Optimize Your Job Hunt with These Two Activities

Nobody likes the long and dry process of hunting for a new job.  Instead of taking the job hunt seriously many people procrastinate and spend very little time within process. If you’re expecting to send in a resume or fill out an application and get job offers piling up at the your doorstep then you’re sadly mistaken

The people that have the most success with finding career jobs turn their job hunt into a job. You need to be investing time into your job hunt if you plan to be successful. There are many things that are involved with the job hunt but for the purpose of this article I will focus on two key activities that will help maximize your job hunt:  making time to contact employers and logging all your contacts and conversations.

Schedule time to contact potential employers and increase your exposure. The only way you’re going to find jobs is eventually connecting with the people that can hire you. You need to be constantly talking with new employers, mapping out companies and finding the decision makers.

You want to be as efficient as possible with your contacts to avoid wasting time. The best way to be efficient is organizing all your contacts and logging their conversations. One of the ways I was able to stay organized was simply entering contacts into a database system. If you don’t have Microsoft office suite Google Drive has an excel file that you can use to enter names and contact information about every new connection you develop. Building off previous conversations you have with connections is essential to discovering new opportunities.

In my experience of helping people with the job hunting process the most overlooked activity is actually reaching out to employers and gaining information about the actual hiring process. Focus on these activities and be persistent and you will eventually find your ideal job.