THE BEECHMONT CREST CAREER GUIDE:
SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN THE CORPORATE JUNGLE
Chapter 3: Organize, Market, and Sell Yourself
Get organized
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
Sir Francis Bacon
Your job search process will proceed with greater speed and efficiency if you begin with a mind toward good organization. This means:
Maintain a written record of your job search activities. Create a list of the companies to which you will send your resume, and a list of the potential employers that you have already contacted. During a job search campaign, you will never be able to keep track of all this information without written notes.
Write down important follow-up dates. Remember that the “window person” you will be working with at each company (usually someone in the human resources department”) is just another mortal who may or may not have good organization skills. Sometimes these people say they will call you back by a certain date, but, well—other things come up. If the human resources manager of Company X promised to call you by Tuesday and it’s now Thursday, then don’t hesitate to call him yourself.
Pace yourself. It takes time and effort to land a new job. You can make the task easier by dividing it up into little chunks, so that you can work on some little part of it each day.
Copyright 2006 Beechmont Crest Publishing