In the field of Construction, landing your desired job becomes more challenging. At that case, your age, education level, skills and work experience both play an important role to help you find the job. But choosing the right recruitment channel can turn your opportunity upside down
Depending on your circumstance, do one of these ways:
1. Employers’ website
Company’ website is a channel you shouldn’t ignore, there are many enterprises not using online recruitment channel to attract applicants. If you care about a certain company, you should regularly monitor the recruitment section on their website or read the news, the necessary information they’ve updated, it could be one of the questions in the interview, especially for construction vacancies where you may asked to willing to use the specific construction management software or tools.
2. Recruitment agencies
This is a useful way to multiply your opportunities with many employers and minimizing the time you spend on searching if you are having trouble in finding the right place. In here, you may receive the help and advice from job counselor department. Base on how good the agency is, you and the employer may be a match made in heaven or a non-starter.
3. Work placement
If you are still a student or in the middle of any construction in further education, work placement is an opportunity to train yourself in a professional environment and to see if you could get along with the company culture as well
In these days, to get a shot as an internship in a good company requires a lot of competition. The time fluctuates from 3 – 6 months, no wages, but if you satisfy the employer, you can totally get a job offer before you graduate.
4. Social media
We can say this is the decade of social networking in personnel and social networks become the trend of future employment. Up to 95% of US companies recruiting through LinkedIn which is a precise figure to describe about this trend.
In addition, there are like a thousand groups specialize in providing employment information or sources of valuable vacancies that you should regularly consult. You can also create your own personal brand on social networks with impressive resumes, number of subscribers, feedbacks on LinkedIn, it helps you score the points in the eyes of employers.
CV and Cover Letter
Whatever tool you use in four tools above, remember to adjust each application to the specific organization related. Start by looking at the information on the company website about what it does and how it competes. Then outstanding these needed skills in your CV that are likely to appear the most interesting, suitable and valuable to that company, and write your cover letter in the same way.
Could you predict the final way of landing the best construction jobs?
5. Be a Self-employed
This way will require sufficient construction industry experience, knowledge, and not only a few of relationship in construction field. Start-up is popular nowadays, you can hear so many successful and failure stories to follow. Cannot deny setting up your own company is the way to generate and do a construction job the way you desire. Owning and running your own business as a construction contractor or construction manager can be rewarding, but in the other side, many obstacles and pressure are waiting to beat you down.
As an independent contractor, you will need to apply the same rules just like when you look for a job. The difference is that now it relates to the customers, not employer. What do you know about your customer? Their requirements and concerns, and then tailor your bid to emphasize the items that are likely to be of most interest or valuable to them, which means more work for every new project and more jobs that you do with more revenue, because your customers will need to see that you understand better what they want.
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