Unconventional fertile grounds to hunt jobs
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| View services you can perform as well as goods you can supply. |
BY MUSYOKA NGUI
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he popular narrative is to know someone who
knows someone to hook you up with that dream employer. But have you tried these
less than regular avenues to search for jobs? They could be the difference
between you tarmacking or enjoying that pay check.
LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a social
networking platform for professionals. You can hook up with your colleagues,
school mates, and prospective employers and create relationships likely to lead
to career growth.
All you need to do is to
create a LinkedIn account by your official email and track notifications from LinkedIn. It will suggest companies that you can work
for. However, before you wait for luck, be sure that you have updated your
profile to present and track any current achievements you have made in the
recent past so that you include them as well.
Prospective Employer
Tech savvy companies have
portals where prospective job-seekers can upload and update their C Vs as they
await for vacancies to occur in future. They will contact you when the
opportunity opens.
Push your envelope by
regularly visiting these sites and checking your official email for any viable
opportunity notification.
Family and Friends
Working colleagues and
relations come in handy since they are insiders in organizations which may not
advertise for jobs in the media in order to cut on the advertising
expenditure.
Activate weak or strained
relations with friends since they can help you. Above all, communicate
effectively not just when you need them but also when they need you. Give them
a reason to remember you when the opportunity arises.
Hang out with good company.
Trust me, birds of a feather flock together and if you have problem interacting
with professional colleagues then you are the problem and you should start
switching careers and enrolling for career counseling. You may be having an
underlying identity crisis that prevents you from progressing upwards in the
ladder of job.
Job sites
This field has been abused by
human traffickers and corrupt fellows who don’t mind selling desperate job
hunters to a slave owner in some obscure Middle East theocracy to go and carry
out odd chores like washing snakes, performing sexual servitude and contracting
sexually transmitted diseases, injuries and dying in the Diaspora.
However, there are credible
job agencies which head-hunt professional job seekers for their prospective
employers. If anything you do carry out a comprehensive due diligence. Do your
homework rather than being excited by plum careers. Not all that glitters is
gold.
OLX
By now you have heard about
Online Exchange (OLX). Beyond the fancy ads and hype it works. Visit Google
Play or App Store and download OLX application for free. Then select your
country, city and the type of job you are looking for. You will view services
you can perform as well as goods you can supply.
Hook up with clients but do
not make payments without receiving the commodity you ordered. If you must meet
with clients do so in public places not secluded or private places. This will
minimize harm from unscrupulous dealers.
Combine the above
unconventional job tips with your regular search methods and you will stand
better chances of landing that dream job. You can live your dream.
The
writer is a blogger at musyokangui.blogspot.com and a Fourth Year Communication
and Media student at Chuka University.
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