Since online job boards gets more popular these days, it has drastically changed the way people today hunt for jobs and also made the job applicant pool become bigger and bigger. Yeah we all know the internet is a great resource for us, job seekers — but we also need to know and understand how to use it, to get the better results of a web-based job search.
Following are some tips for online job seekers:
1. Visiting Top Job Sites
Spending your online times to visit top job sites is a great start, because from there we can get numbers of job offer. And i believe they’re categorized, so it will be much easier for us to find what we want for our career.
2. Narrow Your Search
Most of job boards have the filters to help us refine our search result. Narrow your job search by region, industry, duration, or even by keywords like company names, required experience, salary, etc. Like If you’re seeking a medical billing jobs, it will help to narrow the result by choosing the medical services categories.
3. Do queries
You search on anything else, from old schoolmates to low-fat recipes, so why not jobs? Run queries that describe the kind of job you’re seeking, and you may find more resources you wouldn’t expect to find otherwise. But do prepare for some sorting works.
4. Submit Your Online Resume
Spend your time to fill in your online resume, step by step. The advantages of a full online resume is that it will guides you to develop a good resume and without missing out any important details that all employers need to know about the candidates. So be mindful on your spelling and grammar when typing information into the online forms. Because employers will judge you based on your resume. Everybody knows that. You got to be sure that the submitted resume is good and contains the essential details.
5. If You Can, Build Something
You can also take it one step further. Design and build a website of your online portfolio, so all recuiters can easily navigate and view your body of work, read your goals, and get your informations.
6. Update Your Resume Regularly
Prepare your resume with updated information to get into every opportunity. Update your resume with all relevant accomplishments, new jobs duties, recent certifications, and other similar achievements.
7. Make Your Own Video Resume
Video resume is one more way to stand out to employers. Being a supplements — and not replacements — for traditional resumes, it allow you to show a little bit of your personalities and highlight your point of interest on your resume. Just take the extra time and effort to customize your application materials to each specific oppotunity.
8. Subscribe Job Alerts
Beside the filters, job boards also have the features that allow you to receive email alerts about the newly available jobs that match with your criteria. You can easily signup for their Job Alerts for free and you may get the jobs come to you. RSS feed is also a great option to get job alerts.
9. Become an Expert in Job Hunting
Get more useful tips on job hunting. Guides to write your own great resume and cover letter, negotiate your salary, what to do when attending interiews, what to ask in the interview, etc, are the most precious intellectual treasures for job seekers. Subscribe to e-newsletter where you can receive lots of them. Sometimes, you may find some special recruitment messages from the employers. So get them now!
10. Keep Your Resume Open for Searching
When you keep your resume searchable, it will give the opportunity to be head hunted by the great potential employers. You will never know when the employers will unexpectedly knock on your door offering you a job opportunity.
11. Oldies for goodies
Don’t go wrong by limiting your search only to opportunities posted in the last few days. Some opportunities posted two week or even a month ago might still available. Especially with those hard-to-find skills required. It will be an advantage to focus on old opportunities while most job seekers focusing on the recent opportunities, and you might be competing with fewer candidates.
12. Follow up
When you’ve done the online job hunting, it’s important to follow up with those prospective employers after you apply for a position. If you haven’t heard back from the company, send an email or make a call, verifying that your resume was received and also to reassert your interest in the offered position.