New graduates: no experience, but a work style teams need

Nearly half of Thailand's unemployed are 20 to 24. Not because they lack ability, but because ordinary job boards rank by the words in a résumé, and a fresh graduate's résumé always has fewer words than someone with five years behind them.

What you have as much of as anyone

Your birth details give you three things experience cannot buy.

1. A work style. The five styles the site computes say whether you are a connector, creator, builder, commander or sage. That answers "what is your strength?" without making anything up.
2. Team fit. Companies that use Team fit see whether you suit the seat they are filling. If you agree to share when you apply, a thin résumé stops being the problem, because they look at the person, not the history.
3. Timing. Whether this year is open for starting work, and when to send an application.

Do this within a week

• Day 1: enter your birth details in careers by element; note your main style and supporting elements.
• Day 2: complete your online résumé: education, activities, part-time work, internships, all of it counts. Write the headline in your main style.
• Day 3: switch on "open to work" in your profile. Companies search by style and skills without seeing your birth details.
• Day 4: search with the fits your element filter and watch for the supportive-place badge.
• Day 5: apply to three to five postings and choose "send at a good time"; the site sends each one in a window that supports you.

What not to worry about

Companies on HappyJob commit never to use any result to reject anyone, and the system forbids ranking applicants by engine results. What an employer sees is a short phrase such as "fits the seat" and one strength. No birth date, no score.

Start with a free account and do Day 1 today.