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Showing posts with label WDA jobs bank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WDA jobs bank. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Getting a 6 Digit Salary - How to Find Jobs That Pay $100,000 a Year

For many of us, we feel that the money we currently make is not enough to fulfill the desires we have for ourselves. Some of us wish to not only fulfill our personal desires, but the desires of others in our lives too. In order to do that, we wish we could be making more money. We wish we knew where to apply to be in the market for a larger salary. We wish we knew where to find employers who are willing to pay us six figures and how to reach out to them. With that, it is time to lake a look at how you find a career that will pay you $100,000 and more.

1. Theladders.com
One of the first websites that comes to mind when it comes to finding employers offering six figure salaries is Theladders.com. Theladders.com offers various six digit payouts; most of them requiring college degrees. The recruiter who look for candidates on Theladders.com are looking for prospects who already make 100 grand or more. Therefore, the catch to Theladders.com is that in order to register with the website, you already have to be making at least a six integer salary. However, if you already are making around $100,000 or more, it is a great website to set up your profile on.

2. 6figurejobs.com
The next website you can view when looking for a six figure profession is 6figurejobs.com. On this website you can find news articles and advice. The news articles available are various as you can choose from 21 different categories. The subjects range from career advice to specific industry guidance such as pharmaceutical, engineering, or manufacturing. A special section of the website entitled entrepreneur opps is specifically dedicated to people who want to start a six figure business. Also, the website itself is very easy to navigate through.

3. Salary.com
On Salary.com, once again, the search for a six number paying job is simple. You can start from the homepage to find your six digit compensating career by clicking on the first tab to the left marked "Salary." After clicking on "Salary," you can go to the rectangular box and select "Browse US Salaries." Then you can select "$100,000+" from the drop down tab and head over to the next page of "Six Figure Income Level Jobs."

4. Other Websites
There are other websites and ways to find six integer incomes other than the ones mentioned above. Websites like Payscale.com and Careerbuilder.com will allow you to search for six figure paying occupations through their listings. Also, you can simply type in six figure salary jobs in most search engines and be led to multiple different websites that have catalogs of 100,000 dollar paying jobs and more.

As you can see, it is possible to find jobs that will give will give you six figures for your service. Therefore, start your search today and be on your way to a bigger paycheck or a new vocation!

Searching for a Singapore job, you can always check out the updated jobs in Singapore WDA jobs bank where thousands of jobs are available.

Thursday, 4 June 2015

Innovative Job-Searching Strategies and Job-Searching Secrets

With the current economy the difficulty of finding a job is experienced by many people. Job searching has become more then a full-time job in itself for many people. With thousands of job resources available on the internet it is impossible to search every resource on a daily basis, or is it? This article presents job searching strategies and resources that will help you search most if not all of the job resources on the internet in a small amount of time. This article presents these strategies starting with the most obvious strategy to the least obvious.

Use the Major job boards:
1. Monster.com

2. Careerbuilder.com

3. Hotjobs.com

4. net-temps.com

5. dice.com

Be sure to post your resume to each of the major job boards. There are employers who do not post jobs, but, seek candidates solely by searching through resumes posted at these sites.

Vertical Job Search Engines:
1. indeed.com

2. simplyhired.com

Vertical job search engines are probably the single most powerful tool you can use. These vertical job search engines search through millions of jobs from thousands of resources including the major job boards, classifieds, associations, recruiters, company career pages, newspapers, niche job boards, etc., etc., etc., You will find job postings originating from places that you never heard of!. It is a must that you include BOTH of these websites in your job search strategy.

Classifieds:
1. oodle.com

2. craigslist.org

Most Classified websites offer employers a free way to post jobs. It is a must that you include searching classifieds in your job search. The oodle.com website is the most powerful classifieds search tool available. It searches through 40 million classifieds from 80,000 sources!
The craigslist.org website is the single most popular classifieds website. It is must that you use this website independently of oodle.com

Niche Job Boards:

There are hundreds if not thousands of small job boards that specialize in jobs in only certain industries. These job boards are much cheaper for employers to post jobs to then the major job boards. I know companies who use niche job boards exclusively to find candidates.

Some examples include:
1. jobsinthemoney.com (Accounting & Finance)

2. engcen.com (Engineering)

3. healthjobsusa.com (Healthcare & Medical)

You can go to any major search engine to locate these job boards. Typing in keywords such as "Engineering Jobs", or "Accounting Jobs" will help you find these niche sites. The secret to finding these types of websites is that you MUST look past the first couple of search result pages at major search engines. You may have to go to pages as high as 10 through 20. The major job boards seem to always occupy the top rankings in the search engines.

State Agency Career Websites:

Each state has a career website in which employers can post jobs to for free. These are the same websites in which job seekers are required to post resumes to when applying for state unemployment benefits. Searching your state's career website is must. Not only is job posting free, companies often use these resources to find candidates who are within the local area. Many times employers will use these websites exclusively for posting jobs and searching resumes. It is also recommend that you post your resume to your state's career website.

Corporate Websites & Governmental Websites:

If you know companies or government agencies that hire people with your qualifications go to their corporate or agency website. Almost all large companies and governmental agencies are required to post open positions on their own website. This is normally done long before posting to any other website. In many cases companies will exclusively post job openings on their own corporate website and never place them anywhere else.

If you use these resources often you will see jobs that appear on one resource but no others. After some time you will also notice that there are many jobs that appear over and over again as you visit the different websites. When this happens you know you have the majority of the internet covered when comes to finding jobs and you will be one of the first to know when a new job is posted. Good luck with your job search.

Search for a Singapore job, you can always check out the updated jobs in Singapore WDA job bank where thousands of jobs are available.

Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Job Skills - How You Can Easily Develop Your Personal Inventory ofSkills

Before you send in a job application, you will want to assess your own personal and professional strengths and weaknesses. Knowing what areas are your strongest will give you confidence, and that will impress your prospective employer. And knowing your weaknesses will help you avoid coming off as overconfident or cocky - traits that can be a turn-off for employers who are looking to hire someone who will fit in well with their organization.

Inventory Your Skill Set
If you do not know what your skills are, you will have a hard time showing an employer what your skills are. This might seem obvious, but lots of people are so accustomed to being modest about their abilities and accomplishments that they do not even take time to identify their skills, let alone develop the ability to showcase them to others. You can still be modest - in fact it is important to do so - while you show (but not show off) your set of skills and abilities.

You do not want to come off as self-important or thinking you are "all that", but neither should you downplay your skills in a self-deprecating manner. When you are asked about your strong points, or about what sets you apart from other candidates, be prepared with a confident, straightforward reply. Likewise, your resume and cover letter should display an understanding of your strongest abilities and selling points.

Hard Skills, Soft Skills
Generally speaking, skills and skill sets can be broken down into two main areas:
"Hard" skills are specific, task-oriented skills that can be measured and quantified. Typing speed, level of qualification or certification with a software application or mechanical equipment, etc.
"Soft" skills are more intangible, but equally important. Being a team player, being able to work without supervision and being a "self-starter" (identifying and doing things that need to be done without being asked) are all examples of soft skills, as are organization, enthusiasm and communication skills.

Here are some suggestions for making an inventory of your skill set:

Previous Employment
Make a complete list of all of your past employers and the skills that you have learned at all the positions you held. Include even seemingly trivial details. Did you learn how to fix the copier when it broke down? Put that on the list under mechanical skills. Were you in charge of buying the ice-cream cake when someone retired or had a baby? List that under vendor relations.

Hobbies
It may seem frivolous, but make a list of your hobbies and leisure activities throughout your lifetime and look at the abilities you have acquired from them. If you were in charge of keeping track of averages for a bowling league, or scheduling games for a church or office softball team, that not only shows a talent for organization but also initiative in volunteering to take charge.

And the type of school activities you chose can also tell you (or an employer) a lot about yourself. Were you on the yearbook committee? Writing for the school newspaper? A member of the chess club or planning the homecoming dance? All those activities require specific interests and instill specific skills. And you never know which seemingly tiny detail will mean a great deal to a potential employer.

What You Want
Take a hard look at the list of things you like to do and things you do well. It may give you some new insights into the sort of career that would be best suited to you. And pick out the skills on your list that apply specifically to the particular job you are seeking. If you can find a way to work those in to your resume, cover letter or interview, you will bolster your ability to sell your suitability for the job to a potential employer.

If You See It, Show It
Knowing your skill set is only the first step. The next step is making sure your prospective employer knows it. After you have gone over your skill set and familiarized yourself with it, you will be in a better position to promptly answer skill-related questions with replies that show the employer that you are in command of your skill set and ready to bring it to bear in your career.

Search for a job in Singapore, you can always check out the updated jobs in Singapore WDA jobs bank where thousands of jobs are available.

Job Search Problem Solving: Why Employers Do Not Call You For anInterview

The most common experience of online job board users is "no one calls me for an interview," which is commonly called, The Dead Job Hunt Problem. Most job counselors blame the dead hunt problem on a lack of job skills. While this may be true for new college graduates or early career professionals, it is not true of seasoned professionals who experience the dead job hunt problem.

Another dynamic is in play that is causing highly experienced people to go unnoticed by employers. This dynamic is caused by any combination of the following:
  • Lack of a Detailed Resume

  • Resume Database Invisibility

  • Low Job Demand
Solving the Resume Problem

Most resume writing books sold in book stores today are behind the times. They recommend writing brief, 1-page resumes. Brief resumes were adequate when the prime venue of job seeking was through human interaction. However, brief resumes do not work well online because they do not contain enough search keywords that will match an employer's keywords when she conducts a resume database search for qualified candidates. To succeed in the online world, a job seeker needs a very detailed, targeted and information intensive resume.


Solving the Resume Database Invisibility Problem

Once you have a detailed resume, now you need to post it online by either uploading the resume or building it in the database field forms. Most people upload their resume because it is a fast, easy and immediate. However, many times the uploading function does not populate the fields of the database properly. This circumstance essentially makes your resume data invisible to the search software. The optimum way to integrate a resume into a database is by building it manually.

After deciding to build your resume, take a close look at what information the database fields are collecting.
The three most important data collected are
(1) industry sectors,
(2) job title and
(3) name of resume.

Industry Sector: If a job seeker posts a resume to the wrong sector, it may not be seen because the employer may not be searching into that industry sector or sub-sector. Employers do not conduct global searches of an entire resume database; it would be too costly to do so. They normally search through 3 or 4 sub-sectors.

Job Title: The primary search keyword is the job title. If your job title is not the title an employer uses as her search keyword, you will get lower ranking in database searches than those people who do. Your resume will appear invisible. So, conduct some job title research. Select the job title that most closely mirrors your target job.

Resume Name: Naming your resume with keywords is vital to making your resume visible. When an employer conducts a resume database search, she will see the name of your resume. Naming your resume, "Office Manager expert with Lotus Notes," is much more meaningful to the employer than naming it, "Mary Wilson's Resume."

Solving the Job Demand

No matter how good your resume is, there must be a demand for your knowledge, skills and abilities. If there is high job demand, plenty of recruiters will be drawn to a resume database because they need to find candidates immediately. However, if you have been downsized and your industry is imploding, there will be few recruiters looking for candidates in a resume database or anywhere. In situations of poor job demand, the job seeker should consider changing to an industry sector they know is on a growth path.

Looking for a Singapore Jobs, you can always check out the latest jobs in Singapore WDA job bank where thousands of jobs are available.

Searching For a Job in Difficult Times

If you are like so many people in the world today, chances are that you currently do not have a job. There are tons of resources out there to help you find a job; you just have to know where to look.
One of the first and most obvious places to look for a job is your local unemployment office. If you are eligible, you may also want to sign up for unemployment as well just to make sure you have some type of income coming in. It may seem as if everyone is there and you do not stand a chance for finding a job, but with persistence, you are likely to luck up.

Most people look for jobs that they have previous experience with. While this may be the first thing you need to do, it may not be the only thing you should do. If you are an experienced teacher but know you could probably excel behind an office desk in a doctor's office, then try not to limit yourself to just one profession. Think about the skills you already possess as well as those you would like to learn. Not all employers hire people based on their experience alone.

Try to apply for jobs that you know are not going to experience any layoffs in the near future. Healthcare and energy jobs are always in demand. The food industry is also another very popular career field that isn't expected to be going anywhere anytime soon. Once you have submitted your application with your potential employer, give them time to review it and then give them a call back. People who exhibit interest after applying for a job are usually the ones who end up getting called in for an interview.

Searching your local newspaper classifieds can also take you a long way when searching for a job. However, you may need to search more than one local newspaper as they have a tendency to post different jobs. The internet is also a very valuable resource. Online job sites like CareerBuilder and Monster post new jobs everyday. It is best if you create an online resume and submit it to these types of sites. Employers tend to find these very useful and usually end up calling you.

In order to fully maximize your chances of getting a job as soon as possible, you need to remain consistent. Do not let there be a week that goes by that you do not pick up a local newspaper and read the classifieds to see what is out there. When it all comes down to it, a job is a job. Sometimes, people have to settle for less than what they think they are worth. People who have a job during this difficult time should consider themselves to be extremely fortunate. It is important to remember that finding a job is work in itself. By taking advantage of all possible job resources, you are sure to find a job suitable enough for your situation in less time than you think.

Seeking for a Singapore Jobs, you can always check out the updated jobs in Singapore WDA job bank where thousands of jobs are available.

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Top 10 Job Searching Tips

Top Ten Job Searching Tips

How many of these have you read? Here we go again, but this time I am concentrating on those matters which have emerged over the last two to three years, that we often neglected or failed to use in the past; mainly it's to do with new technology.

1. Get a professional email address.
Ditch the babyangel@gmail.com. Now is the time to professionalise yourself, use your proper name or professional name.

2. Google yourself.
Sounds egotistic doesn't it? But just in case you wrote something many years ago, and it raises its head to bite you in the foot, it is better to check what is out there on you in cyber space. Also while we are at it, blog your email address, telephone number and address as well, all these can leave a digital footprint exposing yourself to other information .

3. Add your email address to your CV or resume.
How many times do I see this omission?

4. Start blogging.
This is a free way of getting yourself known and building your profile.

5. Register on online job sites.
There are many: seek.com, TradeMe/jobs.co.nz, and also check out your local newspaper online listings.

6. Use social networking sites to your advantage.
Make a special professional Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Bebo etc account specifically to your work environment, keep your personal social networks to your friends.

7. Network.
Join societies, organisations and clubs associated to your career. Check out the Yellow Pages and online directories to see what is available, then network with these people.

8. Specialize - Become a Subject Matter Expert.
A sophisticated society has many specialist roles, therefore, the more specialised you are or can become, the more expertise you can provide, and more value to an employer's team. But don't forget to be a generalist in all areas connected with your career.

9. Lead from your strengths.
If you know what you are good at, or above average, or just brilliant at ... then move from that area first. If you are good at public speaking then use that as your primary form of accentuating your strengths.

10. Mitigate your weaknesses.
Similar to number nine. Play down your weaknesses. Avoid (especially in those first couple of meetings) those things that you are not so good at, or generally don't like doing.

Searching for a Singapore Jobs, you can always check out the latest jobs in Singapore WDA jobs bank where thousands of jobs are available.