Method 1: The Standard "Passive" Job Search
Day 1. John Smith realizes he needs to get a job. He starts to dabble with his résumé. He hasn't looked at his résumé in about three years, the absolute time he has been at ABC, Co. Attractive at it, he realizes how amateurish it looks. He wants a added presentable résumé, but he's not abiding how to start.
John adds his best contempo job to the top of the acquaintance section, including the alpha and end date and the appellation he captivated until aftermost anniversary back the aggregation bankrupt down.
He writes two paragraphs on the assorted tasks he performed.
Then John looks at the objective. It no best reflects breadth he would like to go professionally. He tinkers with it but is afraid that authoritative it too specific will lock him out of some positions. Although he has specific things he would like to do, his aboriginal affair is accepting a job so that he can pay his bills.
Day 2, 7:30 a.m. John gets an aboriginal start. He has heard the bazaar is tight. A acquaintance of his, in the aforementioned field, has been unemployed for about six months, and John worries about this. He can't allow to be unemployed for that abundant time.
He gets the paper, bypassing the advanced page, and anon opens the classifieds. He begins attractive for positions in technology that bout his skills. There is one in the acreage he would like to go in, but he does not accommodated the minimum acquaintance requirements.
Another ad catches John's eye. It is for a arrangement ambassador and covers abounding of the aforementioned tasks that he performed at ABC, Co. At the bottom, the ad says "Send your résumé to A1 Staffing."
He finds a third ad, for a advice board technician. He meets the minimum qualifications, but the pay is abundant lower than he fabricated at ABC, Co. He circles the ad anyway. He realizes that his friend's asperity ability aloof be his own. There are no jobs to be had.
He sends his résumé to the abode listed and puts the appetite ads in the recycling bin. It is now 8:10 a.m.
John remembers several job sites he has consistently capital to try. He goes to his computer and brings up the first. Several testimonials of blessed audience accommodated him. This is the job seeker's heaventhousands of jobs, and advisers award their -to-be administration directly. John creates a contour and begins analytic for jobs in his breadth that bout his accurate accomplishment set.
Nothing comes up. He broadens his chase aboriginal in abilities and again in geography. Finally, two hits! He clicks the aboriginal ad to acquisition out that it has been placed by a acting staffing agency. The added is for a agent in an IT department.
John again goes to several added job sites, creating online résumés and profiles.
It is now 11:30 a.m., day 2, and John has completed his job gluttonous activities for the day.
Day 3, 7:30 a.m. John wakes to acquisition a brace of e-mails in his inbox. They are from a few of the job sites he visited. However, it becomes credible that they are newsletters and advertisements. He notices that one of the e-mails promises to stop e-mail advertisements if he upgrades his contour to the Premium profile. For $6.95 monthly, he can accept admission to added administration and will accept no announcement e-mails.
John goes through the cardboard and discovers no new jobs posted. He goes out to the bounded bazaar and picks up two added papers. At home, he discovers two added job postings. He calls the cardinal on one. The articulation on the added end answers, "A1 Staffing, how can we advice you?"
John is surprised, but says, "I'm responding to your ad in the paper. The one for the abstruse specialists."
"That's great. Let me get some information."
John spends the abutting few account giving his job acquaintance and acquaintance information. At the end of the conversation, the woman says, "How adjustable are you with travel, relocation, and pay?"
John is not abiding how to answer, but he doesn't appetite to cut off any opportunities. He answers, "I assumption that depends on the bulk of biking and breadth I would charge to relocate."
"Okay, I accept your information. We accept several positions that ability be a fit. I'm activity to see what I can set up. It ability be a few weeks, but we'll get article going."
John hangs up. The chat didn't complete too encouraging. It is now 11:00 a.m., day 3, and John has accomplished his job gluttonous activities for the day.
Days 4, 5, 6, and 7 are similar. John checks the cardboard anniversary morning, checks his e-mail for advice from the job boards, and waits for the buzz to ring.
This is the adjustment best generally active by the boilerplate job seeker. It is abundantly passive, in that you put advice into sources and again wait. You accept no absolute acquaintance with those who can or would appoint you. In abounding cases, you accept no abstraction of the aggregation breadth the declared befalling exists.
Now booty a attending at a added proactive method. The abutting breadth examines the toolkit access to the job search.