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Improving your job search with networking
cards
The more people who know you're looking for a job, the more
likely you are to find one. That is why you can improve your job search with
networking cards, which are becoming increasingly popular. They're small, light
and easy to pass out. A networking card looks similar to a business card, but it
has more information and is meant to get you a job. Your networking card can
look however you want, though its purpose is to get people interested in you as
a professional.
The best thing about networking cards is that they are relatively inexpensive to
produce. You don't have to contact a professional printing shop to have them
designed and manufactured for you. Instead you can easily make your own business
cards online or produce them on your home computer. Your networking card can
look however you want; just remember that you're attempting to improve your job
search. Loud colors, fancy fonts and irrelevant information probably won't help
you to that end. The more professional, the better.
One of the most important things to include on your networking cards is your
objective, which is the first category on most resumes. The objective tells
people what type of job you are looking for and how you hope to get it. In most
cases, your objective should only be one or (at the most) two sentences long and
should only take up two lines on your networking cards. Remember that you can
put everything in small type because you're going to want to put a lot of
information on the cards.
The job hunting business card highlights the skills and qualifications you
possess for the types of jobs and industries you're targeting. It provides
personal contact information, and omits current employer information. It's easy
to carry, easy to use, and very discreet. It's a great option when a particular
situation would make the offer of a resume inappropriate or inconvenient for the
recipient.
If you have a resume Web page, your job hunting business card should include the
URL to that, too. This provides easy access to your resume document by your
recipient. Providing the URL to a PDF file provides the additional benefit of
printing capabilities. If you are actively networking, a job hunting business
card can be provided to anyone who has the potential to help you in your job
search.
A job hunting business card provides all the information your network needs to
initiate interest and open the door for future contact. Obviously, this means
that each person on your network list should receive several of your job hunting
business cards and be encouraged to pass them out to potential employers or
other contacts who can assist you in your search.
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