Always be Prepared:
- Dress to impress: Meaning look neat and clean at all times even if you're going to the grocery store. You never know who you're going to meet. Ladies wear your make-up and men shave.
- Business cards can always come in handy. You can get 500 business cards from Vista Print for $10. Inexpensive yet very professional looking.
- Resume ready and prepared. Today smarts phones are great because you can download files on them. I once emailed my resume from my smart phone. This not only shows an future employer your ready but it shows you tech savvy.
- Volunteer Work always looks great to employers. Tutor a kid at an after school program, join a program like Big Brother Big Sister or neighborhood cleanup. It's good to get involved and you never know who you're going to meet.
- Sign up for some classes to brush up on your skills.
- Go to local or community networking events.
- Take a PT retail job. It brings in some cash and you get to talk to so many different people. For example:
- ( While in grad school a former classmate worked as a sales representative at Belks. She had a customer who frequent the store and knew she was in school. After graduating the customer offered her a job in the HR department of a Fortune 500 company.)
- I also worked PT at H&R Block when one of the DM had a church member looking for someone in his Investment firm. Shortly after graduating I got the job.
- Temp Jobs can also bring in cash and if the job suits you and the employer they may hire you on permenately.
Tell me something you done to help get your job.
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