Day: November 29, 2016

Getting Past the No’s | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses the good fortune you have with each rejection.  At one point in the show, I mentioned that you can contact me through liveperson.com.  The site has re-branded and is now referred to as prestoexperts.com. The page here will take you directly to my page on the site where you can contact me.  You can also schedule time with me through my website.

 

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I want to talk with you today about persistence.  This is a tough lesson for most people to hear because, I know for myself, and maybe it’s true of you, I want to do something once, have the heavens open up, everything happens wonderfully and I am done.  I want success to occur the 1st time I attempt something and, unfortunately, doesn’t work that way.

Unfortunately, as the saying goes, you have to get through 99 no’s to get to a yes.

I want to remind you that persistence is the most important quality you need to have as a job hunter.  After all, so many of the efforts that you make are not going to amount to anything… But you just need one.  You just need one organization. If you are getting no’s . Don’t worry about it.  You have to get through all those no’s to get to a yes.  There are things you are going to learn along the way.

In all candor, I have to say if you are ill-informed, and you are doing things all wrong, you’re going to get a lot more. No’s that you are yeses.  It’s why do all the videos and all the podcasts I do.  It is in order to teach you some of the things that you need to know in order to not experience as much rejection through your ignorance.  If you want to find out about more things that you can be doing, if you want to ask for advice, you can contact me through prestoexperts.com or through my website.

Your goal is to just keep trying to learn from your mistakes to avoid mistakes if you can, and just keep going.

Success really comes during the 1st time someone starts. I can’t tell you the number of stories about inventors… Let’s do the Thomas Edison story… How many failures did Edison have before miraculously, before we now have a lightbulb? How many mistakes did Alexander Graham Bell have before you now have the telephone?

You have to keep making mistakes. You have to mess up in order to get to your triumph. Instead of facing each of those rejections or failures with, “Oh, woe is me,” considered good fortune because you that much closer to the target.

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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 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.”

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Stupid Interview Mistakes: Appearing Unmotivated | Job Search Radio

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I can’t think of few dopier mistakes than this one!

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SUMMARY:

I was talking to a friend of mine who is a recruiter who does work all over the country. She was talking about an assignment that she was doing in Puerto Rico and, on this assignment, she was asked to interview people to work in a call center, particularly oral and written communication skills.

So she’s working on the assignment and finding some people who are very well spoken and some who aren’t, just as you would expect. She also started to notice that some of the well spoken individuals are being rejected by hiring managers. She and her partner started asking, “Why is that? Why are these people being turned down? It’s hard to find native speaking English speakers in Puerto Rico. What’s going wrong?”

She spoke to a few hiring managers and found the magic answer. Judging by the title of the show, you know what it is: appearing unmotivated.

What Hiring Managers See

Put yourself in the seat of the hiring manager. Hiring managers have a problem. They want someone who can solve that problem. I know it is hot in Puerto Rico, and the association with hot is lethargic. It is hot out. I feel lethargic. It’s tough to move around.

Too bad! Get over it!

What you always need to do is appear excited and motivated on your interviews. Appearing sluggish or lethargic, or, dare I say, even lazy and unmotivated is the kiss of death, no matter what job you interview for, no matter where in the world it is.

Employers have a problem. You are there to solve it. They are not there to kiss your butt and make you fall in love with them. They want you clamoring for this job, begging for this job, being excited for this job, even when you aren’t… And you want that, too! This way, if you have the skills, you get lots of job offers… You know, lots of job offers. This way, you can go, “I think I want this 1. It pays the most.” Or it doesn’t pay the most, but it has the most upside. Whatever it is, you can pick and choose between different alternatives.

Appearing unmotivated – – Stupid! Take the right hand, move it to your forehead, now hit!

Don’t do something that dumb.

Get Help!

And if you are doing dumb things like this, you need JobSearchCoachingHQ.com. That is my site where you get tons of great information to help you find work. Jobhunting doesn’t have to be hard, difficult, painful, or take so long. It’s just that you don’t know what you are doing.

You start doing it wrong and wonder, “Gee! I’m not getting jobs.” You don’t want to be doing that!

Instead of going out on a lot of stupid interviews or pointless interviews that are pointless because you are not prepared, let me help you.

I have videos, podcasts, articles, books, and me, all they are designed to help you and get to your questions.

We schedule a few minutes to talk, you asked me questions so that you don’t have to worry, we move on. If you want in-depth coaching from me, I provided to scale that makes it very inexpensive.

Again, my site is JobSearchCoachingHQ.com

 

 

If you have a question about job hunting, email me at JobSearchRadio@gmail.com. I can’t answer every question . . . but you knew that!

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

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

What Do I Put in the Subject of an Email When I Apply for a Job? (VIDEO)

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What should I put in the subject of an email when I applied for a job? There are so many possibilities!

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The question for today is:

What should I put in the subject of an email when I applied for a job?

For most of you, you are seeing something on walling or seeing an ad of some sort, you are seeing something that the company or the recruiting firm has cast the net for and you are applying for positions that way.  The subject line might read something like the title of the position so that in this way the reader is clear about the job you are applying for before opening your resume file.

If the company is asking you to include a job code or some other indicator that helps them specify which job this is, include that as well.  For example, it might refer to job 2714 accountant and mentioned a line of business.

Thus, you are making it clear to the reader why you are sending them an email because, after all, you have to remember their inbox.  You are thinking of one email that you are sending. They are receiving a lot of them in the course of the day.  You are helping them do triage on their inbox so they can go, “Oh!  It is a resume for that job.”

There is the 2nd condition when people apply for job.  That is when you are referred by someone.  In that instance, the subject line says that you are referred by so-and-so.  Thus, they know that you’re not just a stranger submitting a resume for a job; you are someone who has an introduction to them.

Then, in both cases you use the body of the email to stake out why it is you are qualified to do this job.  It isn’t a hardliner but what you are trying to do is make it clear to the reader why you are there and why you are emailing.

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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 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.”