How to find a good job - a detailed guide for those who want to get the job of their dreams!
Where and how to look for a job? How to quickly get a good job without education and experience? How to find a job to your liking?
We will tell you what steps you need to take in order to solve the issue of employment for yourself in a short time.
Even the difficult times of the economic crisis are no reason to give up. And in difficult times, it is quite possible to find a job, you just need to know where and how to look.
This article will be useful both for people who have little work experience behind them, and for experienced professionals in their field. Everyone will find a lot of useful and effective tips for finding the job of their dreams.
So, let's begin!
1. How to find a good job and where to start looking
According to the Ministry of Labor, unemployment growth was recorded over the past month (January 2016) in most subjects of the Federation. The Ministry of Economic Development predicts an increase in the number of unemployed by 400-450 thousand people this year.
This number can be safely added to those 3.9 million people who are already registered as unemployed citizens.
However, surveys of personnel services inspire some optimism: a quarter of all companies plan to increase their staff this year, although they are going to hire only the most energetic and competent employees. How to find a job in such a situation? Where to look for work in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities?
Where do you even start looking?
The first thing you will have to learn for yourself is that you will have to look for a job on your own - no one will do it for you. Although you shouldn't rely too much on the help of friends and relatives, telling them that you are looking for a job is your first task. Do not overestimate the help of employment agencies either: they are certainly useful, but they have their own interests and not every one of them fulfills its functions by 100%.
First, ask yourself a few important questions:
- What kind of job do you want to find?
- What schedule will suit you?
- What salary do you expect?
- Will you be able to work away from home and what would be your daily travel time allowance?
- Will work change the quality of your life for the better?
Once you have prioritized, you can begin to take action. If you are clear about what you want, you will be less likely to get a job that you want to leave in the first week.
And it’s also worth immediately identifying unpromising areas - places where, firstly, they don’t wait for you, and secondly, even if they do, they will offer you the minimum wage.
A couple of years ago, the most unpromising in terms of career were considered: science, utilities, culture, sports, security. Today, according to experts, the recession threatens banking and tourism. This will significantly increase female unemployment.
According to forecasts, a decrease in the number of mortgages issued could reduce construction, which will cause an increase in unemployment among men.
The male part of the population has nothing to "catch" in the automotive industry either (at some factories there are already only 1 shift left, and salaries have fallen by 20%). The staff in the field of auto sales will be reduced, however, some increase in vacancies in the auto repair business is expected.
The stagnation in the catering sector will drive thousands of waiters and cooks out onto the street. Unemployment will rise among makeup artists, stylists, beauticians, hotel industry workers. Among office workers, a reduction in lawyers and economists is expected due to overproduction over the past 2-3 years.
All other areas are relatively promising.
2. Where to quickly find a job or part-time job
There are quick ways to find a job for students and people with no experience. We have collected in this section practical advice that will help those who need a quick income but do not have professional skills to find a temporary job.
Student with no experience
There are thousands of offers on the Internet for graduates and university students. You should not be particularly happy with the number of offers: not all vacancies promise really stable income. Students are usually offered low-paid and labor-intensive activities:
- promoter;
- courier;
- waiter;
- Sales Manager;
- animator;
- guard (watchman).
Some types of work involve exclusively seasonal employment, which is just in hand for students during the summer holidays. With the advent of the worldwide web, job searches have become much easier and more efficient. Now it has become easier for a student without work experience to find a vacancy. We have already written, this article discusses, among other things, options for earning money through the Internet for young people.
Few people continue to use print publications (although it is too early to discount newspapers and magazines devoted to vacancies): just go to the resource and get acquainted with the offers that are already sorted into categories and sections. You can even create a detailed resume and post it on job search portals, perhaps employers will choose your candidacy.
Without education
Work without education involves approximately the same vacancies as in the case of student part-time work - couriers, security guards, waiters, loaders, workers in supermarket trading floors. Do not count on the special generosity of employers and do not rush to respond to the first offer that comes across.
To get started, study all the vacancies that you liked, make a list of the offers you are interested in, arranging them in order of personal attractiveness.
Weigh all the pros and cons and do not be afraid to say “no” to the employer if the vacancy has ceased to interest you for some reason (far from home, night shifts and other nuances). Do not be afraid if you are offered pre-training. So you will gain experience and skills that can be useful in the future.
Even as an intern, you can be persistent and quickly get a better position in the same company. We have already published an article about part-time jobs on our website, we recommend that you read it.
In crisis
The difficult economic situation is changing our lives. Above, we have already cited statistics on unemployment and layoffs in certain areas. At the moment, there is a clear violation of the balance of supply and demand in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and other cities of the Russian Federation.
How to find a job in a crisis? There is only one option - to be active in the search for vacancies: post resumes not on one Headhanter site, but at least on 3-5 portals. Employers' budgets for finding employees are also limited, and searching through recruitment agencies is mostly paid for by employers.
The right approach to the job search business is half or even a large part of success.
It is not so important whether you have experience and knowledge, whether you graduated from a university or only 9 grades of school, the main factor is self-confidence, awareness, desire to develop and improve. Our tips will also help you find a good job - read them carefully and be sure to use them in practice.
Tip 1. Be persistent and methodical - do you want to LOOK for a job or FIND one?
Perseverance, methodicalness, systematic approach and theoretical training are the leading success factors. Decide what you really want - search job or find her?
"I'm looking for a job" is a good psychological shield against claims from family members and relatives. Do not forget that looking for a job is only necessary in order to find it, improve the quality of life and change financial status.
Important: looking for a job is also a kind of work! It should be approached as seriously and responsibly as any work. Once you've written your resume, don't forget to update it and post it on multiple sites. Send it to all employers who are at least theoretically interesting to you. It doesn't matter if you seem pushy - companies tend to appreciate persistent and energetic employees.
illustrative example
One of our acquaintances named Victor has been looking for work for about a year and a half, but has not yet found a place.
Searching for vacancies has become his kind of daily ritual. He regularly browsed job search websites, wrote out phone numbers and company data, and often called potential employers. Sometimes I even went to interviews.
Even if he was quite satisfied with the salary and other factors, he still found some point on which this job did not suit him.
The boss is a woman, the office is not in a prestigious area, there is no cooler in the workplace. In other words, Victor simply did not want to get a job, but wanted to look for it and create the appearance of activity.
With this approach, the chances of improving your life are certainly minimal.
Tip 2. What is better to choose - a highly paid job or a job you like?
The ideal, of course, is to have a high-paying job that you enjoy. But in practice, a highly profitable place is not always to your liking.
The question posed in the title of this paragraph, each decides individually.
Psychologists insist that it is better to do what you like, even if this business does not bring high income right away.
- Firstly, any work involves the development of professional skills. Perhaps at the moment the salary is not too high, but by improving your skills and level, you can always count on an increase in income.
- Secondly, going to work that you do not like, like hard labor, experiencing negative emotions, is unhealthy.
The immune system directly depends on our psycho-emotional state: it has been proven that people who are engaged in an unloved business and perceive work as a “necessary evil” are more likely to get infectious and chronic diseases.
A person spends a significant part of his life at work. Do you want to be constantly depressed, complain about life, sleep poorly and count the minutes until the end of the working day? We are sure not.
So, make a choice in favor of the vacancy that you personally will like, and not your husband (wife, mother-in-law, dad, mom).
Tip 3: Use as many different job search options as possible
Diversify your search as much as possible. The more job search methods you use, the higher the chance of success. In the next section of the article, we will take a closer look at them, pointing out the advantages (and possible disadvantages) of each of them.
There are certain rules for writing a resume that should be followed if you want to impress the employer as a prepared, purposeful and serious person. A resume is the first thing an employer bases his conclusions on when considering a specific candidate for an applicant.
The resume should be:
- Concise and containing only relevant and important information. The employer usually does not have time to read your detailed and detailed essays, so the information should be placed as concisely, effectively, and correctly as possible. You should not describe your life path in the “about yourself” column, starting from kindergarten. It should contain information useful to the employer, emphasizing your professional merits or testifying to the ability to work in a team.
- Written without errors and logical inconsistencies. Even if you are hired as a turner at a factory, you must show yourself to be a competent and responsible person: fortunately, at present, it is not difficult to check the text for errors. The ability to present information in a logical and structured way is a quality that is valued in any position.
- Smartly designed. Each column in this document is assigned a specific place. If you write about professional and personal qualities in one section or if you are careless in the design of your resume, HR specialists are unlikely to bombard you with interview invitations.
The resume must include: personal and contact details, wishes for future work, experience, professional skills, education, awards and diplomas of a professional nature.
Fraudsters - in this case, companies that either want you to work for free or hope to get your money. Online scams are especially common. Distinguishing honest employers from scammers is not easy: scammers know how to inspire confidence and impress.
The most correct rule
If someone wants you to transfer a certain amount of money to some account (down payment, loyalty check, payment for teaching aids or materials), you are most likely being scammed.
Tip 7. Prayer for work is your extra helper
Prayer-appeal to the Orthodox Saint Spyridon Trimifuntsky helps believers find a good job.
This saint and miracle worker, who lived at the beginning of our era, helps those in need to gain confidence, independence, and find their life's work.
They pray to Saint Spyridon during life's troubles, financial difficulties, in the absence of work.
4. Effective ways to find a job - TOP 7 popular options
Here we provide effective ways to find a job. With the help of them you will be able to cover the maximum number of vacancies and offers.
1) Personal contacts: relatives, friends, social networks
Statistics show that in small companies, 40% of employees get a job through acquaintances through friends, relatives or through social networks. By simply posting a job search message in your Facebook or VKontakte status, you will significantly increase your chances of finding a job through close or distant acquaintances.
Notify your surroundings that you are looking for a vacancy and word of mouth will become your assistants in this matter.
2) Professional communities
Professional communities are both a new and well-known phenomenon to mankind. This is the name of a group of people who are engaged in a certain field of activity and regularly exchange experience and contacts among themselves, jointly develop the most effective methods for solving professional problems.
Often, representatives of such communities also exchange information about vacancies, vacancies and other information useful to a job seeker.
3) Newspapers free ads
Printed publications are already somewhat outdated, but still a valid way to find a job. The main category of people who use free classifieds newspapers are older people who are conservative and do not trust modern technologies. Some companies that publish job listings in newspapers duplicate them on Internet sites.
4) Online Job Search Sites
The most relevant way today. There are dozens of sites on the Internet that update lists of hundreds of vacancies every day in all possible areas of work. Proper use of online portals will allow you to find a job quickly and for free.
Most popular job sites:
- Job.ru- a popular portal for job seekers and employers. A very simple interface of the site will allow you to easily and simply wait for employers to call you. Registration and preparation of a resume on the site will take no more than 20 minutes.
- headhunter(hh.ru) - this convenient, functional and up-to-date site works in every city, has hundreds of thousands of vacancies in the list (depending, of course, on the population) and several million resumes from job seekers from all over Russia;
- Indeed(ru.indeed.com) is an equally popular portal designed for an audience of applicants of all ages and specialties. Its convenience is that it collects data on a given vacancy from various Internet portals. The developers also made a convenient mobile application.
- Avito(avito.ru) is an all-Russian site for free ads, where, among others, there are job search sections in the city of your residence: “vacancies” and “service offers”;
- "Yandex Work"(worka.yandex.ru). Special job search service from Yandex - the most popular search engine in Runet.
- worka.ru- profile well-known site.
These are just the most popular sites, there are many of them on the net. It is also worth paying attention to your local city portals. Very often they also publish announcements of local employers.
It is better to view vacancies from Monday, tracking new offers every morning. The possible "disadvantages" of this method include a large number of applicants for one proposal.
5) Monitoring of vacancies on company websites and targeted distribution of resumes
If you are a specialist in any profession or dream of working in a particular company, make your search more targeted: you can monitor vacancies on the resources of companies you are interested in and send your own resume to their personnel departments.
A completely reliable and productive method of finding a job, especially if you have something to interest the employer. Competition between employers in the market is very high: they also try not to miss valuable employees.
6) Recruitment agencies
Recruitment agencies work through recruiters: you leave them your resume, they are looking for an employer. Be careful - not all recruitment agencies are “clean hands” - among them there are often scammers or just firms that do not perform their work up to the mark.
7) Own website
Another modern and relevant method of finding a job. True, your own website will help if you have something to offer the employer - your high qualifications, confirmed by examples of work performed (portfolio), your abilities for certain activities.
Having your own website is especially useful in finding remote work as a designer, copywriter, marketing and advertising specialist.
Comparison table of the effectiveness of various methods of job search:
№ | Search method | Expenses | Coverage of the audience of employers | Search time |
1 | Relatives, friends, acquaintances | Is free | Small | Typically 3 days to a month |
2 | Professional communities | Is free | small, targeted | A few months |
3 | Newspapers | Ad cost | Big | Not limited |
4 | Internet sites | Is free | Almost all vacancies in the city | Not limited |
5 | Own website | Website creation cost | Limited | Not limited |
7 | Monitoring of vacancies on company websites | Is free | limited, targeted | Not limited |
8 | Recruiting agency | Free / or part of the first salary | Big | Few weeks |
5. How to get a job - 7 popular areas of employment
Many people want to get a prestigious job. In this section, we have reviewed the most popular areas of elite employment.
To the police
New personnel will always be in demand by law enforcement agencies: the work is hard, dangerous, but, of course, necessary. There are almost no delays in the salary of the police, in addition, the employees themselves have an impressive list of benefits and privileges provided by law. But not everyone is hired by the police.
Almost a prerequisite is military service, impeccable health, good physical shape. What matters is emotional stability, which is checked at the initial stage of selection of candidates with the help of testing.
Young people of any gender 18-35 years old are taken to serve in the ranks of the police. Candidates' educational requirements depend on the position they are applying for. Profile education, of course, will not be superfluous if there are thoughts about career growth.
in the FSB
FSB officers can theoretically become citizens of the Russian Federation who are capable of performing official duties in terms of their professional, physical, personal qualities, as well as age and education. In addition to the list of required documents, candidates are required to pass:
- Psychophysical testing for resistance to stress.
- Tests for the use of drugs and psychoactive substances.
- Physical condition check.
- Medical examination.
In addition, all future employees of the Security Service must pass the registration of access to State Secrets.
To Gazprom
Gazprom is the most profitable and stable company in the country, an influential player not only in Russia, but also in the global economic market. Getting a job at Gazprom is the dream of many of our compatriots. It is believed that it is impossible to get a job in this company without personal connections, but this is just a stereotype.
Job searches in Gazprom can be started from the websites of these companies, where lists of vacancies are regularly published. If, moreover, you are a good specialist in a specialized field, a certified graduate of a prestigious university, then it is quite possible that the doors of the company will be hospitably open to you.
To the bank
This direction has always been of interest to people who dream of a career, stable earnings and high profits. Experts predict some decline in this direction in the coming years: most likely, ordinary workers will be laid off - line managers, cashiers, and so on.
There are no strict education requirements for consultants and tellers (front-office workers). As a rule, students of economic and law universities, people with managerial experience, come to banks.
In banks, there are a lot of starting positions for which people can be hired without experience. In 1-2 years, many young people manage to grow vertically or horizontally in terms of career. True, it is not necessary to count on very large salaries for employees without experience. However, a year or two can be tolerated for the sake of a future career.
Rotational method
Builders, drivers, bulldozer drivers, tractor drivers and representatives of other specialties, whose skills are required in the harsh conditions of the Far North and the Arctic, work on a rotational basis.
The essence of the shift method is simple: a team goes to work for 1-3 months and performs its duties on the job - living in temporary housing at construction sites, mining or processing of minerals.
Theoretically, any person of the required specialty, ready to work in harsh conditions, can be hired as a shift worker.
Warning
People seeking to find work on a rotational basis may run into a "scam" - firms that collect supposedly "entry fees" from "future employees" for registration.
To avoid this, work only with those companies that have representative offices.
Abroad
To get a job abroad (we are not talking about China and Mongolia, but about Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia), you need to look for a position either through a recruitment agency or on foreign sites.
The chance to work abroad is high for representatives of popular technical specialties - programmers, engineers, designers, IT specialists. Good options are offered to financiers, top managers.
Naturally, without knowing the language, getting a normal job in another country is almost impossible. Competition in the job market in Western Europe is very high. In addition to local applicants, people from the eastern part of Europe, Turkey and Asian countries seek to find work there.
You can get a job in the Russian Federation in an international company, and then look for opportunities to transfer to a foreign office. If you make every effort and effort, this will be quite a feasible task for an ambitious and purposeful person.
to the civil service
Far from the worst employment option (especially in a crisis). There is almost always a competition for the vacancies of civil servants: they choose the best possible candidate.
The recruitment process is a step-by-step process - first, all your documents and data are reviewed, then a face-to-face or written test for special training is carried out.
Work experience in a specialty (for example, in a bank, if you get a job in the financial part) will be a good help. You can find out about vacancies in the service of the state apparatus on the websites of the authorities of the city or region.
6. How to find a remote job online
Working on the Web is a great option for those who do not want to work according to a schedule and “for an uncle”. Today, on the Internet, you can find jobs in all humanitarian and technical specialties. Linguists, philologists, teachers, designers, lawyers, medical workers, programmers are in demand. We have already discussed in detail in one of the previous articles.
To receive income, you only need constant access to the Web, a bank account or an electronic wallet. Plus the desire to learn and grow. You can find remote work on the World Wide Web on special sites like FL.ru and Workzilla.
Internet business - a relatively new direction, which is becoming more and more relevant. On the Web, you can open your own business (an online store, a legal portal, a school), or you can simply do what you like remotely.
If you are a journalist or philologist, write texts to fill network resources with content. If you are a university teacher, prepare applicants via Skype or help with theses. Any talent can find an application: your skills and abilities can be converted into a cash equivalent.
The Internet has many advantages:
- You can work without special education. You can get specialized knowledge here, for example, by studying feature articles, e-learning courses and Youtube videos.
- Income is not limited to salary. You set your own bar.
- Ability to manage your time. By working remotely, you yourself ration your working day, choose weekends and control the duration of your vacation.
- Lots of opportunities for personal growth. Being your own boss, you can carry out the most daring and risky projects.
Of course, it is necessary to grow to a stable level of income - not all at once. And with experience, you will definitely understand how to act more efficiently and competently. You can start right away by opening your own website and promoting it. We have already told you how to create your own website.
With initial investments in marketing and optimization, in a year you can turn your project into a profitable business that brings a stable income.
7. How to look for a job in Moscow
Finding a job in Moscow is certainly not an easy task, especially during the economic downturn. You can count on official vacancies only if you have Moscow registration. Informal employment is a common but risky option. If there is no employment contract, you are in the full power of the employer.
Moving and finding a place in the capital is a challenge for energetic and ambitious people. If you have abilities, knowledge, skills and a suitable education, you can find many options for self-realization in the capital.
Be prepared in advance for a change in the rhythm of life, other prices and a different level of salaries. If you plan to live in a rented apartment, calculate the level of income in advance to cover the cost of rent and still eat normally.
At the end of the article, watch a short educational video on job search:
8. Conclusion
So, now you know a lot more about how to find a job. We hope that our recommendations will help you find a way to earn money that suits you completely in terms of money and in terms of self-realization. We wish you to find a highly paid hobby, then you will not have to work in the standard sense.
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