You go out of school, you raise your children or you have traveled around the world, but the reality is there, you have to find a job today and you have no significant experience. Diploma in hand, you have an apprehension: who will want a young graduate without experience? Even if you have little or no experience, you can interest companies. You have to know how to knock on the right doors, be curious, active and be motivated.
Here are some tips to follow to find a job with no experience.
Target companies looking for young graduates
Companies and employers are looking for young graduates without experience for various reasons:
* lower wage claims;
* a fresh look;
* a strong motivation;
* a recent knowledge;
* skills appropriate to current work requirements: project management, for example, or specific plan to a job core;
* a mastery of new technologies or techniques in a particular sector;
* the youth;
* the enthusiasm;
* the potential for change.
How to find companies that recruit?
* Frequent job fairs for young people.
* Contact your school, university or alumni club if your school has one, companies will show up to them.
* Check out job sites for graduates.
* Prospect the reputable sectors to employ young graduates.
* Expand your professional network.
Be astute to build your CV without experience
When writing your CV, your cover letter and during your interview, value everything you have learned during your studies, your internships, conducting your research, writing your dissertation and in your associative life. The more you will value this course and show your ability to analyze a situation, the more recruiters will take a positive look at your application.
* Take the skill set of the job you are targeting.
* Highlight all the skills you have developed. Find them:
- during your school or university course, consider using the secondary know-how. For example, for high school, describe your achievements (file, presentation, internship) or, for a thesis, you have learned, outside the thesis itself, to speak in public, conduct a research, manage a project, work as a team... If you have received a professional training, describe all your achievements.
* in your extracurricular activities: collective sport, cultural activities... etc. Show your investment capacity by indicating the duration of these activities.
* in your professional experiences: volunteer work, odd jobs, seasonal work or work done in the family framework (DIY, restoration of furniture, sale on the markets with friends brocante).
* in the trips you have made, under what conditions: what you have acquired in knowledge and know-how (language, organization, autonomy, adaptation, humility...).
* Indicate transversal know-how:
- the languages you speak, those you have only the basics.
- your level of computer practice: office, website, programming, operating systems: Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Pro, Unix, Linux...
- your driving license, your means of transportation.
* Note some of your personal qualities: sociable, concentrated, persevering, creative, attentive, punctual, curious...
Do internships to gain experience
An effective way to build experience and make yourself known to companies is to do internships or engage in an association. Incorporate these experiences in your resume, forgetting the status (student, volunteer), what interests recruiters is what you are able to do.
* Ask, via employment agencies, to do internships in companies.
* Complete your diploma with a professional training or apprenticeship contract, with a master's degree in project management, for example. So, with the alternation, you will have a foot in the company. These formulas are very well perceived by recruiters.
* Participate in clubs of young graduates.
* Engage in associations related to your industry if they exist.
Post your resume on social networks
Post your resume in CVs websites
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https://www.dice.com - The place to go for tech jobs
https://www.indeed.com - The biggest job search engine.
https://www.ziprecruiter.com - A major up-and-comer in job search.
http://www.careerbuilder.com - Highly visited job board with full-time opportunities.
https://www.monster.com - Popular job site with all kinds of jobs, including part-time.
Find companies and office websites
* Select the companies you are interested in. Most offer to put CV online on their website.
* Locate recruiting firms in your area and put your resume online.
* Answer the ads.
Create your resume on professional social networks
Use professional social networks, personalize your profile with a thorough CV. Exchange with professionals via these platforms. Be very active.
https://www.facebook.com - Leverage your friend network as a professional network.
https://twitter.com - Employers will look at your account if you have one.
https://www.linkedin.com - Make sure your profile matches your resume.
Make your own site
Create your mini-site CV with URL in your name. Add content: articles, presentations, photos... Some portals can make it easier for you by referencing your resume on the search engines:
Expand your professional network
The network is a recognized way to find a job.
A few months before the end of your studies, inform all your network that you are going to be looking for a job. List all the people you know, in each of your activities. Your relational network includes several levels. Each contact provides information and other contacts. Get into a real racing game!
- the first group covers all the people you know and can contact them directly. Think about what type of help each person you know can bring you and to whom, can lead you.
- the second group includes all the people you can contact through those of the first group and who do not know you. They will bring you closer to the final target. Many contacts are often necessary to reach the third group.
- the decision makers, who form the third group, represent in a job search the people you want to approach in the target companies. Meet them.
Keep these contacts in a notebook, they will serve you throughout your career.
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