Because of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown, a growing number of mortgage and finance professionals are hitting the streets, looking for jobs. Yet, these layoff victims largely lack the most important career skill of all: How to market themselves.
"The moves most mortgage and financial professionals have made to advance their careers to this point are probably exactly the wrong things they should do to find work in the current job
market," cautions recruiting professional David Perry, managing director of Ottawa, Ontario-based Perry-Martel International.
Here are 3 typical wrong moves most mortgage/finance job seekers are making now:
- Networking with colleagues
- Searching on Monster.com
- Reading help wanted ads in the newspaper
None of these techniques address the real problems in finding a job today, according to Perry and job-search expert, Kevin Donlin, President of Edina, Minn.-based Guaranteed Rsums.
Donlin and Perry are offering a free job-search webinar Thursday, September 13 at