Job Search Tips: 7 Tips to Revamp Your Job Search in 2017
You need new job search strategies
If you’re interested in changing jobs or still job searching, you must revamp your job search tips. For most job seekers who have not had any luck in the past year finding a job, feelings of frustration and depression may be inevitable.
According Prof. Kwesi Yankah, President of Central University College, about 271,000 of unemployed graduates were projected to be have been churned out of tertiary institutions into the streets of Ghana in search of jobs in 2015 alone. Hiring managers are bombarded with thousands of applications per job listing. Realistically, sorting through all these applications takes a lot of time. Some of the methods employed by these hiring managers to deal with the problem include employing “Application-sorting softwares’ that filter out junk application. Application letters that do not strictly meet the qualification and experience requirements are automatically trashed out.
If you have have been employing particular job search strategies for this year and they haven’t worked, it’s time to revamp your strategies in order to increase your chances of landing a job in the coming here.
- Avoid “Spray and Pray”: Thinking that casting your application anywhere and everywhere will increase your chances of landing a job is one of the biggest job search myths of all times. Most hiring managers acknowledge that, a well thought out application letter that is tailor-written for the particular job role being advertised not only grabs the hiring manager’s attention but sends the right signals as someone passionately interested in the job. Sending a generic “Application for employment” to every organisation is a very bad job search practice. If you cannot commit time and effort to your job search, how will you even commit to the actual work when you get hired?
