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Quick Tips
for Job
Seekers
With the overall Irish unemployment rate down (at the time of writing)
but standing at more than one in ten people in Ireland (10.1%) - and youth
unemployment standing at more than one in five young people (21.6%), Trainer
and Motivational Speaker Frank Newberry offers a few quick tips for job seekers.
Frank Newberry
In this article I just want to offer a few suggestions to motivate turfcare job seekers.
Tip 1 - Get any job rather than no job
If you cannot get the job you want in turfcare then do voluntary
work, internships or even helping out people by doing odd jobs.
Employers want people with the ‘work habit’ not those who wait
around for work to come to them. At a job interview you will at least
be able to say you were actively seeking and doing work from the
outset.
Tip 2 - Get government help
You can go online right now and visit http://www.welfare.ie/en/
Pages/jobseekers_home.aspx . On this government web page you
can get started on your job search immediately by, amongst other
things, downloading a ‘Jobseeker Pack’.
Tip 3 - Apply for vacancies that do not exist
Family and friends of mine in hard times have got back into
employment by first - taking an interest in employers they admired
and second - by asking the employer to consider them when a
vacancy next occurred.
In recent times a middle-aged pal of mine sent out 50 CV’s to
prospective employers and very quickly one (with an unannounced
vacancy) replied with an invitation to a job interview. My pal’s
letter of application arrived before the vacancy advertisement had
been drafted. He went for the interview and got a job that matched
his skills and experience perfectly. The employer was also pleased
because he got the right person without spending money on agencies
or advertising.
Tip 4 - Get on someone’s succession plan
Tip 3 can be extended to include asking to be placed on someone’s
succession plan. Most sensible employers will have someone in mind
to take over a job when and if, the current job holder is suddenly
incapacitated or decides to leave the job.
Typically a Deputy would be asked to cover for the Golf Course
Superintendent until a selection has been organised and people are
invited to apply for the vacancy. The person covering the vacancy for
a few weeks can put themselves in pole position for the permanent
job with a good performance as the interim job holder.
What is there to stop any of us applying to be on the succession
plan of any employee working anywhere? Nothing - we just have to
indicate and update our availability.
Tip 5 - Get interviewed in advance
Tip 4 can be extended to help you even more if you not only suggest
you be on someone’s succession plan but you also offer to be
interviewed in advance. Why should the employer wait and wonder
about an eventual successor when they can interview you now and
have you waiting in the wings when and if the vacancy occurs? Again -
we just have to indicate and update our availability. The best part of this
for you is that you know you have passed the interview well in advance.
Frank Newberry has been helping people to develop their
careers and get better results in the turfcare sector for over 25
years. If you are having problems writing your CV or preparing
for an interview and you think it might help to talk about it you
can contact Frank directly via the contact tab of his personal
website: www.franknewberry.com | © 2015 Frank Newberry
www.gcsai.org
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