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A modern job search campaign is by nature very intricate. While the internet has offered a variety of new channels, it also creates increased competition for choice jobs and potential challenges for job hunters.

Job hunting needs to be thought of as a personalized, highly directed marketing process where you are the product. Your resume is an ad. Your extended network of colleagues is your source for job information.

So where does the internet fit in? At AA-Careers, we just posted a job on a popular job board and got more than 650 applications in a week. For one position. That’s increased competition for job openings.

Had a strong person called us before we posted the ad, they could have secured the job prior to having all that competition. How? By finding an employee at our office who became aware of the job prior to posting. Everyone knew about of the job for at least 12 days before it was posted. Who in your network might know of a job that’s coming available soon?

Be careful how you submit your application as well. When we did an analysis of the 650 resumes, we found a large number of errors. 63% of the applicants were easily eliminated with a fast triage process. How? The same way any HR professional would. By rejecting resumes where the objective didn’t match our job. By eliminating candidates whose cover letters gave us causes not to hire them, like "I know I’m overqualified but I really need a job". By eliminating prospects whose documents that didn’t open properly. And by rejecting candidates who didn’t trouble to spell check their cover letter and/or resume.

So the great news is that job sites give you a sense of who is hiring, and for what kinds of jobs. But once those jobs are posted, the competition is intense. You can still try, if you have a well thought out resume, designed to appeal directly and clearly to the recruiter. And if you have practiced interviewing – so you don’t stumble at a critical point.

Another potential problem to be aware of is how quickly and easily you can be looked up on the web. As we Googled several candidates, we ran into some pictures and comments that were in questionable taste. Nothing crazy, but enough to tilt our thoughts about who to employ.

AA-Careers provides a broad set of services for Bay Area job seekers, providing our clients a personal career consultant, a managed job hunting campaign, modern tools like a personal website, video, highly targeted resume, and much more. Let us know if we can help you.

Be careful out there, and good hunting!

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Self-build is a term that is getting ever-popular in the housing market. So what is “self-build”? It’s a home you build yourself, as the term hints! Not quite literally by yourself, but you place yourself in the position as planner, foreman, architect of your property and let trained workers do the task you order them to do. More and more individuals are doing just that - in fact, the army of “self-builders” in the UK outnumbers the amount of properties being developed by any professional developer. The purpose of self-build is to make a house to your exact specifications, not a boiler-plate design that commercial developers use.

Already you’re probably thinking: “I can’t build a house”. The pleasant news is that getting involved with a self-build project doesn’t have to involve you with the physical aspects of the house building (as a matter of fact, just 5% of self-builders in reality take a role in the actual building of the property). Even when it comes to design, quite often this is delegated to a professional designer.. Self-build, by and large, is about you expressing (in laymen’s terms), what you need to the house designer - who then develops a plan dependent on your necessities. This design then becomes the blueprint the builders follow. Easy, eh? It’s not required to have any hands-on participation in self-build. Having said that, the Do It Yourself enthusiast can use self-build as a chance to save some notes by helping out with the aspects of self-build they have experience in - it’s your call as to how much participation you want during the construction.

Self-build sounds expensive, but in reality it’s broadly cheaper than purchasing an already built property of identical specifications (roughly a third cheaper). That’s not all, self-built properties fetch a good price too - up to 25% higher than the actual build cost, so self-build can be simply an investment, rather than a place to live.

You must make sure the team of workers you select are 100% competent and that they build well together. No doubt you will want workers with experience of some rather potentially dangerous machinery used in construction, such as floor saws using diamond blades, wall saws, angle grinders, masonry saws and stihl saws. Not only do they want to be safe with such equipment, they of course must do their job well too!

This article is just an introduction to the concept of constructing a property yourself, and I trust it will inspire those of you who are perhaps a little daunted by such projects. It needn’t take up all of your time, and you won’t need any specific skills, but hire carefully, and you will need to carefully work out the budget of the project.

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