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JOB SEARCH AND EMPLOYMENT:Planning Your Career

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Lesson 33
JOB SEARCH AND EMPLOYMENT
The Job Search Communication
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Understanding Today's Changing Workplace
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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 such as
outsourcing and increasing entrepreneurism.
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How Changing workplace affect Job
Employment is more flexible no lifelong employees temporary worker & consultant ­ on a project
by project basis. If we conduct survey few people intend to hold the save job for 5 yr self-employment is
attractive to more faremore worker.
Hiring Practices
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What Today's Employer Seek in job Applicants
·  Employer Seek Who
Can adopt to new situation
Are unafraid to change
Continue to learn on the job
Are sensitive to cultural differences
Planning Your Career
·  Before selling a product know what that product is all about
Setting realistic objectives
·  You one not expecting to be managing a major corporation or earning 100,000/- Rs. similarly not
expecting to do some petty job this is a phase of self-assessment process.
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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
Establish some goals
·  Long & short term goals.
·  Picture yourself as a successful person
Envision the ideal day at work
·  Talk to people your envisioned profession
·  Read out various occupation
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Determine your specific compensation you expect
Envision size of company & location
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
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 jobs range from financial records
or balance sheets to monitoring business plans.
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
·  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 (print or line edition)
Subscribe to a major newspaper
Scan business page/watch television
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Research Specific Companies
Make a list of desirable employers identify a promising industry
Learn about Organization
Find out if a company maintain website
You'll find information about org'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
Analyze your Purpose & Audience
·  Study your purpose and your audience to tailor your message for maximum effect.
·  Gather relevant information about you and the employer your are targeting.
·  Establish a good relationship by highlighting those skills and qualifications that match each
employer.
Writing Resumes & Application Letters
Preparing Resumes
Send your messages such as resumes, application letters, job inquiries, and follow-up letter.
Sending out such employment messages, you have an opportunity to showcase your
communication skills ­ skills valued highly by the majority of employers. In fact, your success in
finding a job will depend on how carefully you plan, write, and complete your resume.
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.
A successful resume inspires a prospective employer to invite you to interview with the
company. Thus, your purpose to create interest ­ not to tell readers everything about you. In fact, it
may be best to only hint at some things.
Fact
Fallacy
A resume will kindle employer interest and
Don't think of a resume is to list all your
skills and abilities
generate an interview
Get you the job you want
Get you in the door
In fact your resume probably has less than
Read carefully and thoroughly by an
interested employer
45 seconds to make an impression.
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Investigate pertinent information
Include pertinent personal history. The specific dates, duties, and accomplishments of any previous jobs
you've held. Collect every piece of relevant educational experience that adds to your qualifications, such as
formal degrees, skills, certificates, academic awards, or scholarships.
Information about personal endeavors: dates of your membership in an association, offices you may
have held in a club or professional organization? Presentations you might have given to a community group.
Adapt your resume to your Audience
Because your resume will have little time to make an impression, be sure to adopt a "you" attitude and think
about your resume from the employers perspective. Ask yourself: What key qualifications will this employer
be looking for? Which of these qualifications are your greatest strengths? What quality would set you
apart from other candidates in the eyes of a potential employer. What are three or four of your
greatest accomplishments, and what resulted from these accomplishments?
A Good Resume
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. are well rounded,
4. show signs of progress
5. have personal standards of excellence
6. are flexible and willing to try new things
7. possess strong communication skills.
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. are well rounded,
4. show signs of progress
5. have personal standards of excellence
6. are flexible and willing to try new things
7. possess strong communication skills.
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 "right" choice depends on your
background and your goals.
The Chronological Resume
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, thereby focusing attention on your academic credentials.
The chorological approach is the most common way to organize a resume, and many employers prefer it.
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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Table of Contents:
  1. COMMUNICATION:Definition of Communication, Communication & Global Market
  2. FLOW OF COMMUNICATION:Internal Communication, External Communication
  3. THEORIES OF COMMUNICATION:Electronic Theory, Rhetorical Theory
  4. THE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION & MISCOMMUNICATION:Message
  5. BARRIERS IN EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION /COMMUNICATION FALLOFF
  6. NON- VERBAL COMMUNICATION:Analysing Nonverbal Communication
  7. NON- VERBAL COMMUNICATION:Environmental Factors
  8. TRAITS OF GOOD COMMUNICATORS:Careful Creation of the Message
  9. PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION:Clarity
  10. CORRECTNESS:Conciseness, Conciseness Checklist, Correct words
  11. CONSIDERATION:Completeness
  12. INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
  13. INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION:Education, Law and Regulations, Economics
  14. INDIVIDUAL CULTURAL VARIABLES:Acceptable Dress, Manners
  15. PROCESS OF PREPARING EFFECTIVE BUSINESS MESSAGES
  16. Composing the Messages:THE APPEARANCE AND DESIGN OF BUSINESS MESSAGES
  17. THE APPEARANCE AND DESIGN OF BUSINESS MESSAGES:Punctuation Styles
  18. COMMUNICATING THROUGH TECHNOLOGY:Email Etiquette, Electronic Media
  19. BASIC ORGANIZATIONAL PLANS:Writing Goodwill Letters
  20. LETTER WRITING:Direct Requests, Inquiries and General Requests
  21. LETTER WRITING:Replies to Inquiries, Model Letters
  22. LETTER WRITING:Placing Orders, Give the Information in a Clear Format
  23. LETTER WRITING:Claim and Adjustment Requests, Warm, Courteous Close
  24. LETTER WRITING:When The Buyer Is At Fault, Writing Credit Letters
  25. LETTER WRITING:Collection Letters, Collection Letter Series
  26. LETTER WRITING:Sales Letters, Know your Buyer, Prepare a List of Buyers
  27. MEMORANDUM & CIRCULAR:Purpose of Memo, Tone of Memorandums
  28. MINUTES OF THE MEETING:Committee Members’ Roles, Producing the Minutes
  29. BUSINESS REPORTS:A Model Report, Definition, Purpose of report
  30. BUSINESS REPORTS:Main Features of the Report, INTRODUCTION
  31. BUSINESS REPORTS:Prefatory Parts, Place of Title Page Items
  32. MARKET REPORTS:Classification of Markets, Wholesale Market
  33. JOB SEARCH AND EMPLOYMENT:Planning Your Career
  34. RESUME WRITING:The Chronological Resume, The Combination Resume
  35. RESUME & APPLICATION LETTER:Personal Details, Two Types of Job Letters
  36. JOB INQUIRY LETTER AND INTERVIEW:Understanding the Interview Process
  37. PROCESS OF PREPARING THE INTERVIEW:Planning for a Successful Interview
  38. ORAL PRESENTATION:Planning Oral Presentation, To Motivate
  39. ORAL PRESENTATION:Overcoming anxiety, Body Language
  40. LANGUAGE PRACTICE AND NEGOTIATION SKILLS:Psychological barriers
  41. NEGOTIATION AND LISTENING:Gather information that helps you
  42. THESIS WRITING AND PRESENTATION:Write down your ideas
  43. THESIS WRITING AND PRESENTATION:Sections of a Thesis (Format)
  44. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:Studies Primarily Qualitative in Nature
  45. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:Basic Rules, Basic Form, Basic Format for Books