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How to Conduct a Job Search: What You Need to Know Today
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Initiating a job search by social networking represents a significant change in the way savvy IT jobseekers look for work today. Rather than spending the bulk of their time trying to find their next job via a job board, sophisticated IT job seekers have made face-to-face networking, online social networking (using LinkedIn in particular) and personal branding as the cornerstones of their job searches. Their focused efforts are bearing better results, in terms of more interest from hiring managers and actual interviews.
Jobseekers and career experts alike say that today's job search requires more focus, networking and personal branding than ever before because the recession changed the way employers recruit new employees. Today, 14 million people are unemployed. Add the people who are working part-time either because their hours have been cut or they can't find a full-time job, and you have 22.8 million Americans looking for work. By some estimates, there are only 3 million jobs currently available, meaning that there are at least seven times as many people searching for work as there are jobs. All of these people are overwhelming corporate recruiting and HR departments with resumes and applications. Further complicating recruitment matters is the fact that because employers also downsized their HR departments during the recession, there are fewer people available to process all of the resumes hitting them today.
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