How does a high tech worker start looking for a new job or a new career?

What is the 21st century way to search for new jobs or new careers?
How does a high tech worker start looking for a new job or a new career?
Check out the local job service ... Employment Security, Labor Office, whatever it called in your area for posibilities, job fairs, and labor market information.





Create or have created a resume and ask someone (or someones) to review it for readability, bevity, clarity...





Research business that have positions in your field... contact people who work there if possible and ask how they went about applying... maybe follow that advice, and then submit copies to places you want to work. Wait a day or so and follow with a phone call, to see if it was received, and then a couple days later contact the person in charge of the department you want to work in and try to set up a meeting.





Send thank you notes to all interviewers, people who were helpful (always get a name) and never ever call and ask if someone is hiring...





Let them know that you are interested in working there, you put forth some effort, always be polite from the receptionist up... you never know who has some pull.





Do not just submit resume to open positions and sit and wait for someone to knock down your door...
Reply:A job is something you look for "out there": classified ads, magazines, social connections, etc.





A career, at least a true career that uses your talent and is about something you are passionate about, is something you look "in there": inside yourself, your heart (don't worry, I wasn't going to say "your soul"!).





The book What Color is Your Parachute is quite helpful for people who want to find either a new job or career.





Good luck!
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