Recently I attended a Job Search Strategies workshop on Thursday, December 1st. It is a presentation of job searching. It talks about how we can apply different strategies into interview and job researching in order to get into the job we are pursuing. The workshop tells me how to prepare for interview and use different utilities to search for jobs in a general sense.
Instructor started the workshop by telling us we should better know what we are looking for. For instance, it is a good idea to identify our goals and evaluate ourselves before we go into interview. We should look for realistic goal for a job instead of thinking unrealistically. In instructor’s words, we are the product for the job. Employers are looking for a specific product that can benefit their company and in particularly, they are choosing the quality of our production. Our ability to work is the production they are looking at. Therefore, employers are just like an individual that looking for some quality that stands out of the product. We have to understand our advantage and strength so that we know how to sell ourselves.
Knowing our interest and skills, then we should be aware of the opportunity we can get. There are many ways to search for jobs. For example, advertisement, website, and newspaper are all available for us to look for further information. Networking is another useful way of searching for jobs. Instructor also informed us several websites that can help us to develop a better understand of the work field.
Job searchers also need to know the position that you are interested it and try to make connection within the industry. Know the market is also very important for us because from the market we can gather information of where the jobs locate and how many possible employers are there.
In conclusion, I think the workshop is helpful and I would attend more workshops about job searching in the future.