How to find your dream career
from resume to interview
How to find your dream career doesn't need to be a question that is impossible to answer. Not for you!
Have you every tried to find another job? And have you swallowed a number of disappointing rejections? Or is this the first time that you take a step in the world of labour? In both cases, its worthwile to read further, and take the following steps:
Step 1: Do you like your profession?
Only when you really like your profession, you can show convincing enthusiasm towards your future employer. This is the most important factor in getting the job you want, and leave your competition behind.
In case you don't like your profession that much, its time consider a new direction, and try to find out which profession makes you wildly enthusisastic, and start again with step 1 of how to find your dream career.
Step 2: Look for a job vacancy, or find your favorite employer
The second step in how to find a dream career is looking for a vacancy which is in suit with your education, experience,ambition, and last but not least your personality.
Decide wether you look for a fulltime or parttime job, whether you want to work at location, or work from home. The following links might help you finding interesting job vacancies, online parttime jobs, and much more.
GLOBAL JOBS
Employment Agencies - Directory of more than 6500 employment agencies
Job-applications.com for hundreds of online applications and printable job forms
International Jobs for international job offers
How to find your dream career with Monster
Randstad careers
Adecco temp service and more
Kelly temp service, also for permanent jobs
Global jobs for executive secretary
Antal the global recruiter for career opportunity jobs
Search global for a job with Iamhired
Expat Careers
JOBS IN NORTH AMERICA
Careerbuilder for finding jobs in the USA
Jobsearch USA federal government
Virtual assistants for secretaries who want to work from home
Online job search at Job bank USA
Frontline Source Group, a temporary staffing agency
Job search at Staffing Now Inc.
Jobs in Toronto
JOBS IN EUROPE
UK online job search with All the top bananas
How to find your dream career in the U.K. with Reed
Find your legal jobs, also for legal secretary trainee at Simplylawjobs.com
Jobnut U.K. for jobs for executive secretary, online parttime jobs and more
U.K. jobs online
Undutchables helps you to find a job in the Netherlands
Eurojobs for jobs in Europe
Njobs International for vacancies in Europe
JOBS IN AUSTRALIA
Online parttime jobs in Australia
How to find your dream job in Australia with Byron
South East Jobs Melbourne
South East Jobs is a job search and job advertising website specifically designed to target the South East of Melbourne Victoria. Search for your dream job and start your new career in Melbourne's South East.
Step 3: Now it is time you write your curriculum vitae or resume
A lot of people have a standard resume, which they use for each job application, but in the answer on how to find your dream career, it is very important that your resume fits the job desription and the company you apply for. So, if necessary, adapt your CV for each application, and you increase the chance to succeed. More information on how to write you resume can be found on the page
how to write a curriculum vitae.
Step 4: Accumulate all your energy to write a resume cover letter
This is an important step, for which you need step 1. Now its time to put all your enthusiasm on paper, telling why you are suitable for the job. Don't use the same standard letter for all applications, and take care that the reader of you letter becomes so excited about you, that you will be invited for an interview. More information, tips and a sample can be found on the page
how to write a resume cover letter.
You are coming closer to the answer on how to find your dream career.
Step 5: Prepare for a job interview
After you have received an invitation for an inteview, its time to prepare for this. Always take pen and paper tot he interview, on which you have prepared some questions about the company and the position (and this is not only for jobs for the executive secretary) and make notes during the interview. This will give a professional and serious impression. Be immaculately dressed and groomed, and use appropriate etiquette, appropriate to the occasion. And last but not least: be in time! You are more than halfway in the process of how to find your dream career, now! More information on this subject can be found on:
Job interview questions: A guide for jobseekers and interviewers
Interviewquestions.biz for the best interview preparation
Your dream career: interviewing and networking.
Step 6: Write an interview thank you letter
Another way to impress your future employer is sending an interview thank you letter after the interview. Find all information on this step on
interview thank you letter.
Step 7: The second interview
If beforementioned steps were successful, then the answer to how to find your dream career is nearly complete.
Before you go to this interview, ask yourself the question wether you consider this company as a place where you can work with full satisfaction, and which is stimulating. If the answer is yes, than you have to prepare this second interview. Prepare subjects such as salary, fringe benefits, working days, working times, overtime, flexibility, vacation. Don't expect that all your wishes will be met. Find a balance, and try to stick to your most important conditions. Eventually an agreement has two parties, and you are one of them.
Step 8: Sign the employment contract
Now you have finnally received an employment contract, don't sign in a rush. Take your time to read it at home, and ask questions if you don't understand parts of it, or in case agreements have not correctly been described. At the moment you are sure about everyting, you can sign it, and enjoy and realize that now you can eplain others on how to find your dream career!
Interesting pages related to the subject how to find your dream career are:
How to write a curriculum vitae
How to write a resume cover letter
How to write an interview thank you letter
How to write a reference letter
How to write a resignation letter
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