If, you're not getting any success applying for Jobs, dealing with recruiters or with any of your other job search methods try these tips to power up your job hunt.
Target competitors
To find information look up these sites on Google:-
companies house corporateinformation Dun and Bradstreet e-traderuk Find Financial Times FTSE Freebizinfo Hoovers Carol Hemscott profittrack100 rba
Online directories
applegate kompass kellysearch.co.uk
Other corporate information
instant-search exhibitions - Diary of trade fairs and exhibitions - and ideal location in which to network businesspark - News stories on industrial topics 1stdirectory - Links to other industry sites
Professional Bodies
Included in the industry specific sections below, but can also be found from HERO - Type 'Professional bodies' into the 'search this site' box and then click on to link No 1 for access to a full list.
Obtain referrals from associations
taforum List of all trade associations. These web sites are potential goldmines. They may include lists of members, industry events and even some job vacancies. The main ones are included separately in the individual sections, but the taforum site contains hundreds of entries.
Internet searches
Target list of companies
• Geographic • Industry
e.g. Google > advanced search
all the words Food exact phrase London at least one directory conference
Find the company, find the website, find the names of senior execs. If difficulty obtaining an email address, download Atomic email hunter ( free )
Find the name of the person who would be senior to you.
Put the name through Google. Put the first and last names in the first box and the company name in the third box. Produces a list of press releases and news articles well as conferences he / she attended. Then write a letter along the lines of " I read your article on..."
Fresh leads delivered to your door
Google alerts Try listimonkey ( Google alerts meets Twitter )
Google Alerts are a simple and free way to get regular updates about something that interests you (other than Twitter, which is for another article). Google Alerts will send you an email any time a new web page appears in the top 20 web results or top 10 news results for the terms you specify. Just a caveat: Google Alerts is not guaranteed to be 100% foolproof or reliable. And since it only sends alerts when new pages enter into the top searches means it may not be an exhaustive result for every term. Also: Yahoo has a similar service called Yahoo! Alerts. Gigaalert Yahoo Alerts
Private equity / Venture capital - Insidermedia
Social media
Twitter, dig, Facebook etc
Who do you want to work for?
Create a " hard to resist " profile - capture personal and career achievements. Emphasise your uniqueness
Market to potential employers by building relationships and joining groups. Demonstrate curiosity in organisation's brand, culture, values etc.
• Enter discussions • Answer questions • Build relationships • Develop sponsors
Use Linkedin to ask for introductions
Make technology work for you
Job aggregators Job alerts News alerts
Job aggregators
Simplyhired Workcircle Indeed Jobsteruk
Job widgets MySpace - Job alerts Facebook - Workin It iGoogle home page
Hint - look for jobs one or two levels above yours - new brooms sweep clean
Job boards
Register with the 3 largest
RSS feeds Only visit one hour per week
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