Starting a job search
Last time I applied for a job was a few months ago, when a former colleague suggested that I apply for it. I didn’t get that job, but the process of applying for it got me to get my résumé in order.
Afterward, a friend with hiring experience reviewed my résumé and made some suggestions for improving it, but I wasn’t ready to engage in a serious job search, so I didn’t make those changes at the time. But a week ago, another friend told me about a job that sounded interesting, so I made the suggested improvements and sent the résumé off to that job.
And now that I have a résumé that’s in reasonably good shape, I guess it’s time to start a more serious job search. Today, I changed my LinkedIn settings to indicate that I’m looking for a job, and I went through my list of about two dozen companies that make tools or services that I like, and checked whether they had any openings that seemed relevant to my skills and experience and interests.
Not many do at the moment, but a couple of them do, and a few more suggest submitting résumés even if they don’t have relevant jobs listed.
So I submitted a résumé to one of them that has a tech writer opening, and I’ll probably submit a couple more tomorrow. We’ll see how it goes.