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Your job search can be a full-time job! In fact, it can take months to
find a job that matches your degree level and skills. Here are some
solid job search strategies:
- actively pursue many leads at once in your job search.
- devote a large amount of time each day to your job search.
- inform everyone in your network (family, friends and colleagues) of your job search.
- join student, community or professional organizations to add new contacts to your network.
- Enlist the help of your school alumni office and career placement center in your job search.
- Go beyond monster.com to research company websites and trade and professional association websites too.
- Directly contact employer s that you are interested in even if they have no job postings.
- Consider contacting a recruiter or private employment agency to help with your job search.
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Looking for a job? The future is looking good! According to the U.S.
Department of Labor, the annual average unemployment rate was 4.6% in 2006. In 1982, it was 9.7%, more than double what is today! That's good news if you are doing a job search.
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According to information obtained from a U.S. Department of Labor website; Eighty percent of available jobs are never advertised, and over half of all employees get their jobs through networking.
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Many online colleges and universities offer job search services while
you're a student and even after graduation as an alumni. Get FREE information from the top, accredited schools now.
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