I spoke with John Reed, district president of Robert Half Technolgy in Dallas, about the main steps unemployed workers should take in a time job-hunting is, to say the least, competitive. How can you be sure you’re not spinning your wheels? He offered three tactics:
- Get up every morning and view your search as a full-time job. It can’t be a part-time gig at which you spend a couple of hours a day sending out a few resumes.
- Be good at articulating your ROI to prospective employers. Companies are in a cost-cutting, cost-conscious mode, and any job that doesn’t directly contribute to revenue generation is susceptible to elimination.
- Be excellent at networking. Go to professional user group meetings. Do whatever it takes to connect with professionals who “are swimming in the same pool you are in.”
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