How to get a job

ProFile Career Dynamics, 2001

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HOW TO GET A JOB

Reveals 57 Tactics For Career Planning

and Job Hunting Success

Your Springboard To Career Success

www.career-dynamics.co.uk

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ProFile Career Dynamics

Published by ProFile Career Dynamics, 2001

Manchester, U.K.

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Contents

Section 1 Introduction 1

Section 2 Identifying Your Target 4

Targeting employers; gathering info.

Section 3 Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance 10

How to use your current job as preparation for your next one.

Section 4 Effective Job Hunting 21

Creating your killer CV; preparing for interviews; where to job hunt.

Some Final Notes 29

Appendix A Checklist for Job Hunters And Career Planners 31

Appendix B Further Reading And References 32

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1

SECTION 1

INTRODUCTION

ou must have noticed how the number of companies devoted to job listings, both

on- and off-line, are multiplying like a plague. But very few of them realise that the

job hunt starts way before you ever open a newspaper or log on to your favourite search

site. It begins in your current job. And that means today!

So welcome to ProFile Career Dynamics. ProFile's purpose is to accelerate your

career. It begins with maximising your potential in your current job and then providing you

with the guidance and advice you need to move onwards and upwards.

You see, just as you only build a house brick by brick, so each working day you are

progressing your career in some way, adding to your experience, moving towards your

annual goals, monthly quota or shift targets. It all adds up to whether you can do your job,

are good at it, or are great at it. You either build a town house or a mansion. It just

depends on the number of bricks you lay. It also helps to put your best looking ones in full

view – a quick self-marketing analogy for you, which will become apparent in the section

of CVs.

Preparation for your next job starts TODAY – in your present one.

But before I jump the gun, let me back track to re-emphasise that it is your current job you

need to focus on as preparation for your next job. Because without proof of success in

what you do now, the harder will be your task of finding a newer, better one later.

Conversely, if you excel at it, the stronger and quicker you will swing up the corporate

ladder.

With ProFile as your personal coach, you maximise your chances.

Finding another job is an inevitable juncture in everyone's career. So, as an

introduction to the many ways ProFile can help you fulfill your career potential, this report

covers the fundamentals of successful job hunting.

The employment market is growing ever more fluid and competition is growing progressively

fiercer. To win through – and to win quickly – you will need all the help you can get.

Let me ask you… do you think you would win more at the bookies if you had the inside word

from the horse trainers? Would you clean up at the poker table if you had an accomplice telling

you what cards everyone else had? Of course you would. And that's the competitive advantage

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