9 Daily Habits to Increase Your Job Chances

Recruiters and career counselors recommend 9 habits and behaviors to adopt in your job hunt.

1. Be radically honest. Next time someone says, "how is it going?" respond frankly with "still unemployed." They will appreciate your candor, be one more person aware of your situation and more likely to help you find a job.
2. Blog every single day. Share your expertise with the world. Show the world despite being unemployed you are being creative and productive. Link to your blog in your email signature and call attention to your blog at every opportunity.
3. Print business cards. Do not be caught without one. How many opportunities have you missed because you didn't have a card with you?
4. Change your e-mail. If your e-mail address contains the letters "AOL" in it, change it. Come on. This is 2009. AOL is so 90s. Get your own Web site, or, if you must, use Gmail.
5. Get up one hour earlier. Imagine - at the end of three months, you will have put in more than two extra weeks of time to internetwork, sell yourself polish your website and practice interviewing in addition to job searching.
6. Internetworking gets jobs. Commit to spending one to three hours every single day using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. Comment on blogs. Send messages. Connect people. Write killer posts. It doesn't matter which ones you use; it matters that you use them consistently.
7. Set up your Web site. Register an easy- to-remember URL, hopefully, something simple like www.yourname.com, Include all possible contact links, references, PDFs of resumes and the like.
8. Shift your attitude. Finding a job needs to become your job until you find a job. That means structuring your days. That means treating it like any other job. Think of yourself as a salesperson with you as your product.
9. Write it first. Now that you're getting up an hour earlier, you can use (some) of that time for writing. Make a list of the Top 100 Interview Questions You Might be Asked. Spend a few minutes every day answering 2 or 3 of them.

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