Job Search and Employment
For most business students one of
the most important communication tasks is preparing your resume. This document
will represent you in offices you have never seen. The resume is just one
aspect of a complete communication package that everyone must put together
before he or she enters the business world. This package should also include a
healthy amount of career planning and self-assessment before you even start
thinking about a resume. In addition, after you have written a resume you need
to think about writing cover letters, preparing yourself for interviews, and
planning strategies for follow up interview with letters and telephone calls.
This job-search communication package ends up looking very much like the
following figure.
The Job Search
Communication
Plan Your Career
Before you can sell a product, you need to know what product is all
about. Similarly, before selling your expertise you need to know the following.
Understanding Today’s Changing
Workplace
Today, work place is influenced
by numerous forces such as globalization, advancing technology, information
overload, grown diversity, and team based organizations. Certain other issue
such as corporate downsizing, cost-cutting initiatives growing dependency on
flexible employment techniques such as outsourcing and increasing entrepreneur
are fast influencing the workplace.
How Changing Workplace Affects
Job
Employment is more flexible. Today,
lifelong employees are less in number, only, temporary workers & consultants
are working project by project basis.
