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How to Get Past the Gatekeeper Part 2
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses another technique for getting past the gatekeeper.
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.
Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.
Visit www.TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot more advice there.
Email me if your firm is trying to hire someone.
Pay what you want for my books about job search
Subscribe to TheBigGameHunterTV on YouTube for advice about job hunting and hiring. Like videos, share and comment.
Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us
Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching program.
Want to ask me a question via email, chat or phone ? Reach me via PrestoExperts or Clarity.fm
Job Search Radio – Finding An Assignment. Finding a Gig.
Work has changed. 10 years ago, 6% of positions were temp, gig or consulting. Now, it is more than 30% and rising. Finding a new assignment or gig often involves timing things so you are never out of work.
Miriam Salpeter and I speak about mobilizing your marketing efforts to help you become someone firms target.
Is your job search not going the way you want? Are you unsure about what to do to get it going? You may be doing critical things wrong or a lot of small things wrong that are costing you opportunities. Schedule a job search makeover with me. It’s an intense detailed coaching session where we go through EVERYTHING. Let me help you.
Is your current firm trying to hire someone? Email their name and number to me and whether I can mention your name.
You can watch, listen to or read more of my job search, hiring and recruiting content at TheBigGameHunter.us
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Organize Your Job Search With This Free Tool
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter stresses the importance of organizing, tracking and following up in your job search and recommends a free tool to help you do it.
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.
Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.
Visit www.TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot more advice there.
Email me if your firm is trying to hire someone.
Pay what you want for my books about job search
Subscribe to TheBigGameHunterTV on YouTube for advice about job hunting and hiring. Like videos, share and comment.
Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us
Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching program.
Want to ask me a question via email, chat or phone ? Reach me via PrestoExperts or Clarity.fm
The Best Way to Proofread Your Resume
You know you have to proofread your resume. What is the best way. In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses an extremely effective way to proofread your resume.
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.
Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.
Visit www.TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot more advice there.
Email me if your firm is trying to hire someone.
Pay what you want for my books about job search
Subscribe to TheBigGameHunterTV on YouTube for advice about job hunting and hiring. Like videos, share and comment.
Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us
Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching program.
Want to ask me a question via email, chat or phone ? Reach me via PrestoExperts or Clarity.fm
Job Hunting While You Are Working
This video deals with how to job hunt while you are working.
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.
Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.
Visit www.TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot more advice there.
Email me if your firm is trying to hire someone.
Pay what you want for my books about job search
Subscribe to TheBigGameHunterTV on YouTube for advice about job hunting and hiring. Like videos, share and comment.
Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us
Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching program.
Want to ask me a question via email, chat or phone ? Reach me via PrestoExperts or Clarity.fm
Negotiating Salary Through a Recruiter
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains the dirty little secret of working with a recruiter and how to negotiate salary when you are being represented by one.
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.
Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.
Visit www.TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot more advice there.
Email me if your firm is trying to hire someone.
Pay what you want for my books about job search
Subscribe to TheBigGameHunterTV on YouTube for advice about job hunting and hiring. Like videos, share and comment.
Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us
Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching program.
Want to ask me a question via email, chat or phone ? Reach me via PrestoExperts or Clarity.fm
Cover Letters That Get Results
In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter tells you exactly how you can use your cover letter to make it obvious how you fit a job .
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.
Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.
Visit www.TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot more advice there.
Email me if your firm is trying to hire someone.
Pay what you want for my books about job search
Subscribe to TheBigGameHunterTV on YouTube for advice about job hunting and hiring. Like videos, share and comment.
Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us
Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching program.
Want to ask me a question via email, chat or phone ? Reach me via PrestoExperts or Clarity.fm
Job Search Lessons from Super Bowl XLIX
On this podcast, Jeff shares his observations from watching yesterday’s game and discusses the things job hunters can learn from it.
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.
Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.
Visit www.TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot more advice there.
Email me if your firm is trying to hire someone.
Pay what you want for my books about job search
Subscribe to TheBigGameHunterTV on YouTube for advice about job hunting and hiring. Like videos, share and comment.
Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us
Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching program.
Want to ask me a question via email, chat or phone ? Reach me via PrestoExperts or Clarity.fm
How to Test for Attention to Detail
With private sector hiring in many fields picking up again, it’s important to look at your overall hiring process, break it down and re-construct it in ways that work to identify and select people who meet your organization’s needs now and in the future.
In some jobs like those in IT, attention to detail is an important quality for the success of the new hire. How can you determine whether that is a quality a person has?
Here are a few ideas:
1. How’s their spelling and grammar?
For years, I avoided using this when I would evaluate resumes of people born outside the US. With time, I realized two things.
Don’t give a pass to people who are not native born. Many have worked hard and with determination to adapt to a new language. Why shouldn’t that be recognized? After, people who are native often become lazy and incompetent at their use of grammar. Let’s acknowledge the effort that goes into excellence.
The second thing I realized is that some people are just too lazy to use the spelling and grammar checker in their word processing software. Why shouldn’t that be penalized?
2. I would do this next question of non-technical people like those in sales or finance.
What color hair does the receptionist have?
What is the paint color in the lobby?
Asking questions like these work because they are not anticipated by the candidate
3. For a web developer or those who are in a visual field, assemble a web page or some other visual device that is relevant with loads of errors.
Tell the candidate, “This page has more than 30 errors on it. Take 30 minutes and identify 30 of them.”
For non-visual professionals, a variation of this is to assemble a file with some information and ask them to identify a certain number of inconsistencies in it.
4. Ask them to tell you an example of how their attention to detail helped their firm make more money or save it money.
Some people are attentive to detail for pointless reasons like catching someone else doing something wrong for their own gain.
Find out some of the useful ways they have used this skill for the betterment of their firm.
5. Ask them what it is about their work they enjoy most
What I listen for is whether they tell me something “big picture” or something that is “in the weeds” they needed to puzzle out.
All of these ideas work. What do you do?
Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter*
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