By Gayle Howard – Top Margin Career Marketing
The Many Hats of the Australian Job Seeker The career-savvy job seeker in Australia today needs to fulfill not one role—as he or she would in employment, but multiple roles.
The job seeker needs to be an “Employment Technologist” savvy to the ways of the Internet, email, e-resumes and bulletin boards, and they need to understand the importance of key words in their career marketing materials to maintain top rankings in databank searches.
As well as needing to be an “Employment Technologist” the Australian job seeker needs to be a “Communications Expert” able to persuade and influence, and build a strong, articulate case that stresses their talents, and matches them to a prospective employer’s needs. Adopting these dual roles though is still not enough; the job seeker also needs to be a Manager of Awareness, and Master of Destiny.
In today’s competitive environment in Australia where unemployment hovers nationally at 6.3 percent, and hours of Australian workers are some of the longest worked worldwide, ignorance of process cannot be an option for the job seeker. As the Manager of Awareness, the individual must research, investigate, probe and source information. Slavishly following a process that may be 30 years out of date and wondering why an application was rejected, cannot be a component of the modern job seeker’s professional repertoire!
Today’s Australian employee needs to be aware of so many things. They need to know when the most jobs are advertised in newspapers (Saturday). They need to know where specific industries are located—for instance an individual seeking a position in the mining industry would be better suited to living in Western Australia than inner city Melbourne; they need to know that public service positions are based on merit (Public Service Act 1999); that cover letters should indicate their capacity to solve the employer’s problems, and not just stress their personal career aspirations.
Most of all job applicants in Australia need to keep their eyes and ears open for change in a constantly changing environment.
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