To avoid coming off as rude, self-defeating, or desperate, or raising any red flags among your contacts and hiring managers, make sure you’re not saying

2. Whether you’re saying this to a recruiter you meet at a networking event or just to
yourself in your head, it’s still a bad idea. Hiring managers prefer candidates who
are passionate about and who specialize in a particular area, not people who’ll do
anything to get a foot in the door. If you say this, you’ll sound desperate (and if you
think it, you’ll feel desperate). Worst of all, even if people want to help you, they
won’t be able to because they have no idea what you’re looking for.

3. Even if you have a perfectly legitimate reason to dislike your job, it’s best to avoid this
topic. Recruiters hate hearing this from job candidates—who wants to hire someone
who says negative things about his or her employer? Plus, you never know if you’re
discussing, say, your distaste for being micromanaged with a micromanager. It’s best to
stay focused on what you’re looking for in a future role—not what you’re trying so
hard to get away from in your current.

4. Many companies have perks for employees who forward resumes for interested
candidates along, but it’s still presumptuous to assume someone you’ve just met,
regardless of how you connected with him or her, would want to vouch for you. Your
best bet is to wait for your connection to be invested in you and offer to send your
resume to a hiring manager unprompted. You can certainly make your interest in
working at your connection’s company known, but hold off on actually requesting to
have your resume forwarded.

5. Along those same lines, it’s not great business etiquette to follow up with a
contact too frequently. You obviously don’t want your contact to forget about
you, especially if he or she has offered to help you in some way, but push too
much and that initial interest in assisting might turn to annoyance.

6. People actually ask this all the time with the best intentions of trying to learn more
about a particular career path, but if you’re actively job searching, this might not be
sending the right message. No matter who you’re talking to during your job search,
you want to make sure you’re not solely focusing on what you can get out of an
opportunity or connection. Don’t forget to think about it from your contact’s or a
hiring manager’s perspective. Something along the lines of, “What does a typical
career path at your company look like?” will go over much better.

7. The AMCAT is India’s first employability assessment test that help fresh graduates
to get their first job quickly and efficiently.