Good morning everyone, my name is Nancy Dugan.
I'm from the Career Services offices here in Education and Human Ecology and
I'm gonna do my presentation today for you on job search strategies.
I think this will help you if you're looking for another internship.
But also when you're getting ready to graduate, and
even further on after you graduate,
I think some of these key components will help you through the job search.
So let's go ahead and get started.
So today I'm gonna be talking about the job search strategies, helpful hints,
things that will be beneficial for you to have a successful job search.
I also talk about resumes and
different strategies with your resumes as well as your cover letter.
So first I'll just start.
Here's some things you need to think about when you're starting your job search.
So, first of all you need to know, who you are, what you're needs are,
what you're interests are, what are you're achievements.
So you need to know who you are and what you have to offer an employer.
Because the job search is, even if it's about you finding a job,
you have to think as if you were the employer and what does the employer need.
And do you have those skills to help that employer get the job done.
So the other thing you would of course have to do is research the fields and
specific openings that you might be interested in.
And again, you want to make sure that they meet your needs
during the area that you're interested in, and also that you can help your employer.
And then, also, you would need to learn how to present yourself in writing.
So whether that's your resume, your cover letter, or thank you notes.
It's really important to be very professional
when you're writing those items.
Just as a side note, thank you notes are very important.
Most people, most students don't send a thank you.
So it's really important to after every interview, or if you network with someone,
to make sure to include a thank you to them.
And of course you need to present yourself in a positive introduction and
also be very positive in your interview.
No one likes someone who's desperate or a Debbie Downer.
So always turn everything into a positive because employers
would be attracted to that type of individual.
And then of course probably the most important thing that you can do
is network.
Network through LinkedIn, network with professor,
network with employers, anyone you know you need to network
with because that network can help you find that job.
So here are some resources that will help you in your job search.
The first one is the Buckeye Career Network.
How many of you have used the Buckeye Career Network?
Awesome.
This is the OSU job board for
students where you can find part-time jobs, internships, and career employment.
It has some additional features, this is where you would find information about
career fairs, workshops, info sessions.
All of those things that will help you get that job or internship.
Another website is LinkedIn, how many have a LinkedIn account?
Awesome.
LinkedIn is really great, it's a place where you can network with employers.
It's also has a job search or
job board attached to it which is another great addition to it.
My favorite LinkedIn story is about one of your fellow majors.
I think it's been about a couple years ago.
He was on LinkedIn, he had his account all set up.
He was networking through his account.
He always wanted to work for the Sacramento Kings.
So he found a contact there and reached out t them send them an email and
said I'm a student OSU in sport industry.
I'm getting ready to graduate.
Do you have any openings or
is there anyone I can talk to about your opportunities?
Within two days, he had a phone call.
Within another week he had a phone interview.
And another week he had a Skype interview, he had a second Skype interview.
They flew him out for an interview.
And now he is now working for the Sacramento Kings.
So networking really does work.
But you have to take the initiative, and this student had done his research and
knew that this organization did a lot of recruiting through LinkedIn.
And a lot of employers do use LinkedIn to find their candidates.
So, get those LinkedIn accounts up and going.
If you want any help with that our office can also help you with that.
I'll put a little plug for our office.
You can make an appointment with either myself or Katie Moore and
we would be happy to help you.
TeamWork Online.
How many know about TeamWork Online?
Okay, TeamWork Online is a job board, for
professional sports,all professional sports.
So if you are interested in internship or a job with them,
this would be the perfect place to start.
The ncaa.org, so if you are interested in college of athletics.
This is another awesome place, lot of great information as well as a job board.
So this is a great opportunity.
Most of those positions will be entry level, internships,
after you have your bachelors degree, or grad assistantships.
So if you use this, I like to use this also as a research tool.
So, say you're a sophomore and
you want to go into ticket sales when you graduate in college athletics.
Go into the job board.
Look around.
Find a ticket sales type of position.
Read the description and look at the qualifications.
Then you'll know what you need to do when those two years before you graduate in
order to get and be qualified for one of those positions.
So you can also use a job board for research besides just looking for a job.
Any questions on those?
The other thing that you can do is go to any company website that
you're interested in.
Pretty much everybody has a job board on that also.
Networking, again I can't tell you enough how important networking is.
Whether it's activities here on campus related to a career fair,
workshops on how to network.
An easy way to do some networking is an informational interview.
Basically you reach out to someone, and
see if they have maybe 30 minutes that you could talk to them.
Maybe over coffee, maybe over the phone, you meet them at their office,
whatever that might be.
And have four or five great questions to ask them about the industry,
advice that they might have, what do they look for in candidates, whatever that is.
Now, you have a connection there, you send them a thank you, you follow up a week,
a month and you keep that contact, on that contact information and
those relationships, you keep them going.
And then, when something opens up, they would reach out to you,
you would be one of their first people that they would say, hey,
we have this position open, why don't you come in and
interview or they might know someone that has a position available.
So, those information's and views are great for networking,
but also researching different companies to see if will be a good fit for you.
Friends and family just tell everybody you know what you want to do.
Okay, tell everyone, because someone might know someone that knows about the job or
a position or something you might be interested in you just never
know, who knows who.
So, to get a job, the best way to get in is from someone to know you and
encourage you to apply or turn your resume into their hiring manager.
Because then there is a connection rather than a pile of a thousand resumes and
maybe you're the last resume in the pile, so
you don't wan to do that, you want people to help you find that position.
And of course, career activities.
Career fairs are basically a huge networking opportunity.
You can go up, introduce yourself with your elevator speech,
who you are, what your interests are.
Get a business card for them, hand off your resume.
And now you've got a connection that you can follow up with.
So it can be,
networking sounds like maybe a difficult thing or an uncomfortable thing.
But its really its just conversation its just talking with people.
But those building those relationships is what will help you get that job.
Any questions about that?
Okay, volunteer opportunities are another place.
Again, you're just building your network.
You're talking to people.
You're reaching out.
And a lot of times those can help you build that relationship to the direction
you want to go.
Okay.
So, they were all the helpful hints.
Here's all the resources.
Now we're gonna talk a little bit about.
Here's some advice to help you in your search.
First of all, you wanna organize that job search.
So basically it means keeping track of who you've applied to.
Have you gotten a response?
Have you had an interview?
Did you send a thank you?
Did you follow up?
All of those kinds of things and there's many different ways to do it.
Some people like to put it in a spreadsheet.
I heard there is an app out there, what was it called?
Jibber, Jobber, or something like that.
I'm gonna have to check it out to see, but you can put all that
information just easily into your phone and keep track of who you applied with.
Because the worst thing is you've applied for 100 different jobs,
and you don't remember where you applied or what the job was.
And then someone calls you and you're like who, from where, for what.
And they'll be like well they're not prepared.
This is not who I wanna hire.
And you start off on a bad foot and
it just doesn't usually go very well after that.
So if you keep track of it, now when you answer your phone, you're prepared,
you know what companies you've talked to, who you followed up with and
then you can keep track of all of that information.
Always develop a realistic time schedule.
Searches are very time consuming.
It's almost like a full time job, to get a full time job okay,
because you have to research, you have to apply, and
it might be they just need a resume and cover letter.
Some of might need an application also.
And you have to also remember the whole
process of getting a job takes a very long time.
So you apply and then there's a deadline.
So maybe you applied early.
So now you have to wait till the deadline's over.
Then once the deadline is over, then the search committee or
the HR person then goes through all the resumes and
they get it down to a pile of I don't know 20.
Then they, maybe go to a committee.
Or maybe they go through it a second time.
And then they do a phone screening to narrow it down a little bit more.
And then they finally invite maybe three to five people to interview in person.
Then, they have to make their decision.
Then they have to contact the first person.
That can take months, I know at OSU, it can take a really long time.
So it depends on the company, some companies are pretty quick.
They need a person now and they move on it really quickly.
Others take a very long time.
So you need to be aware, that just because you applied Monday,
doesn't mean you're gonna have a job for the next Monday.
Okay.
Develop a system to help you from procrastinating and the rejection shock.
You need to come up with a schedule like every Monday,
I'm gonna apply for five jobs.
Or everyday I'm gonna get on and search and
find three jobs and I'm gonna apply to one job everyday.
Whatever it may be, come up with a plan, keep moving forward, so
that you don't just sit on it and then all over sudden you scramble the last minute,
cuz you're graduating on Sunday and you need a job.
Okay, so keep working on it.
Also, you have to learn to handle rejection shock.
Not everybody's going to hire you.
I mean it would be awesome if every time you interviewed you got the job but
that doesn't normally work.
[LAUGH] And it's not because you weren't great and
you had the qualifications, you had all of the things.
But maybe that other person had one more experience,
or had the personality that they were looking for or
had a specific skill set that they were looking for.
It might have been when you came in and did the interview, the HR person
was having a bad day and he was like, now I'm not gonna hire anybody from today.
You just don't know so just don't take it personally it's business and
just move on and keep looking.
Don't try to focus on how badly you need that job but
always be positive and hopeful.
HR people can see desperation and they don't want anything to do with it.
So, always be positive, always be future looking.
Another thing that you can do is incorporate stress management process.
If you get too stressed about the interviewing and looking for
a job, maybe you go for a run,
maybe you take a yoga class, maybe you talk to your friends.
Whatever that maybe make that part of this whole process so
that it's not quite so crazy and stressful for you.
Are there any questions on the job search part?
Okay then we're gonna move on then to the resumes.