Day: October 20, 2016

Use Downtime to Listen and Learn – No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter encourages you to use your downtime to learn the skills you need to learn in order to find work

 

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Today, I want to encourage you to spend some time filling the void in your knowledge base about job hunting , and, specifically, about using podcasts.

I believe that the skills didn’t find the job are different than the ones needed to do the job.  They complement one another, but you can be tremendous talent at work but never get an interview, never get hired, because you don’t know how to get your resume read, write a great resume, interview well, get recruited on LinkedIn….On and on and on.

When all is said and done, it’s important for you to learn so that you can improve your job search skills.  You may have seen some of my YouTube videos; as of now, I have over 2000 videos about job search hiring.  There are other ways that you can use your “between activity time” (you are in the car, you are commuting, you are doing other things), you can up the ante and improve your skills.

Yes, I have lots of videos and so do other people.But there’s another way that you can listen and learn… Listen to podcasts.  After all, sometimes you’re in a place where watching isn’t appropriate.  Yes, I have to job search podcasts of my own – –Job Search Radio and No BS Job Search Advice Radio.They are both very good and has different content. Other people have some very good podcasts as well.  As a matter of fact, you can go back to the original Job Search Radio that was on terrestrial radioIn Los Angeles (it has a picture of 2 guys on the front image versus my show, which is a picture of me in the thumbnail).

So, for example, if you want to look for LinkedIn advice, go to iTunes or search the podcast directory that you prefer using an search by LinkedIn.  You may interview with Reid Hoffman, The founder of LinkedIn, because he’s been pretty prolific with making himself available for interviews and that may have nothing to do with using LinkedIn.  However, there are many podcasts shows that do talk about LinkedIn.  Listen to them.  If it is about resume writing, I know shows, as well. Whatever the topic, someone is done he podcasts to talk about it.  That’s where you can use your commuting time or off-hours time to learn some of the things you need to learn in order to find work.

Again, I do Job Search Radio and No BS Job Search Advice Radio that you can find in iTunes and other podcast directories, but I will also want to encourage you to listen to other people shows

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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

Diagnosing Your Job Search Problem – Job Search Radio

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woman_with_doctorThings can go wrong in many places in your job search. Here I break down the problem points for you.

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You’re involved with a job search. It just isn’t working for you. How do you critique what’s going on in order to figure out what to “course correct?”

It’s very rare that a job search goes well enough that we could chart ut as following a perfectly straight line upward and that you wind up in a job instantly. Often the situation breaks down so let;s dissect it.

If you’re sending out resumes and not getting interviews,

you have a resume problem. The resume isn’t working for you. How you are submitting it isn’t working for you.

If you aren’t getting phone calls about resumes that you posted on job boards, the issue may be one of two things – – the career that you’ve chosen for yourself is a particularly marketable or, more likely, your resume is not keyword rich in the skills that recruiters are looking for; you may need to change the language on your resume

If you’re getting calls for phone interviews and are not being invited in, you have a problem with phone interviewing. You just don’t know how to do it well enough to entice people to want to continue the conversation. You need to improve upon that. There are many ways that you can do that; I have quite a few available through JobSearchCoachingHQ.com.

If you are having phone interviews, getting invited in for in-person interviews in not being asked back, you don’t interview well in person. That can be caused by a variety of things, too numerous to mention here, but that’s where the breakdown is occurring.

If you are getting invited back for final interviews in not getting past “The Boss of Bosses” for the organization, the person who the job ultimately reports, not the immediate manager but “The Overlord,” you are not making connections with people, certainly not at the high levels.

If you are getting job offers by getting lowballed, you haven’t done a good enough job on your interviews to make them believe that you can solve their problems. So, they basically are tossing a bone at you and seeing the field bite. You haven’t made them fall in love yet.

This is how a job search can get deconstructed. There are obvious tasks along the way and often people go through the process by going through the motions. They send out resumes and don’t prepare for phone calls, they haven’t made their resume keyword optimized to make it attractive on job boards, their flipping resumes across the transom like they are burgers at a fast food restaurant, how well is that working? Do you find them tasty? No, of course not and neither does the employer. You’re a spammer.

If you are interviewing and not practiced for it, it’s your fault because you haven’t done the homework necessary to impress people.

All in all, job hunting involves skills that you can learn and develop.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com provides those answers for people. Sign up on the site, it’s inexpensive, there’s a lot there that you can learn from.

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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

Final Interview Checklist

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These are a few things you need to do and organize in order to be prepared for final interview.

 

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I have done many videos and podcasts about 2nd interviews but this one is about a final interview whether is the 3rd, the 5th, or the 19th interview. This is about your final interview.

So you know it is the final interview that you are coming in for… Here are several things I want you to check off in your mind  as being important for you to execute during the interview.

  1.  Don’t walk in thinking and acting like you have the job locked up. You don’t.  I can tell you from experience so many instances of people who thought they had the job and blew it in the last round.There are a million ways that people make the mistake, but I just want you to arrive NOT thinking that this is all locked up. Unintentionally, 1 of the famous people wind up doing when they think they have it is that they emotionally sit back as though they have their arms folded and appear disinterested. Knowing that you don’t have the job locked up, you always want to be selling yourself, looking out for situations where you can continue to promote who you are and what you can do for the firm.
  2. Be friendly. Look for opportunities to laugh. If someone makes a remark, it’s okay to chuckle about it an add on to it as long it is not as it is not racist, sexist, homophobic… You get the idea. You also want to be professional, too.  You don’t want to convey the message that all you do is laugh and joke Like a “good old boy.” You want them to be sure that you can be serious minded and professional.
  3. Prepare questions to ask. .  You may have heard slightly different things from people who have interviewed you so far that you can clarify here about the nature of the role and what the expectations are. You want to clarify these at the final interview. “I just want to clear up one thing in my mind. When I spoke to one person, they mentioned this. When I spoke to another, they said something slightly different. I just want to make sure I get your input about what this is.”
  4. Check out your proximity to power and authority and how important the work is. This 1 is for more senior professionals. The kind of work they can be easily eliminated during tough times is work that you don’t want to be associated with. You always want to be associated with work it’s going to be seen by leadership that runs the business.

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Do you really 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 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

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.”