Tips for Finding a Job

Here are some practical tips you can use to land the job

• Be persistent.
• Specify the motivation that leads us to seek employment.
• Take into account the conditions in which we are willing to work.
• Be aware of the tools with which to land a job.
• Know your educational strengths and weaknesses.
• Know your strengths and weaknesses in business.
• Prepare in advance a self-description that includes the personal characteristics that are most important.
• Make yourself available to pursue all avenues of recruitment.
• Do not be limited to only respond to offers from newspapers and the internet.
• Scan the ads in the newspapers and on the internet.
• Remember that a resume is your cover letter to the company.
• If it is appropriate, send a photo, but do not draw attention to yourself.
• Inform your former bosses that you will be using them as work references.
• Get to the interview location at least 10 minutes early.
• Walk with confidence, reach out to people, smile and say hello.
• Wait until the interviewer asks for you.
• Treat the caller by name, but never by the first name unless he/she insists.
• Do not speak ill of a past employer.
• Do not seek to draw attention to your clothes or accessories.
• Do not give evidence of economic problems.
• Avoid being defensive.
• Do not talk in slang or idioms.
• Be formal.
• Do not provide confidential information about your company.
• Do not provide information about wages in the labor market.
• Avoid asking about salary.
• Try to see if the interviewer will give you an offer in due time.
• Just be emphatic in your interests with respect to wages and benefits in the final interview.
• Do no make phone calls to the company to see if you have been selected.

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