Websites to Supercharge your Job Search
by Ayman Siraj ‘18
Whether you are looking for an internship, full-time job or a freshman just starting out, the websites below are sure to be useful to you.
Image Source: Getting Hired
1. KPMG Campus - Tools for You
This website is best suited for freshmen and sophomore who are nervous about recruiting - what do do at networking events, how to dress up and how to even prepare for even an interview. The website has videos that walk students through different professional situations and resume crafting tips as well.
2. Ambition Box - Discover Companies. Prepare for Interviews
Glassdoor is where most students go to figure out what sort of interview questions are going be thrown at them but Ambition Box is another great alternative. There are people posting detailed descriptions of what questions they were asked at every stage of the interview. The posts also can be filtered by position and if the interviewee got an offer or not. The only downside is that it seems to be most interview submissions are based on the Indian recruiting market but it still gives great insights because multinational firms have a certain degree of standardized recruiting.
3. BYOR - Build Your Own Resume
BYOR is an artificial intelligence based resume bot for software engineers and data scientists. When you upload a resume, their deep learning parser returns suggestions on what to improve upon using natural language processing. I have tried this service and the suggestions that are provided are definitely phrases I would not have picked out for improvement on my own. You can also match your resume with a provided job description from a job you are trying to apply to. It tells you if your resume is optimized for the job posting or how to improve it to match the job posting, aligning it with your skills.
One piece of interview advice is that “follow-up after an interview”. There’s way one: email your interviewer within 24 hours after the interview. I personally shoot off an email after I get back home from an interview just because I want to get it done and out with. I know many friends time their emails to perfection - exactly at 9am, the Wednesday of the week, etc.
The more personal way would be send your interviewer a customized note. It costs money, $5 but you know your message is going to reach the interviewer and you are probably most likely to be the 1 % who used another medium that is not email.
5. The Ultimate Guide To Building A Personal Website
Internet is how our generation expresses ourselves. Internet is where your future employer is likely to check you out to gain insights into your personality. Having your own personal website is the best way to shine. You can show your personality through the website design, show off projects and other hobbies. The reason having your own personal website is to make sure it is the first result that pops on Google when you search your name. The idea is that someone does not need to go crawling for other links to learn about you. Your website should be the one stop solution for that.
My friend Patrick has a great personal website.
Here is mine as well for reference.
Microsoft has teamed up with career expert Maxie McCoy to present to you a set of themed resumes, cover letters and business cards. It’s a nice touch if you want to have consistency amongst the three pieces of paper you are most likely to use during your job search. The website also contains resume and Skype interview tips as well.
I hope these sites have been helpful to all of you. If you have sites you use that I have not mentioned, feel free to message us so we can include them in a future post!
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