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本帖最后由 guykawasaki 于 2009-1-29 14:13 编辑
#10 The most ineffective - blindly send out 100+ CVs (with fewer than 5 responses)
This is by no mean the most ineffective way of conducting a jobsearching and most end up with pure vain. You probably have been told ahundred times in career events that “DO NOT make a one-size-fit-all CVor general answers for all your potential employers. The more you sendout, the more your focus will be lost. I am not going to focus on thisas lots of such information can be located at Google.
Is this way ranked #10? #10. NO WAY. Let’ s come down to #9.
#9 The most common - Google + job board + forum
Google is effective as a tool if you could really nail it. But 90%of those claiming to know the search wiki do not exactly know it - themechanisms of reaching the least searched info (a.k.a the job postingsfew see) is understood by a handful of people only.
Test: If you are in a foreign country, where somefamous downloading methods are restricted (say, BitTorrent, eMule), canyou locate the a latest picture of your hometown’s 5th famous placewithin 5 mins?
If a job is posted on a job board, you almost can easily assume that10,000 aspired applicants are looking at it like you do, especially forsome hot roles like Investment Banking/Consulting job_Unfortunately,those big powerhouses (i.e. GS, MS, ML-acquired by BOA) are laying offworkforce instead of hiring. The indirect effect also take effect onconsulting job as the industry encounters a wholly meltdown.
The following chart is optional, but believe it or not, it can massively reduce your workload when conducting search.
| Search Tricks | | Basic Example | Finding result description | | olympics beijing | pages contain word olympics and beijing | | olympics or beijing | pages contain word nba or jordan | | “beijing olympics” | pages contain exact phrase “beijing olympics“ | | jordan -nba | pages contain jordan but NOT nba(no space between “-”and nba) | | define:chinese chess | formal definitions of the word chess
from the internet |
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| | 300 Euros in USD | convert A currency unit into B unit | | World cup 1994..2010 | search within a range of numbers,results from
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| | yao ming site:www_nba_com | search for information about yao ming within NBA_com | | link:www_tongji_edu_cn | find pages that link to Tongji University’s website | | book Winning | show book-related information about book with the title”Winning“ | | books Winning | same as above | | phonebook: Jordan chicago | search for every jordan’s phone numbers in chicago if there is any (useful function in the US) | | rphonebook: Jack new york | search for
every jack’s residential number in new york city | | movie: spider-man3 | information about the movie “spider-man 3“ | | stocks: goog | google’s current stock price and related information | | cache:www_nba_com | display google’s cached version of the webpage www_nba_com_ When you want the old version of a frequently updated website | | info:www_yahoo_com | find information about www_yahoo_com | | related:www_yahoo_com/ | find similar pages with yahoo_com | | interview tips in text:microsoft | search for pages mentioning interview tips where “Microsoft” appear in the text | | resume tips intitle:microsoft | search for pages mentioning resume tips where “Microsoft” appear in the title | | photoshop inurl:download | search for pages mentioning photoshop in which download is contained in the URL |
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| | Restrict Search to Google Groups |
| | marketing author:donald trump | search for donald trump’s article on marketing | | group: | find groups messages from the specified newsgroup | | insubject: | find groups messages containing keywords in the subject |
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| | Restrict Search to Google News |
| | china air pollution location:uk | find British articles covering China’s air pollution issue | | train station chaos source:ap | find chunyun chaos articles from Associated Press’s coverage |
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| | Search Service | Search Operatotor | | Web Search | allinanchor:, allintext:, allintitle:, allinurl:, bphonebook:, cache:, define:,
filetype:, id:, inanchor:, info:, intext:, intitle:, inurl:, link:,phonebook:,related:, rphonebook:, safesearch:, site:, stocks: | | Image Search | allintitle:, allinurl:, filetype:, inurl:, intitle:, site: | | Groups | allintext:, allintitle:, author:, group:, insubject:, intext:, intitle:, msgid: | | Directory | allintext:, allintitle:, allinurl:, ext:, filetype:, intext:, intitle:, inurl: | | News | allintext:, allintitle:, allinurl:, intext:, intitle:, inurl:, location:, source: | | Froogle | allintext:, allintitle:, store: |
End(Credit of this chart goes to: http://www_isteward_cn)
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Boil The Ocean
Besides IB/MC, there are still lots of good rolesopening. You will learn that health care, education, government, foodservices and drinking places, and IT categories have all gained jobsthis year. When searching on the forum, or using Google, do yourcustomized search. All sectors are relevant and one could never livewith only one sector.
From Zero to IPO to Exit Round-up
This part is added content and hence it can be skipped. But it makesa good read and worth further research if you desire to enter abusiness arena.
You can find a seperate post following this link: http://www_hu**gg_com/2009/01/f ... und-up
#8 The longest process - part-time/freelance work/internship first if you can get a relevant one
OK. The first job is utmost important for anyone because you aregoing to spend your most valuable 2-5 years with it. Jumping shipfrequently does not look good and it might discount your value by awrong transfer. If you are not really interested in the job, it is hardto believe you can maintain and ride the corporate ladder over a 2-5years period. You will stress and think about an MBA for futurerotation over the stints.
So, if you really aspire towards a specific industry, for example, finance. You may shoot for a part-time/internship with a BBor a boutique shop to gain solid understanding before hunting for afull-time role. Life is good, you might get a direct hire at the end ofyour internship period.
The ways to grab an internship is vastly different from that ofseeking a full-time position, and it means different things as well_Let’s look at the The “Myth”, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,
The “Myth”
Q1: When is a good timing for application? (apply to both FT role & internship)
NOW! NEVER apply late, and DO apply RIGHT AFTER therelease date of the information. You might argue that some firmevaluate resume only after the cut-off date, but most firms do not_They do it on a rolling basis_You can step in the shoes of the HR, ifyour mailbox were filled with hundreds, and sometimes thousands ofresumes, would you still look at the rest if qualifiedinterns/full-time candidates are spotted. The answer is a firm NO. Inaddition, that indicated you are prepared, you are passionate for theopening of the opportunity and indirectly shows your study of the firm_Those firm applying online application might do it the other way aroundas the backdoor is relatively easy to source by date, by location andwhatsoever. In one word, if you really mean it, PLEASE be the earlybird.
Q2: My CV looks great, and I come from a target school. But, why I am not selected even for the first round?
First & Simple answer: there are too many people sharing your background.
Second, refer to question one.
Third, assume you are an HR and rethink answer one. Here raises a few issues,
A. have you customized your CV/cover letter title to stand out of the dozen of “your background” candidates?
B. have you done your research and tailor-made the application package?
C. Did you miss anything, for example, some supporting materials to make the life of your HR easier? If file “x” is missing, no one (except a few) will bother to call back and chase you for that. HR is human being ; we are all human being.
Forth, howmany openings are available in such a market place? Some internalinterviews (i.e. from eFinancialCareers) might serve to give you someinformation as to how many roles are available for a specific function_If the region or the dept are not hiring, you can just cross it off.
Other relevant tricks on job hunting will be extended across the following sessions.
I would skip the up sides and down sides of FT role and only focus on the internship as you are smart enough to tell the myth and vice versa.
The “Good”
Of course, first thing, as an intern, you are flexible. You can opt to pull a 24/7 week (if possible), work for multiplecompanies in a set period or later resign to do anything that interestyou (probably test a start-up? I will post start up with bootstrappingmethod later in another post). As an intern, life is hard too but yourpay might be massively cut for the same value contributed to thecompany. It doesn’t matter - if only you could get the value youbelieve is beneficial in a lifetime. But be certain that you shouldwork hard, I mean super hard to get what you can get during the shortperiod as you still have to compromise with the “Bad & the Ugly” Imentioned hereafter.
The “Bad & the Ugly”
Asan intern, your firm would treat youdifferently as you might not be working for them in the future. Thatway you may be hidden from the real value (you are forbidden to do anyclient facing job) or touch company confidentiality. Here is the trick- work hard, gain trust from your colleagues & your boss, and letthem deliver significant work load to you, even you as an intern. It isjust for the time being anyway.
In retrospect, when I was an intern, a vivid story might tell howimportant it would be for you to work hard and add real value. Somehowyou might be the last to leave the office and work over time everyday,and work a 7-day week. Once a VP said to me, “Chris, your help wasimmediate, if you were restricted to some important document ormechanism of what we do, let me know.” Then I every time I completed atask, I would be expected to hear the story behind the deal and learntremendously from that point on.
I truly believe everybody is equal and we won’t score differently onany kind of aptitude test. School paper results are liar. It just helpsto source a selcted group of safter candidates. Provided that you workhard and gain the hard plus soft skills as in my latter mentiionedparts, you will be rewarded equal value, the value more superior thanwhat a FT hire could get. So please pull in 200% efforts.
The next thing is your pay. It doesn’t really matter if you canafford your life in the city, and at the same time (a more importantfactor here) the payroll is at least enough to cover all your necessarynetworking activity costs in the city. I will blog more about it in thefuture as this is another vast topic.
I spent quite a few words explain the “Bad & the Ugly” but it all points to the final “Goods” you can get. Besides all above, my version of a very important mindset for any successful people would be, and always be, try to look at the UP sides even if you are stressed, you are being laid off, you are severely indebted. Everything has its UP sides, if you can realize and keep the positive mindset, good things would come.
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