Archives: 2009 March

In some recent articles, I have broken down the job finding process into its logical components and detailed them individually. With this article I intend on building on those articles by offering tips which will speed up the process for you, looking at job hunting as an entire process.

1. Always Keep Your Eyes Open For Your Next Job

You need to be aware of the conditions in your industry all the time. You should know what is going on, who is hiring, who is firing, where the opportunities are when you have a job as well as when you are looking. Market awareness should be a part of your professional approach to your career. Waiting until you need a job to look into this could cost you months and missed opportunities. So don’t wait till then, get up to date now.

2. Keep your resume up to date

You should always have your resume ready to go. Update it once or twice a year with any new experiences and skills. Having a current resume enables you to take advantage of all those “send me your resume now if you are interested” type of opportunities which occasionally come along. Taking advantage of these could mean you never end up looking for a job at all.

3. Recognise Networking Opportunities Every Day

Basically everything you do while you are at work and when you spend time with work people outside work hours, should be seen as a networking exercise. Make an effort to remember everyone you meet in your professional circles. Grease the wheels here. Getting this right will really help you with point 1 above also.

4. Always Go To That Interview – Even When You Aren’t Interested.

The problem with interviews is that it requires a skill. You are selling yourself. Most interviews follow similar patterns, even though the questions are never the same. If you attend all interviews you are invited to, whether you want the job or not, you will be practising this very important skill. You need to have this skill practised and perfected for when the perfect job comes up. You do not want to miss that perfect job because of poor interviewing skills. Practise makes perfect so go to every interview you are invited to.

5. Diarise All Your Experiences

Job hunting is an evolutionary process. You need to modify your approach to every unique job and as your skills improve. A great tool to help you with this is to diarise your experiences, noting where you did well and where you think you could have done better. Really make an effort to learn from your experiences so each job you go for is a better effort than the last.

6. If you do not have a job and need one, make job hunting your full time job.

HOOT! How can you select? The long awaited release of the Apple iPhone 3G, with it is open support for 3rd party apps, showered us with hundreds of latest choices in iPhone software and iPhone applications. The iTunes App Shop opened with over five hundred licensed apps. They ran the gamut from simply fun stuff to business to travel to the weather to highly scientific apps and everything else in between. And that was just opening day! Latest iphone apps are being developed and released as we speak. So selecting the top four iPhone software and apps is a challenging call. But we’ll give it a go, just so you will be in the know about the newest!

Our Top Pick is a complete set of iPhone software and iPhone applications all on 1 DVD. It’s the ultimate entertainment package from TheiPhoneDVD.com. How anybody ever got this much stuff into one DVD is a feat in itself, but it works! And you get to savour the results of their challenging work. Check it out:

You get the best software on the market today to convert your DVD movies to your iPhone. Converting your movies is prompt and easy with their 1 touch graphical interface. It merely cant get any easier than this. You could convert your entire library of DVD movies to iPhone movies in record time. Need a break? Watch your favourite movies right on your iPhone.

Another software on The iPhone DVD solves your dilemma regarding how to unlock your iPhone safely, legally, and without having to utilise AT&T for your carrier if you dont want to. Utilizing this iPhone software, you could connect to whatsoever mobile carrier service you desire.

The iPhone DVD likewise carries the broadest collection on the planet of iPhone wallpapers, ring tones, graphics, animations, sound effects, and video clips. With this package, your days of being exhausted even for a minute are in the past.

Put several pizazz into your life with The iPhone DVD!

Our next 3 Top Picks are several of the latest iPhone applications from the iTunes App Shop.

One of the latest rages on the Net is Twitter. People all over the world are following each other on Twitter, and getting a big kick out of it. Thus, Twitterific is our favorite pick from the iTunes App Shop. With this iPhone application you could continue your twittering right from your iPhone!

Another fun iPhone app from the iTunes App Shop is PhoneSaber. This cool application turns your iPhone into a light saber. You even get sound effects! Savor the fun and excitement of Star Wars wherever you might roam with PhoneSaber.

Our last pick unites the memories of past times with today’s high tech lifestyle. Its the Rotary Dialer iPhone app from the iTunes App Shop. This application turns your iPhone into a rotary dialer. Dial your calls the old-fashioned way, and bring back the good old times, with the Rotary Dialer.

If you’re interested in Cisco training and you haven’t worked with routers before, the right certification is the CCNA. This training course was created to teach people who want practical know how on routers. Big organisations who have several locations need routers to join up their various different networks of computers to keep in contact with each other. The Internet is made up of vast numbers of routers also.

As routers are connected to networks, it is vital to understand how networks work, or you’ll struggle with the course and not be able to follow the work. Seek out a program that covers networking fundamentals (for example CompTIA) before you get going on CCNA.

The appropriate skill-set and understanding ahead of starting your Cisco CCNA course skills is crucial. Therefore, discuss the requirements expected of you with someone who will know what you need.

When was the last time you considered your job security? Normally, we only think of this after we get some bad news. But in today’s marketplace, The cold truth is that job security simply doesn’t exist anymore, for most of us. Security can now only exist via a swiftly escalating market, driven forward by work-skills shortages. These circumstances create the right setting for a higher level of market-security – a far better situation.

The Information Technology (IT) skills-gap around the United Kingdom falls in at roughly twenty six percent, as reported by a recent e-Skills investigation. Showing that for each four job positions that exist across Information Technology (IT), there are only 3 trained people to do them. Attaining proper commercial IT accreditation is accordingly an effective route to realise a long-term as well as pleasing occupation. Surely, this really is a critical time to train for the computer industry.

So, which questions do we need to ask so as to gain the understanding we want? Because it seems there are many rather great prospects for everyone to investigate.

We can see an excess of employment in Information Technology. Arriving at the correct choice for yourself can be very difficult. What is our likelihood of grasping the many facets of a particular career when we haven’t done that before? We normally don’t know someone who works in that sector anyway. Often, the key to unlocking this issue properly comes from a full talk over several areas:

* The kind of person you reckon you are – which things you find interesting, plus of course – what you definitely don’t enjoy.

* Why you want to consider starting in Information Technology – it could be you’re looking to achieve a long-held goal such as firing your boss and working for yourself for example.

* Any personal or home needs you may have?

* With many, many areas to train for in the IT industry – there’s a need to achieve some key facts on what separates them.