal provided by the labour agency
  • Be versatile in seeking a job, and use all of the different possibilities
  • Begin your search for a job early. If you are studying, you should begin already to look for possible future employers, to make contacts through internships, university projects or graduation theses, or apply for suitable trainee programs
  • Collect interesting job adverts and sort them. This way, you get yourself a good overview of the market – which branches and companies are currently recruiting, what is being looked for and what the requirement standards are
  • Apply only for jobs in which you would really want to work and in which you fit best in terms of your profile matching the requirements specified in the source of information. A good application costs some effort and therefore should be precisely targeted. This saves time both for you as the manufacturer and for the recipients in question
  • Do apply unsolicited
  • Hand over your contact card to people
  • Attend recruiting fairs
  • Consider the possibility of applying internationally
  • Make use of your different networks
  • Follow the wishes that are made in the adverts about how to make contact, contact person, requirements
  • Document yourself to which company and contact person you have sent an application in response to an ad, and call back if you do not get a reaction
  • Consider the possibility of being supported by an adviser or a coach
  • Be patient and do not be discouraged by rejections. After every run from the search to the applying, reflect what you have done and what you can do better next time
  • Keep your documents up to date
  • If circumstances are given, start your own business. Self-employment opens up ways to get to know potential employers, and there is always the chance for a supplier-relationship to turn into a permanent employment

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Last update: 07/14/2010
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