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planettech9 · Newbie Joined: 29 Apr 2009 Posts: 1 Career Advice: +0/-0

Job hunting or job seeking is the act of looking for employment, due to unemployment or discontent with a current position. The immediate goal of job seeking is usually to obtain a job interview with an employer which may lead to getting hired. The job hunter or seeker typically first looks for job vacancies or employment opportunities.It is expected the job seekers will have done a reasonable amount of research into the employers. Some basic information about an employer should be collected first before applying the organization's positions, including full name, locations, web site, business description, year established, revenues, number of employees, stock price if public, name of chief executive officer, major products or services, major competitors, strength as well as challenges.One can also go and hand out résumés or Curriculum Vitae to prospective employers. Another recommended method of job hunting is cold calling or emailing companies that one desires to work for and inquire to whether there are any job vacancies.

After finding a desirable job, they would then apply for the job by responding to the advertisement. This may mean applying through a website, emailing or mailing in a hard copy of your résumé to a prospective employer. It is generally recommended that résumés be brief, organized, concise, and targeted to the position being sought. With certain occupations, such as graphic design or writing, portfolios of a job seeker's previous work are essential and are evaluated as much, if not more than the person's résumé. In most other occupations, the résumé should focus on past accomplishments, expressed in terms as concretely as possible (e.g. number of people managed, amount of increased sales or improved customer satisfaction).

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sulion · Newbie Joined: 11 May 2009 Posts: 3 Career Advice: +0/-0

But if you call or email a company, who would be the recipient? Most companies don't write their HR department number.

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Nathan-land-that-job · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:07 am Post subject:

Yeah I appreciate what you are saying, you only do that in the most extreme of cases where you can't find the line managers name elsewhere and the recepionist won't give it to you.

The way I see it is, why should you let the receptionist stop you from presenting yourself in the best possibe way?

Another good way is to try a random extension number, when you get through say you were actually trying to get hold of switch board to speak to the whatever manager, would you be able to tell me who that is and put me through, then obvioulsly hang up before the phone starts ringing.

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thrixie · Newbie Joined: 09 Jun 2009 Posts: 3 Career Advice: +0/-0

If they didn't give their Hr recipient number or email address., I think its a best you get their address(physical) then go to that place., hunting job is a matter of patient.,

FrederickH9060 · Newbie Joined: 09 Jun 2009 Posts: 1 Career Advice: +0/-0

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Claire001 · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:21 pm Post subject:

By finding out the specific recruiter or HR contact you are only doing the work that a recruitment agency would do, personally I think that it shows initiative. Plus given the current market you are more likely to get a Job through direct applications rather than agency route or applications online.

I don't think I would personally try any of the extreme devious tactics as like others have said you could come across really pushey and damage your own reputation. I would also you you need to be an expert in CV Writing to use this tactic as you don't want to have made all the effort to get in to be rejected by having a poor CV!!

manicrabbit · New User Joined: 24 Jun 2009 Posts: 5 Career Advice: +0/-0

I agree that you should have a well written CV because it will be the one speaking for you. It would also be good if you personally go to your prospective employers and submit your CV personally

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