There are a lot of ways on how you can create a list of potential employers that will most probably hire you. One good way is to search the internet or the jobs section of your local newspaper or magazine. Do not send in your resume, just record their names. Another way to find a good source of employer market is to talk to your local Chamber of Commerce and find out the businesses who are expanding, entering town, etc.
Then, create a spreadsheet of the potential employers to keep you organized. This will allow you to stay on track as well as to document your results.
Your skill and creativity will be put to the test here. More often than not, the receptionist will not just give you the name of the hiring manager (but sometimes less experienced receptionists do). Also, there are companies who are only putting the name of an HR representative in the ad. But this is not the person you want. You need the person with the authority to hire.
One technique would be to call the company and simply ask the department that you need, for example “Publishing Department.†Then, whoever answers the phone, ask to speak with the publishing manager.
This is where you need to shine. Once you found yourself speaking to the hiring manager, you need to sell your personality and your experiences. Do not overdo it and ramble on and on out of your nervousness, just say enough to capture his/her interest.
You can say this sample script, hi Mr. Doe, my name is Joe Baxter, I noticed that you are looking for a publishing assistant and I want to contact you directly to request for an interview. I was working in my same job for the last 10 years…etc. At this point, you have to highlight some of your accomplishments and try your best to convince him/her that you are a great candidate.
Conclude the phone call by saying that you would like to pass by their office tomorrow to drop off your resume and other needed documents. Ask the hiring manager what time he/she is available to talk so you can meet him in person even for just a few minutes.
Isn’t this great? Setting up the interview schedule at the same time that you will give your resume? Some managers will be open to this proposition especially if filling out the position is urgent. However, there may be some managers who will give resistance to this option. It’s a numbers game. Keep on trying until you get your interviews. It’s still better than waiting for the phone to ring.
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Eventually, your search for publishing jobs will lead to some individual or group interviews with potential employers. While sending out your application seems like a piece of cake, the interview process can be the most nerve wracking part. Besides, the people in the interview room will be the one to decide whether a particular graduate will land the job or will have to continue his or her job hunt.
One tip to remember in interviews is not to over-prepare. Hiring managers can easily tell if the applicant is just feeding them what they want to hear. Instead, the interviewee has to think of his or her goals, achievements, and most important – answer all questions truthfully.
It is important that the interview room is prepared beforehand to ensure there are no interruptions and that the tables and chairs are set up suitably. It is also important to decide what stages the recruitment process will include, such as:
First interviews – how many, when and who will carry them out?
Second interviews – when, and who will carry them out?
Any type of tests, such as skills reviews or psychometric tests;
When will candidates know the results of the interview process.
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Interviews
A key objective of the interview is to assess an individual’s suitability against the criteria required for the job. Remember however, the recruitment process is also the first experience that an applicant has of an organisation.
Good selection, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), is based upon the following:
- Ability to do the job;
- Ability to make a contribution to the organisation’s effectiveness;
- Potential for development.
- Research has indicated that interviews are often poor predictors of ability and often undertaken by people who haven’t been trained in recruitment. To make them as successful as possible:
- Training should be provided for interviewers;
- Questions should be structured around the job description and person specification;
- Candidates should be encouraged to ask questions and find out more about the job and the organisation.
- Where possible, candidates should be allowed enough notice before the interview to enable them to prepare.
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One of the things that will give you the edge when gunning for a publishing job is a knowledge of both the software used and the printing process itself.
Knowing software is important because it shows prospective employers that you have more than a cursory knowledge regarding the intricacies of the publishing business. So you should be able to familiarize yourself with publication tools and software like Adobe InDesign. Showing your interviewer that you have more than a theoretical idea of how the industry actually works and actually having applied skills in these kinds of software show your potential for career growth as you know more than what is required of you – traits and characteristics future supervisors and managers should have.
Desktop publishing has ling been a norm and part of the internet, where technology provides the medium for the release of information that used to be limited to print and many other forms of media. Web publishing and authoring may come as a career for the younger generation for the development of web pages and other software for use on the web are more suited for them. They grew up with the technology and they are more accustomed to the opacity of the internet, not having to deal with gender, ethnicity and other external factors.
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They are serious today for they need an edge to the growing market advantage the internet has. They used to shun from the idea for the internet was so full of bad news and other piracy issues. The recession is forcing them to take a second look at it and they are taking it seriously indeed. Publishers have hit hard by digital media and it was only time when they would have had to accept the fact that paper is a resource that is going to get more and more expensive.
Now what’s in it for us, well remember the Kindle that Oprah endorsed, well it’s long been a standing design or vision of how future books would look like. Plain and simple devices that displayed text for us to read as if it were a book. The good thing is that laptops and other portable devices are converging into one technology that may soon see all these gadgets and gizmos all rolled into one package. That opens the door wide open for writers who have long shifted to the internet for their work. Major publishers are taking a hard look at the future and they are seeing a sliver of light passing through, good for us, all of us.