Tips On Landing A Job

    After quitting my previous job and started working at KL, I actually have a lot of free time especially during the weekend. So, I decided myb I should find some good reading materials to read during my free time. I checked my luggage that I brought from Perak; actually I use my luggage as a place to keep my stuffs here since I dont have proper drawer, and I found Reader's Digest(RD) that I took from my sister. She used to subcribe the magazine while she was studying Seri Puteri School.
    I figured out it's not a bad idea to read the magazine. It's an educational magazine full wt great info and facts, not an entertainment mag full wt bullshits and gossips. I'm cool wt that, right on. At this moment, I almost finish reading my 2nd RD and I am thinking myb I should start subcribing the magazine. It's not that expensive and I guess it's worth spending every penny on it.
  One of the article that I found most interesting to read is about tips on landing a job. Since I used to be jobless for quiet long time after my graduation, I think I have the stand to comment about this. I know how hard it is to find a job nowadays and it'll be worst if your plan of action is wrong. You'll waste your time, money and energy without landing any job. The article is pretty short but the content is straight to the point and definitely useful. Below are some of the mentioned points:-

1. Get a temp job while doing your job hunting
     I think this is a good advice for a job seeker and I've done this before. It helps me a lot in my job hunting. It's true that you'll have less time focusing for your job hunting, but if you look at a broader horizon, it actually will balance back what you've lose in some sense either you realize it or not. For me, job hunting is not a thing that you need to do in most of your time. You can do it when you have your free time, but you have to manage your time wisely. You need to know how to divide your time for your temporary job, for your job hunting and for your rest. Plan your day carefully, decide what you wanna do in your everyday schedule. This consequently will help you to plan your day and appreciate the time that you have cz it is the cheapest gold you get everyday. Besides that, temp job also could help you create a network. I'll explain more on this later.

2. Specify your CV wt good chose of words
     This is so damn true. Create your resume carefully and smartly. Choose the words wisely and make sure it's attractive and catchy. Just remember, HR receive myb thousands applications everyday and they definitely know how to differentiate people just based on the resume. Take your time to write your resume and get some help from your friends. Ask them to do proof reading and also ask their opinion. Recently, I found out that one local university's career centre encourages their students to put some interesting pic in the resume such as field trip pic or FYP pic. I thought that's pretty genius, as we all know, a pic is worth a thousand words.

3. Practice interview
    Practice makes perfect, most people have heard this sentence. However, not all of us apply this in our daily life. Once you receive an interview invitation, make sure you have an interview rehearsal; doesn't matter if you do it by yourself or wt the help from your friend. Once you're familiar wt the general Q&A for the interview, you actually will build confidence in yourself to get through the interview successfully. Believe me, try this and I can guarantee you this will help you a lot.

4. Create a network
     Based on a stat that I read before, almost 60% people get their job wt help of networking. See how it works now in a bigger picture. You can have all the great skills and experience, but without networking, it's gonna be hard for you to land a job. For example, you're doing job hunting just by looking for a job opening in newspaper ad and career website. These openings usually will receive thousands applications and for the first stage, normally all the applications will be sorted by computer, electronically. This means that, computer will scan your resume based on certain chosen words. So, doesn't matter how awesome you're but if the words they're looking for are not in your resume, then it's the end for your application. Furthermore, keep in mind that, not all company will advertise their opening online or in a newspaper. That costs them a huge amount of money. So, usually for this kind of opening, people just spread the words, and if you hv good networking plus wt a little bit of luck, you'll be informed about the opening.
Be friendly and don't shy to social wt people around you. Tell them you're doing job hunting, create a network with them. You're not gonna lose anything, you even gain more.

The path that we chose full with hurdles, get it through without giving up. 

    That's pretty much what I can ramble about based on my humble opinion and experience before I got the job that I'm doing right now. Just bear in mind, job hunting is not gonna be easy. Keep your spirit high and make sure you're always motivated to continue your job hunting no matter what happen until you get the job that you dream on. If you give up in the middle of the journey, you lose the game and you probably end up doing job that you're not interested to do at all; it sucks, for real.