Best Career Advisor

Networking is a great resource to seek a job. Hence, while your job hunt is going on, along with working hard to get yourself a job, try to get your friends a job first, to succeed in grabbing a job for you soon. Well, this may sound crazy, but it certainly works.Helping friends in searching a job can be a great help to your friend and to yourself too, as while understanding skills and competencies of your friend, you can actually recall your skills that count in job market.

Assisting and guiding your friend in the job hunt process is a kind of rehearsal of the preparation for yourself. You can actually keep yourself in an employer’s shoes and think of what is expected of a prospective candidate and prepare yourself accordingly.

Why to Help Friend to Find a Job

• Understand Yourself Better
While listening to someone else competencies and skills, you can discover your own competencies. Some career coaches believe that being a skilled listener, to your friend’s qualities can probably rekindle your own qualities and skills.

• Improve Your Job Search Skills
While helping your friend with appropriate job search skills, you can actually get into the role of an employer and get an insight of what an employer expects of a prospective candidate. This invaluable information can be used effectively in your job search.

• Networking Does it All
Helping friends get their dream jobs increases your professional network and connections. You may even discover additional career options and a contact database, as you seek some bright opportunities for your friends.

• Boosts Your Self-Confidence
Helping a friend find a job will boost your self-confidence. Searching for jobs can be mentally and emotionally challenging. However, as per the eastern beliefs, helping someone else get a job is being helpful to others and as a reflex it makes you feel happy and confident.

How to Help a Friend Find a Job

Crafting a great resume is the most daunting task. However, one way to master this art is to help your friends draft their resumes. The most vital part of a resume is its career summary or career objective. Now, even when you struggle to write a resume objective for your resume, you will be comfortable writing about your friend’s work experience and career objectives as you will not be a hard critic as you are to self.

Next, you and your friend should tailor your respective resumes as per the job position.
After developing a suitable resume for the position, now you should interview your friend. Before you start interviewing him, wipe off any preconceived notion about your friend and judge him only on the basis of his resume.

Just referring to a student resume sample or a student teaching resume is not sufficient at all for your friend, while seeking a job. Help your friend with the above tips too. The most effective factor of helping your friend with his job interview is that you can prepare yourself for an interview too. Jot down a few important interview questions that can be helpful to you too. Moreover, helping your friend get a job can increase your network and possibilities of getting a job.

By Evon Barry