The job hunt is everyone's target once they come out of their studies or college. But what kind of job you need to join, or how the job market is today is what no one cares to look at.
While the jobs market may have improved but there is still often tough competition for the top roles. It’s a horrible feeling to miss out on a job that you really wanted so we’ve put together these tips to help you stand out as the best candidate and secure your ideal position.
This might sound obvious but it’s surprising the number of people who are looking for a new role without really being clear about what an ideal position looks like. If you’re unhappy in your current role, or unemployed, then any job probably seems like a better option but it makes sense to think through what you’re seeking in your next role, and what factors are important to you in terms of job satisfaction.
What level of responsibility are you looking for? What salary do you need? What length of commute would you be happy with? What sort of company do you want to work for? Knowing what are deal breakers for you, and the elements you’d be willing to compromise on, will help you identify what constitutes an ideal position for you and that’s a key first step in being able to secure it!
When you’re actively looking for a job it can be hard to keep track of which jobs you’ve applied for, from which job boards and with which recruiters. This is why it’s crucial to stay organized as there’s nothing more off-putting for a recruiter or company than speaking with a candidate who sounds unsure of whether they’ve applied for a particular role or not. They naturally want to feel like the role they’re calling to talk to you about is the most important one on your radar.
Keep a spreadsheet to record your applications including details such as job title, date applied, where you applied for it, name of the recruiter/hiring manager/company including whatever contact information was supplied and a column to list the status of the application e.g. awaiting feedback, rejected, first interview etc. This will also help you to identify which opportunities you need to follow up with if you haven’t received any feedback by a certain point.
They say it’s who you know, not what you know and that’s why it’s important to develop relationships with people who can help you land your ideal job. This can include recruiters, people within companies you’d like to work for, people you’ve previously worked with, people in your industry, those you studied with etc.
When you’re busy it can be easy to lose touch with people but social media can help you stay connected. First of all, look to reignite any existing relationships you have. Don’t come straight out and ask if they can help you secure a new job. You can send them a note saying it’s been a while and ask how they are and what they’re up to or comment on something they’ve posted online / share something with them that you think would be of interest. You can then look for other relevant people to connect with. Again, keep your initial outreach friendly, rather than going straight in with ‘can you help me get a new job?’ You should also look for opportunities to develop relationships offline, such as at industry events.
In terms of building good relationships with recruiters, the key is regular and honest communication. Let them know what you’re looking for, what your current situation is, what interviews you’re going on etc. Also, make sure you respond as soon as you can to any opportunities they present to you. If you’re going to be unavailable for a prolonged period of time then let them know this in advance so they don’t think you’re no longer interested in a new role.
If you’re looking for a new job you need to make sure you can be found online and are saying things that portray you in a positive way. Complete your profile information on all social sites you’re on so that you’ll be returned in any recruiter searches. Also, do a Google search for yourself to see what’s returned and if there’s anything that needs removing or privacy settings that need altering.
You want to refrain from bad mouthing your current employer and having any inappropriate photos visible to someone you’re not connected with. Instead, you should be looking to share industry insights, blogging about relevant issues, commenting on existing blogs etc. These things will make you look like you take an active interest in your career and are knowledgeable on current news.
Use the job description to make sure that your CV clearly details that you have the skills that this role requires. It will also help you to prioritize the order that you show these skills in and whether there are elements that you can remove for this opportunity. You don’t need a completely new CV for each role you apply to, but you should tweak your master copy so that the recruiter can see quickly what a great fit you are for this position. This is especially important for CVs that go through ATS systems as they’ll be looking for certain keywords, often ones that are mentioned in the job advert.
You should also make sure that your CV contains quantified achievements, rather than a list of responsibilities e.g. increased profitability by 24% over the fiscal year.
Some people save this for the interview stage but it’s important before then. Doing your research about a company will help you determine whether it’s one that you’d like to work for, and if it is then you can use it in your cover letter to help you stand out.
There’s some debate about whether cover letters are necessary anymore but why miss out on an additional opportunity to sell yourself? In this short note, you can detail why you’re excited about the role and why you think you’d be good at it. This is where you can draw on some insights you’ve found from your research.
If you’ve made it to the interview stage then now is your ultimate chance to shine. Through your research and the job description (plus your conversations with the recruiter if this is how you found the job), you should have an idea of why this vacancy has been created and what the company needs from this person. Use these insights to prepare examples of your experience which showcase that you can provide what they need.
There’s nothing worse in an interview than being at a loss to offer an example of where you’ve demonstrated a particular required skill or behavior so doing some thorough preparation before should help ensure that this doesn’t happen.
If you’re working with a recruiter make sure to provide the feedback quickly on how the interview went and on any areas where you feel that you may not have come across as well as you would have liked. So that they can pass this to the employer when they’re speaking with them and it might help to overcome any potential doubts or questions they had about you.
However, if you found the job directly with the employer then be sure to send a concise thank you email which reiterates your interest in the role. Where possible reference something that was said in the interview, for example; It sounds like an exciting time to join the company with the recent acquisition of Z, and I would relish the opportunity to help you achieve your growth plans.
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Searching for god job, or dream job and Career Cast has been shifted from side to side from the database opportunities’ to nationwide IT jobs search and grown up with a list of the best for 2016, based on research, analysis, salary and the importance of the work at their companies. The analysis of 2016 not only helped what makes the career grow fast but also how fast each type of job is growing, and anticipated how possible that job is to keep growing.
Let’s have a look on some of the in-demand jobs of 2016, and the jobs that will grow like crazy in 2017.
As per recent survey web developers earned $64,970 on average in 2016, however, this is not the highest paying IT job in the industry, but this job has one major thing going for it. The jobs for web developers will be on high pace and on-demand demand and are predictable to grow by 30% through 2020.
As long as computers and applications exist; computer systems analysts also exit. The survey says that this proportion of job has earned more than Dollars 85,800 on average by 2016. As long as we use computers and write software for them, we would be in need of troubleshooting the troubles when things may go wrong. The need of a systems analyst will grow and this job is expected to rise up by 21% through 2020.
Information Security Analysts was one of top notch jobs of 2016, which earned nearly Dollars 90,120 in 2016. As our computers, devices and system usage is more, the data storage need is also increasing more and more to store the important, huge and sensitive information. This is the reason there's rising demand for professionals who know how to keep all your stuff secure. Jobs for this skill is predictable to be on the rise by 20% through 2020.
The need and demand for the Software engineers will stay till we have the software. This is again on demand and most happening jobs since a few years from now. The earning of Software Engineers have reached on top of every job we saw up to now, the analysis shows that the earnings reached to $100,690 on average in 2016, and without any doubt, they can rise to unexpected numbers by the end on 2017. Any level of company you see, there is a very high need of a person with some basic knowledge in software skills. This is a skill in demand all over; from high-tech companies to everyday organizations need custom software expert to serve their own customers and employees. The estimated growth for software engineers is projected to rise 25% through 2020.
The demand for Data storage, Data Analysis, Data Analytics, and Data Scientists are going to be on top on top and this job has earned Dollars 28,240 in 2016 and may be on high rise by mid of 2017; we need to thank the boom in all things of data and big data; demand for this job isn't going away anytime soon. You will see huge Jobs coming in 2017 for Data Scientists with a rise of 20% through 2020.
The IT professionals who are into managing the computers and computer networks are also in high positions in every organization. This job is in boom globally and earned $77,810 in 2016 alone. It's true that the trend towards cloud computing is renting the computers you need to access over the internet, but it doesn’t mean that the companies are buying fewer computers than they usually do. However, the demand and need of this job is high and will remain the same and it’s not going to vanish. Job openings for this job are expected to be 15% through 2020.
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Development and testing walk side by side in any organization, and will also work apart in some scenarios. The use of Independent software testing companies today is huge as they play a vital role and carry immense technological understanding and are solely dedicated to testing different types of software applications thoroughly. You can choose custom made software testing services and solution offerings which allow various companies to get a break from testing activities and focus more on other business areas.
Many businesses now rely on software applications and software development companies which projected to provide fully functional, high performance based and secured software applications. If these factors are omitted, then it could lead to the heavy loss for the businesses. Before the product or the software is ready to release the development team needs to filter the product through many phases and ensure that the application or software is moved to testing, this helps the development teams to find all the minor and major bugs before they release the product and help them to realize the pre-development issues and post development issues that always leads to close down the task before it goes out the market.
The testing phase is essential for any application or software. If it is not performed properly, then it will not only effect the pre-developed applications, but complete software development life cycle, due to this the product / applications might not come out with the quality expected. This is the practice companies perform testing of their software applications just before they are released to the market. This can be terrible as testing in the last stages as on the things to see will be with of many defects which could be functional or nonfunctional. The major purpose of testing is to make sure that software applications work accurately and meet user prospect. The development companies that work on multiple projects might face difficulties in testing for each assignment due to lack of required time. If they want to perform testing in-house, the management might need to maintain multiple teams to handle testing projects which can be costly.
These companies might also face challenges in finding the suitable testing tool for the project, and even face difficulties in finding accurate testers who carry knowledge on current tools than the existing testers have. To maintain development and testing activities is a huge challenge. The Independent software testing service providers’ help vendors to have a better choice for the software development companies that want to get free from testing activities and achieve quality service for their money. These vendors offer only software testing services, and more to it they are able to provide preferred testing services for different applications, where as some vendors also offer software testing services and solutions that provide flexibility and competence for the testing seeking companies. On average, these vendors connect a pool of capable testers who have deeper expertise in the relevant projects, identify right tools for the project and adhere to deadlines. Most independent software testing vendors are equipped with capabilities like best practices, robust test management, effective test execution, monitoring, global delivery, and 24/7 support. This will help a software development company accelerate time to market.
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Two development firms in Big data and Analytics space; DATA -Tableau and Hortonworks saw a critical time when their data released missed the forecast by 0.05$, and dropped their stock by five percent. This is what going frequently with companies and no one has any clue on what is going on with BI business Intelligent and Hadoop space. Should companies run from BI and Big data space before it completely collapses?
Instead of focusing on the sensational headlines; the investors and technology corporate leaders should also focus on the missed forecasts as they leave some clue on some important analysis and trends which will help them to grow.
While the companies need to look at their results in the context of the industry as a whole; which will show the exact results as per the worldwide analysis. As per the Gartner’s analysis for worldwide dollar-valued IT; it says that IT spending has grown in 2016 at a flat percent of 0.0. However, 35% of growth is fairly incomparable by this benchmark, and if we look at Hortonworks’ results for this gone quarter: then the total revenue grew by 46% year over a year.
This means, the Investors’ expectations are growing high and even they are tough to manage. To manage this kind of issues the industry observers and technology buyers should standardize the performance of both organizations against the rest of the industry before they make a knowledgeable conclusion.
As per recent survey —Teradata also reported revenue and its business shrink by 4% Year over a year. Leaving other things remaining equal, the analysis says that Hortonworks could generate more revenue than Teradata by 2020.
Let’s look on some of the data analysis pitfalls you should avoid before you are sucked in.
Confirmation Preference
If you have a proposed explanation in your mind; but you are only looking for the data patterns that support it and ignore all data points that reject It. Then let us see what will happen.
First, analyze the results of that particular patterns performed well and find the conversion rate on the landing page. This will help you to really perform high than the average you think. By doing or following such analysis you can use that as the sole data point to prove your explanation. While, completely ignoring the fact of those leads will qualify or the traffic to the landing page will be sub-par.
There is again a thumb rule which is very important to remember, you should never approach data exploration with a precise conclusion in mind; as most of the professional data analysis methods are built in a way that you can try them before you actually go and reject your proposed explanation without proving it or to reject it to the void.
Correlation Vs Cause
Combining the cause of a fact with correlation somewhat will not show any action. While, when one action causes another, then they are most certainly correlated. However, just because two things occur together doesn’t mean that one caused the other, even when it seems to make some sense.
You might find a high positive association between high website traffic and high revenue; however, it doesn’t mean that high website traffic will be the only cause for high revenue. There might be an indirect or a common cause to both that may help to generate high revenue more likely to occur when high website traffic occurs.
For example, if you find a high association between the number of leads and number of opportunities from a classic B2B data quest, then you might gather a high volume of leads with a high number of opportunities.
Here are some more things that you need to watch when doing data analysis:
• Do not compare unrelated data sets or data points and conclude relationships or similarities.
• Analyze incomplete or “poor” data sets and make proper decisions based on the final analysis of that data.
• Do not analyze the data sets without considering other data points that might be critical for the analysis.
• The act of grouping data points collectively and treating them as one. Which means, looking at various visits to your website and creating unique visits and total visits as one and inflating the actual number of visitors and converting it to the best conversion rate.
• Do not ignore any simple mistakes and oversights which may happen anytime.
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The biggest question roaming around the industry is why one should go permanent rather than temporary? Well, there are many cons and pros defending the question; more to it the people in the room think that they may earn more with permanent positions along with many benefits. In some instances, this may be in another case. You have to look at the amount of work over a whole year and the bigger picture. While this might not always the best thing to jump into.
Taking a good break and moving in the right direction and up the ladder will definitely bring good progress in your career. This is what you see a lot in senior and permanent employees; who actually earn almost as much as they can from their professional and personal experience. More to salary; you will also entitle to have the below-mentioned privileges’ which include:
Here are few pros and cons of Temp Vs Perm
Temporary
Transparency & Flexibility
Most essential reasons most candidates look before they step in any organization is transparency and flexibility. Both of the reasons are cited by many candidates who are looking for Temp positions. The length of the projects they will be put in will give the exact picture about the time frame they will stay in the temporary project; but in addition, there are plenty of options like project contract extensions, holiday’s, flexibility in the working hours and more are attracting the jobseekers to opt for temp positions. Temp work is always a good option for those who want a bit of freedom and flexibility in their role.
Financial Opening
Temp work is not just about flexibility and transparency, but the financial opportunities for temp workers are high and potentially more compared to the permanent employees; even the employers don’t need to be anxious about sick pay, holidays or pensions, and paying cash free for daily rate while as in permanent positions.
Diversity & Practice
Many candidates like to opt for temp projects as they have diverse opportunities to go with and they can easily plan their lifestyle along with choosing the right fit role with good exposure. There are fewer politics to worry about and no need to think about the benefits that come of gaining experience with diverse employers. Here you will have ample of opportunities to pick and work with.
Employer’s Choice
The best reasons that the contract market continues to thrive today is - it’s great for employers too; they have a choice to pick the employee with their required requirements. With restrictions in their place, the hiring process for full-time is tougher than the temp positions. Filling the requirement for a certain period is manageable by offering good package and benefits. However, for many employers, the contract can be a good alternative; as contractors often find themselves in high demand.
Permanent
Association & Safety
Today if we see, many employees are looking for these two reasons which are associated with their jobs and provide them the safety they are looking in for. Close association and safety are two essential things for the employees in today’s work atmosphere. Both need to be closely associated with any kind of work you are going with. Most of the employees like to pick permanent jobs for good association and safety. Whether they’re actual or apparent these kinds of benefits are more usually associated with permanent roles than temp positions.
Getting Further
A permanent position is more defined than temp and often offer strong career path than contract roles with clear opportunities towards the advancement within the organization. Moreover, the permanent employees are more likely to make a choice on the rewards of their hard work on a project than temp, who may previously be on their next project when the approvals are handed out.
Secured Pay
While choosing the temp role can add big numbers in your pay and make your financial map high. However, a guaranteed pay cheque by the end of each month is a huge incentive for permanent employees, along with the benefits that come within – holiday pay, sick pay and any other bonuses the organization might offer.
Know where you like to land
Though flexibility, diversity, financial stability, are great for some employees, but what others are thinking to opt is what we need to prefer to know and where they are based and what are they doing on a daily basis. However, the permanent roles tend to offer to more locked-down employment practice.
What to opt?
While it is impossible to predict whether a temp or perm, obviously, there’s no ultimate answer to this question - the right answer is the one – that right fits for you.
But whichever side you like to choose, we will help you fit in that role as we being the best recruitment partners for many years now.
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