As a job seeker, you may feel powerless right now, but this is not entirely true. Yes, your competition has increased, but so have your remote work opportunities. Here is a five-week strategy to fast-track your job search.
- Week 1: Update your résumé to highlight transferable job skills. To show you are adaptable, generalize the skills on your résumé into three main areas: systems-oriented, people-oriented, and self-oriented.
- Week 2: Improve your personal brand on LinkedIn and make your profile visible. Make sure hiring managers see your LinkedIn profile by using keywords to land more search results
- Week 3: Conduct informational interviews with potential co-workers. These conversations might land you an informational interview, or they might guide you toward other potential opportunities.
- Week 4: Ask for job search referrals from your connections. Getting a job search referral usually guarantees that your application will be seriously considered
- Week 5: Prepare for your virtual job interview. Craft a few questions catered to the company, the work they do, or projects they’ve launched that catch your interest.
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There’s no other way to put it: Finding a job during Covid-19 is hard. If you are looking to land a new role, your success depends largely on hiring trends and the economy, both of which are working against you right now. Hiring fell to a seven-year low last fall.
