Holiday Job Search Tips for College Students 2009

As a member of a new community of resume writers and career coaches called the Career Collective, this post is one of many responses to the topic, “Specific tips to help job seekers really ramp up their efforts for the holiday season and the new year.” I encourage you to visit other members’ responses, linked at the end of this article! Please follow our hashtag on Twitter: #careercollective.


Last year, we offered a list of holiday job search tips for college students. We decided to revisit that list and add on to it for the 2009 holiday season.


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Jumping the hurdle to win the job

Guest Author: Charles van Heerden is the founder of WaveBox, a specialist consulting firm in Melbourne, Australia. Charles is an HR careers expert with a strong focus on talent management. He has been an HR Director in three countries, a senior line manager and a consultant. Charles holds a degree in Psychology and has completed advanced studies in HR and change
Author Website: http://www.wavebox.com.au

Finding the right person for a vacant position is not always a rational process, despite the procedures that companies may use for recruitment. This is a lesson I have learnt many years ago when I was responsible for developing recruitment systems for client companies.

There are many stages to the recruitment process, before a company decides to fill a vacancy.
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