Day: September 20, 2016

A Creative Idea for Marketing Yourself on LinkedIn

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses a creative and clever idea for marketing yourself on LinkedIn.

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I just saw a great instance of a creative use of QR codes on LinkedIn. You know how you normally encouraged to put a photo in on your profile page? Someone used a QR code.

It could be in use a little bit better because what the person did is replicate the summary area of the LinkedIn profile but then they directed people to a page where the resume was. Very smart utilization! And it is something easy to do.

There are a lot of apps and services that will help you create a QR code. In another video, I suggest that everyone had their resume online using a service like wix.com.Wix is a free service; you can post anything that you want there. But your resume up there because they were recruiters out there who are trying to find resumes on line.

Give them a free vehicle to find it. This way they don’t have to contend with the job boards and the tens of thousands of dollars to find people. That is is about simply about third-party recruiters, that’s about corporate recruiters as well.

So create a page on wix.com for your resume; they use a QR code on LinkedIn that directs people to their resume from the LinkedIn profile.

I suspect (I haven’t looked at this carefully, yet) that instead of substituting for the picture, there are places where you can upload images onto your profile and then direct people to your resume homepage.

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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.

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Should I Email a Recruiter Who Missed an Interview With Me? – Job Search Radio

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recruiterWell, should you or is there another way?

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The question for today is should I email a recruiter if they missed the call with me? Let me turn the question around. If you missed the call with them, do you think they would’ve called you?

Hell yeah!

They would’ve called you and they would’ve put you on the defensive.

You can’t do that. A corporate recruiter, clearly, can do that. They can ask, “Where were you?” They can reject you altogether.

With both a corporate recruiter and an agency recruiter, you have to take it on the chin a little bit and say something to the effect of, “Jenny, my name is___. We were scheduled to speak at 2:30 PM.”

To me, I would give them 10 minutes and call them. I wouldn’t delay major lengths of time.

Why? Number one is, if it is only a few minutes, they might still be able to do the interview and be incredibly apologetic. They may feel inhibited if they get an email from you.

Your job is to get the interview and deliver on it. It’s not to be in power or in command or put the other person on the defensive unnecessarily.

At the end of the day what you want to be accomplishing is really very simple. You want the in person interview.

If this were to happen to you in person (you are sitting in the reception area of their office and kept waiting for a while), I would go to the receptionist and say, “I have 2:30 appointment with so-and-so. Are they running late? Is that what’s going on?”

I do that doctors offices when I walk in. I have an 11 o’clock appointment, walked in and asked if they were running late.

“No, she should be with you in just a minute.” They were. I felt good.

The some doctors where I note to call them before leaving for their offices to ask if they’re running late because I know I can be sick and waiting for long periods of time in the reception area. I don’t have time for that. I would call and say, “I have an 11 o’clock. It’s 10:15 AM. Are they running late?”

“Yes, they are running about an hour late.”

“Okay, I’ll be there at 11:45 AM. Just get me in by noon. After all, they were ready Be waiting for an hour on my schedule.”

“Oh, no. We can’t do that.” They’re not my doctor anymore. They have no respect for my time.

With you, as the job hunter, you want the interview. You want them to feel like they owe you something, but not a lot. You want to feel a certain degree of obligation.

Calling about 10 minutes after the interview was scheduled to start (if you prefer, 15 minutes), still gives you a chance to have the interview and then, from there, move on to the next step.

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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.

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How Do I Get (My Resume/My LinkedIn Profile) Noticed?

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How do I get my resume noticed? How do I get my LinkedIn profile noticed? Similar questions with slightly different answers.

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How I get my resume or LinkedIn profile noticed?

These are is a slightly different questions and I want to address both of them. They asked of me independently and I think each should be addressed in of themselves.

So, first of all, let’s start with a resume. How you get your resume noticed? Normally, when someone says that to me, they are usually in the phase of posting it on job boards but let me just work with the assumption that, maybe, it’s not just a job board. Maybe what you’ve done is contact the hring manager, you have mailed delete it to he or she; maybe you’re in a situation where you have it on a website. You want to make sure that it’s noticed. Just how do you do that?

Understand who the user is? Who is the person who is looking at the resume In order to figure out how to make it noticed. Since the person who is looking at the resume is someone who’s trying to hire someone , that’s your way of understanding it.

You need to have a resume that demonstrates your (#1) fit for a job; (#2) is keyword and SEO rich in order to demonstrate that you have the skills that they are looking. So that’s the obvious one and the easy to control.

How to get your LinkedIn profile noticed is a little bit different because people look at LinkedIn profiles for different reasons. Number one is they are curious. They are curious because you’ve done something on LinkedIn that piques their interest. For example, you’ve written a blog article. You posted something in a group. There is something that you found on the web that you shared on your on your homepage in the feed there and your followers decided to share it or they just decided to look at it of themselves because they aren’t really close to you so what you are doing is thinking of LinkedIn as a marketing vehicle.

In the case of a resume, as my friend, Perry Newman, says, you are the you wants to be hunted there. So you’re submitting something to apply for a job. You are the hunter.

On LinkedIn, you are the person who wants to be hunted. You have to do things that make you attractive. So like the job board scenario, like the other ones I mentioned, you, yes, you do want to have a profile is keyword rich. You want that so that it attracts the recruiters amongst the users.

But if you want to find the hiring managers reaching out to you, if you want to build your network and develop relationships, the actions that you take in other places will draw people to you. So following a particular firm, joining a particular group and participating regularly, writing articles for LinkedIn normally will increase your traffic, particularly, if in your signature, you include your LinkedIn profile and encourages people to reach out to you.

Again slightly different motivations and the results will cause you to increase your traffic.

Hope you found this helpful and have a great day. By the way, I want you to do is visit JobSearchCoachingHQ.com. I’m the head coach there. I’ll answer your questions there. The site has curated information to help you find work.

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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