Top 5 Myths About Getting Your Next Job

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Job seekers today face tremendous challenges. Our national unemployment rate is 8.9%, more than 13.5 million people are out of work, and approximately 2 million college students are graduating this year and attempting to enter this strained job market.

The good news is there are jobs and companies are hiring. There's competition, but if you have the appropriate tools and techniques to bring to your job search, success is within your control. Now is not the time to take the same job search approach of years past. Now is the time to take a proactive approach and employ techniques to help set yourself apart from the competition.

To be effective in today's job market, it's important to understand the five myths about getting your next job and how to overcome those myths.

Myth #1: It's the resume that is going to get you the interview and the job.

Your résumé is not the key to your success. The resume is a basic requirement, not a differentiator. It's extremely difficult to differentiate one resume from the next and the act of sending a resume does not equate to success in getting an interview or a job. More appropriately, everything else you can do to make a positive impression and differentiate yourself from the competition is what will get you your next job.

It is absolutely necessary that you research the company and job requirements and specifically customize and detail your resume to the expectations of your prospective employer. Learn more about the company and the job than anyone else and let it show.

Instead of focusing on just a resume, put together a "credentials package," which includes other very important components to set you apart from the competition in the mind of the hiring manager. One additional component is the Personal Profile, which has nothing to do with your work experience and everything to do with who you are as a person-what makes you interesting, different, and unique from everyone else. A hiring manager wants to hire someone they really like, someone that "fits" within the team environment on a personal level. The Personal Profile lets your prospective employer meet you personally, before meeting you in person.

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