One of my favorite contacts in the industry just mentioned to me how rarely that I post on my Blog anymore. As such, it triggered me to make the time to write a quick post.
As so many of you know all too well, things have been incredibly tough out there in the industry with so many amazing people out of work. It's a frustrating and scary time for all! I have been working much less...not due to choice...but out of how tight our industry is right now. I can only think and agree with so many of you who believe that things will come back strong here soon enough!
With so many of you in job search mode, I thought it might be helpful to provide a few of my favorite sources and suggestions for tapping into versus the same old traditional methods of just posting your resume on one of the major job boards. I will try to focus on being better about posting more frequently and also focusing my posts on job search tips over the next several weeks. While I can't promise that I'll offer any new or earth shattering tips...I am hopeful perhaps one or two of the things I mention may hekp at least a few of you!
Worth sharing with you all, is that above and beyond knowing so many of you in the industry who are out of work right now, that several of my friends and family members have also been hit by the dismal economy. We had a gathering at my house a month or so ago and 4 of the 10 people had just been laid off from their jobs which seemed crazy to me! Both my sister and brother in law are unemployed. Mentioning this to you, as my brother in law ended up posting his resume on a variety of job boards. One of those ended up being craigslist.com While most people think of craigslist as a site to sell or buy items, there is indeed a huge presence of resumes, job postings and also many recruiters and companies who now surf the site in hopes of picking up their next employee. In this case, a local newspaper reporter spotted my brother in laws resume and called him to conduct an interview for a several week series of articles on people in our community who have been affected by the economy and had lost their jobs. After interviewing my borther in law, the reporter also interviewing my sister in law and did a large front page article and pictures on their family. While it has been too recent (just last week) to have any possible job offers or leads come of it, I thought it was worth sharing as you never know who or where your next job lead will come from. More than anything, it provided them a bright spot in both of their job searches with teh never ending process of sending resumes and not hearing back from those they applied to.
More next week...I will be putting some thought into other creative, out of the box type tips that I can come up with to try and asist you in your search efforts. Hang in there with your job searches and hope you all enjoy the weekend! : )
