Your professional image while you’re searching for a job is like your home while you’re trying to sell it. It must impress all the time. You never know when a potential buyer – or employer – might want to take a look.
That’s where personal branding comes in. It maintains your professional image online, whether or not you’re there. As with selling a house, you can manage it yourself or invest in professionals.
We are now living in an age when technology has made it possible for a person to telecommute and still deliver just as any other worker. There are countless work-from-home jobs that you can do today. However, statistics show that just as there are numerous online jobs out there, there are scams to look out for as well. For every legitimate job you see online, there are around 50 scams. This calls for a person to be careful and vigilant when searching for an online job. Still, the opportunities found online are countless. Here are some of the best online jobs today:
Translator – Translating jobs are becoming popular. The main reason is because the world is becoming more integrated, or rather globalization is becoming more real by the day. A person who is bilingual is in high demand because companies don’t feel constrained by geographical factors. All they do is hire online and the translator will deliver results from their homes. The hourly median pay for a translator in American in 2015 was around $21.
LinkedIn has a membership of more than 277 million people. So while you may want to be a part of the gigantic network, you also don’t want the crowd to swallow you up into oblivion.
Hopefully, by now you’ve already created an impressive profile on LinkedIn—one that helps you stand out. This will be your foundation to help you get the job you have been dreaming of.
The fact is that 94% of recruiters use social media, particularly LinkedIn when looking for new talent, making it a powerful resource for professional networking. This alone should get you excited. Here’s how you can leverage this game-changing tool to get your first job after graduating.
For you to use LinkedIn well, understand how it fits into the grand context of social media networking. Facebook focuses on brand and identity, be it a business page or a personal profile. Twitter is interested in events: Your latest blog posts, status of a missing plane in the Indian Ocean. LinkedIn on the other hand is an avenue for engaging with people and companies that may be your potential employers.
Losing a job can be devastating, but it’s an experience that just about everyone has to go through at some point. Perhaps you were fired for a critical mistake, maybe you were replaced by another ambitious professional, or it’s possible that you’ve simply been laid off as a result of company-wide downsizing. There are a million and one reasons why you may have lost your job, but that’s not important now. The past is over and done, and you need to focus on making progress in the future. Financial survival after job loss should be your first immediate concern.
Begin by taking stock of your finances so that you can figure out where you stand in the world. Calculating your income should be relatively simple at this point. If you have any future pay coming to you, in uncollected checks or severance pay, include those figures in your calculations. Figure out how much money you have in your savings, credit, and assets, and then start looking over your expenses. Prioritize your bill payments and spending to put the most essential expenses first. You may have to make some sacrifices in the near future, but cutting frivolous expenses out of your budget can help greatly in relieving your present financial strain.
I am in the process of looking for a job and one of the best websites I have come across so far is indeed.com. The site makes it very easy to search and it’s like a one-stop shop. Rather than having to go to several individual sites, it incorporates results across several different job sites including extremejobs.ca, jobbank.gc.ca, etc.
Indeed.com also has neat advanced search features including the feature that allows you only view new jobs since your last visit. This function saves me a ton of time as I have so many other things on the go besides job hunting.