- Network, establish relationships
- Take time to make sure you are contacting the exact right person to give your CV to
- Update your CV
- Make sure your CV is professionally made up
- Make sure the language is perfect
- Write down your career goals and desired career path and keep it in your pocket at all times
- Make sure all the names of the titles of the job you are looking for into job search engines
- Don't badmouth your previous employer, at most say... and then Redi said this is beyond the scope of the interview... oi... so go see more at the brilliantly set up and thought out Careersadvice.co.uk (*cough* I wish the South African government website would have job advice up!)
- If you left the previous company acrimoniously don't take them off your CV, but keep them on your worklist and take them out your reference list
- The one who needs help (jobseeker) must initiate the solution, must do the work, the research
- Reference letters
- How you come across in an interview
- Don't take things personally
- Make a courtesy call to check up if you got the position
- Focus your financial resources on your job hunt
- Find out if your university has a post-graduate program to place graduates in jobs
- There's no better time than now
I don't think 'natural' is good. There are many things that we apply (some almost arbitrary) (some ignorant and backward ideas of natural and not-natural agenda-propagating) rules of morality. I think 'natural' is a political rhetoric, profoundly abused. 'Diversity' is the only defensible rhetoric for 'thinking' beings. We are not, of course, the only creatures that do thinking, but we are the only creatures with the power to oppress others and other creatures whose languages we don't understand. Us (badly) thinking creatures, slowly, ponderously gathering the evidence of our badness (I see no reason for your (god's) patience with us), have the ability to decide to be better than (the fashionable) 'natural' of the day. It is our responsibility to transcend our vileness. Just that. That one task. Our thinkingness I believe is for that. A world (constructed by god) to demonstrate this point. And we will find every rhetor...
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...any ideas on how to commence the lobbying procedures to establish this tool?...