i need help with a paper, the topic sentence should be tips for job hunting, can anyone help?

Answer 1

http://www.job-hunting-tips.com/

I found the site below as the BEST guide for job hunting tips. It is very extensive and informative
http://www.careerfair.com/4.htm

Writing an Effective Resume
A resume is a critical tool in your job search. It is, essentially, a summary of your qualifications and experience that communicates enough information to an employer to elicit further interest.

Sample Cover Letter
Letter-writing skills are essential to your job search. Excellent cover and thank-you letters often make a difference in whether or not you are considered for a position.

Researching an Employer
Your task in the job search is to find the most suitable position for yourself. You will need to use your research and investigative skills to discover job openings and prepare for an interview.

Keys to a Successful Career Fair
Career fairs are an excellent networking opportunity as well as a source of potential employment.

Networking: Exploring the Hidden Job Market
Networking is a job search technique that involves purposefully seeking out and interacting with selected individuals who can assist you in getting job interviews and offers.

Interviewing: Before, During & After
Questions: Traditional Interviewing
Questions: Behavioral Interviewing
For most fields, without an interview you will not get a job. It is in this stage of your job search that you convince an employer to hire you.

Evaluating Job Offers
The factors you will want to consider when determining whether or not you will accept a position.


Also
http://www.online-graduate.co.uk/tipsforgrads.html

1. Be Realistic

It is tempting to think that you can be 'all things to all employers' but if this is your approach you will be swamped by what is on offer and will be unable to decide what to do. So, firstly and most importantly you need to decide what profession you want to be in.

Why? Because it is the primary concern of the graduate recruiter to find graduates who can actually do the job on offer and what better insurance policy is there than someone who has done a related course or who has had practical experience during his/her vacation work?

The closer your targeted job relates to your course or work experience the higher your salary expectation can be. So high-tech electronics companies will be looking for graduates with degrees in electronics or computing whereas a broadcasting company is likely to be interested in graduates from a broader range of disciplines with practical experience as well.

For instance, graduates who have had some experience of working on local radio, a local newspaper, hospital radio or something similar will interest them more than a graduate with a purely academic background. So decide upon your profession and target your applications/CV accordingly.

2. Be Smart

Think about, then action your individual job hunt. Be ahead of the game by re-writing your CV and application forms to have a business emphasis. Steer away from the common student writing style which includes too much emphasis on hobbies, course details, references, holiday travel and grades of every examination ever taken such as swimming, gymnastics and dance.

Focus instead on your language and choose words in your CV/application form that have a business-like tone. Words like solved, performed, redirected, developed, implemented, sold and supervised create a positive business-like impression and say so much more about you than woolly words like involved, assisted, hardworking, helpful and ambitious.

3. Be Special

Decide what is special about you? What are you offering your 'new' employer? Many graduates feel that being a graduate is enough, so they don't work too hard on what they have to offer. This can also apply to some graduates within a job so they don't settle in or endear themselves to others once within the organisation because the 'I am a graduate' bit takes over.

Overcome this hurdle by forgetting the qualification bit and thinking in terms of your unique business skills. What can you do that would add value to your chosen company? What are you going to bring to an organisation? What personal skills do you have to offer? Yes, the focus is on how 'You' can make a positive difference to your chosen organisation.

4. Be Sexy

The thing to remember is that a lot of graduate applications are very dull, boring and lack enthusiasm for the job on offer. Create a bit of intrigue and sex appeal by committing your enthusiasm and talents to paper.

Employers love qualifications but they are also looking to recruit the other qualification, which is your personality. The bit, which determines how you come across, and how much potential you have. It also gives you the edge over other candidates with similar qualifications as yourself, so don't downplay its importance. Remember that if you don't include it on your CV/application form it could be assumed that you don't have a personality!

5. Be Professional

Invest as much time and effort as you can into researching your chosen profession and putting your application together. So many graduates see a position they like the look of and just throw anything down on paper in the vain hope that it will get them the job.

Researching the company and writing a personalised CV/application form may seem to be a fruitless exercise if you don't get offered the job but it is a catch 22 situation. If you don't put the effort in, your application doesn't stand a chance.

Spend at least a couple of hours finding out about the position on offer and a similar amount of time, if not more, writing the application/CV.

This time can be reduced further if you spend a little bit of time discovering more about what makes employers choose certain applications rather than others.

Answer 2

when hunting the elusive job remember, if it catches a whiff of you it will run, so always stay down wind. if you drink while on the hunt remember to leave the booze with the car if you getclose to a job and have to get out of the car. f you see oneand you gt a good shot at it, take theshot and hope for the best, good luck nd happy hunting

Answer 3

Practice saying "do you want fries with that" !

Answer 4

Use your own initiative.