How-tos for organizing your search for work

Having an organized job search makes one’s job search easy.  An organized job search comes in handy for someone that have been job searching for a long period.  By keeping an organized job search will keep a person from applying for the same job over, in which will keep that person from re-inventing the wheel over and over.  Also, an organized job search will keep updated information about various jobs that you have been applying for.  What does it take to have an organized job search?  Below is how I organized my job search.

1)  Create a schedule – For me, my schedule is pretty much everyday from the time I wake up to the time I go to bed.  My schedule starts with checking my e-mail to see if I have any responses from potential employers from previous days.  After I check my e-mail, I start job searching at sites like CareerBuilder, Monster, HigherEdJobs, and Yahoo.

2)  Stay on track – Everybody knows how fast time can fly when on the internet.  But not only that but how distracted a person can get when they are on the internet by getting side tracked by going to other webpages other than the ones that you need to be going too.  My problem is just that where I find myself on other pages that I shouldn’t be on or I get off tracked.

3)  Define a work space – For me, my workspace is actually on a bed.  Only time I basically leave the bed is if I grab something to eat, take a break, or to get something from another room.  It’s the bedrooms that I get peace and quiet as I do my job search.  Most of the time, you want this space to be where your computer is.

4)  Manage a database -  After I found all my job ads, I usually print them out and put them in a binder that is tabbed as leads.  Then a few days later, I will take a look at these leads and if I haven’t heard anything back, I will make a call to them to see where things stand.  Not only do I print them out but I also save them to my portfolio that is given to you when you sign up for CareerBuilder, Monster, HigherEdJobs, and Yahoo.

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