Whether you're stepping into the job market as a recent graduate or transitioning careers midway, securing the ideal job requires a robust strategy coupled with effective tools. To help you succeed, here are some resources that can kick-start your journey towards finding the perfect role.

Business Cards

Business cards, digital or physical, can help you connect with your network or find a lead person who can recommend you for a job. Such business cards should contain your name, expertise and contacts (phone, mobile and email). You can have someone make a business card for you or better you can make your own.  With specialized business card design tools, as well as comprehensive productivity applications that offer same feature at your disposal, you can effortlessly create professional business cards tailored to your unique brand identity.

Google Sheet

Monitor your job applications, interviews, and progress effectively by utilizing a well-structured spreadsheet. Google Sheets serves as an invaluable tool for maintaining a real-time, cloud-based tracker, eliminating the need for constant document opening, closing, and saving. You can effortlessly log essential information such as the date, company name, and application status. It can further aid job seekers by allowing the easy sharing of your tracker with career counselors or mentors, facilitating comments and feedback for improvement

Job Board

Job board refers to a specialized site for displaying and storing job advertisements. Here you can view the job title, expiration date, skills and experiences required, salary, location and company name. The site also includes a search filter to narrow down your search. You can sign-up, build your profile or upload your resume. One of the simple and easy to use job boards are Oh! Jobs.ph and Oh! Jobs.jp.

Mock Interview preparation programs

These apps can help you practice a mock or trial interview as you would in an actual interview. Mock interviews boost your confidence and prepare for the real thing.

• interview warmup
• Mockrabbit
• Pramp

Map Apps

If you’re new or unfamiliar with the place of the company’s office and interview site, chances are you’ll need a reliable map. Some of the best map apps include:

• Google Map
• Waze
• Here We Go
• Maps.Me

Social Bookmarking Sites

Saving an article or webpage can help you get to research and bookmark sites relevant or helpful to your job effort. Social Bookmarking sites let you post a URL and save them on an easy to access a website.  Examples include:

• Facebook
• Flipboard
• Medium
• Pocket
• Pinterest
• Tumblr