1. Email your resume. Don’t fax or snail mail. With everyone data basing information, having your resume in an electronic format is essential. With that in mind, remember to have. Post your resume on this site. This new and inexpensive feature lets you post a 10 line synopsis plus your resume.

2. Write a Keyword searchable resume. Whatever your expertise, remember that the job may exist a week or a month from now and we have to find you at that time. What are your skills and experience and how can someone locate you electronically if they need to? Package yourself for how business is done now.

3. Network. Network. Network.Talk to people you’ve worked with and worked for. Collect information and be generous with it

4. Don’t forget the niche job boards, too. Everyone knows the major boards but forgets how few recruiters and companies actually subscribe to them to find your resume. And those boards are expensive for their users and have a low success ratio! Remember to scour the niche boards and free services for companies and recruiters who have available positions

5. Your job is finding a job and not watching Judge Judy! Maintain your discipline, your weight (or use the opportunity to get into shape), keep your wardrobe in good shape and get into the market. Come to our networking group on the first Wednesday of the month. to connect with others who can help you.

6. Think about reducing your salary expectations now. You have 1 month of severance, $15000 in the bank, spend $8000 per month and don’t want to touch the equity in your home. How long can you afford to be looking for work? Start looking to reduce your expenses and lower your salary expectations. Reducing your expenses gives you staying power in the market and can minimize the feeling of desperation that can show up on your interviews (and hurt you). Lowering your salary demands can open extra doors for you that will help keep you sharp and that you may accept if thing remain tough. One way you can figure out how long you can afford to be out of work is by using the tools in “Organize Your Job Search NOW! available at www.GetYourselfHiredNOW.com

7. Prepare your references. More companies and search firms are doing referencing than ever before. Prepare your references in advance and provide them to recruiters if they ask for them.

8. Prepare answers to tough questions. Don’t know what they might be for your field? Order  a book or e-book for help.

9. Update your resume on job boards on a schedule.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, is Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New York search firm, He has successfully assisted many corporations identify management leaders and staff in many disciplines since 1971. He is a retired certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist.

Receive a complimentary subscription to his job search ezine, No B.S. Job Search Advice at www.JeffAltman.com

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