How Considering Trends Can Help Your Executive Job Search
The New Year has brought on many new trends in the job search world – and the same is true in the executive realm. As an executive, it’s always good to stay in the know so that you don’t fall behind on great ways to find jobs that may not have been available just a few months ago. If you’re just getting started on your executive job search, or are continuing one you started months ago, you may be able to learn something from the executive job search trends of 2010.
Get On Board with Newer Technology
By now, you’re probably well aware of the job search capabilities that Facebook and LinkedIn can offer you. However, some new tools allow unprecedented freedom for executives who want to build their brands, post resumes and CVs, and connect with recruiters.
One site that is gaining notoriety is VisualCV, a site that allows you to house your portfolio of your personal marketing documents in one location. The accounts on the site are free, and allow you to add samples of your work, charts, audio, video, and much more to a virtual portfolio. Also, you can share your VisualCV via email or through your social networking sites. It’s a fantastic way to show your CV to colleagues and potential employers in a virtual format.
Also, you may consider creating a Google Profile. As many job recruiters use Google to check out executives’ credentials, you’ll have a major advantage by gaining some control over the results that appear when your name is searched. By making a Google Profile, you can show key professional information to people that search for your name. This is definitely a must at the executive level.
Sign Up With Twitter for Pete’s Sake
If you have yet to sign up on Twitter, why not choose 2010 to do so? It may seem like 50 percent kiddie land and 50 percent celebrity narcissism, but in actuality, it offers a great networking playing field for hiring professionals, as well as professionals who want to be hired.
Believe it or not, Twitter is a great place to be located by recruiters and key hiring decision makers on a daily basis. By setting up shop on this great social networking site, linking to LinkedIn as well as other blogs/resume locations and throwing out industry-friendly words of wisdom at least once a day, you’d be surprised just how many recruiters could find you.
Volunteer This Year
Taking time to give back to your community is not only a fulfilling experience, but is also a great way to beef up your job search. You can create more opportunities to add to your resume/CV and, even better, create great networking opportunities that would not have been available had you spend all of your job search time behind the computer.
Conducting an executive job search can be a tedious job, but it isn’t so bad if you go about it the right way. Hopefully, these new and recurring trends will keep your job search moving in the right direction so that this time next year you’ll be well settled into your next executive-level job.