How do some professionals seem to get ahead with their career? Is it luck, good fortune or who they know? Well to some extent it is to do with who you know, but for most it’s because they know that you have to let people be able to offer you your next job rather than have to go and find it yourself.
If you are sought after, instead of a job seeker you can command so much more in terms of salary and remuneration package.
If you are a student for example and looking to start your career in finance or accountancy for example then you need to tell people, organizations, recruiters who you are and why they should hire you. These days it’s not enough to go through the “milk round” the best and key positions have already been snapped up.
To succeed you need to register with some key job boards. Remember though you don’t want to plaster your cv details wide and far but be careful in how you choose to distribute your CV details. So if you have been studying finance and accounts for example make sure you choose a recruiter or job board that specializes in accountancy and financial markets. A good example of a specialist jobboard is Financejobs.co.nz they specialize in NZ and AU finance and accounts jobs and have a wide range of recruiters and employers that use them to fill their job vacancies. If I was a student looking for finance work i’d register free straight away and make sure that my best CV was uploaded so employers could find me rather than wait for ad response.
The other key advice to take on board is that when you are applying for positions, to make sure that your CV is relevant to the position that you are applying for. I would highly recommend that you “design” several CV’s for the specific positions that you are interested in, use the keywords for the type of work that you “want” to do rather than leaving them out. Many recruiters will base their searches on the skills they need, by doing this you are likely to get shortlisted even if you don’t have the experience! After all if you don’t get interviews how will you get the job!
For experienced and key employee’s it may have been sometime since you were actively job seeking, I’d highly recommend keeping your options open especially if you are working in finance or accounts sectors; you can quickly find that companies are going bust, merging, or making redundancies. So get your CV updated and keep all your options open.
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