A Reboot of My Job Search

While rewriting my job search notes I have hit on a lot of the necessities in making my job search work.  I reviewed the folder where I keep everything regarding work.  It has the principle tools for my job search and serves as a directory of my work history.  It covers jobs in general, state agencies, jobs to which I have applied and more than one type of group with which I have worked.  There were several items and I have reorganized them, there are mostly two types: Jobsearch and the jobs folders.

The jobsearch folder holds specific search tools, like my Resource Bib.  This is the material record of my job search and lists out categories of places where I learned about jobs.  These include recruiters, aggregators, government, corporate, non-profits and other types.  For instance, I have lately been thinking about contacting a specific recruiter that called me a few times with opportunities.  I have also been interested in looking a little deeper into the GIS exam with the State of California.  I have an email from Steve at Wildlife saying that the Research Program Specialist and the Research Analyst I/II exams would open sometime this summer.  I recently emailed Gabriel at Fire and Karen at Wildlife to inquire about them.  Meanwhile, I have learned that I should not be using my employer’s internal site to find a job there and use the “external site” instead.  I have noted several times that I need to return to the process of changing my profile for many of these resources but must be ware since my present employer may happen upon it when visiting the aggregating and integrating jobs sites.  Finally, I want to more thoroughly investigate my email labelling since I should find ways to integrate the nonprofits into my research.

My work folder also has a place for my resume, which may take various forms (as CV or Cover Letters).  I am presently interested in completing my long form resume and comparing it to older versions so that I can produce a new short form resume.  I have also been considering how to reboot my two-every-other-day process, where I make day to day steps in reviewing my resource list.

Meanwhile, my Jobspage blog has four different keywords Bib, Correspondence, Interview and Notes.  The bib keywords cover my bibliography notes: Recruiters and Aggregators.  One of them got a lot of views because I posted it on social media.  I also posted a couple of resources about the Academy of Sciences and I also made a post about CalOpps.  The Correspondence keyword had numerous posts.  These are mostly reposts of my emails to people and their responses.  There were several for GIS positions that got as many as six views.  However, there were two posts that got more than that and they were more about planning.  I also posted several things pertaining to interviews that I have had.  I tend to write about my interactions in the process of getting a job.  In some cases these posts get a lot of views but generally they only garner three or four hits.  Finally, I have a few posts called notes but they didn’t get very many views at all.