How Technology Can Improve Your Job Search

As you and nearly everyone else in the world have realized and are experiencing even as I type this, technology has drastically changed the way people interact with one another. This goes not only for casual conversation, such as through social media, but through the way customers and businesses interact and even how people seek out jobs. If you’re a senior-level professional on the hunt for a new position, you’re probably taking in just how much job hunting has changed since the last time you had to look for work. However, many of the changes delivered by technology are quite beneficial to job seekers! 

Social Media

You’ve likely had some experience with social media sites, either through your prior job positions or on a personal level. Facebook is one of the most popular social media sites, as well as LinkedIn, which is great for professional networking. However, if you’re on the hunt for a new job, you’ll want to evaluate your social media profiles and what image they’re presenting about you. You never know who will want to take a look at your profile. For everything but LinkedIn, make sure your privacy settings are on and that someone looking for you can only see your profile picture. Many prospective businesses looking to hire you could end up searching for you on social media just to get a sense of who you are as a person and a professional. While using LinkedIn, you want to open your settings so people can reach out to you and connect (yes, anyone!). That is the point of LinkedIn...building up and utilizing your network. A stellar social media profile will do you a whole host of favors! 

Communicating with Higher Ups

Before the Internet became mainstream, reaching out to those in charge of hiring you was an ordeal. Originally, all that could be done was to send out a physical letter, hoping it reached the hiring manager and earned a response. The process was much slower back then in every sense of the word. Thanks to email, instant messaging and video chat services, however, this is no longer the case. Communications are far faster now than ever before, enabling you to easily get in touch with higher level professionals and hold a constructive conversation with each other about your prospects. Even if you are communicating via email and texting, be sure to send a hard copy of your resume to the person you will be interviewing with. It's a professional touch that may win you the interview.

More Convenient Interviewing Procedures

As stated before, the advent of today’s technology makes communication easier than it ever was in the past. This includes the interviewing process, made convenient thanks to Skype and other video chatting clients. Nowadays, you’ll likely be first exposed to prospective employers through a telephone or video chat conversation. Because of its increasing prominence, it would be a good idea to gain some experience with software of this variety. A team of professional executive resume writers can help you with this as part of their services. A web interview works similarly to a physical interview. Be sure to keep this in mind as you prepare for one by dressing professionally, making sure your space has sufficient lighting and tidying it up (no one wants to see the mess on your desk).

Resumes and cover letters are elements of the job hunting process that haven’t changed as far as importance! Once these pieces have done their job, however, times have certainly changed.