Navigating The Summer Job Market
ost people believe summer Make sure you leave a clear, is the worst time to informative voice mail. Make sure conduct a job search. you state your name twice, your Between college students and high telephone number twice, and your school students eating up the message once. Give a good time market, vacations, lagging for a call-back. The following is budgets, etc. hiring would seem a general formula for an to lag during the summer making effective voice mail. it a bad time to conduct a job search. In reality, summer is a Hello , this is . My number is very good time to job hunt. Here XXX-XXX-XXXX. I am calling are some tips to make your because . The best time to get summer-time job search more back in touch with me is . Again, effective: this is and my number is XXX-XXX-XXXX. Thank you! Spiff up your telephone skills. With people on vacation, you will Always include your area code be receiving more voice mail with your telephone number. Many messages than usual as you try to times, people cannot return calls reach people in your job search because they are not sure where network. Always make calls with a the caller is calling from. notepad or organizer nearby and Giving your time zone helps the take note of when your contacts recipient of the message know will be back in the office. Set where you are located and helps an email up to be delivered the them know exactly when to call day *after* the person s return you back. Speak slowly and and set a reminder to call again clearly, especially if English is the second day after he/she not your native tongue. Spell returns. your name if the spelling is not easily recognizable. Provide more
than one number if possible and Volunteering not only gains repeat both of them twice. additional network contacts for your search but it has many Take advantage of summer social emotional rewards, too. Looking activities for your job search. for a job, especially for those Most jobs are filled through who have been engaged in long word-of-mouth. That means the searches (more than 3 months) is more people with whom you talk, emotionally exhausting. The warm the more effective your job fuzzies you receive from search. Summertime is chock-full volunteering go a long way toward of social activities from picnics boosting your mental attitude. to family reunions to ball games. Make the most of gatherings of Be persistent. Since many job people to gather information for searchers slack off in the summer your search and extend your thinking they are wasting their network toward your target time, your competition is less. companies. Take advantage of that and redouble your efforts in your Volunteer. Summer seems packed search. with opportunities to volunteer.
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