Revealing 5 Amazing Tips You Can Use To Job Hunt Over The Weekend

So you badly want another job?
Looking for a new job is an activity almost every other professional dreads. That is why most people will choose to suffer silently in jobs they find no joy doing while others remain stuck in fields they never studied for.
The uncertainty is stressful and the overwhelming competition does not make any better.
Whether you’re still working full-time or juggling several small gigs until you find the next best thing, setting aside some time to properly run your job search  could be part of the reason why your job hunt chronicles get more interesting each morning.
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Lucky for you, I have gathered some few tips to help push your job search energy forward and make your work easier. So bookmark this page and have it ready for your weekend searches!
Let’s have a look at the weekend job hunting tips
1. Stay on top of those go-to job sites you’ve mastered so far
I am sure you have a number in mind.
They might not be advertising their jobs during the weekends but hey! Don’t keep your guards down.
During the weekend, I assume you have plenty of time at your disposal.
Apply, apply and apply keeping in mind that it’s a competitive market out there and someone is working harder at getting hired than you are!
2. Don’t Look Where Everyone Else Looks
Try to do something different.
Looking at sites, adverts or avenues where every other job seeker spends their time on only makes the competition stiffer for you and your job search much difficult.
When possible, take advantage of search tools that separate job opportunities in Kenya by industry.
For example, Corporate Staffing Services is majorly for middle level professionals while others are different in their own ways.
If you want to leverage your network (which you should by the way), add LinkedIn into the search process.  Even if you find the perfect job on Corporate Staffing or career point Kenya, you can use LinkedIn to cross-reference details.
Most importantly, LinkedIn sometimes shows who posted a position, which gives you an actual person to reach out to.
3. Keep Your Job Application List trim
The weekend is the best time to do some evaluations and decide on which industries you want to focus on and which one you shouldn’t bother much on.
Even recruiters and hiring managers agree that being a jack of all trades cuts your chances of landing an interview.
If you’re sending out your CV to dozens of jobs that sound like they partially fit your qualification, or those that you would maybe consider if they were handed to you on a silver plate, you’re doing it wrong and wasting valuable time.
So the “quality, not quantity” saying exists for a reason here.
Spend one hour every Saturday and Sunday on the search specifically on your areas of interest. Bookmark these openings in your browser and keep visiting them.
4. Do some self-analysis of the past week. What’s working and what’s no?
Look back on the week before.
How did you do? What’s seems to be working or what is not working so far? Take this time and space to evaluate your progress and make any necessary adjustments.
You might be surprised to identify a pattern in the regret emails you’ve been getting and from here, you will get a clear picture on what to do.

5. Finally, Keep tabs and follow up

Of course you don’t expect to reach anyone to respond back over the weekend, but it’s a good time to chart who you’ve heard back from and who you should nudge.
If you apply to five jobs every weekend, you’ve got around 20 applications floating around in cyberspace by the month’s end. And that’s a lot of different avenues to keep track of.
Remember,
The job search will feel like a job in itself it always does, but with a bit of organizational strategy and time-saving practices, it’s possible to confine the process to the weekend and still focus on your work throughout the whole week
Judith Moraa is a Communication Assistant at Corporate Staffing a leading HR firm that offers recruitment and FREE job placement. For more information visit their website on www.corporatestaffing.co.ke