Day: October 31, 2016

Marketing Yourself Like a Headhunter | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter speaks with you about marketing yourself just like headhunters market themselves.

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Let’s talk today about what headhunters do in their work.

Answer.  They are doing business development work to identify potential clients that want to hire. [/spp-transcript]

How are they doing that?

There are a variety of different ways but the primary way is called:.  They are networking.  You’re trying to find people who will give them a name, phone number and/or email address of someone to reach out to who is hiring.

More often than not they are doing what is called telemarketing.  They are on the phone, presenting themselves as human beings who have skills and capabilities that can help an organization fill positions.

Telemarketing works.  It is still the most effective way that salespeople sell.  They may get leads in a variety of different ways but being on the phone, causes them to do the sale.

You need to be doing the same thing.

How do you get those leads?  There are a variety of different ways.  You know about LinkedIn. Have you considered data.com? Spoke.com?  How about zoominfo.com?

These are all sites that provide you with names and the position of potential hiring managers.  In this way, if you are going to submit your resume to affirm, you can use a backdoor way to reach out to someone and present yourself as a human being, different than just a resume submitted to an applicant tracking system.  Different than just a resume that submitted or referred by someone.

They can hear you on the phone, even if you are just leaving a voicemail.  It’s an opportunity to present a case for yourself.

Again, I just want to encourage you.  Get on the phone.  Don’t just simply rely on applicant tracking systems, emails or even introductions.  Reach out to people so that they know something about you.  They get a sense of your enthusiasm, passion and excitement for what you do, just from the tone of your voice.

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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.

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The “Not One Single Person Gets Off” Brainteaser | Job Search Radio

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Although brainteaser interviews were discredited a few years ago there are still firms that employ them, particularly those that like to think of themselves as being “smart.”

I haven’t done a brainteaser showed a long time so I thought I would bring out one that made me groan.

 

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I haven’t done a brainteaser in a long long time so I thought I would do one today and see if you could get the answer.

Here’s the question.

There’s a bus traveling to the Hay River full of people and no one gets off the bus throughout the journey. When the bus gets to the Hay River not a single person is left on the bus. How is this possible?

I’m going to give you a moment to come up with the answer.

The trick in most brainteasers is that there’s a keyword or phrase you have for listen to before it sneaks by you. That word or phrase is the key to answering the problem.

Were you able to spot the keyword in there?

The keyword in this one is, “single” as in not a single person got off the bus.

The answer is not a single person got off the bus because all of them were married.

I would read the question again and let’s see if you can spot how seductive it is.

There is a bus traveling to the Hay River that is full of people and no one gets off the bus throughout the journey. When the bus gets to the Hay River however, not a single person is left on the bus. How is this possible?

Not a single person. That’s the key phrase because they are unmarried.

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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.

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How Do I Get a Recruiter to Respond to A Salary Negotiation?

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There has been no response to emails or instant messaging. I don’t want to bother my boss. Why aren’t they getting back to me?

 

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I was asked, “How do I get a recruiter to respond to a salary negotiation?”

The person has been an intern and they have made an offer to them.  The recruiter for this firm hasn’t been responding to emails or instant messaging and the intern is frustrated.  They want to find out how they can reach this person for negotiating.

Here are a few points:

  1. As an intern who is converting to full-time staff, you are small fish on their plate.  I have other, more important fish to fry, too.  HR has a lot of things on their plate; they have hiring managers who are demanding service; they are interviewing; they are trying to fill positions; they are writing a heads… There are many things that HR is doing… You are not a big concern for them.
  2. This HR person may be out of the office.  They may be traveling. They may be doing campus recruiting, hence why they may not be responding to you.
  3. You are right not to trouble your boss.  This is not a major priority.  If the rule, they offered you a job  and you have already done parts of this job before.  They will probably be asking themselves, “What’s the big deal?  You knew what the price point was we brought you want for this internship?”
  4. They just don’t care.  There’s no point or concern that they have, because, after all, it’s not like you’re the only intern on the planet or qualified to do this job.  There are others. Their desire to negotiate is really small.

Let me summarize for you where you stand.

On the one side there is a rock. On the other side, there is a hard place.  You are somewhere between the two.

If your goal is to just make the connection and they are not respond, send an email to HR with the subject line, “Are you okay?”  The message may read something along the lines of, “I have emailed and I am do you and had not received a response.  I have a few questions about the job offer.  Would you give me a call, please?  I just want to make sure you are okay?  My experience of you is that you would normally get back to me but since I haven’t heard, I just want to make sure that you are all right.”

That will usually “guilt them” into surfacing.

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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.”