The 3 Job Search Facts That’ll Get You a Job
Many youths have been unemployed for many years due to the limited awareness of advanced job searching strategies, according to the 2020 graduate survey collected data 17,548 graduated across Somalia, the employment opportunity became very limed and highly competitive.
Networking
The job search process can be confusing and disappointing; some estimate that as much as 80 percent of new jobs are never listed, but filled internally or via networking, if you’re looking for work, it might be better to put your time into building your professional network rather than losing yourself into all those listings online.80 percent of the fresh graduates go on 20 percent advertised online posts
Networking should be at the very core of your job search strategy. Speak to your friends, your family, and even some of your most trusted colleagues and tell them to keep their eyes and ears open for any opportunities for you and also get back in touch with former colleagues and schoolmates, sign up for newsletters and get involved in professional forums and events.
Stay on top of industry trends and news
Most of the graduates have no plan for the industry they preferred to work for, the most powerful way that potential to get you a job is to research the company you want to work and know their culture, Vission, what project they are doing, this will help to know how to recruit and what skills they wanted and what qualification they wanted in the recruitment process. Fresh graduates should know about what terminology the company uses by reading their annual report and publication. Subscribe to their channels to feed new posts.
How to apply a better way.
Understanding the applicant track system of fresh graduates could help get a job, if you are applying online for jobs where an ATS is used by companies, your resume must have the required keywords, e.g., skills, job title, and even predicted skills, to have your resume read by human eyes. The job seeker should beat the applicant tracking system( ATS) with tactics to get a job, these needs to analyze the job description to identify the most important titles, hard skills, and other keywords that they should include in their resume, and the bottom line is that the ATS eliminates approximately 75% of resumes that are submitted for each job. Join Jobscan.com to match your CV or Cover letter and the post.
Most of the private sectors apply via email and also this needs some tactics, it is advisable to the job seekers to apply for the job in last hour of it is the deadline because your application will be the last applications that receive the human resource, the HR probability would select randomly last emails and this helps to be shortlisted.
In conclusion, the limited availability of employment opportunities is not only deteriorating the number of jobless graduates but due to the lack of understanding of the market competitiveness and not leveraging their network in the job searching journey. the advantage of this is that in the end, you will be able to get the job you are looking for instead of getting a job by chance through job postings.
