The Career Bureau attended the 2015 Sydney Career Expo and worked hard with many other career consultants to give free advice and workshops to attendees. We gave a workshop and seminar on how to find work and indeed with a focus on networking. It is really important and quite a relief for all of us to find out that networking when you are looking for a job is NOT about asking for a job. Networking here is asking for advice and who else to speak to and information to help your job search. Networking is all about firstly listing out your extensive network. You could find and network amongst family, friends, colleagues, teachers, alumni, friends of friends, professional assocations, church groups or sporting clubs. While it is easier to answer jobs advertised, you are competing with everyone else and for only 30 or 40 percent of jobs advertised. The best way is to search for jobs, the whole 70 or 80 percent, that are not advertised. Less competition for a start. Issues for people who popped in for career advice at the Sydney Career Expo included concerns about being overqualified and ignored, being too old in their view, not being of the dominant cultural group and not knowing how to network to find leads and work.

The Career Bureau helped clients with a range of issues such as: - not being able to win at interview even when really qualified for the job; unemployed and using up last savings instead of seeking help from Centrelink for unemployment benefits; wanting to be a fitness trainer and not sure which course to take; wanting to work in human rights; being made redundant from Defence and needing to retrain; wanting to get into the Police Force and finding it very competitive; redundant from a TAFE due to technological changes; and wanting to be a manager without any good experience.

The Career Bureau recommends a great job search networking video on UTube called

Creative Job Search, Accessing the Hidden Job Market by Gradireland Summer Fair

Career Day