The Cure for Career Confusion
The most effective way to find unadvertised job openings (e.g. hidden jobs) is to go directly to the person who could need your help and who has the power and authority to hire you. That person is NOT in HR. That person is always is the ‘hiring manager’ – the person you’d report to.
The Hidden Job Opportunities Breakthrough search uses two strategies to get you and your marketing materials in front of hiring managers. Here’s a quick summary:
Use these tools to set your weekly job search goals, evaluate if you are taking right steps, and monitor your job search progress…
Use these tools to set your weekly job search goals, evaluate if you are taking right steps, and monitor your job search progress…
This is the best strategy to use to quickly and easily make many hiring managers aware of your skills and abilities so they can contact – or refer – you for current and future job openings.
Use this job search strategy if:
Here is a summary of what you’ll accomplish in this module:
If you can, here are the best times to apply for a job online:
One frustrating but common predicament job seekers encounter is deciding whether or not to apply for a job if they don’t meet the employer’s qualifications.
While browsing job postings, you see a job that has the responsibilities and duties that match your interests. The day-to-day role is exactly what you’ve been hoping to find.
Then you see the minimal requirements and, although you have some of the necessary skills and plenty of passion, you don’t have ALL of the qualifications the company specifies.
Perhaps you have three years of relevant experience, not five. Or you have a bachelor’s degree, not a master’s. You’ve been in a managerial role but haven’t drawn up a budget before. You know you can do the job, but you don’t know if you’ll even be considered without satisfying each of the requirements.
Should you apply?
In this training module you will learn:
It is extremely important to tailor your resume to best position your qualifications to grab the attention of human resources professionals and hiring managers.
Here are four ways to tweak your resume for each position you apply for:
Companies that advertise job vacancies online can expect to receive hundreds (sometimes thousands) of responses from applicants.
If the company staff (typically it’s an Human Resource clerk, Office Manager or Executive Assistant who does the first screening) spent 5 minutes reviewing each resume and cover letter submitted for that one opening, they could easily spend one full week doing NOTHING but reviewing resumes and cover letters for that ONE job posting (500 resumes & cover letters x 5 minutes is 2,500 minutes = 42 hours.)
That’s not going to happen.
The company employee reading the resume has two goals:
That means you MUST develop a cover letter that makes it EASY for HR professionals, recruiters and hiring managers to QUICKLY see why you’re a strong candidate – even though you’re making a career transition.
Here’s exactly how you can do that…