You’re ambitious, hardworking and smart. Your resume is polished, your cover letter is relevant and you’re networking.
Yet, you’re still getting rejected from every job you apply for.
Sound familiar? If so, you may be ignoring one of these unwritten rules of job searching.
1. Be organized
Use a label for all job-search-related emails. Use a program like SpringPad or Excel to track all the positions and organizations you’re interested in, all the resources you use and all the people you meet with. You can also get extra fancy and track other data such as date of application, date of interview and related contacts.
If you aren’t speaking with two or three people about your search daily, you aren’t networking enough. Talk with friends, friends of friends, contacts you find on LinkedIn or at an event, recommendations from your school’s career center (even if you graduated long ago) and recommendations of recommendations. Think strategically about each networking request, and keep an organization doc for that, too, if it helps you stay on track.
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