The archaic attitude towards job-hunting is still rampant. We can’t carry our hide-&-seek skills of the playground into adulthood and relabel it as professionalism.
Take it at grassroot level. Freshers are turned into the mainstream job market day after day, without the ghost of an idea of how job hunting is done. Pushing a baby in a swimming pool all alone is not the wisest method to teach swimming.
The job hunt is specialized. One must know where exactly to reach to find.
For example, out of the hundreds of placement agencies, one needs to work out the statistics of how many to use to get the right hit rate. Not too many, and not too few. And no guessing games for grown-ups.
And the ABCs of how to read vacancy advertisements between the lines should not be relegated to middle age.
Unfortunately, shortcuts are not a sign of being smart. Nor do gimmicks work and certainly neither does trial and error.
Successful hunting does not lie in just the shotgun — whether it has one shot or two or three. Rather, it is knowing when to take the shot.
Copyright © 2013,Lima Sehgal
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