Four Creative Ways of Using New Technology to Increase Your Chances of Getting a Better Job

The way we seek and apply for jobs has changed in a major way over the past few years.

The internet and its new technologies have become an integrated part of the job market. In Nigeria, the knowledge of the methods of job search is the beginning of career success for job seekers and graduates.

If you are computer literate here are four ways you can increase chances of landing that dream job. Reading job vacancy pages in newspapers will no longer guarantee you a job. You will have to be proactive and use the advantage of technology and the internet to make your job search easier.

1. Job Alert by SMS: Instead of having to search through hundreds of newspapers and inferior job sites you can simply utilize the job alert service of reputable job vacancy portals like ngcareers.com.

You can easily sign up as a job seeker and select job categories that you will like to receive alerts on. As soon as new job openings become available, the alerts are sent to your phone and email with directions on where to access the full information and apply. This alert service eases the burden of searching for suitable jobs and gets you informed and updated on latest jobs of your choice so you can easily apply.

The job alert service costs little to sign up and you can always discontinue once you get employment.

2. Explore Linked in and Build Connections: If you are serious about your career then you have to get on LinkedIn. It has thousands of Nigerian CEOs, managers and career people already members. Worldwide LinkedIn has over 100 million members.

While joining LinkedIn may not guarantee you a job you get the opportunity to create a profile for yourself (akin to your online CV) that people in your connection can view.

You can ask people, who work in your industry of interest to add you to their network you can also join local LinkedIn groups such as the Nigeria Business Network, follow and contribute to discussions.

LinkedIn members also always advertise job vacancies so you can also take advantage of that and apply to the ones relevant to your ambition.

3. Join and Follow Popular Job Vacancy Websites: Today there are numerous job vacancy blogs and websites publishing latest job vacancies across the country. Join the best of them like ngcareers.com, and visit them regularly for new jobs.

4. Get Serious with Twitter: A bit unlike Facebook twitter is a business-minded micro-blogging tool that lets a follower get latest updates from anybody or site that he is following.

Create a twitter account with a brief nice description of your person follow the tweet of job sites like @ngcareers.com, jobberman etc. comment on interesting tweets.

Twitter is growing in influence in Nigeria. An aide to one of the Governors in the southwest got his job through his tweeting activities as he followed and posted updates of the governor’s tribunal case on his twitter account.

Getting acquainted with new communication and information sharing technologies will boost your chances of getting a befitting job.

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