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 question, “Are you a cookie cutter job seeker?” I encourage you to visit other members’ responses, linked at the end of my reply! Please follow our hashtag on Twitter: #careercollective.
Are you a cookie cutter job seeker? As I thought about this question, I wondered what it meant? It dawned on me that cookie cutter job seekers are, in many ways, passive job seekers. In a previous post, I asked, “Are you a passive job seeker? You might be, but don’t realize it.” In that post, I offered a number of scenarios and argued why each was, in fact, a passive approach to the job search – i.e. a cookie cutter approach. Today, I present a few more scenarios.
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Okay, so you graduated in May and still don’t have a job. Just your luck to graduate in the worst economy since the Great Depression. But, believe it or not, there are jobs out there and one of them has your name on it. “Ha” you say? I kid you not. You just need to focus your approach in the right place, redouble your efforts and you will be on your way. The job search process has changed dramatically over the last 5 years and technology drives the process. No one is better equiped to leverage the Web in the most efficient way then today’s college grads. Key word search is today’s focus.