Success in finding job opportunities depends on knowing how to locate vacancies. There are many sources of vacancies to consider: family/friends, networking, self-advertising, the Internet, using career counsellors, plus many others. Keep your eyes open and ears to the ground to help you anticipate where and when a vacancy becomes available.

Importance

Find out why these subjects are important to your career, and see the proof in our statistical research.

Why

Who you know is very important. Many positions are never advertised as they are filled through networks and internal applications.

Statistics

• Australian Bureau of Statistics states that 78-82% of all jobs available are not advertised. Most positions are found in the hidden job market.
• Some reasons employers choose not to advertise include cost, time, risk, confidentiality, recruitment policy, windows of opportunity, unfulfilled needs.
• Employment advertisements are charged at the highest rate in major newspapers and an ad of the size required to attract the right candidates can cost thousands of dollars.
• Recruitment firms charge employers up to 25% of their clients salary package for successful job placement.

What To Do

Looking for a job or planning a career requires groundwork and careful preparation. The more you know about how to do it, the greater the probability of your success. A comprehensive list of Tips and Tools has been put together to help you no matter what stage of the job search process you are at. There is no use being told what to do, you need the tools to do it, giving you the confidence to identify and secure your perfect job.

Tips (Theory)

Make certain you exploit all the job search resources available to you. Know where you can get relevant information and make use of employment-related services to stay on top of all the possibilities on offer. Take advantage of the following ideas:

Contact professional/trade organizations in your industry.
Visit company and organization websites.
Newspapers, journals and trade magazines.
Yellow Pages of telephone directories.
Professional associations.
Visit career centres.
Use placement/recruitment agencies.
Online job search websites.
Network, network, network (i.e. family, friends).
Door to door employer visits.

Tools (Practice)

Read this before you start searching! 8 Tips on Looking For a Job - While You Still Have One.

This very useful and well researched Internet Website Search List will help you with finding job opportunities suitable to your career.

Caution

Most people looking for a job only look in the newspapers. If you only use newspapers you will miss over 70% of available jobs.

Information

We are continually on the lookout for useful information for the jobseekers. In order to better serve you, we now post relevant articles, news items, events and service providers that may be of interest to you.

Further Research

The following career-related articles have been carefully selected to assist you in the job search decision-making process.

Links

Service Providers

Here are a list of service providers to assist you with your job search and employment opportunities.

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