Month: August 2016

Body Language Won’t Get You Hired

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter encourages you to NOT overemphasize your body language preparation when you interview.

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I think a lot of job hunters spend way too much time focusing on body language. It’s as though if they mirror the body language of the interviewer, that person will just simply turn around and magically hire them! Nothing could be further from the truth.

The fact of the matter is, whether you mirror the body language, mirror the speech of the interviewer, or doing the tricks people think they are learning to manipulate an interviewer, you’re not going to get hired.

I can tell you what won’t get you hired from body language. And that is if you are in an interview and you make some ridiculous gestures to copy the interviewer, that is to get you hired.

Frankly it’s gross.

You can mirror body language to your hearts content but the fact is if you can’t answer questions, you won’t be hired.

You can sit with your arms folded in front of you and get hired. And I want to encourage it because even the most beginner interviewer looks at that and views you as being shut down, closed off, detached… Nothing complementary about that.

I encourage people to speak with their hands as long as they are not so demonstrative that they are flashing all over the place. If anything, if you speak with your hands, and you use them as emphasis points, never go across the middle of the your chin. Do nothing to cross the facial line.

When all is said and done, what is going to get you hired is whether you can answer questions well and demonstrate enthusiasm, power, passion and self-confidence. That more than anything is going to get you hired.

There are a few little tricks I’ll give you:

The first one is that when you shake hands, use a firm handshake but make eye contact with the interviewer. A smile on your face when you shake hands goes a long way toward breaking down the walls between you and the interviewer.

I know culturally with some people, who are raised to be polite, and not make eye contact, this is US-centric advice. Different cultures and different nations have different beliefs.

If you are interviewing in the US, I contact, firm handshake and a smile on your face goes a long way toward starting the interview off well.

Some people believe you should be sitting upright and leaning slightly forward like an obedient schoolchild hoping to be called on in class. I don’t encourage that. I prefer that you sit comfortably in his seat with one leg crossed over the other properly (you will know what I mean by that), and confidently answering questions.

From there you can use your hands to confidently emphasize points as you answer questions.From there you can go point by point by point pretty easily. You should try to stay away from your face and eliminate distracting gestures because they stop listening and start watching what you’re doing. By not paying attention, they tune you out.

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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.

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

Great Job Opportunity But I Don’t Like the Field

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Q. I was given a job without qualifying experience. Some coworkers are bitter and I realize I have no genuine interest in the field. I don’t fit in and dread coming to work each day. What’s the best way to move on without damaging future career prospects or burning bridges?

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The thing I’m picking up on is the relationship with the coworkers. I can tell from this whether the real issue is with your colleagues And you feel isolated and alone or whether you really are disinterested in your field.

I’m going to give you an answer in two parts.

The first part is if the issue is with the coworkers. What are they doing? Is it really that tragic?Are they isolating you because you’re young and they are not? Speak to your manager if that’s the case and see what they can do to reach out to these people and fix it. Often a shows up in quirky ways. Older individuals tend to look at younger ones, See that you had no qualifying experience and resent you. If this is the case, have your manager step in and fix things. After all, they put you in this situation.

If the real issue is that you are not interested,that’s a different story. You start looking for a job.

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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 and 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

 

 

 

Why Do Recruiters Ask About The Interviews I’ve Been On?

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There are many possible reasons that recruiters do this. Some are valid and then there are the others.

I want to answer a question someone sent to me.

Why is it that recruiters ask me about the places I’ve interviewed at?

There are many reasons why recruiters do this.Some of them are completely innocuous… And then there are the others.

Starting with the innocuous ones, they want to find out how active you are in research and whether you had a lot of interviews been rejected by employers and how far along you are in your search.

What they are trying to find out here is have been on 15 interviews and been turned down, been on 15 interviews and are close to an offer. After all, if you’re close to an offer, the likelihood is that the client is it to be able to move fast enough to compete with the offer that you are about to get.So they’re trying to do that kind of reconnaissance right out of the box in order to see if it’s worth their time to begin this process with the client.

They also want to find out whether you’ve interviewed with the client. They would prefer not to mention the client’s name to you proactively for fear that you will steal that information and apply directly.

I know that’s happened to me quite a few times and I now make it a policy not to give away that information so freely because, although you may be trustworthy, and although you may be honest, not everyone is. I know I can attribute more than $100,000 in lost fees to people with stolen information from being been hired by clients. So I’m not forthright about it and would rather hear from you whether you have been on an interview at my client.

They also want to see if you’ve received any job offers yet.

What you like and dislike about the firms you’ve interviewed with. Asking what you like and dislike about firms you’ve met with allows them to learn from your experiences how you evaluate job opportunities so they can apply it to their own client.

The last thing I want to bring up today is that they want to get leads of firms that are hiring. This is one of those slippery situations where firms take that information to go out and get clients and compete with you to fill those jobs. Like job hunters who steal information from recruiters, some recruiters steal it from job hunters.

If you want to avoid that from happening, you can simply say, “well, I interviewed with the financial services firm. I was talking with them about such and such type of position, it seemed interesting but…”

You get the idea.

If they asked which firm it was, you can respond by saying “I prefer not mentioned who it was. No disrespect, I’ve had instances where I’ve mentioned firms I’ve interviewed at two recruiters and they had probably gone out and tried to get the job to recruit for.”

If they start to debate you about this, simply say “I’m not Going to tell you who the firm is. It certainly doesn’t benefit me and I’m not going to tell you the hiring manager is either”

So these are the reasons why recruiters do it. Some are completely innocuous and then there are the others.

Don’t Be Like Karen on LinkedIn

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I received a connection request from someone with it made a terrible mistake with her LinkedIn profile.

 

Don’t make the mistake Karen made

 

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Someone send me a connection request today on LinkedIn and I thought it was hysterical. It was a real profile (I have to say that because a lot on LinkedIn aren’t). This one was for a marketing manager at a chiropractic organization.

Do you know what was written underneath her company name for her current employer?

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

And that was true about what she wrote about the previous employer, too. That employer was unrelated so it wasn’t a big deal but for the current employer?

You’re a marketing manager and you don’t describe anything that you do, how are you marketing yourself?

Seriously, is this how you market yourself?

How do you create the situations where people are reaching out to you about opportunities?

I know you may say, “maybe she is looking at opportunities?”

That’s certainly possible but I want to remind you of something. The person who gets ahead isn’t always the smartest all work the hardest (although those are great qualities to have). The person who gets ahead is the one who remains alert opportunities sometimes those are internal to your firm; most of the time they are external to it.

So, don’t be like Karen. Give you information on your LinkedIn profile that makes you attractive to a potential employer.

It’s very expensive for you not to do it.

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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.

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

The Biggest Negotiating Lie Employers Tell

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, explains the biggest lie employers tell when they negotiate a job offer with someone.

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This is going to be a relatively short video but one of the more important ones for you to listen to because of the layout very simply one of the prevailing tricks employers use in order to hire people.

That’s the use of the term, “permanent position.”

Firms use the term like you to have a job for life and the fact of the matter is, I want to have you to this loud and clear, there are no permanent positions anymore.

Your only usable to an employer for as long as they need you and is long as they can afford you. Period.

You can do a spectacular job for that firm but they can’t afford you, if the economy craters, and they need to lay off people who are going to be a potential target.

Don’t kid yourself anymore when you hear the term, “permanent position.” It’s a full-time position. That is they want to hire your full efforts from 9 to 5 and beyond but it is not I repeat NOT a permanent position.

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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.

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

Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us

Why Do People Post Articles on Their LinkedIn Accounts?

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Why does someone post something on their LinkedIn accounts?

I mean, why should someone share an article or a video?

It’s not like they know something about the subject. So why share it?

People post articles on LinkedIn in order to convey the notion that they have expertise.  It’s all about developing a reputation as an expert. It’s a branding statement.

I want to be clear that some people post stupid things; I’ll Use the Example from Facebook of the cat photos. There is no reason to post that to LinkedIn.

There are people who post political stuff to LinkedIn. The post that either.

What you’re using LinkedIn for is to build the notion that you are an expert at something so that people want to reach out to you.

People posted on their LinkedIn account, post stuff in groups, that’s all designed to create the impression that they are knowledgeable in this area.

They share information that conveys the message, “I agree with this,” or, “I know this too.”

Doing so gives the idea of real knowledge.

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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 and 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

The Thursday Supplement to No BS Coaching Advice July 28 2016

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Read The Thursday Supplement to No BS Coaching Advice July 28, 2016

In this supplement, I provide info about a few jobs on recruiting for, how to search all positions I am trying to fill, plus videos entitled, “change may take time,” and “recruiters have called me about the same job.”

 

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.

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

 

The Best Ways to Get An Interview

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses the most and least effective ways to get a job interview

Today, we talk about the best ways to get an interview. Let me give you a context.

If you want to be referred to a product or service, you’ve done some research and you’re ready to make some choices, often, what do you do?

I’m not talking about flipping a coin, of course. You talk to friends, colleagues, business associates… People that you know and trust and rely upon. Then you make a decision.

In interviewing, you can do much the same thing. Let’s say you’re about a job opening. What can you do? Friends, colleagues and associates who you might know who can provide you with an introduction to the hiring manager.

Let’s work with the assumption that not everyone that you know is going to know something about the firm you are interested in. Why not just go to LinkedIn? Why not see if there is someone you can connect with who can provide you with an introduction? After all, many of these people get employee referral bonuses for recommending someone to their firm was hired.

Then I can simply do you was silent because you asked him for it. Yet the demonstrate that you have experience, knowledge, and skills that are suitable but let’s assume that you do. Do you think it’s better to go into the great abyss of the applicant tracking system or be referred by someone who already works there or contact the hiring manager yourself?

The second and third choice are clearly best in the likelihood of you getting through directly to the hiring manager but it’s hard and you have much greater chance of getting through if you are referred by someone who already works there.

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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.

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

Would It Be Bad If I Left My New Job After Two Weeks?

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There’s more to the story that I’ll explain but this is the crux of it. For some reason, the audio is not perfect. I apologize and the content is great.

A person just joined a bank and received an offer from a well-known tech firm to join at a salary 80% higher than the bank offered and with 50% more stress.

He is wondering whether he should stay or go. What would you do?

How do you think I’ll answer him? What you think my reasoning will be?

I have great reasons for him.

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.
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 

No B. S. Coaching Advice Ezine July 26 2016

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Promoting     The July 26, 2016 issue o “No BS Coaching Advice Ezine

 

This issue contains an article entitled, “Storm Clouds: Avoiding Layoffs,” plus videos called, “Gender Bias in the Hiring,” and “Feeling Angry?”

 

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.

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