We all know the company is cutting down its employees count. What I want to know is where are all these jobs that people say they are getting?
If they are here in the UK or in the US and how to get them ? Have you used agencies or what to find them.
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Good tips on job hunting UK there user "xna". Redirected my efforts thanks toy what you said.
Use your network of past contacts. Frankly I am an introvert (ISTJ to be precise) but that is not the end of the world. There are many roles out there and everyone is not an extrovert either.
What "xna" said.
One more thing. If you are considered senior management, headhunting agencies and LinkedIn are the way to go. ALONG WITH Networking. Reach out to people you know at the companies / jobs you see advertised.
If below senior management, local placement agencies, LinkedIn and sites like dice.com etc are great. You uploading a resume will trigger off actions. Just be really ready with your resume when you upload, recruiters look once and if not interested, they dont come back. Dont upload a half hearted attempt. Also these days crawlers (think search engines) look over resumes for keywords and push them to recruiters. So dont just say you are a Java developer, put in the things that make you shine - like hey you coded artificial intelligence (AI) in Java and Python. The bots will look for AI, RPA, Java, Python together in search strings and push you to the top of the pile.
Best of luck.
UK based here - Use Linkedin to find internal recruiters at all the major IT companies, top 100 private sector companies (Lots are insourcing IT now) also the Public Sector are now paying similar to private sector and have massive cloud transformation programmes running so loads of work
In my experience AGENCIES are the most effective way of getting a job. Use a few of them at same time. Second would be Linked-in - that get scanned by agencies every week if you leave your "Actively applying" switched on.
Next, Linked-in is full of jobs sites and agencies still contact me because I came up in their search - i.e. the keywords in my profile triggered their search bar when trying to fill a vacancy in your region.
Job sites - the least effective. I read they were the least effective, as by the time you read it, dozens have already applied. I remember applying for as soon as my email was triggered with a notification, but found 100 other people had also applied which means they won't even acknowledge your application - which is the one thing that will cheese you off!
Surprisingly, I found the big name job sites - the ones that advertise on TV - to be the worst in terms of laziness or ability to listen and understand; they were just stuffed with a load of young grads called recrutiment specialists without a clue. Smaller, niche IT ones need the money and work their socks off for you.
Make sure any covering letter or CV shows that you have read the job spec and even though it hurts, leave out irrelevant stuff and waffle. Don't list responsibilities. Summarise a responsibility but the majority should be quantifiable achievements in percentages or positive outcomes if you can't quantify. Delighted customer, won new work worth.... Try to write each achievement in 2 lines and no more than 4. It encourages you to use few and better words to say key things without wasting space.
Also refresh your CV every month, as the mere fact you edit and save a CV online (such as technojobs.com, for example) sends a notification trigger to all the agencies that subscribe to that site or more usually the syndicate they themselves are partnered into. Yes, you can often get a lot of sales trash as a result of posting your CV.
Agencies that impressesed me (I only speak for UK) were MODIS, NINENAILS, NEWMAN STEWART, HARVEY NASH, GREENFIELD RECRUITMENT, X4TECHNOLOGY, CELERITY SEARCH only because they bothered to get back to you or understood what you wanted and didn't keep asking in the graduate voice: "What does that mean?" when you list skills that are not windows 10.
Use lots of agencies and keep going; you owe them nothing. They earn money from you, so its in their interest to work on your behalf and the more you have, the better. But - and I can't stress this enough: Be absolutely clear what you are looking for, the more the agent understands this, the easier their job is.
What he said x2