Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter points out the false “Hollywood Leadership Model,” defines what leadership really is and encourages you to show it on your interviews.
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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.
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.”
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses the emotional side of job hunting and encourages you to get support.
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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 leadership coaching.
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.
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.”
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.
[svp]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvFpL9I5lEQ[/svp] If you are interested in changing careers, this next step is a “can’t miss” video.
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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.
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.”
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.
There should be a pact between people not to try to do this and respect one another. This is a discussion of bad negotiating
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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.
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This is the one of the most important things to figure out whether you are employer a job hunter a business owner or just living your life.
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The title of this video is, “What motivates you.” Whether you are a job hunter, a business owner, an employee or just living life in general, there are things you need to look at in terms of what is effective for you in getting yourself to do your best.
If you are a job hunter and considering this question, it’s really a question for you to ask the potential employer. That is, how do you like to motivate? What gets your team working at its best? What do you do if someone, shall we say, goes into a funk where there were just isn’t top-notch right now?
If you are a business owner and are looking at this question, think in terms of what makes you alive? What really excites you and the work that you are doing in the business you are running? What do your customers really get excited about as they start to think of you and your business?
Motivation isn’t about “inspirational speaking.” It’s really about internal controls that you have within yourself and the challenges that you face that interfere with you being at your best.
Whether you are an employee or a business owner, there are times where life gets in the way… Life is messy! How do you wind up dealing with the messes?
For example, you are in a situation where you lost a sale that is really very painful to you because you’re really counting on that one. Do you go into “the three-week funk” or is is there a way that you motivate yourself to pull yourself out of it.
If you are hiring someone, are you someone who will cheer-lead or threaten? If you are a job hunter and you’re interviewing with people, as I said, you want to ask them about this by asking, “Some managers have the idea of motivating staff that seem quite insane. Working 60 hours a week or 24 x 7… It doesn’t work.”
For you, think about what really motivates you to be at your best, evaluated, assess it. If you are in business. Use it to be at your best. If you are job hunting Explorer with your future manager what their techniques are.
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been coaching people to play their professional and personal games BIG for what seems like 100 years.
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains a Boolean search string that will help you connect with people at companies if you have a small LinkedIn network.
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Let’s talk about how to find people to submit your resume to and network with. If you have a small LinkedIn network.
If you have a small network, it’s hard to have 1st and 2nd level connections to network with and to find the hiring managers and organizations you want to submit your resume to. There is a workaround to it. It’s not on LinkedIn. You may have heard of the site before. It’s called… Google.
What you do is a Google site search. You enter
site:www.LinkedIn.com then enter the name of the organization you want to connect into and then the titleof the individual that you want to reach out to.
Let’s say you’re trying to apply for an engineering position and your network is small and you want to find the head of engineering for that organization.
Site: www.LinkedIn.com (United Technologies) (title of the person you want to connect with)
after that, to eliminate a lot of the extraneous stuff, you put –profile to eliminate some of the nonsense profiles that show up through the search.
What you will get are people who are in that job title who would be hiring managers at that organization.
Let’s say you want to find the CIO of a firm I’m going to make up a name and if by some chance it is the actual name of an organization. It is unintentional. I’m not trying to overwhelm them.
Site: www.LinkedIn.com (Goofy Drawers) you don’t need to put a single word (; just multiple words. Next to it. You put the title CIO -profile
Thus you be able to find a person in an organization.
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Do you think employers are trying to help yo u?
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.
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.”
[svp]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j38jdpTILIs[/svp] On this show, Jeff looks at the off-season in the NFL for input for hiring managers and hr professionals
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.
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.”
[svp]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-PjkQI8DpQ[/svp] If a recruiter reached out to me about a job and I don’t hear back, is it acceptable to apply for the job myself?
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.
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.”
When hiring, are you allowed to deny people on a bad personality, or if they don’t embody the company image even if they meet the paper requirements?
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“When hiring, are you allowed to deny people on the bad personality where, if they don’t embody the company image, even if they meet the paper requirements.”
I want to break this question down into a couple of different components. The basis of the rejection is your personality, not whether you have the skill… The company image… I’m confused about that but I will try to sort through as I talk.
Discrimination exists, under US law, based upon a number of criteria. Some states have added additional criteria onto the initial federal wants. As long as the form of discrimination. Any of those laws, it is not, by definition, discrimination. It may be discriminatory. It may reflect ignorance, but it is not legally discrimination.
In this example, a person meets the paper requirements and we don’t know whether this person displayed their knowledge poorly on the interview. We are just going to look at what we know here. This person believes that they were turned down based upon personality and a 2nd criteria.
Personality is not a discriminatory category under any criteria I’ve ever heard of. Firms are allowed to evaluate people for “fit” as long as that doesn’t fall into a discriminatory category. For example, we don’t think you fit in because we only hire men. Another example would be your gay and we only hire heterosexuals. And, of course you are black and we are white or your white or black. What do you know about our culture without actually giving them a chance to demonstrate that in the course of the interview? That would be clear discrimination based upon it. Personality… No.
Company Image?
I had a question based upon the phrase, “the company image.” They don’t embody “the company image.” I’m wondering whether this is a question about weight and whether this person might be profoundly obese, for example. In certain states, that behavior might qualify as discrimination.
Ultimately, you have to prove that was the criteria for being rejected by this organization. That is a hard road to take. In terms of weight, to my knowledge, an attorney would know this better, you can’t use the excuse of, “No one at this firm is morbidly obese.” That’s a term that I’ve heard used, to describe someone who was extremely overweight. They are at the point of risking death by being that overweight.
Again, if you really believe that this is the case, consult an attorney and see what they have to say. Find out what it would take to prove your case if the issue is about you being extremely overweight. See if that would allow you to become a part of a “protected class” under state or federal law. If you live in a bigger city, you might be protected under local law, as well, because those laws are added on top of the original federal law.
I’m sorry to be more specific, but I think this becomes a way to evaluate whether this is a case of discrimination and whether firms can do it.
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.
