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Employment Tips and Resources

When searching for employment in the Engineering and IT fields making sure to follow a few key steps will increase your chances of finding employment greatly. These include resume do's and don'ts, creating a great linkedin profile, finding the right job search engine, and working with the right staffing agencies.

Resume Tips and info

-Have a professional sounding email address listed on your resume.
- List all types software systems you have experience down to the most obscure.
- Do not list your employment history separate from your duties and day to day info at each company, employers and recruiters hate this.
- Do not create your resume in a strange font and formatting.
- Do not type your entire resume all in Capital letters.
- Do not bother with a cover letter when sending your resume to employers or staffing agencies as they do not have time to read them usually.
- Be very descriptive in the type of work you do, the exact type of equipment you design, engineer or software you program.
- Keep your resume to a 2 page maximum if possible.
- Have Skills keyword section at the top of your resume as many employers only read the first paragraph or two.
- Upload your resume to Careerbuilder.com, Monster.com, and Dice.com in MS Word format.
- List employment dates on your resume otherwise you're sending up a red flag to recruiters and employers.
- Write or convert your resume into MS word format as this is the most highly used format that most employers use.
- Do not list alot of generic non sense, like "Hard worker" and "People person"
- Have a valid phone number on your resume where you can be reached.
- Have an email address from a website like Gmail or Hotmail that never changes, and do not use one that is from your current internet service provider. As many times recruiters will contact you and that email is no longer working because you have switched ISP's.
- If you don't know how to write a resume, get help! buy a 5 dollar book on how to write resumes, ask a friend or search on the internet.

LinkedIN Profile Creation Tips

When looking for a job, a comprehensive Linkedin profile that is similiar to your resume is very important. You must ensure that your profile is search friendly for potential employers and recruiters. Make sure and include your email address in your Linkedin summary profile so that recruiters and employers can contact you freely and easily. Also make sure and join atleast 3 open networking groups and invite people to connect with you as this will build your profile visibility as well as connecting with former coworkers and friends. You need to have atleast a 100 person connection minimum, which is easy to accomplish when you are a open networker. Join and be active in the groups related to your field of work and groups that are related to jobs and job openings that contain the MOST members, as the biggest benefit is going to be your ability to message ANY of them immediately and get them to connect with you.

Finding a Job Search Engine

For millions of employments listings in the engineering and IT fields, you can visit JobHornet.com because they can help you find work with various companies from different countries that they are affiliated with . You can select from different categories and look for ones that will suit your capabilities and interests. When looking for a job job search engines aim to help you find jobs with advanced technology that aggregate listed jobs from thousand of sites across the web. Using this type of Job search engine will save you alot of time in your career search.

Why work with staffing agencies

Because Staffing agencies work with many employers in the Engineering and IT fields, they are able to find job opportunities in your area with the flexibility you need. A company focused on running their business, may not have the time or the resources to recruit the best candidates for their open positions. Engineering & IT recruiters talk to hundreds of companies every day and they have the flexibility to engage and complete the hiring process for their clients in a much shorter time that a company could on their own. Usually a recruiter will start out by conducting an informal phone interview. During the phone interview your resume is reviewed, prior work experience is looked over, and your employment objectives are discussed.

Staffing agencies
Apollo Technical Engineering and IT Staffing Agency Recruiting in the Atlanta, Austin, Dallas and Houston areas. We offer Temporary Staffing, Contract to direct hire, and direct hire.

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