Day: August 30, 2016

Don’t Tip Your Hand

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter talks about the behaviors you may have that tip off that you are looking for a job.

 

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If your job search mode and you are working, there are signals you may be sending you that you don’t want to send out that will reveal to your boss that you’re looking for a job.

When I started off in recruiting many years ago, the joke in my office was that, when a recruiter came to work in the suit, we knew they had an interview. If they took the long lunch hour, we took that as a signal.

Since many interviews are now being done by phone, the long launch our is a less reliable indicator that it once was. After all, everyone has an excuse for the occasional long lunch. It used to be that you took a half day or common late one morning and would be dressed in a suit.

Now the signals are less obvious and more subtle. You are quieter at meetings. The productivity is going down. There are personality signals you send off.

We’re once you are passionate and enthusiastic about what you are doing, now you are more withdrawn.

My reminder for you is that, for however long you remain in this job, to go out there great guns. There are several reasons for it beyond not revealing that your job hunting.

In the future you may need these folks for references and, from the standpoint of providing you with great references, you don’t want the last memory of you being how you goofed off or pulled back. You want that memory of you going great guns, all-out like your hair is on fire, conducting yourself all in until the very last, until the moment you gave notice and beyond.

That’s the number you want them to have because you’ll never know where you run into people again or when you might need them as a reference again.

Don’t get lazy. Don’t get despondent. Don’t pull back from the current workplace. Always go all out what you’re looking for something else.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com is there to change that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

Job Search Radio – Announcing New Show Format

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On this show, Jeff announces his return from a summer break and a new format for the show that he believes will be even better.

 

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I’ve been broadcasting Job Search Radio for about three years and, frankly I need to take a break this summer. I’ve been working hard professionally plus doing coach training plus coaching tons of people around job hunting, helping others with their businesses in different areas of their life.

I’ve taken a lot of people coaching them at JobSearchCoachingHQ.com, helping them find work. We’ve had some great successes and I just it takes time off. I felt stretched very thin.

During the summer, he came to me that I wanted to do more but easier… More, yet easy. One of the challenges I’ve been facing with the show was finding good guests. The marketplace for talent that could really teach you was getting smaller and smaller. So went to one of the best people I could reach out to to offer you advice – – me.

So, in thinking about it, I decide to change the show format to get me away from the issue of scheduling people to appear on the show and rescheduling talent and rescheduling talent to talk to you and just to show my own.

I’m going to be giving you short intervals of advice that will help you find work more easily.

For those of you been with me for a while, you may recall that I was doing a “Job Search Insider” tip in the middle of the show that would last about a minute. I would take longer than and take a few minutes to give you advice about how to job more effectively.

Three – five minutes of information generally that’s designed to give you actionable information to help you find work more quickly. It will give you a taste of my own knowledge, instead of my guest’s knowledge and encourage you to join me at JobSearchCoachingHQ.com so I can help you one-on-one with great information.

At the site, all of my books and guides the job hunting are available to you. In addition to that, curated videos that I’ve created, the best of my information is available to you at JobSearchCoachingHQ.com

My books and guides, videos, articles and podcasts – – great material to help you find work.

We are officially relaunching on Tuesday, September 5, 2016 with the first show in the new format. I hope you continue to subscribe and, if you’re a new listener, hearing me for the first time, I hope you subscribe. You’ll find it very useful and very actionable.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com is there to change that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

Should I Use a Video Cover Letter to Stand Out?

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Video cover letters are a growing trend. Should you use one as part of your job hunting?

 

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The question is – – should I use a video cover letter to stand out?

Like many things, the answer may be yes or no… I don’t have enough information in your case to go hard and fast rule but let me summarize my thinking.

Most of you are not great actors or actresses. You think you are but most of you actually stink. Many years ago, when video, was a new phenomena, I received a video from a job hunter who read his resume in front of a blue backdrop.

It was the most boring treatise imaginable.

Most of you don’t talk to the camera well; you can read the speech but do you think that’s going to be exciting for someone? If you sat in the audience of the theater and someone read to you (I’m going to pick something up and read to you exactly is on the piece of paper and every once in a while looked up), is that interesting for you to listen to?No. Does any personality come through? No.

It really depends on who you are and how well you communicate.

There are many people that are sensational communicators; they have a lot of energy and passion; they can deliver a cover letter that speaks to the listener and grabs their attention. They have the ability to say, “This is how you describe the job and the experience that you’re looking for. This is what I have done.” They can do it so well that the phone will ring before the video is over.

Then there is most of you who will write a speech, you’ll tape it to your monitor, or you’ll be holding your phone there in front of you, and will be looking at the camera and then looking down at what you wrote, and look at the camera and what you wrote, and you’re going to be awful.

The right answer is going to be the one that is right for you; I don’t want to give a general rule but the reality is most people are atrocious in front of the camera because you’re not well practiced enough.

I’ve done more than 2000 YouTube videos; I host podcasts; I’m relatively glib. I spent most of my career as a headhunter where nothing is prepared in advance and every conversation is different.

Most of you don’t have that kind of experience and, if you do, have not learned how to translate that experience to be in front of the camera. The result is you are far better writing than you are in person.

That’s the general statement. Now, let me add an extra layer.

Unfortunately, in this world, there was a lot of discrimination. By letting someone see you, you open yourself up to it and to mockery.

You can mark before wearing this coach hat and that’s fine but if you’re out there looking for a job and someone is watching your video and says, “was with that Coach hat he’s wearing,” or, “was with that shirt he’s got on,” or, “she comes across like an idiot,” they are not evaluating for who you are and what you know, they are distracted by something. That’s my other reluctance.

Unless you have a great delivery that is completely captivated, you expose yourself on the basis of bias to unnecessary rejection.

As a result, using a video cover letter can work or not work; you have to know yourself well enough to answer whether it can work for you.

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Do you really think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com is there to change that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn http://bit.ly/thebiggamehunter