Tips for Freshers looking for Jobs

Getting a Job is really hard in current scenario. But for a fresher, situation is never easy. If institute have Campus Placement then there is nothing like that. I received many call from known people who are fresher and looking for a job. Most companies hire fresher through Campus Placements only. Lateral-entry is usually for experienced people. But here are some suggestions, which I usually find useful and can be adopted by freshers.

1. Your Alumni's: People usually ignore the power of Alumni Network. sometime Institutes maintain Alumni Network and also have Alumni Meets so that students can get to know their seniors but some institue does not have Alumni Networe and people rarelly interact with their senior. But for a fresher, Alumni is the best contact. Let me tell you why?

When a fresher is looking for the job then only basis for job recruitment is his/her last qualification. For example, in case of any Computer Institute/college, everybody is learning basic skill like C/DataBase/Networking/Java/Operation System/Data Structure. So depth of these subjects are the deciding factor. Not every institute is famous like IIT/IIM. So organization need some kind of scale to gauge the capablities of a fresher. Interviewing is a very costly practice and organization can not do this for every resume they receive. So when resume is forwared by Alumni, then Alumni's performance can be considered as an indicator of the other students capablities from same institute. Also every Alumni has some kind of bondage with the Institute so, Alumni are always more then willing to help other student from their college in getting the job. So it really makes a difference when resume is forwarded by your Alumni or your friend.

2. Contant Followup: People usually think that just forwarding a resume to a friend is more then enough. And if the person does not respond in a give time, then they make a bad feeling about that person, that he/she is not helpful. Good thing, is to contact as many people as possible and make constant followup. Also if someone does not respond to query with 1-2 trial, don't keep a bad feeling as person may be too busy. So my suggestion is that "Keep Moving".

3. Good Resume: Some people just thing that putting everything in resume is good enough. But this is not the case. People who are reading your resume have limited time, and they will not read the whole resume. So make a point that key points are highlighted so that, you they are not missed.

4. Internet: Reach as many websites as possible. These days, most companies have functionality to upload resume on their website. Use social networking sites like LinkedIn. LinkedIn.com is also a very good profession networking website. So having a account on these site also helps.

5. Set priority: There is a saying that

if you can plan for a week, you get grass,
if you can plan for months, you get flowers
but if you can plan for years then you will get Tree.

So set your priorities in life, that will help you in achieving long term goals. In my case, I changed my job profile, after two years of experience. Now some people may feel that, in this case, I am losing on my two years of experience. But for long term, I think I am Good. So I believe, its never too late, to start/change something.

All the Best!!

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