How to find a job during the crisis

1. Determining whom you want to be

• Choose the field or sphere of your future job
• Ask yourself what you like more: to be a manager or a subordinate
• Define whether you wish to work in a large team , small company or just alone
• Choose a work schedule: full employment, partial employment or no fixed office hours
• Set priority: stability, career advancement or creative development

2. Researching the labour market

• Collect as much as possible information about target companies on the market
• Read companies profiles , achieved success , development level , work conditions , etc.
• Use companies black lists in the web to ensure that company is reliable
• Carefully examine the market company works at
• Try to develop a mechanism to improve its activity
• In the interview describe your vision of how improve company activity

3. Switching the field of activities

• Seek a new job in the adjacent fields
• Consider a wide range of vacancies in various fields
• Consider the following fields which are risk free during the crisis:
• Legal experts specialized in bankruptcy
• Supplier of safes
• Jewellery shops and networks
• Food
• Pharmaceutical
• Defence industry
• Telecommunication
• Engineering
• Recruitment agencies and outsourcing companies

4. Switching speciality and choosing relevant profession

• Consider the following professions which are risk free during the crisis:
• Commercial representative
• Customer support manager in call centers and large corporations
• Bookkeeper in large consulting companies
• Social worker
• Software developer
• Personal secretary
• System administrator
• Nurse
• Sales department manager

5. Seeking vacancies

• Use the methods of employment seeking
• Fair of vacancies
• Employment agencies
• Web resources: forums, job seeking sites, corporative sites, etc.
• Mass media (newspapers, television, radio, etc.)
• Friends and relatives
• Compose the competent curriculum vitae and write the covering letter
• Carefully learn new vacancy requirements
• Highlight main functions and obligations of new vacancy
• Start to compose CV underlining your working experience, professional skills, personal advantages, awards, achievements, etc.
• Compose covering letter
• Enclose reference letters, certificates and diploma

6. Preparing to pass the interview

• Learn about the employer as much as possible
• Think over employer's potential questions
• Try to set priorities and future plans for 1, 3 and 5 years ahead on new position
• Be at the employer office in time

7. In the interview

• Think over the way you look
• Learn a company style and dress code
• Try to keep the style and wear relevant dress when going to interview
• Do appropriate hair style and make-up
• Always wear cleaned and ironed dress
• Be tidy and polite
• Avoid mistakes:
• Do not forget to take CV, covering letter and other documents with you
• Do not be late
• Do not evade the questions
• Do not feel shy to talk about salary but this should be the last thing you ask
• Do not say "I do not know"
• Do not criticize your previous employer
• While passing the interview
• Stay calm and try to smile
• Say only true about yourself because the employer can check your arguments
• Respond to questions with no bustle and uncertainty
• Clearly explain the reason why you decided to get a post in the company
• Be prepared to pass psychological examination and testing
• Be prepared to retell your...

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