Step 1: Create Your Resume Packages

Your first thought, when submitting for a job prospect is that you need a resume and cover letter. If you think about it, though, you should have more than that. In some countries submitting a photo is nice. More importantly is a portfolio. Not just artists and musicians have portfolios. You may want to submit extra items as well. Bundled together, this package is known as a Resume Package or Presentation Package. If you are like most people, you can do different things, so you should have different packages. Ask yourself this question. Do you manually put together the package for every submittal? Jobfish allows you to create any number of resume packages and given them a nice name. If you are stuck at the resume stage, Jobfish comes with multiple templates, which you can customize. Are you stuck with cover letters? Jobfish comes with multiple cover letter templates as well. Create a resume package for each skill type that you have and let Jobfish do the rest.

Step 3: Apply for Jobs

Applying for a job sounds simple, even child´s play. Right? No, it is not. On every submittal you should gather your resume package together and attach to your email. You have to find the email address or use the facility in the job board. Before that, you have to find out which job posting is of interest to you. it is not like looking for the state or a country in a dropdown list (combo box) on a form.

Jobfish not only presents the search listings in an easy to view interface, but allows you to apply for them easily too. Take Craig´s List, which is ultra popular and simple to use. Applying for a job can take upwards of 10 minutes, and that is if you are fast and patient. With Jobfish, you create resume packages. When it comes time for submitting to a job, such as on Craig´s List, or attaching to an email, you simply select which resume package you want, if not the default requested, and Jobfish does the rest. Jobfish will use your cover letter as the body of the email. Jobfish automatically puts the proper subject line. Jobfish will put a copy of the job placement ad below your cover, and then attach your resume and any other items present in your package to that email. Jobfish does all the work, so that you do not have to. Submitting for a job with Jobfish becomes a trivial task. Jobfish saves a copy of the job posting in your database saving a static copy of the ad along with a link to the live version.

Replying to a post in Craig´s List is a matter of a couple of mouse clicks and you are off to the next row. Your efficiency on any supported job board will skyrocket. The trick is to use the system created against you for your own benefit. Play their game to your benefit, not theirs.

Step 5: Interact with Your Contacts

In the last step you saw how Jobfish can be useful, when someone calls on the phone. Jobfish can give you the edge, not the person on the other end, because once you know the exact job that the person calls you on and all the job details, you can bore them to tears on each of the bullet points.

When dealing with contacts, talking on the phone when something calls is just part of the picture. When you are out of work, sending your contacts an email that you want a new opportunity is part of the process. Think mail merge. If you talk on the phone, you may agree upon a callback time for whatever reason. You may want to keep notes on all the contacts. Jobfish does all of these things and more. You can view callback times nicely in a table. You can schedule interactions and get notified. Jobfish even supports mail merge, much like what Jobfish does with job submittals. You select which contacts and Jobfish does the rest.

Obtaining contacts is the first step. Jobfish allows you to import contacts from Microsoft Outlook or any CSV file. You can export too. Jobfish will create a contact list, whenever you apply for a job. Jobfish does it all. Microsoft Outlook, although nice, is simply not up to the challenge. Did you know that you can Skype a contact by the click of a button? We integrated Skype directly into Jobfish. Working with contacts in Jobfish is the ticket to a successful job search. Check Jobfish out today.

Step 7: Print Reports and Analyze Metrics

Jobfish includes not just the ability to print out job records and other reports, but the ability to fully customize each report type. You have access to all the data in the database. Configure as you want and print what you want. If your unemployment office wants a specific type of form; no problem. You can customize our unemployment job search report to your needs. Jobfish also includes job metrics. The best way to gauge how you are doing is to look at the numbers. If you are off in any one area, you can work on that area. Keep your strengths and work on our weaknesses. The Jobfish Questions and Answers section can come in handy here, if you see that you are off closing the deal. Write down interview questions, categorize them, and job down the answers. You can work on your answers and get that metric up and get yourself closer to closing the deal.