1. Organizing Your Job Search
Chapter 6
Finding a Job
Lesson 6.2
Organizing Your Job Search

2. How to keep track of job leads
Discover
How to keep track of job leads
How to gather information about jobs and businesses

3. Why It’s Important
When you’re organized, it’s easier to use the information to get the job you want.

4. Key Terms
database
employer
annual report

5. Keeping Track
Being organized is the key to a successful job search.

6. Setting Up a System
A simple way to organize your job search is to record job leads on index cards or sheets of paper.

7. Setting Up a System
If you prefer working with computers, you can organize your job leads in a database program.
A database can store data, or information, in different ways.

8. Getting the Details Down
Create an index card or a database entry for every person on your contact list.

9. Getting the Details Down
If there are any businesses you’d like to work for, create a card or database entry for each.

10. Getting the Details Down
You can also create card or database entries for classified job listings you are interested in.

11. How the System Works
After you’ve made a card for each contact or lead, make contact.

12. How the System Works
After contacting the person or business, make notes on the card.

13. How the System Works
If someone you’ve talked to calls you, get out his or her card.
Use it to refresh your memory.
Update the card with new information.

14. Researching Jobs and Employers
In between getting a job lead and getting a job, you must do some investigating.

15. The Benefits of Research
You want to find out as much as you can about possible jobs and employers.
An employer is a person or business that pays a person or group of people to work.

16. The Benefits of Research
Knowing about a job or business will give you self-confidence, which will help you make a good impression.

17. The Benefits of Research
What you learn will also help you decide whether a particular job is right for you.

18. Questions to Ask
You can get some basic facts about a business by asking questions like these:
What kinds of goods or services does the business offer?
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19. Questions to Ask
What kind of reputation does the business have with its workers and customers?
What types of work do people do there?
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20. Questions to Ask Is the business growing and expanding?
Is it possible to move up in the business?

21. Ways to Get Answers to Your Questions
How do you get answers to your questions? Here are a few suggestions:
Talk to employees.
Talk to customers.
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22. Ways to Get Answers to Your Questions
Visit the business.
Read the company’s annual report. An annual report describes the company and reports yearly financial results.
Review the business’s Web site.

23. Attitude Counts
Starting a New Job
Starting a new job is hard for anyone. Your employer doesn’t expect you to know everything right away. If you’re willing to learn and have a sense of humor, your first few weeks will not be too difficult.

24. Investigating Career Clusters
Finance
Finance Acquiring, investing, and managing money
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25. Investigating Career Clusters
Finance
If you are the type of person who always puts birthday checks in your savings account, a career in finance might be right for you.

26. Critical Thinking Review
Why is it important to organize your job search from the beginning?
Organizing your job search will help you keep track of all your job leads and where they are heading.
Critical Thinking Q A
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27. Critical Thinking Review
What would be convenient about using a database instead of cards to organize job leads?
A database allows you to organize your information quickly, and it can be reorganized as needed.
Critical Thinking Q A

28. Organizing Your Job Search
End of Chapter 6
Finding a Job
Lesson 6.2
Organizing Your Job Search