This activity is done by those who are
unemployed and looking for a new place to ply their skills. It is one of the more challenging and sometimes
demoralizing parts of being human on Earth. You have to go out every day and
sell yourself to people you hardly know, often to join a
corporate culture you could care less about, and somehow yet despise the prospects of
office politics.
Many
unpaid hours or researching a company, formulating individual
cover pages, licking a lot of
envelopes, banging on a lot of doors, making tons of
cold calls,
faxing til your machine burns out, emailing resumes til some lame, poorly written
javascript freezes your machine dead.
For a Job Search, a person requires;
A Resume
Determination
Good Hygiene
A nepotismatic family member with a business
Good social-networking skills
Good anti-depressants
Good walking shoes
Patience with online job search sites that are as slow as the feel futile.
Access to a fax machine, or fax software(and old telco modem)
Reference material with contacts for local businesses
The ability to smile at will
Bus fare/bus pass
Self-Promotion skills
A clean, smooth telephone manner
Some professional business cards
Of course the whole point of a job search is to get a job, but in most cases you will also have to endure the dreaded, often pre-formatted Job Interview.