door Consider you are product and you want to market yourself. Work on your CV and cover letter. The labor market today is very competitive, not only for economic conditions but also because of how easy it is to apply. You will compete with plenty of applicants that routinely send the their credentials as a part of their coffee, toast and two clicks in the morning. Also, there are plenty databases where the recruiters find the perfect match with the profile they need. Think that your ability to get a good position depends on the ten seconds from these expert people on reading your CV and cover letter.

Be proactive rather than reactive on the verge of not being disturbing. Make a list of people you know, it does not matter if the list is very short, because this is where you will have a real advantage over the Internet candidates.

Do not get down with turn downs, don’t take it personally: you have to kiss plenty of frogs before you find a prince!

I consider the following sites to be the best to read and post jobs for executive level jobs:

Use the right tool. Senior positions in the design field for example are at Creativeheads.net, Creativecircle, and I.D.

Some of them have a fee, but we need to make little investments to market ourselves.

I am not fond of monster, yahoo nor craiglist. You’ll find plenty of jobs are there, I wonder what the rate of success would be for people applying for those jobs? When looking into those places try to find a real relationship between the compensation and qualifications. Something like “commensurate with experience.” does not sound promising. Find out if the qualifications match with the number of years of experience they need. Usually they ask for 2 years of experience (an extra in the movies) and credentials for the director of Godfather and the trilogy of Lord of the Rings.

Do not even bother to read vague ads:

“We need someone who is left-brain an right-brain dominant…”

“Expert in whatever field, especially in video/film production or Web design…”

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