The 5 Stages to the Job Hunt
Job hunting can be very stressful – indeed it can often suck! Preparation can minimize the stress and result in the job offer of your dreams. Landing the right job can make a world of difference in not only your financial situation but as well your overall happiness. Given the level of importance our jobs play in our lives a little preparation seems not only worth it – but crucial!
There are 5 key stages to the job hunt – knowing the key stages and preparing for each will head you in the right direction to that next golden opportunity.
The 5 Key Stages to Job Hunting:
1. Landing the Interview:
This stage is about knowing what you want and how to go after it.
2. Preparing for the Interview:
This stage is about getting prepared to showcase your best work, to speak intelligently about who you are, and to ask the right questions so that you are able to assess the opportunity.
3. Performing during the Interview:
This stage is about being prepared to give the best impression, to establish a rapport with your interviewer, and knowing techniques to turn things around if need be.
4. Following through after the Interview:
This stage is about knowing optimal protocol to increase your chances of a call back or further consideration.
5. Getting the job:
This stage is about knowing how to optimize the negotiation once an offer is extended. And once the offer is finalized it is also about knowing how to optimize you first probationary 90 days.
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Where to find a good job for Year 10 work experience relating to engineering or architecture?Right, I'm in year 10 and I have to find a job for a two week work experience project held by most schools. I want to be an architect or engineer in the future but I can't apply to be one for work experience because I am too young. Anyone have ideas which jobs, relating to science/maths/graphics I can do during June? And where I should apply?
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9 Comments on “The 5 Stages to the Job Hunt”
Sounds good, sounds like he's really into you – but he's obvs not the 'all-over-you-making-it-very-clear' type? Maybe he's a bit shy, even some of the most confident guys can get like this when faced with a girl they really like. I think you should definetly add him on facebook and just send him a casual message? Then perhaps you can take it further if you feel more confident. Hope this helps, and best of luck
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First of all, let's get rid of the notion that companies can't say anything bad about you. They can…if they have the documentation to back it up. If you stole (for example), your former employer can say you stole, if the documentation is there to prove it. If you have write ups for poor job performance, they can say that. I honestly don't know where people on Y!A got the idea that an employer CAN'T say anything bad about you. Some companies have CHOSEN to not say anything at all other than dates of employment/salary, but they can expand on it if they so choose.
As for your questions, don't say you're a perfectionist. That, to me, implies you work slowly. I run a retail store and we all recognize nothing on the sales floor can be perfect, so if you're bogged down cleaning up one pants table and you don't get to the rest of the area you're supposed to clean up, you won't be working for me long. Make it neat, but perfect – in retail – is not really possible if the store is busy. Also, don't say you're shy. Retail (and customer service) needs people who are friendly and outgoing with their customers. Say somehing to the effect like you "ask too many questions" in the beginning because you want to do things the proper way, but once you're told, you don't usually have to ask again and proceed doing things correctly. Turn it from a negative into a positive.
As for why you left your last job, what you've been doing since then and why you want to work part time, just be honest. Medical leave isn't a crime and in this economy, all employers know that most people filling out applications will take ANYTHING to just get in the door. I get 50 applications for every position I get open (at least) and alot of those people are people who've had white collar office jobs pulling in high figure jobs who are right now, looking for anything to pay the bills. We respect you for being willing to work at anything.
Long term goals? Tell them you're looking for the right company to move up in and you hope that this employer will be that company. Tell them of your management goals in a company that treats its employees like people, and that you'd like to be able to move up in a place where you enjoy going to work.
Good luck!
you cant be serious, there is no way to know since they come and go, and give it up. That was years ago and its a moot point. Get on with life and forget it now.
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None in California./ They have been outlawed. And should be across the United States. No more Diebold Presidents, let us look to elect American Presidents from here on out.
I'm sorry he is a douche bag. You are a respectable person for not nailing him to the ground. He cheated and it's not fair that you are playing the part of the good wife. You don't have to keep it low key though…just don't make it out to be a huge production. Its not fair for you to have to act like that. Get the divorce and deal with things as they come. The kids will understand. If not now, in due time. Good luck, happy holidays, and take care of yourself. You are important. You deserve better.
I agree with the first poster. I like the card idea too. You shouldn't make his life any easier…he isn't doing the same for you. He is gonna keep using you until you stop him from doing so.
What is more worrisome is that Barack may be a closet anti-white racist with a covert drug dependency.
However, the latest polls still have him very much in the race, with his perceived race, a black American, the factor for black voters to overwhelmingly vote for him regardless of his integrity or capabilities to be an effective POTUS. About 90% of black voters believe that O.J. is innocent, and similarly, no revelations about or clumsily worded candid comments from Barack will change their minds.
John McCain is A-team material with domestic and international experience head and shoulder above Hillary and Barack's combined.
The choice in 2008 is clear – John McCain.
Btw, elitist remarks from Obama will not change the endorsements of Farrakhan, J Wright, or for that matter, Osama bin Laden et al.