The Rites of Passage: Job Search Australia
Aah, it's that time of year the autumn weather brings a slight chill in the evening breeze. While most of you might be heading for warm days, down under those summer clothes are becoming just a little dressier (even if bare legs never go out of fashion here). Even after two weeks of job search, I realize that I need far more discipline. The job search itself is nothing less than a full-time job, and a tough one at that, with no room for being lazy or disorganized. Two weeks in, I realize I have to keep a work diary with specified daily targets for the number of people I need to contact, number of jobs I will apply to etc. Also, I realize I could have done a lot more to hit the ground running before I got here. Luckily I had been working on several versions of my resume for each job category I apply to since more than a year, so it was somewhere close to where it needed to be. This involved a lot of job market research to understand the overarching categories of roles and ...