Job Searching Mistakes You Should Avoid

If you tend to spend hours on the internet you might pick up some advice that can be disadvantageous to you. This also applies to job hunting. If you frequent job hunting search websites, they occasionally give sound advice, but most of these are already out dated and not applicable to the fast pace modern world. Sometimes these tips, if followed, will not only hinder you landing the great job, but somehow tarnish your application to mediocrity.

As you have heard, there are a lot of gurus and experts claiming that if you do this and you do that it will help boost your resume and will help in career success. But a lot of times this advice has been proven wrong and out dated in today's career search world.

Recent studies and news makers worldwide said that it's getting harder everyday to be accepted at a blue collar job. It may take you a dozen of interviews and sometimes more if you don't normally boost up your resume and the way you apply to firms and companies. That is why it is essential to know what works and what don't since your career and future depends on it.

Below are some common mistakes made by others while they follow the advices of many gurus online? I have laid it out in simple forms for you to understand.

The 3 common job search and interviews tips from the gurus that no longer work in the modern world (Source: Vested):

Making and Writing a long boring professional cover letter attached in your resume.

Making a long letter and attaching it before a resume used to work, but now with the fast pace movements in the corporate world, its not only boring but waste the times of potential interviewees or interviewers. You may just include a short objective above your resume or if not make your cover letter short, direct to the point and oozing with your personality. Try all of this in shorter than 300-400 worded letter.

Always using only the internet to find a job.

One big mistake that everyone thinks that all big companies hiring department have access to the internet and will always use the internet to find job seekers. This is wrong; the traditional media of newsprints and ads still works. Also try to get yourself involve with networks of people that you know or call a company through their communications streams like phone, fax and mailing address.

Always putting an ending in your letters with "I am looking forward to meeting you" or the likes.

Don't you think almost everyone in a pool of 100 applicants will have the same thing written along the lines above? Be competitive and try to stand out above everyone else. Be noticed.

Nowadays in the ultra-competitive, job inadequate scarcely climate, job applicants must stay above positive and search at better ways to stand out and be noticed in the pool of applicants.