The days where most people look to finding jobs in the newspaper are almost if not long gone, searching online for job placement opportunities is now the norm of the day, according to a new research carried out in 2015 by Pew Research Study, it was reported that more than half (54%) of the adult individuals in U.S. went online in search of job information and almost about 45% have applied for a job placement online.
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Here are some important strategies to help you efficiently search for Job Placements and also stand out from the competition.
Tip 1: Establish yourself as a thought leader
One of the most important thing to do is to Start associating your professional brand with thought leadership in your industry, start by creating and sharing only relevant content on an online blog and/or through the use of social media. These two methods helps you to project your expertise in a topic and also helps you to build relationships with people by reading other people’s write-ups on blogs, and posting good comments and starting relevant conversations on social networks.
If you see starting your own blog as too much of a commitment, guest blogging on other people's blog is also a great way of getting your name out there and also helps driving traffic to your own social accounts.
On Twitter, sharing your thoughts and relevant links related to your field by using relevant hashtags can help promote your visibility in the industry. Other social media sites, like "Medium", can also be a very good way of getting your name associated with a good number of certain topic or industry.
Tip 2: Keep it professional
By Keeping your online presence professional is one major key to preserving your job placements opportunities. Ensure you:
- Totally Hide or Delete unprofessional photos
- Keep your personal accounts private
- Search yourself regularly using different search engines to make sure all of your content with your name brings a positive results.
- Do not at any time advertise any beliefs that may turn off employers
Tip 3: Create a Good résumé infographic to display on your accounts
Writing and Posting a good visually impressive résumé on your blog and social accounts can and will allow potential employers to easily check out your qualifications.
The following listed websites can help you create a good résumé that hiring managers will love and remember:
http://kinzaa.com/
https://www.canva.com/create/resumes/
http://vizualize.me/
Make sure your résumé also contains key phrases and keywords employers are searching for, most especially the ones you submit using online applications.
Tip 4: Follow and engage with Top influencers individuals in your field
Search online using relevant hashtags to your industry on Twitter, using relevant hashtags such as #Bisadmin, #ProjectManagement, or #Tech, and follow whose tweets appears to be most popular or who tweets oftens the most often.
Tip 5: Setting up alerts for Industry and employers
Google alerts helps users to keep tabs on newly updated content posted online by sending email updates of Google search results based on your selected terms.
To take as example, if you set Google alerts to get notified of search terms such as “human resources” or “mental health” google alerts will send you email to keep you updated on the latest posts made on these topics.
To prevent lots of messages flooding your inbox, you can as well set up alerts as RSS feeds and use Google Reader.
Tip 6:The Use Of Social Media to find Jobs
According to the research made by Pew study, almost 45% of U.S. adults used social media to search for work. Although the use of LinkedIn is the social network with the most emphasis on careers and job placement.
The use of Twitter social accounts also provides many beneficial opportunities. Follow your favorite companies so as to be aware of when they have new job openings, and also search for phrases like “data scientist” or “jobs in Dubai” and use hashtags like #Hiring, #Jobs, #NowHiring, #JobOpening, #Careers, #GraduateJobs and #JobListing.
Also make Research on career specific and industry hashtags such as #Freelance, #TechJobs, #Marketing and #Marketingjobs are good practice to find relevant jobs in your field.
Make sure your profile is correctly and completely filled out on LinkedIn, and well optimized so you can get relevant recruiters looking at you
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