Searching for a job is hard work that quickly becomes frustrating when you don’t get hired for the jobs you most want. Do you wonder why you didn’t get hired? This presentation of job hunting mistakes may help you learn from your mistakes and not make the same mistakes again in the future. For more job hunting tips from the experts, visit us at www.distinctiveweb.com or follow us at: Twitter: http://twitter.com/distinctivedocs Facebook: http://facebook.com/DistinctiveDocuments Google+: http://plus.google.com/+Distinctivewebofficial LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/michelledumas

1. Why You Didn’t Get Hired For The Job
Mistakes You Can’t Afford
To Make :

2. Searching for a job is hard
work. No matter if you’re
unemployed or working but
testing the market to see if there
is indeed greener grass
elsewhere, exercising the
patience, vigilance and creativity
necessary to successfully find a
job isn’t easy. In addition to
making sure you do all the right
things, there are also mistakes
you can’t afford to make, any
one of which may be the reason
you didn’t get hired for the job.

3. “How-to” literature is full of suggestions about what to do to get
hired. Where/how to look, what to write, what to focus on and what to say in
your thank-you note, to name a few. The same literature, however, spends
precious little time identifying what not to do. At the end of the day, it may be
one of the mistakes you make that ensures you do not get hired for that job you
want so much.

4. Before we address some of the most impactful mistakes made when seeking a
new job, remember that they aren’t necessarily big mistakes, making them both
more common and avoidable at the same time. Here, then, are some things to
be mindful of:

5. MOST IMPACTFUL MISTAKES MADE WHEN
SEEKING A NEW JOB
DEFEATISM BREEDS DEFEAT.
If you have a negative attitude about your search
and think you can disguise that, you’re
wrong. Whether in the tone of your writing or voice,
the manner in which you organize or prepare for an
interview, the sources you turn to for job openings,
your negativity will show itself and may even do so in
ways you don’t see (but others can). Don’t be
negative. Choose otherwise.

6. LIMITED THOUGHT LIMITS OPPORTUNITY.
It’s a brave new world out there, one that rewards the brave. If you rely on
traditional methods of job hunting because, well, you’ve always done
those things to get hired (Classifieds/job boards, anyone?), you’ll
significantly reduce the number of avenues you can pursue.
Use the Internet to research industries,
companies and employment opportunities
in detail. Most professionals welcome a
chance to provide mentoring. Don’t restrict
your options or hamstring your efforts.

7. ARE YOU ONLINE? IS YOUR ONLINE PERSONALITY
CONSISTENT WITH THE PROFESSIONAL IMAGE YOU
WANT TO CONVEY?You have a LinkedIn profile,
yes? No? Mistake. Make setting one up a
priority. You’ll be able to create a network
of professional contacts that is, as the
saying goes, worth its weight in
gold. Failure to use LinkedIn and other
tools available that are designed to
organize and aid your job search activities
is a mistake, plain and simple.

8. CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF.
Once you’ve created (or revisited, reviewed and
revitalized) your professional online presence (e.g,
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, etc.), spend
some quality time evaluating it. Is there anything on
your social networking sites (SNS) that you wouldn’t
want a prospective employer to see? If so, get rid of
it. Many people make the mistake of relying on
some nonexistent “right to privacy on the Internet”
protection, believing that employers can’t use
“personal” stuff made publicly available on social
media when making employment decisions.

9. DNT WRT LK U TXT.
Despite the fact that “everyone
texts”, no one writes in
textese. Don’t do it. We don’t live
in that world. Not yet anyway. lol!

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