Can I even find a job by myself? please advise

Original Post

Hi everyone, I have been thinking a lot about finding a job without going through any consultancy. I get two kinds of suggestions: 1) Try to find an internship, use LinkedIn and other websites. I have only 4 months of internship experience in IT. 2) Go through a consultancy. And you know how consultancies work. I don't feel comfortable adding many years of experiences. Please advise me what would be the best thing to do or what would you do in this case ( I don't have a green card)?

advice_7

Apr 22, 2019 12:42 AM · 38,332 views

20 Replies

ruby1991 Apr 22, 2019 8:26 AM

No you can’t go to a consultancy they will back you up

Archer Apr 22, 2019 8:57 AM

in my case i did both.. went to a consultancy and kept applying on side.. Got job and left the consultancy by giving them some bullshit reason.. i had 0 yrs of experience and  no GC at that time. i got lucky... i'd definitely suggest doing both since you don't have a GC and time is of essence...

advice_7 Apr 22, 2019 1:00 PM

Hi Archer,

How did you find it or what websites did you use? Could you give more info or tips.

Thank you

advice_7 Apr 22, 2019 1:07 PM

Archer, 
i forgot to ask wouldn't that be many resumes?

NepaliNajar Apr 22, 2019 1:20 PM

What is your backgrounds advice_7?

ehho2 Apr 22, 2019 2:49 PM

Desiopt does resume blast I heard .you might find that helpful

Archer Apr 22, 2019 3:16 PM

@advice_7 i used a lot of different websites.. mostly indeed.com though. I used my own real resume with 0 experience for the ones i was applying and let consultancy do its thing. When i got interview date, i was legit confused about which resume i applied with.. in fact i asked the HR to send me resume since just to be sure and told them i had been working on the updating my resume and wanted to make sure they got the right one.. :D

guitarcenter Apr 22, 2019 4:58 PM

For a time being what you can even do it buy one phone app that provides you a different number.. use that for your own resume with 0 experience.. when someone calls that number you would know that its a call for your legit ones.. if you get a call on regular number.. you know who it is..

ujl Apr 22, 2019 5:39 PM

Why not keep an Excel spreadsheet record to be more organized. For example see below:

advice_7 Apr 22, 2019 6:03 PM

thanks guitarcenter , but do you know any app? How much do they cost? I haven't heard of that before. And what do you mean by "if you get a call on regular number.. you know who it is"?

advice_7 Apr 22, 2019 6:06 PM

archer, I have been trying with my few months of internship experience but no luck. Did you get a job through indeed? wouldn't that be suspicious to ask to send your own resume? I thought about that too

advice_7 Apr 22, 2019 6:07 PM

Nepalinajar, my have few months of experience as a front end developer.

advice_7 Apr 22, 2019 6:08 PM

ujl thanks for the effort. It could come handy. I am thinking about how to make my real resume appealing to find a job by myself.

guitarcenter Apr 22, 2019 7:47 PM

Sideline, Line2, Hushed are some. They are like I believe 4.99 or 5.99 per month. So when you get the call in their number, it will come in app itself. Advantage: they are cheap. Drawbacks mayyyyy be not forward able, no merging, and if u decide to cancel the service due to inconvenience due to its drawbacks, then you might have to update the number in your resume. The number is gone.

_ Apr 23, 2019 11:09 AM

Not a response to primary question of the thread. This is about handling calls: I provided google voice numbers (with my name recorded for the voicemail greeting) and programmed calls to go directly to voicemail. I called them back after enough research about the caller.

advice_7 Apr 23, 2019 7:12 PM

"_"  that was very interesting. Why did you do that because you marketed resumes through a consultancy and by yourself?

advice_7 Apr 30, 2019 1:57 AM

Hi @Archer,

I sent you a message.

200times Apr 30, 2019 11:42 PM

advice_7

I don't recommend you applying for jobs from indeed or ZipRecruiter. I think they sell your PII to third party companies and you will end up getting a bunch of spam calls for an uncertain period of time. Use Indeed to find open positions and then go to that company website to apply for that job.

advice_7 May 1, 2019 6:24 PM

200times, thank you for a great advice. What about monster, career builder? Any more tips to search for a job by myself? Thank you in advance.

drogba May 2, 2019 7:15 AM

Some thoughts.

Get certified any Ccna,Ms,VM
tailor resume based on JD
Keep looking but also join consultancy,atleast u ll learn some things n meet people and understand what's out there
it is perfectly fine to go consultancy,since u know what u getting into ,still applying on the side
if no options other then consultancy,After one or two project, market urself 
Good luck

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