5 Simple Tips to Make Your Resume Searchable

Recession has made it tough for the unemployed to find a suitable job for them. The best way is to make your resume easily searchable for the recruiters so that you can get more and relevant calls. Here are few simple tips which can make your profile or resume within the reach of such recruitment agencies.

1. Regularly edit your profile on the job sites like naukri.com, jobsahead.com, monster.com or careerbuilder.com. Let it be any job site, just edit your profile a bit and save it again. Here your edit is not that important, but this will reset the save date on the database making it a latest resume and a latest profile every time you save it. Thus, it boosts the ranking for your profile when recruiters search for candidates. Also, let your profile have all important keywords. Yes, optimize your profile as well.
2. Update your status on social networking sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Let the people know that you are looking for a job. You can provide a link to your profile too in the status message. If you feel right, you can update your IM status messages as well.
3. Google launched the profile page. Update it with the most relevant keywords which you feel the recruiters use and you want them to find you or your profile.
4. Use Twitter search and try to find out users whom you feel will be helpful in finding you a job or they themselves are recruiters and follow them and read their updates. May be they can post a job ad or they may also follow you.
5. Join relevant groups in sites like LinkedIn and Facebook and participate in discussions. Just try to make your presence felt in such groups.

Let me know if these help. When you get a job, let us meet for a drink. Frobes provides the top 15 job sites. Check if they are useful.

Is The Recession Good For Freelancers?

The news has really turned from bad to worse. Organizations are cutting down costs and are having tight marketing budgets. The challenge is that, they really need to be in touch with their customers at this point of time and build the awareness in the market. They also have to fight the competition and I think this is the best time to do so.

But, with this tight marketing budget, will they be able to do all this? They may cut down on advertising, but not online. Corporate would like to do more marketing and outreach to keep their clients. They will see for channels where they are sure to get a decent ROI. Email marketing, search engine optimization and social media marketing will be the mantra for them.

The current economic conditions and layoff of staff will trigger outsourcing. Tight budgets will make them look-out for freelancers or contractors rather than organizations who can do this.

@Freelancers - this recession can be good news for you. Let me know if it has really increased your work and dollars. And beware, the laid-off folks can join the freelancing bandwagon.

Also, the websites which offer freelance work sites may be making good business now :).
In the past few months, the number of new users has almost doubled or increased on the four leading sites: Elance.com, o’Desk.com, Guru.com and Helium.com.