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The Headhunter Secret to Knowing You Did Well on An Interview

January 21, 2018 by Jeff

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Listen to the full episode here:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thebiggamehunter/2017/11/07/the-headhunter-secret-to-knowing-you-did-well-on-an-interview

EP 919 Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter let you in on the secret way headhunters know you did well on a job interview.

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ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves career coaching, all as well as executive job search coaching and business life coaching. He is the host of “Job Search Radio,” “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” and his newest show, “No BS Coaching Advice.”

Are you interested in 1:1 coaching, interview coaching, advice about networking more effectively, how to negotiate your offer or leadership coaching? Visit www.TheBigGameHunter.us and click the relevant tab on the top of the page.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com offers 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. Like me on Facebook.

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle on Amazon and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

If you want to know how to win more interviews, order “Winning Interviews.” You’ll learn how to win phone interviews, in-person interviews, the best question to ask on any interview and more.

Would you like to talk through a salary negotiation or potential negotiation you’re involved with? Order and schedule time with me.

Do you have questions or would like advice about networking or any aspect of your search. Order and schedule time with me.

Would you like me to critique your resume. Order a critique from me

For more about LinkedIn, order “Stacked: Double Your Job Interviews, Leverage Recruiters and Unlock LinkedIn.”

Jeff’s Kindle book, “You Can Fix Stupid: No BS Hiring Advice,” is available on Amazon.

The Importance of Social Media in Your Job Search | Job Search Radio

January 6, 2018January 6, 2018 by Jeff

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Almost everyone in the world understands how important social media is to developing a web presence and extending your network in your job search.

On this show, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter and Chris Russell, the host of Career Cloud Radio discuss the importance of social media to your search, as well as several tools to help extend your reach and make connections with people who can help.

ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER

Connect with me on LinkedIn. Like me on Facebook.

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle on Amazon and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

If you want to know how to win more interviews, order “Winning Interviews.” You’ll learn how to win phone interviews, in-person interviews, the best question to ask on any interview and more.

Would you like to talk through a salary negotiation or potential negotiation you’re involved with? Order and schedule time with me.

Do you have questions or would like advice about networking or any aspect of your search. Order and schedule time with me.

Would you like me to critique your resume. Order a critique from me

For more about LinkedIn, order “Stacked: Double Your Job Interviews, Leverage Recruiters and Unlock LinkedIn.”

Jeff’s Kindle book, “You Can Fix Stupid: No BS Hiring Advice,” is available on Amazon.

Using Twitter To Build Your Network | Job Search Radio

November 2, 2017 by Jeff

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Listen to the full episode here:
http://webtalkradio.net/internet-talk-radio/2017/08/23/using-twitter-to-build-your-network/

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter lays out a strategy for you to use Twitter as part of your networking.

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves life coaching, as well as executive job search coaching and business life coaching. He is the host of “Job Search Radio,” “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” and his newest show, “No BS Coaching Advice.”

Are you interested in 1:1 coaching or interview coaching from me? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us and put the word, “Coaching” in the subject line.

Connect with me on LinkedIn. Like me on Facebook.

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

If you want to know how to win more interviews, order “Winning Interviews.” You’ll learn how to win phone interviews, in-person interviews, the best question to ask on any interview and more.

Please give “Job Search Radio” a great review in iTunes. It helps other people discover the show and makes me happy!

Using Twitter as a Job Search Tool | Job Search Radio

April 13, 2017 by Jeff

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Like Facebook, Twitter is grossly underutilized by job hunters for making connections and impressions upon potential employers.

On this show, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter speaks with Jennifer Armitstead about the ease of using Twitter as a tool and the steps to take to make it an important part of job search.

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Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

Are you interested in executive job search coaching, leadership coaching or life coaching from me? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us and put the word, “Coaching” in the subject line.

Twitter Profile Basics for Job Hunters | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

November 14, 2016 by Jeff

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses the basics of setting up your Twitter profile for when you are job hunting.

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I want to talk with you today about Twitter and Twitter profiles. It is going to sound remarkably similar to what you are told about your LinkedIn profile.

Twitter is a great tool for job hunters. Most just don’t know how to use it properly. It really does start off with your profile. So, I want to give you a few profile pointers to help you with setting up your account, just as I’ve given advice to you for setting up your LinkedIn profile.

If you are trying to use your name (and that’s the ideal thing to do… Use your own name), you may find that with all the existing Twitter members, your name is already taken. If I go to Twitter now, I suspect that the name, “Jeff Altman” has already been taken. You can do. Jeff _Altman. You could try Jeff-Altman we do not. You could do AboutJeffAltman… Anything that makes sense.

Sometimes, you run into situations where the name you want to choose is too long. For example, when I tried to register, “TheBigGameHunter,” I found that that was one character too long. As a result, I dropped off the “e” in “Hunter,” so that it became, “TheBigGameHuntr.” That’s become a way that people can find me.

Look at ways that you can play with the length of your name for your profile on twitter.

Then, use a good picture. Always think in terms of what an employer might find about you. If they are looking. Ideally, if you can use the same professional photo that you use on LinkedIn for twitter, it will help you as well because people will recognize the similarity.

You can also add your twitter feed into your LinkedIn profile, as well. You can included in the summary with a remark like, “To find out more about me, follow me on twitter.” Then, you put your handle on twitter into your LinkedIn summary.

Next, complete your bio. There are only 160 characters in the twitter bio. So, you can do something like, “I am a senior developer in Java who is looking for opportunities in the Los Angeles area.” Be very specific about what you are looking for. For me, I describe the various interests I have in single words. “Recruiter. Podcaster. Author. Publisher.” Things along those lines. I’m just trying to make people aware different ways that I can help them.

When all is said and done, you need to promote your twitter handle so you can use in the signature that you send out with your personal email. You need to promote the signature for people to find you. Make sure you include your location in your twitter profile. If someone is trying to find you to hire you, or is looking for your kind of background, 1 of the criteria that I use is location. Recognize that and included.

Lastly, look for a background that makes sense for you, especially if you are in 1 of the design fields. You always want to make sure that your appearance on twitter complement your brand. Where you can, include something that is graphically appealing. That way, when people come to it, it will help them have a great impression.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much 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 changes 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

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

Two Ways to Use Twitter in Your Job Search

October 18, 2016 by Jeff

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses two ways to use Twitter has part of your job search.

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I want to talk with you today about using Twitter as part of your job search. I’m not going to explain what Twitter is; if you don’t know anything about it, you’re going to have to research it elsewhere.

I want to suggest two things for you:

1. Follow recruiters, headhunters, employment agencies and hiring managers at firms that you target. If they say something that is interesting to you, try to engage them in conversation. Especially with hiring managers, it becomes a way to create a favorable impression with them.

2. Use Twitter search to follow conversations that relate to your particular area of expertise. Let’s say, you are a Java developer, #java becomes a way that you can find conversations to follow.#javajobs or #java-jobs might be a way that you can find Java positions that you might fit.

Twitter is vastly underutilized for job hunting. There is a lot less competition on sweeter to get the attention of hiring managers and recruiters if you are trying to reach out to them through Twitter.

If you want to reach out to me by the way, my handle is @TheBigGameHuntr.

Follow me on Twitter. Follow me around the web.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much 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.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

Finding Job Leads Through Twitter

September 2, 2016 by Jeff

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What’s the best tool for finding job leads on Twitter? The answer may surprise you.

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For years, I’ve been telling people to visit TweetMyJobs.com to get an idea of jobs that were available through Twitter.TweetMyJobs is no longer around; there’s a new name for it–CareerArc.com. I just ran a search using it, knowing that I have a position in Madison, Wisconsin and the site is not finding the job or anyone else’s posting about the job.

As a matter of fact, the site is pulling up relatively few jobs at the right level in Madison Wisconsin. In general, what I’m finding is the site is in not doing a great job of finding positions that I know are available, not simply my own, but others, too.

It begs the question, “What can you use instead?”

The answer is–Twitter. Twitter is now pretty good. I would use it to look at broad categories. Is that you’re not going to get positions near the city like you might on other sites. What you can do is enter a search term (keyword), the word “job” and the abbreviation for the state the position might be located in.

For example,”accountant” “job” “NY”.That will turn things up for you.

If you are looking for something in Long Island City or on Long Island, unless the tweet went out as Long Island City or with the specific town on Long Island, you are not going to find it. That makes Twitter less desirable than other search tools you might use.

However, if you are looking for something in a large urban city (New York, Dallas, Chicago, Boston, for example), it’s not a bad way to search. You’re going to turn up a lot jobs pretty easily.

Again, don’t forget Twitter itself

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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