YES YOU CAN Find Your Dream Job

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YES YOU CANFind Your Dream Job

• Presented by
• Dr. Philip Weast
• February 25/26, 2009

Authored by Ms. Patty Kirkley
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Like Playing DartsYou Need Targets in Mind
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Have a Plan

• Successful job searches do not happen by Accident
• Determine businesses that hire people with your
  degree
• Identify job titles appropriate to your degree
• Review job descriptions on the Internet and in
  the newspaper
• Identify companies in your field of interest
• Research companies of interest

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Get Organized

• Identify a work space
• Double check arsenal of sales materials resume,
  sample cover letter, and reference list. Contact
  your references.
• Collect the information you will need to fill out
  job applications
• Listen to the voice mail messages on your cell
  and home phones and be sure they sound
  professional
• Create and practice your commercials scripts

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Keep Track

• If you do not have them, buy a planner/ schedule
  book a portfolio
• Buy a 2-inch binder (and a hole punch)
• Make copies of tracking forms
• Prepare to track every call and letter (and the
  expenses you incur) (see sample forms
  Internet/Newspaper, Letters, Contacts)

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Be Realistic

• You need work experience in your career field
• You will not start in the executive office you
  will have to prove yourself
• Understand likely starting salary range
• It is easy to get discouraged and give up you
  need a positive headset

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Secrets You Need to Know

• Three Types of People Hiring Managers Want to
  Avoid
• Those that cannot learn the job
• Those who will not do the work
• Those who are not cooperative or have an
  over-inflated sense of their worth

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Persistence is the Key to Finding a Job

• Recognize that finding a job is hard work
• It takes time and effort
• Dedicate a minimum of 25 hours each week to
  calls, follow up contacts, and research
• Your goal is to identify every possible lead

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Ways to Get Job Interviews

• Network
• Send letters to specific businesses asking for an
  interview
• Call companies, especially hiring managers
• Answer employment ads
• Use the Internet
• Register with an employment agency

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Tapping the Source of Secret Jobs..

• Conquer your fears and learn to Network
• 75 of all jobs are not advertised (hiring
  managers know the best employees come from
  employee referrals)
• Practice your personal commercials 30 second
  2 minutes
• Then start talking

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Who Do You Talk To?

• Talk to friends and relatives
• Talk to people who know lots of other people
  teachers, the guy you know at the local coffee
  shop, members of your church everyone you know
  or can identify
• Ask for help (additional contacts or info about
  available jobs)
• Your network is larger than you think.....

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Remember the Verizon Ad
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Send Letters

• First identify specific industry or business
• Find names and addresses of businesses in
  geographic area you are targeting
• Send a minimum of 5 letters a day
• Increase chances of success by sending letter to
  the hiring manager and a few days later,
  following up with a phone call

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The Telephone Can Be Your Friend

• Before you begin calling, develop your personal
  calling script
• Practice it with a friend
• When you are ready, call a real manager
• Dont give up if you get nervous or bomb the
  first couple of times
• Call before 1000 (often before 800 after 500
  is the trick)

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Respond to Ads

• Check out the employment ads every day

• To respond to an ad, first read it carefully
• Write each employer a letter telling them how you
  can help them

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Respond to Ads...more

• Mention the requirements listed in the ad and
  specifically describe your ability to meet them
• Do not forget to include advertisement code if
  there is one
• Mail letter and your resume to the indicated
  address

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Use the Internet

• Post your resume to one or more of the big job
  boards (you may be one of the lucky ones)
• Check out posted jobs on the job boards and apply
  for the ones you are qualified to do
• Go to the web sites for targeted companies and
  look for openings
• 53 of Internet hires come through companys own
  website

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Employment Agencies

• Identify employment agencies who specialize in
  your chosen occupation
• Do not rule out temporary jobs many work into
  employment opportunity or new contacts and
  references
• To find these agencies in your field, ask your
  friends or instructors or check the yellow pages.

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Questions?
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Good Luck!

• Resources The Job Hunting Handbook, Dahlstrom
  Company, Inc.