5 Tips for Managing Your Job Search While Employed

Finding a new job isn't always the easiest task. It requires the right job skills, the right search tools, and the right timing. Finding a job while you are still employed is not always the easiest mission complete. It is hard to find a new job when you are still devoting your time to your current job, but it can be done. If you are poised to make the leap to a new job here are some tips for conducting your job search while employed.

Play it Safe with Email

If you are looking for a new job while you are still working you may want to do some of the searching while you are at work. Usually this isn’t a good idea while on the job, but it is understandable if you are early or on lunch. If you are going to keep your current job, you should be knowledgeable about your company's policies on internet and mail use. In some companies all email is monitored so you may want to use a separate account like Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, especially if you are keeping your job change a secret.

Never use office mail or your office email address to reply to job ads and potential employers, ever. You don't want to give your future employers the idea that you spend work time looking for jobs. Most times they just don't want to receive emails addressed from their competitors so please, use a separate account.

Change Your Clothes after Interviews

The worst thing that you can do, which is also the biggest dead giveaway you are looking for a new job is to wear your interview clothes to work. This is a definite don't especially if you work in a casual business atmosphere. Either change on the way to the interview or during a break. Before you return to work men should remove the jacket and tie and women should take off the blazer and skirt (unless you usually wear a skirt to work), and change into slacks.

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