#1 – firm up your intentions.

Before you start hitting the search buttons, pause a bit to set your expectations. Ask yourself a few relevant questions. Such as, what are my career objectives? What are the roles I want today, and want to grow into in the future? What type of organizations do I want to work for?

What are my salary and location preferences and constraints? What are the values I look for in an organization?

Make your ‘must-have’ and ‘nice-to-have’ checklists with the answers to these questions. This way, it will be easy for you to navigate the road from the search to the selection stages, and align your decisions to your aspirations.

#2 – align and sharpen your resume to shine your light.

Your resume is your visa to enter your right professional world. It has to be strong, truthful, and effectively bring out your skills (hard and soft), competencies, experience, potential and value.

Remember, you constantly grow and evolve as a professional, and so you need to update your profile to reflect the ‘now’ you.

Another fact to remember is that in many organizations, an application tracking system (ATS) initially scans, reviews and ranks applications through resume bots. Your resume must therefore

talk as effectively to a person as to a bot. Here are a few tips to do so:

Do not resort to images, symbols, graphs and charts. They confuse the ATS
Use specific job-related keywords to optimize your resume

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