30 Jul 4 tips to actively find your job online
Job search techniques over the years have changed in step with tech development and also with the new techniques used by recruiters to find the right candidates.
Today, in order to find the job that really interests you, you have to be much more proactive than in the past. Let’s look together at 4 useful tips for finding your dream job!
1 – Choose the right job boards
The most obvious advice is to start with job boards. Nowadays there are so many such sites and there is no point in uploading your CV on every possible message board. Identify and choose only those 3 or 4 job boards that correspond to the type of job or industry that really interest you. This will give you the opportunity to read job offers more relevant to your professional experience. Applying to these relevant offers will allow you to get more feedback, which will also lift your mood.
Don’t forget to include keywords in your forms or in your CV that are relevant to the position you are seeking.
2 – Don’t underestimate the job offers on Linkedin
Linkedin is a very important social network that manages to connect recruiters, candidates and companies. There are many vacancies posted on that platform, and sometimes those vacancies are posted exclusively on Linkedin.
Of course, before applying for a job offer that you have found on that social network, make sure that you have created a good profile, and possibly made some posts related to your industry.
3 – Take care of your network
The third tip partly relates to the second, but not only. You have to take care of your network, both on LinkedIn and in real life.
What does this mean? That during your life you certainly have met or will know people who could help you find a new job.
It’s a kind of hidden market: companies often first circulate their vacancies internally among the management, so having the possibility of connections ‘at the top’ is very useful indeed. Then activate or reactivate all your useful contacts: start with LinkedIn for instance by adding these people.
In this way, you will also have the possibility to add relevant second-degree contacts (such as HR managers, for example) and interact with them, e.g. under their posts or by private message in case they have posted an offer on their profile.
4 – Be proactive
Become a job hunter, especially if you are looking for a position of responsibility.
How to be proactive? By communicating online your knowledge of your industry, your skills, your personality, your values, and how you position yourself professionally. LinkedIn is a great platform for all this.
Post to make yourself known: it will be an accelerator in your job search. If you do not feel like publishing yourself, you can also share the content of others: it will be a way of showing what you are interested in. But always try to accompany everything with your own comment, even if it is brief.
It does take a bit of courage to start being active on professional platforms and it surely takes time, but it does pay off!
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