Stage 1: Understanding your own career ambitions and your aptitudes
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There is no doubt that you need to understand what you are aiming for and what you are suited to, to ensure that these match.
To identify exactly what it is that you want to do you should complete the free career assessment test at the International Assessment Network. This test can be completed in a very short space of time and the output will prove invaluable in giving your job search real focus.
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Stage 2: Finding the job that lets you play to your strengths
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Once you have established your own strengths you can home in more quickly on the jobs that you will be best suited to, and therefore happiest in. You should use as many strategies as you can think of to find the job that you are looking for. This includes speaking to friends, buying newspapers that have job advertisements in them, and using the Internet to find job vacancies.
To help focus your job search amongst the many thousands of job sites on the Internet, Career-Bytes recommend the one job site that finds vacancies from thousands of sites and hundreds of networks all over the Internet, including hidden jobs that may never be advertised on the major job boards. This job site is Beyond and a visit to their web site can save you many hours during your job search.
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Stage 3: Preparing and reviewing your resume
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If you have not already done so, you need to put together your own professional Resume, so that you have it ready to send to prospective employers.
If you wish to prepare your own Resume have a look at Resume360, where you will find a step by step guide to preparing your own Resume.
If you decide that you want a professional resume writing firm to review your Resume, Career-Bytes highly recommend the services of ResumeEdge, the partner to the Wall Street Journal and Hot Jobs. We know that they provide an excellent service and this is also reflected in their extremely high customer satisfaction ratings.
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Stage 4: Using Resume Distribution Services
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One approach that you can use during your job search is to make your details available to recruiters or headhunters, who then attempt to find a job that matches your stipulated requirements.
To help you with this and save you considerable time, check out Resume Zapper. This service enables you to send your resume to thousands of recruiters across the US, and lets you target your distribution to those recruiters that specialize in the types of jobs and geographical locations that you are looking for.
Using this service will greatly increase your chances of finding a suitable job early on in your job search.
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Stage 5: Interview for new position
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You need to demonstrate to the employer through your interview what value you will add to the organization, as this will give better context to why they must employ you, above all other candidates, and will also help you in your salary negotiations.
You can use the Job Interview Success System to help you with your interview preparation to make certain that the job is yours.
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Using these career resources will help you to save a significant amount of time when you are looking to progress within your career or to change job.
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