JobTabs Paradigm

Value Information

Increasingly when you are contacted by a recruiter or a prospective employer you can hear the keyboard clicking away as they record your answers to their questions. Recruiters and employers understand the value of information - even if its value isn't immediately apparent. What is missing from this picture? The sound of your keyboard.

During a job search, job seekers are bombarded with valuable information about companies, people, technology, and whatever systems to which they are being qualified. Even if the opportunity does not match what the job seeker is looking for, they have just garnered key information about that company.

• What kind of position are they trying to fill?
• What kind of compliance standards are they trying to uphold?
• What kind of computer system do they have?
• Are they on schedule to meet their goals and if not, what problems are keeping them doing so?
• Who is the manager and what is he/she like?

Even if the job seeker does not qualify for the position being solicited for any reason, that job seeker has just gathered key information that will make himself a valuable resource to a networking contact.  Think about it for a second.  If you are considered for a position and go through the interview process, you have surely garnered a lot of excellent information on the inner workings of the employer.  For the sake of illustration, let's say you and the employer don't have a match in terms of mutual interests.  You either do not get an offer, or you decline the offer you were extended.  Done.  Now, consider the information you have gathered during the employment process.  It is everything any candidate - for this job or any other job in the company - would love to have.  You have the names of all of the people on the team, what their objectives are, what the corporate culture is like, what is expected from the right candidate and what have you.

Of utmost importance is that this information is organized and readily available.  You can share some of the information or all of the information - it does not matter.  This is the hallmark of JobTabs Job Search & Resume.  JobTabs captures every conversation, every email, every job posting and makes it easy for you to compile information in a way that makes sense to you and to those you choose to share it with.  The importance of using information effectively is a cornerstone of the JobTabs paradigm and will be expanded upon as your familiarity with JobTabs evolves.  Let's focus on the paradigm for now.

 

Network

Networking isn't easy for everyone. Even people who are ever ready to help others can sometimes be uneasy about picking up the phone or sending out an email. Networking is very powerful, yet few people do it well.  Techies can be particularly uneasy networkers as they tend to be task oriented and disinterested in grooming relationships that may be transient. Yet, the information you garner in your career makes your network infinitely more tangible and is sure to elevate a meaningful network as an indispensable tool in your job seeking arsenal.  If you find networking difficult, JobTabs can change your take on networking. You will no longer be asking anybody for anything.  JobTabs can help you establish yourself as a supernode on a network that is integral to everybody. It is give and take and everybody wins.

Be a Spectacular Candidate

Our goal is to help you get into the 95th percentile. Specifically, we provide the guidance/resources that can help you place yourself above 95 out of every 100 candidates. This is imperative in a very competitive job market. Have you ever wondered why companies with full time human resource departments employ the services of recruiting firms? The primary reason is to defray the extra costs associated with processing the deluge of applicants. (Recruiters serve as powerful filters in the employment process and companies tap into them to separate the wheat from the chaff. No matter what kind of job you are looking for, you can expect to work with lots of different recruiters.)

 

In the early stages of the employment process, the key to being an excellent candidate is having the right resume. However, if you tailored your resume to practically every job you applied to, aren't you being burdened with being a writer and an information tracker in addition to weathering the challenge of finding a job?  Yes.  This is where JobTabs excels.  JobTabs makes it very easy to qualify yourself for varying opportunities. Moreover, the more you qualify yourself for varying opportunities the easier it will be to continue qualifying yourself as an excellent candidate for subsequent opportunities. The importance of this consideration cannot be over stated. Without JobTabs, as your job search progresses it will have the uncanny quality of getting harder instead of easier. More about that later. For the moment, take faith that we have mitigated those aspects of the job search that impinge on your capacity to stay motivated.

 

Leverage ALL of your Experience

You have learned so much in the course of your career. Whether you have been in the work force for two years or twenty, you have gathered valuable experience. Yet, like an old phone number that you used to have, it is amazing how quickly we can forget so much of it. Regardless of how quickly you could 'pick it up' on your next assignment, if you don't appear to know it as well as your current phone number the prospective employer will likely dump you like a hot potato. You need to ace the phone interview and the job interview.

You have the experience, instead of delivering 80% of it you need to deliver 100% of it - regardless of how long ago you mastered it. JobTabs organizes resources related to your job search whether they are central or peripheral to your goal. Whether the material is a refresher on your primary skill set, a manual on some antiquated programming language, or answers to 100 tough interview questions you will have it readily available. JobTabs organizes information in almost every format for easy access. You can even save entire web pages into JobTabs as you never know when a particular web site will be gone.

 

Stay Motivated

The job search is a peculiar beast. It plays tricks on your mind. Like a seductive serpent it whispers into your ear, "You have all day. One more episode of the Simpsons isn't going to hurt you." Yet at the end of the day, you have done nothing and are consumed by a sense of guilt and futility.  Then there are those days when you have worked very hard. You have been fine tuning this resume and that. You have been reviewing loads of potential opportunities, massaging your network and working the phone at every turn. Yet how many resumes have you actually sent out all week? One? Two?

As we stated earlier, the job search has the uncanny quality of getting harder as time goes on.  If you are still looking for a job three months from now, then you have been subjected to three months of rejection and dead ends. You can't expect yourself to be as resilient then as your were in the beginning. It will be harder to get moving every morning.  The monotony of putting together a cover letter and resume will be increasingly unrewarding.  It will get loathsome!  JobTabs is designed to spare you from all of this.