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The jobs market and some job seeking top tips

Guest post by: Bill Wynn

Article Overview: Bill Wynn, Managing Director of Project Resource Limited, a successful and professional UK based recruitment business gives job seekers some advice on the jobs market (August 2010) and some job seeking top tips.

The jobs market and some job seeking top tips

Demand for staff

We all know only too well that the past few years have been immensely difficult for us all. Construction and the recruitment industry are well documented to have been two of the hardest hit industries in the UK. Many companies have gone out of business, many have had to make redundancies, many of you may have been out of work, or known people out of work for the first time in many years. As a Director of Project Resource and a very experienced recruiter, I still find it heart breaking to hear when people are fearing for their jobs, or being made redundant and their profession is in very low demand; or they have been unemployed for a long-time; or had a negative experience working with another less professional recruiter. However, things are getting better, demand is increasing slowly, there are opportunities now and they will continue to improve. I thought I would give job seekers some tips on how to ensure you are doing all you can to promote yourself in the internet age we live. Some of these are simple, some a little more out there, you decide what you want or do not want to do.

Job seeking top tips

• Choose carefully which recruitment businesses you register with. DO NOT REGISTER WITH EVERY COMPANY. Be selective, good recruitment businesses will want to represent you and have a close working relationship, similarly to how a football agent manages their players. Choose a company or companies that are members of professional recruitment bodies such as REC, APSCo and ARC. Does the recruitment business have professional testimonials on their website, recommendations on LinkedIn.

• Have you registered on recruitment company websites, so that you can receive job alerts, of the exact job matches that suit your desire.

• Do you have an exhaustive LinkedIn profile and recommendations to the high standards of your work? Simple to do and many employers and recruiters now use this system to source staff.

• Have you registered your CV on the various job boards? Some of the larger more well-known sites include Totaljobs, Monster and CV Library.

• Do you have your own blog site? Here you can discuss something you are passionate about and get noticed. Keep it technical or work related if using this medium to attract prospective employers or recruiters.

• Do you have a work related twitter account? Project Resource uses twitter as a location to post all our job vacancies (user name: ProjectResJobs). This appeals to those people who use twitter, because they can follow us through this medium, these followers can immediately be updated of new jobs as we register them.

• Produce a video and post to your own blog, website or you tube. You tube is the second most used search engine on the internet. Having a profile or "elevator pitch" about you and your capabilities can be a powerful tool if done right. Make the video simple, 30 seconds to 1 minute overview, not too professional looking.

• Most of all, be flexible, be patient, be professional.

I understand that for the majority of job seekers some of these ideas may be way out there, but sometimes you have to be different, think different to be noticed.

I hope you found this article of interest, if you did, you can find much more information like this on our website.

Until our paths cross I wish you every success in your current work.

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