Organizing Your Job Search For Success

Working, as I do with job seekers every day it seems to me that the most common complaint relates to being organized. The main activities you will be involved in include networking, resume and cover letter building, the search itself, and of course interviews. It is imperative that you develop a methodology to keep track of these multiple components as a mistake can be costly.

To be successful in your job search you are required to Network, Network and Network, building your contact lists and stretching your reach and touch. Asking for advice and that most important question who else should I be talking to. Recent statistics have suggested that the tipping point for a self sustaining network lies in the region of 60 to 70 active contacts. You need to develop the network and make sure that you send Thank You notes not only to the people you meet but also to the person that introduced you. Everyone likes to be thanked.

If you are like most job seekers, you will have tailored your resume, if only the summary section, and saved that copy with a file name that makes sense and is easily traced. This requires that you save your resumes either in a central, online place or on a USB drive that you can carry with you. This applies to cover letters as well as the resume itself.

Then comes the job applications themselves, you have scoured the Internet with every search engine known to man, you have networked opportunities and now you see opportunities coming through the door. Depending on where you found it there may be tools available on that site to help with tracking who you sent what to and when but the chances are it will be limited to activities at that site only.

So, we have networking contacts, tailored resumes and cover letters and job applications that you have applied for from multiple sites and contacts. How do you keep this together, go out and look for a site that combines all of these management tools in one place that will allow you to maximize the time you spend on your Job Search rather than the time you spend administering it.

By: The Job Coach

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Barry at VirtualJobCoach.com - Your personal job-search assistant. www.VirtualJobCoach.com