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Lecture 33

The document provides guidance on job searching and career planning, including how to prepare a resume, cover letter, and interview successfully. It discusses analyzing the changing workplace, researching companies, and customizing a resume in either a chronological or functional format to highlight relevant qualifications and experience for different positions. The focus is on understanding today's job market, developing realistic goals, networking, and organizing an effective approach for finding employment.

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Lecture 33

The document provides guidance on job searching and career planning, including how to prepare a resume, cover letter, and interview successfully. It discusses analyzing the changing workplace, researching companies, and customizing a resume in either a chronological or functional format to highlight relevant qualifications and experience for different positions. The focus is on understanding today's job market, developing realistic goals, networking, and organizing an effective approach for finding employment.

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Business
Communication
The Job Search Communication 2

Planning You Career Preparing


Resume

Writing Follow up & Writing Cover


Letter
Accept Offer Job Employment

Understanding
Participating in Interview Process
Interview
Preparing for Interview
The Job Search Communication 3

• Understanding Today’s Changing Workplace


• Numerous Forces are Changing
Work place is today influence by numerous forces such as
globalization, advancing technology information overload
grown diversity team based organizations certain other issue
such as corporate downsizing and cost-cutting initiatives
growing dependency on flexible employment techniques.
• How Changing workplace affect Job
Employment is more flexible no lifelong employees
temporary worker & consultant – on a project by project
basis.
The Job Search Communication 4

Hiring Practices
• What Today’s Employer Seek in job Applicants.
• Employer Seek employees Who Can adopt to new situation.
• Are unafraid to change.
• Continue to learn on the job.
• Are sensitive to cultural differences.
The Job Search Communication 5

Setting realistic objectives


Know your Major Strengths and weaknesses
• What you have done at school.
• Good with number.
• Get along with people.
• Gaps in work history.
• In experience.
• Over-qualification.
• Long term employment with one company.
• Job termination.
The Job Search Communication 6

Establish some goals


• Long & short term goals.
• Picture yourself as a successful person.
Envision the ideal day at work
• Talk to people of your envisioned profession.
• Read out various occupation.
• Determine your specific compensation you expect
Envision size of company & location
The Job Search Communication 7

How can you make yourself more valuable to employers.


• Keep an employment portfolio.
• Collect anything that shows your ability to perform.
• Take interim assignment.
• Temporary or freelance work.
• Work on polishing and upgrading your skill.
• Firm networks of professional colleague & friends to be
kept up with occupation & industry.
Narrow Down the Field 8

Let’s look at the functional areas of business and their


activities as first step in narrowing the field.
Finances
Investment bank, commercial banks savings and loans
corporation and brokerage houses.
Accounting
Public account firms or work as controllers or financial
planners.
Narrow Down the Field 9

Marketing & Sales


You want to go for a company that
Sell Consumer product industrial product, high-technology,
Human relations / personnel communication,
Management Information Systems.
Organizing your Approach 10

• Organize your Approach to the Employment Process


• Find out where the job opportunities are.
• Which industries are string.
• Which part of the country are booming..
Stay abreast of Business and Financial News
• Major newspaper
• Trade magazine
Subscribe to a major newspaper
Scan business page/watch television
Research Specific Companies
Make a list of desirable employers identify a promising
industry.
Organizing your Approach 11

Learn about Organization


Find out if a company maintain website
You’ll find information about organization’s mission,
products annual report employee benefits.
Respond to Job Opening
Send resumes quickly and cheaply through e-mail and send
focused cover letters directly to executives doing the hiring.
Find Career Counseling
College placement offer individual counseling on campus
interview job history.
Organizing your Approach 12

Analyze your Purpose & Audience


• Study your purpose and your audience to tailor your message
for maximum effect.
• Gather relevant information.
• Establish a good relationship by highlighting those skills and
qualifications that match each employer.
Writing Resumes & Application 13
Letters
Analyze your purpose and audience
A resume is a structured, written summary of a person’s
education, employment background, and job
qualifications. Resume is a form of advertising. It is
intended to stimulate an employer’s interest in your.
Writing Resumes & Application 14
Letters
Fallacy Fact
Don’t think of a resume is A resume will kindle
to list all your skills and employer interest and
abilities generate an interview
Get you the job you want Get you in the door
Read carefully and In fact your resume
thoroughly by an interested probably has less than 45
employer seconds to make an
impression.
A Good Resume 15

A good resume is a flexible and can be customized for various


situations and employers.
Seven Qualities that Employer Seek
1. Think in term of result.
2. Know how to get things done.
3. Qualifications are well rounded.
4. You show signs of progress
5. You have personal standards of excellence
6. You are flexible and willing to try new things
7. You possess strong communication skills.
Appropriate Organizational 16
Approach
Appropriate Organizational Approach
To focus attention on your strongest points, adopt the
appropriate organizational approach – make your resume
chronological, functional, or a combination of the two.
The Chronological Resume 17

In a chronological resume, the work-experience section


dominates, immediately after the name and address and the
objective. You develop this section by listing your jobs
sequentially in reverse order, beginning with the most
recent position and working backward toward earlier jobs.
Under each listing, describe your responsibility and
accomplishments, giving the most space to the most
recent positions. If you’re just graduating from college,
you can vary this chronological approach by putting your
educational qualifications before your experience.
The Chronological Resume 18

This approach has three key advantages:


(1) Employers are familiar with it & can easily find
information
(2) it highlights growth and career progression
(3) it highlights employment continuity and stability
The chronological approach is especially appropriate if you
have a strong employment history and are aiming for a job
that builds on your current career path.

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