The Job of Job Hunting

Job hunting in a poor job market is far more stressful than actually having a high-stress job. Not only does it take daily determination to spend hours digging, researching, sending resumes and dealing with rejection, but you also have the constant financial pressures eating away at you, along with a loss of self confidence. With all that working against you, how do you stay motivated to keep hunting week after week?

Set parameters and stick to them: Set aside 5-6 hours, 5 days a week for job search. Specify the hours in the day that will be spent working. Structuring your time will give you a greater sense of this being a job that requires focus and attention each and every day.

Get up, shower, and get dressed: We all dream of a job that we can do in our pajamas, but you will feel, and in turn act, more professional if you are clean and casually dressed.

Set goals: Send 3 resumes, research 2 new companies, and follow up on 2 potential jobs each day. Setting goals will give you something to strive for and give you a sense of accomplishment at the end of the week. Using a resume distribution service like JobsByFax.com may help you multiply your efforts. Rather than sending a few resumes out, you can send thousands in minutes.

Mix it up: If you spent all last week job searching on the internet, plan to spend several days this week out of the house networking and meeting face-to-face with people. A change of scenery can do wonders for your attitude.

Take a break: When your 5 to 6 hours of job hunting for the day is done, then stop. Put your laptop away, take a walk, watch TV, spend time with your family, etc. Do whatever relaxes you and feel good about the hours you invested in your job search.

Free resume faxing sponsored by JobsByFax

Matt Saunders, a 38-year-old Virginia Beach entrepreneur, has a solution to get the attention of potential employers without you ever leaving your desktop, and it’s not e-mail. He created FaxMyResumeFree.com as a quick and easy solution for job seekers to be able to send a resume and cover letter by fax.

This free service allows a job seeker to upload a resume and cover letter to the website, and input the fax number and recipient’s name. The job seeker can then send the fax to up to ten people at one time, and it only takes minutes to distribute utilizing the dozens of fax lines available.

“E-mails are too easy to delete, and usually the decision maker never even knows that you exist,” explains Saunders. “The problem is that you never get past the gate keeper. Our fax service gives you an advantage. Somebody at that company has to do something with that fax other than hitting the delete button on their computer, and many times the fax ends up in the hands of a senior decision maker.”

FaxMyResumeFree.com utilizes top-of-the-line fax computers to provide an efficient, top quality fax to each recipient. The sender can check the status of the fax by logging into the website. Only resumes and cover letters can be faxed—no other type of material is permitted. Advertising is strictly prohibited.

“My job is to help someone looking for a job find someone who is hiring,” adds Saunders. “It’s a very competitive job market right now and you have to look at alternative ways to get attention.”Matt Mladenka, a job seeker from Dallas, TX, agrees. “I’ve been looking for a quality job for a year. After I switched my personal marketing strategy from responding to online job ads by e-mail to aggressively faxing my resume to targeted companies, I was immediately inundated with phone calls and many good opportunities.”

About FaxMyResumeFree.com

FaxMyResumeFree.com is a service of JobsByFax.com, a Virginia Beach, VA-based online resume distribution provider. The company’s mission is to quickly, easily and affordably empower job hunters with the tools needed to market their employment skills directly to the decision makers at companies.