Seven Tips to Get More Nursing Job Offers
Today's nurse is very lucky. Jobs are plentiful and online job seeking makes finding the best job for your career much easier than anytime in the past. Marketing yourself to the healthcare community is essential if you want to get more interviews and jobs offers. Marketing yourself doesn't have to be scarry. When you take control of your career search by marketing yourself, you will experience amazing results. Results that will:
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| 1. Quick Tip: Get More Interviews & Jobs Offers on Auto Pilot |
his is the best kept secret in the job search industry because more than 90% of job seekers post their resume to only one or two career sites and then stop. If they were to go on and post to 12 or more career sites, they would benefit in the following ways:
Post your nursing resume for free and get massive exposure. |
| 2. How-to Get Recruiters Working For YOU |
You can have a legion of professionally connected headhunters and recruiters working to find your next job. You simply have to make your availably known to them. Finding them and effectively working with them is easy, once you know how. |
| 3. Effective Online Networking. Meet Peope Who Want to Help You |
Learn how to use professional networking sites and in a matter of an hour or so, you can have access to literally millions of professionals who have actually signed up to help you land your next job. It seems unbelievable, but you can read about my personal experience. Finding this new found network and getting them to help you is simple when you follow some simple steps. |
| 4. Best Practices Professional Networking |
While the three semi-automated networking tactics above are very effective, and could serve as a good bases for a job search, you can drive even better results by adding a personal touch to your job seeking efforts. |
| 5. Job Prospecting Tips - Tips & Tricks |
When you job prospect, you really take the bull by the horns. The only goal you have is to get your resume hand delivered or emailed to the hiring manger of a job you want. It sounds difficult and time consuming, but it isn't, once you know how to do it. Considering that job prospecting is more effective than answering job ads, and you have better than an 85% chance to get an interview, you'd be wasting your time simply sending your resume through normal channels for jobs that you want. |
| 6. Resume Writing |
our resume is your proxy, a little paper version of you that you send out into the world to pre-interview for you. You wouldn't go on a real interview in anything but your best suit, tie, shoes, and belt. Surely your shouldn't send your resume out there without knowing if it is putting your best foot forward. |
| 7. Where to Find Jobs Other's Can't Find |
You probably use Google to search the Internet for information. Wouldn't you want to use The-Google-of-Job-Search-Engines to search for jobs? Although not made by Google, it does the same thing for job openings that google did for Internet information. Now, you longer longer need to go to Monster, CareerBuilder, HotJobs, or any other career site to search for jobs. You can now search all those sites along with 5,000+ more career sites all from a single one page. You save time. You find a much brooder spectrum of jobs. You get the newest jobs posted. And you find jobs that your competition is missing. |
Resume Tips: Resume Formatting
How you format your resume is as important as the career information and experience within it. You wouldn't come dressed to an interview without carefully choosing your clothes. The same goes for your reusme. Your resume has about 5 seconds to make its first impression.
- Use a font size that is easy on the eyes. No smaller than 10 points.
- Avoid large fonts. They waste space and may seem comical.
- Use a professional, business font such as Arial or Verdana
- Use the same font throughout your resume.
- Use white space. Crowded text is difficult to read.
- Use short bulleted text to increase ease of reading.
- Keep your resume to one page.
Remember, the goal of your resume is to get an interview. Accounting for every aspect of your professional life smacks of unprofessionalism.
Resume Attachments
- Unless you are invited to do so, avoid sending attachments.
- Spam filters and corporate security measures will often strip attachments from email, or block the email from going through.
- You can paste your resume into the body of your email. And, you can post a copy of your reusme on the Internet with a link to it.
- Of course, it is always best to get your resume hand delivered to the hiring manager.
Simple, easy process. The results were as good or better than the more expensive, popular options like Monster. -- Riza - Kaiser Permanente