My Job Search Experience Essay Example

well during the interview. Also, there were many experienced people looking for a job, so a company can easily find a perfect match for an opening.

So I decided to focus my job search only on one field which I am very good at and I like the most so that I can use my limited time and energy more efficiently. The second area was that I needed to polish my resume. After one month's job search, I noticed that most of jobs were posted by human resource departments or recruiters, not by hiring managers. But these people by no means can have in-depth knowledge of the jobs they were posting. They mainly rely on keywords to screen candidates.

Therefore, in order to have my resume reach a hiring manager's desk, having right keywords in the resume is very important. I also found out that it is actually very easy to find these keywords because they are readily available in the job description section of each job ad. So I started to collect them from job descriptions and select the right ones and put them into my resume. The third area I worked on was to figure out how to do better for interview questions. This was a difficult part for me because I am not a native English speaker.

Sometimes people have hard time understanding what I am talking about. Also I am poor at impromptu speaking. So for those questions coming out of nowhere, I normally couldn't figure out an answer offhand. But after reviewing all of the past interview questions, I found out the interview questions were more or less the same. So if it

is possible to prepare beforehand and if I can prepare them well beforehand, going through an interview is more like doing a prepared speech rather than doing a table topic.

So I started to write down all of the past interview questions and came up with the answers matching my backgrounds. Then I tried to practice them many times so that I can say them fluently and clearly during interviews. After I started to work on these three areas, I saw my job search campaign improved gradually. I did better and better with each interview and I was able to get a job offer on spot in my last interview. So that is my story back in 2009. That is the valuable job search experience for me and I guess I can use it again in my next job search.