Science-Backed Habits Of Outrageously Successful Job Seekers

The last decade has changed the way a recruiter looks at a profile. You need to constantly update and restructure the content with the market realities and demands.

• A good resume has brevity, action verbs, and skills that fit the job being applied for.
• It helps to have a formal tone while providing hard, countable facts.
• Making use of keywords and familiar buzzwords(corporate lingo) makes finding and selecting easier for the recruiter.

• They have a vision for what they eventually want to be. Goals don’t help if one does not have a clear pathway, a strategy to reach there.
• We need to take into account the uncertainty and unpredictability that surrounds us, even if we are happily occupied in a job.
• Having a good network of friends that is nurtured and cultivated is a better strategy than calling up your old acquaintances after years asking them for helping you find a job.

Successful job seekers don’t just grab any job opportunity that comes their way and understand that they have to weigh in the long-term implications of any given profile, apart from the salary being offered.

One needs to figure out what would be the five-year or ten-year outlook of a certain profile if one invests their time and energy in it by accepting the current role.

Most of us look for jobs that we are comfortable with, something we have already done, even though it may not be something that is in demand by recruiters.

We have to let go of the mental blockages that prevent us from looking at profiles outside our area of expertise and are preventing our career growth.

• While listing our skills is important, it is also imperative that we are able to identify and articulate our skills.
• Certain transferable skills like an eye for detail or being able to communicate well are easily transferable across industries, but a specific skill like being well-versed with an accounting software may not be required in other companies.
• If we are able to list out and articulate all our transferable skills, it creates a value proposition.