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Recruiters and employers don't have time to sort through hundreds or thousands of resumes – to get employers or hiring managers’ attention do these FIVE things:
1. Find a
professional, aesthetically pleasing resume format that clearly highlights
what makes you special. It should have a summary area where you discuss your key characteristics and
highlight your most important accomplishments. Second, it should have an area
that highlights your most important skills or competencies. The document image for this post is an
example.
2. Research keywords and know what the marketplace considers your unique
traits or characteristics. I have
discussed this topic in detail on two previous posts: "Think Before You Send" and “Don't Commit Career Suicide.” In brief, I recommended job seekers go to
indeed.com and linkedin.com and conduct a title search for jobs and
competitors, respectively. The results
should be large but try to narrow it down and pick five job descriptions and
five competitor profiles then copy and paste the contents into
wordle.net/create. This will make a word
cloud and allow you to analyze keyword frequency and importance.
3. Using
keywords, list your accomplishments and responsibilities to create a
complete bullet point. Most professionals
either list only their accomplishments or only their responsibilities, they
rarely do both - buck the trend and do both to get noticed.
4. Once you have everything setup then send out your
resume but please and I repeat please do
not spam your resume. Where possible
try to find a contact at a firm to at least get a name of someone who can be
used as a referral; LinkedIn.com is great for this.
5. Finally, don't
be scared to pick up the phone and ask companies about opportunities; you
might be surprised with the results. In
this day and age everyone needs to have sales skills and be their own brand
ambassador. In order to succeed you have
to do more than your competitors and calling is a big differentiator.
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Direct your job search like you will accomplish on the job for the employer. When you're serious about getting your next position with one of your target company, you will naturally clearly this via your words, preparation, and actions.
ReplyDeleteCould you throw a little more light on step 5 above. When i want to apply to companies like Googles and facebooks of the world, how does calling their corporate office have any effect?
ReplyDeleteSure. First these tips are for the general market and the companies you mentioned require a few tweaks to the points mentioned. With that said, the concept is still accurate; you want to get noticed by an employer in a cost effective way and a phone call can be a great way to do that but before targeting companies like Facebook and Google it is best to make sure you fit their candidate profile; a quick way to determine that is to checkout the LinkedIn company statistics page or other sources like Vault. If you do fit before sending in your application or resume make a connection with someone by networking or attending a recruiting event or some other event they host. But the biggest thing with companies like that or any company for that matter is to make sure your fit their profile - otherwise you are wasting your time. Checkout http://recruitermikec.blogspot.com/2012/03/5-things-recruiter-will-look-for-in.html for more insight. Thanks.
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