What is Job Hunting?

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Getting a job could be one of the most difficult and frustrating things to some people, whereas, it could be a piece of cake for some other folks, even though it is time consuming in both cases. Me myself don’t belong to the second group but I feel I am closer, so I want to share my experience here.

But first thing first, I have a question for everyone who is reading my blog --- what is Job Hunting?

In Wikipedia, there is a definition: “Job hunting" is the act of looking for employment, possibly due to unemployment. It is also known as job seeking. The immediate goal of job seeking is usually to obtain a job interview with an employer which may lead to getting hired.”

This definition doesn’t help you to get an interview or find a job, but it is the understanding in 90% of the job seekers minds who feel job hunting is difficult. The other 10% of people look at it from different angles, and they think job hunting is easy. So what job hunting is to the 10% of people?

Job-hunting is like selling! It is a sort of persuading art. You try hard to exaggerate the positive sides and hide the negative ones. If you have time, I suggest you to watch the shopping channel, and see how much time they can spend in selling a diamond ring or a watch or anything else, and make some notes about what they are talking about, so that you can do a little analysis and get some idea of selling yourself.

One of the most important things of job hunting is writing a resume, because only when you have a good resume can you get an interview, only when you get an interview can you have the chance to be hired!

Then what is a resume? I say a resume is like a movie trailer. When you watch the DVDs you rented from the Blockbusters, the first thing you see is not the main movie, it is the movie trailers of other up-coming movies. If you watched a movie trailer that made you believe the movie is interesting and made you rent one. Chances are, you get a movie that is not as interesting as it seems in the movie trailer. The movie is not necessarily a good movie, but they can still make a fascinating movie trailer. If you consider your whole experience as a movie, then your resume is like a trailer for your movie. You should try your best to make a wonderful trailer, which can increase the possibility of getting hired by 90% (where did I get the 90%? Nowhere! lol)

I am going to cover the detail in the later posts

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