19 common mistakes when looking for work

But recruiters do recognize that sometimes applicants make banal at first glance, an error, which can be avoided at times increase the chance of finding a job.

1. Bad summary

... No matter how trite And this despite the fact that you can find a lot of useful (and not) resume templates and recommendations for their preparation of the Internet and other sources. However, uninformative, illiterate and Other "nedorezyume" make up 50% of all resumes received by the staffing agency! Recruiters, shovel hundreds of resumes a day, will confirm.

Tip: take a resume writing at least 2-3 hours. Choose the best sample. Highlight key words, your accomplishments and your advantage over other candidates.

See also: 4 Errors in the summary, which should be avoided.

2. Passivity in finding a job

You sent the resume to a dozen companies and sit, waiting for a call? To longer necessary: ​​you - or they work - are you? Even if you have special class, remember that at this place a dozen contenders!

Tip: take the initiative, HR-call manager, call a potential leader, Remind about themselves, work towards the early meetings. Speed ​​is important.

3. approach Nonsystem

You Submit resume in Internet, click throughs newspapers, and that's it? Do not wait! Remember that half the jobs on the Internet and newspapers -. Sc. "Advertising" to create a personnel reserve accumulation resumes.

Tip: Use a maximum of search paths. Treat your job search like this work. Do this systematically for several hours per day, track contacts, and so on. D.

See also: What are the different search methods work?

4. The passivity of the interview

You said: "We will call you the other day." Do not believe it. This may continue 2-3-4 Week ... Do they choose so long? No. They have already hired more orderly.

Tip: initiate own feedback to the employer. Start with the question: "When and to whom do I call to find out about your decision and continue the dialogue?"

Read also: How we hurt ourselves when looking for work?

5. Communicating only with personnel manager

In HR-and too many vacancies, to remember about all candidates and be interested in your employment. Its mission - to "close" job and forget about it. In you, as in the worker, may be more interested potential leader.

Tip: go directly to the future chief, he is often interested in strengthening his department. However, proceed carefully, without falling into the other extreme, as in the following paragraph ...

6. Disrespect for the recruiter

You do not aspire to make a positive impression on the recruiter, considering it unnecessary to mediate? Ignore it, or are showing a slight contempt? In vain. From him sometimes depends on your the fate of ...

Tip: You behave with HR-ohm, so that it became your ally. Otherwise, your resume will be in the trash.

7. Summary of spam

You send your resume to all the jobs in a row even if you do not have one or insufficient qualifications? Hope to chance and installation "Give to try - I can cope" - can only work on the lower steps of the career. Resume with a clear mismatch requirements clearly set out in jobs, annoying and time consuming recruiters. Answer a call a recruiter, "I sent out resumes on hundreds of different jobs, and what you tell us?" Indicates a lack of clear goals and your "omnivorous" that now is not the price.

Tip: Respect other people's labor. Before sending resume, make sure you are on formal skills - the right candidate. And keep a record of companies and jobs, where you sent the resume.

8. Ignoring Internet etiquette

For example, name the file with a summary of "my resume", "I", "Lesch, resume" or nickname.

Or just give a link to your virtual resume posted on job-site. Hey, eychar, turn, look and download ...

Tip: You name the file by its name and add the job title, for example, "Petrov Nikolai, an accountant." Think like a recruiter will maintain (and then to find!) Your resume in the database, help him help himself not to get lost in thousands of resumes.

9. Reluctance to go to the interview

Yes, it happens ... It happens that the conversation with the candidate, who already 3 months, "seeking work", you will know that all this time he visited only 4-5 interviews. And it's 3 months ?! To quickly find a good job and have choice, you must attend 2-3 interviews a day! And to get 10 invitations to interview, you need to send out 100 resumes.

Tip: go to the interview seems to work. If the work will not take, so at least potreniruetes and get new information on the market.

10. Being late for an interview

Most often, recruiters are invited to a few candidates per vacancy in a row at intervals of 30-45 minutes. Apart from the demonstration nepedantichnosti, its late and you still break schedule recruiter. But it seems worth it. Being late for more than 20 minutes (only if you are not a person freelance profession) - 80% refusal.

Tip: better come early.

11. Refusal of tests and questionnaires

Yes, most of HR- managers - the graduates of the psychological Faculties and love all these games with the tests. But sometimes the testing of candidates is really important and even a requirement of the employer.

Council. Even if you are skeptical about the tests, smile and support the game. Do everything quietly, gently and without too many questions and jokes. Help those most recruiters make a decision. Then your chances of 5050. A refusal to test strikes you from the candidate list by 90%.

12. Inflated salary and career ambitions

Remember: superstars do not look for work, she finds them herself. If you sent us a resume, then you not a superstar ...

This is no time perk up. Often the alleged high salaries and beautifully named post - Only a lure for candidates to have more choices. And vice versa: unremarkable at first glance, the position may give you a major boost and rapid growth.

Council. Look for broader look deeper and perspectives of.

13. Negative about past job

It is impossible to speak about past places of work? A lot of things: the conflicts, gossip, scandals, bad chief and dislike to him, lazy employees ...

Tip: Read a few articles, how to answer questions in employment.

14. Parish for an interview during working hours

Of course, this is important if you're working at the moment. What you said superiors about the cause of absences? I asked to go "to hospital" or other school stupidity? Or "I did not say anything, my absence no one will notice ...". In other words, you cheated, or leader, or truant. Who wants this worker?

Tip: go for an interview after hours or at lunchtime. So you show loyalty to the current employer and, most likely, to the future. Alternative: if the employer knows about your upcoming retirement, agree with him and have at least verbal, but official permission.

15. Fraud in the summary or in the interview

Here does not refer an exaggeration of skills or accomplishments protrusion. A writing what is not and was not ...

Tip: honesty is the best policy, all the secret becomes manifest, etc. When you tell the truth, you do not need to remember anything .....

16. Vague wording of the objectives

Banal and common phrases in the section summary "Purpose", such as: "An interesting job with decent wages," "Search interesting developmental work with a possible career and professional growth, which will be adequately paid," "obtaining vacant position with the possibility of career and financial growth, "and so on. n. are found in every second summary and does not have positioned you as a candidate. Often we have to literally pull ticks the true goals of the applicant and be completed in the summary specific phrases: obtaining such a position in such a field with such a desirable income. And the prospect of such a ...

Tip: Narrow down your goals, avoid cliches and grandiloquent general phrases.

17. Excessive talkativeness and encompassing unwanted topics during the interview

Mention details of his personal life, relationships with family, coworkers, nuances health, issues of religion, politics, and so on. N. The desire to soon open their own business. For women - pregnancy and childbirth ambulance. Misty answers to questions about the motives of dismissal from past jobs.

Tip: nothing more, just business. At least at the first interview. Plus a bit of humor ...

18. Self-Poor

Inability to reveal your strengths, remember to achieve, successes. Short monosyllabic answers, stiffness and uncertainty. The inability to apply himself, to "sell" ..

Reluctance to give or "forgetting" phone referees, former leaders.

Tip: read, finally, 2-3 from thousands of articles on the Internet on "how to successfully pass an interview," and work out.

19. Inappropriate and incorrect questions from your side

For example:

 What does your company do?

 When I raise the salary?

 Do you have any more jobs than this?

 How fast can you expect promotion?

 You could tell me how to transport your travels?

 What is your allocated time for smoke breaks?

 If you take me, I can be begin work week or 3-4?

And the wrong answer to the question, if you have any questions ?, - "I have no issues" ...

Aware - means armed. Taking into account these recommendations, you can avoid common mistakes when looking for work, and already at the first interview to leave his candidacy the best possible experience that will certainly increase the chances of obtaining the desired position.