In this digital age, job searching is not a difficult task for fresh graduate students, the question is

that whether that job is suitable for him/ her or not. Fresh graduate students can involve in both
open job market (also known as solicited job) and hidden job market (known as unsolicited
position). Open job market is positions that are listed on Internet, newspaper or journals, posted
internally in organizations or publicly announce through career fair. A job that is available, but it
is unlisted or unadvertised is called hidden job market.

1. Job search in Open Job Market:

Thanks to the development of information technology these days, people have many ways to
seek a job. Internet has become the most useful source to find a job due to its convenience and
promptness, people spend nearly 5-7 hours a day to surf web and they can catch the recruitment
advertising easily. People can access the company websites, explore the Big Boards like
CareerBuilder or Monster, use LinkedIn or social network to learn more about the recruited
position through Internet, or they can check newspaper at “Recruitment Section” for gaining
information.

Other suggestion:

One trend that we’ve noticed lately is that there are many listings that advertise career fairs and
job fairs. Job fairs are one of the best ways for job seekers to meet recruiters in person. They are
able to access to multiple potential companies at a time. Moreover, the job seekers résumé is
quickly analyzed and replied directly that avoids time wasting compared to applying for a job
through a career website or through a job board.

2. Job search in Hidden Job Market:

One important way to enter the hidden job market is creating networking for themselves. To
create a network, you should have to meet and communicate with the people. In today’s digitized
world, everyone is using social network sites to keep in touch with friends and family members.
Except being in touch with them, we can also create a circle to find out a job so that everyone in
that circle can share information with each other about any known job. Another way to help you
maintain the network is developing a phone number list and personal contact with known
persons like friends, neighbors, relatives, and in communities also to help you find the job in
hidden market.

Other suggestion:

Leaving a good impression to the target employer creates your own job. Keep a positive attitude
and maintain the confidence in yourself and show the strengths that you can bring to the
employer. Throughout employment process or internship period, keep the focus on how you can
contribute your skills and knowledge to help the prospective employer, present your
qualifications convincingly, this may motivate an employer to create a job for you as a result of
confidence, creativity, and ingenuity. How can we know which employer is our target one and
how can we leave a good impression to them? Take my brother as an example for this question:
In his internship period, he found out that he matched with senior people because he can find the
common things between them and him. Then he watched news, read books to find the topic for
their talks to show that he has wide knowledge in many aspects. This is not only leaving a good
impression to senior employers due to his knowledge, his respect to others, but also create new
relationships in workplace for long-term purposes.

However, no matter what the source is, finding the right position is one of the most important
activities that any students will pursue. To do that, they should ask themselves questions that
related to their personality, and their ability in each aspects, they should develop SWOT
(Strengths – Weakness – Opportunities – Threats) strategy to find their position and narrow the
target to find a right and suitable position in appropriate company.

3. The three most suitable sources/strategies for fresh graduate students from IU

After an extensively careful and thorough consideration process, we have decided top three that
fresh graduates will find it useful for their job searching is presented as follow:

Sources Strategies Brief explanation

1. Internet  Based on SWOT Students in the digital age are
model to find out the sensitive to Internet problems and
company that recruit they know how to optimize the job
the right position for search for themselves. According to
yourself. research, students spend more time
  Build your online surfing the web looking for jobs than
image to attract reading newspapers because they
employers. can contact and learn more about the
 Create the online company they intend to apply for
curriculum vitae with quickly.
highlighted
qualifications for
quickly applications
 Develop social Students today are very active, and
networking circle. they are always proactive in creating
 Develop a phone relationships from before graduation
number list. with famous people in the field they
 Develop personal pursue to bring benefits not only in
contact. job search but also as Professional
2. Networking  Make use of support to help them on the job path.
relationships with In particular, IU students through the
friends, neighbors, school's activities have brought them
relatives. networking with professionals
 Join in professional through sponsorship or inviting
groups for many speakers to judge the competitions.
specialize information.
3. Motivation for  Leave good Today's students are considered the z
target employer impressions about generation because they are always
attitude, ways to deal looking for good ways to achieve
with people, deep their goals, they know how to
knowledge. behave wisely to be kind to people
 Create new and they are proactive in every
relationships. situation for the sake of yourself.
Especially for IU students, through
job fairs, it is a special opportunity
for students to impress the
employers of the company they want
to apply for, and they know how to
attract the attention of recruiters.
Employers are willing to invite them
to work for their companies with the
knowledge and skills that students
have.