Job Search Tricks That Will Improve your Job Search Results

Finding the right job opportunities—and standing out in a competitive market—is tough. Fortunately, there are plenty of tools and hacks out there that are built to help you find your dream job, more quickly and easily than ever.

From an app that helps you optimize your resume for applicant tracking systems to a site that’ll keep all your applications in order, here are 10 tools and tips you’ve probably never heard about that can give your job search a serious boost.

Create a Twitter Job Search List to Track Job Listings from Thousands of Sources

Every day, recruiters are tweeting jobs they need to interview candidates for—making Twitter a seriously untapped resource for job seekers. To make sure you’re in the know about these leads, create a Twitter job search list that includes recruiters, hiring managers, company hiring handles, and job search websites. Then, review their tweets daily for potential opportunities.

Keep Track of Information You Collect During Your Job Search

It’s easy to get disorganized during a job hunt. So, keep tabs on everything that’s going on. You can track the companies that you apply to, note each specific job that you apply for, and log the status of each application (date of first interview, date thank you letter sent, and so on).

Use PushCV CV Rewrite or Create Service to Create an Updated Resume Fast

If you need to update your resume fast for an available opportunity, don’t spend hours on your computer. Instead, get a great resume using PushCV.

Use the New PushCV Dashboard to See How Your Resume Scores on an Applicant Tracking System

Sick of not knowing if a human being is even reviewing the resume you worked so hard on? PushCV’s new dashboard   shows you how you and your resume would score on the applicant tracking system—and helps you improve it for every job you apply for.

Manage Your Online Reputation

While job searching, it’s important to keep your reputation crystal clear. Monitor what’s being said about you online, track and measure what people are saying about you across the web’s social media landscape in real-time.

Use LinkedIn to Contact Someone You Don’t Have an Email For

If you want to contact someone at your dream company but can’t find the right contact information anywhere, check out the person’s public LinkedIn profile and you can send a message through LinkedIn. Just make sure you include something about your common interest in your message—so you seem like a networker, not a stalker.

Manage and Organize Business Cards You Collect

Manage your key contacts and relationships—it’s great for your job search. After you meet someone, put his or her contact information down and write the important information you learned from your conversation. Then, create a reminder to follow up on a certain date in the future.

Create a Follow-up System

A big job search mistake is to only focus on meeting new people and forgetting about the people you already know. In fact, it’s extremely important to keep up with your current relationships!