Recruiters ARE NOT your BFF in the Job Search

Recruiters ARE NOT your BFF in the Job Search I just saw this on a career coach eList Im on: While it may sound like an easy way to get a job is to turn the search over to a recruiter, it’s unlikely this will result in interviews or job offers. Today, most every candidate has to be their own advocate in a very competitive, very specialized job market. Debra Feldman, JobWhiz. Debra is an agent who works for candidates, not employers. She establishes networking connections that open doors to new job leads. YES!  Debra is so right! As a job seeker were looking for the easiest and most successful tactics to employ.  Like finding jobs on a job board and applying.  Or telling recruiters how great you are. In reality, if they are easy, and supposedly lead to easy success, then you can bet tons of your competition (aka, other job seekers) are doing the same thing. When it becomes too easy, and too many people do it, you get lost in the NOISE. Reality check: I heard a recruiter say one of her colleagues would regularly delete all the resumes she had collected just because it got to be too hard to go through them. Yes, you are a noisy number. Heres my best experience with a recruiter.  Ill never forget him.  Dave Steveson, owner of HirePointe (a recruiting shop), said this to me on our third meeting: Well, I think you are going to find a job for yourself a lot faster than Ill find a job for you. WHUUUUUUUUH??????  At first I didnt understand, but then it all made sense.  I thought Dave was my job search agent.  In fact, he wasnt.  Not at all.  Neither were the 29 other recruiters I thought were my agents. Take what Debra said above, and what Dave told me six years ago, to heart.  And stop thinking that talking to recruiters is your easy button. Sorry.  But you actually do have to network. Recruiters ARE NOT your BFF in the Job Search I just saw this on a career coach eList Im on: While it may sound like an easy way to get a job is to turn the search over to a recruiter, it’s unlikely this will result in interviews or job offers. Today, most every candidate has to be their own advocate in a very competitive, very specialized job market. Debra Feldman, JobWhiz. Debra is an agent who works for candidates, not employers. She establishes networking connections that open doors to new job leads. YES!  Debra is so right! As a job seeker were looking for the easiest and most successful tactics to employ.  Like finding jobs on a job board and applying.  Or telling recruiters how great you are. In reality, if they are easy, and supposedly lead to easy success, then you can bet tons of your competition (aka, other job seekers) are doing the same thing. When it becomes too easy, and too many people do it, you get lost in the NOISE. Reality check: I heard a recruiter say one of her colleagues would regularly delete all the resumes she had collected just because it got to be too hard to go through them. Yes, you are a noisy number. Heres my best experience with a recruiter.  Ill never forget him.  Dave Steveson, owner of HirePointe (a recruiting shop), said this to me on our third meeting: Well, I think you are going to find a job for yourself a lot faster than Ill find a job for you. WHUUUUUUUUH??????  At first I didnt understand, but then it all made sense.  I thought Dave was my job search agent.  In fact, he wasnt.  Not at all.  Neither were the 29 other recruiters I thought were my agents. Take what Debra said above, and what Dave told me six years ago, to heart.  And stop thinking that talking to recruiters is your easy button. Sorry.  But you actually do have to network. Recruiters ARE NOT your BFF in the Job Search I just saw this on a career coach eList Im on: While it may sound like an easy way to get a job is to turn the search over to a recruiter, it’s unlikely this will result in interviews or job offers. Today, most every candidate has to be their own advocate in a very competitive, very specialized job market. Debra Feldman, JobWhiz. Debra is an agent who works for candidates, not employers. She establishes networking connections that open doors to new job leads. YES!  Debra is so right! As a job seeker were looking for the easiest and most successful tactics to employ.  Like finding jobs on a job board and applying.  Or telling recruiters how great you are. In reality, if they are easy, and supposedly lead to easy success, then you can bet tons of your competition (aka, other job seekers) are doing the same thing. When it becomes too easy, and too many people do it, you get lost in the NOISE. Reality check: I heard a recruiter say one of her colleagues would regularly delete all the resumes she had collected just because it got to be too hard to go through them. Yes, you are a noisy number. Heres my best experience with a recruiter.  Ill never forget him.  Dave Steveson, owner of HirePointe (a recruiting shop), said this to me on our third meeting: Well, I think you are going to find a job for yourself a lot faster than Ill find a job for you. WHUUUUUUUUH??????  At first I didnt understand, but then it all made sense.  I thought Dave was my job search agent.  In fact, he wasnt.  Not at all.  Neither were the 29 other recruiters I thought were my agents. Take what Debra said above, and what Dave told me six years ago, to heart.  And stop thinking that talking to recruiters is your easy button. Sorry.  But you actually do have to network.

Resume Writing For Position With No Relevant Experience

Resume Writing For Position With No Relevant ExperienceA resume should be written carefully, it is an important document that should contain information about you, and all the relevant work experience and educational qualifications. But how do you make a resume for a position with no relevant experience necessary?When you have just finished your basic job interview you will probably be asked about your past work experience. This can be something like work experience at your local car wash or newspaper office.It may seem insignificant to write in a brief summary what you did in high school or college but this is enough to give the interviewer the impression that you are very hard working and motivated. You don't need to go into the details of the job as your past work experience is only going to provide information on the particular job you are applying for.If your past work experience is bad then the interviewer is unlikely to even bother to read your resume unless you have gone down the path of listing every previous work experience that you had. This is where a tailored resume should be used. By knowing what you have done in the past and how you intend to use your skills now, your resume should not be as long as it was before.Instead it should be shorter and more focused on your capabilities and skills for the position that you are applying for and it should also reflect what you can offer that the company is currently looking for. By doing this you will have a much better chance of being hired.The first thing that you need to do is to write down exactly what you have done in the past and then list your skills in your resume, this will make it easy for the search engine to find your resume when people search for someone who does not have any relevant experience. The search engines will take all the information that you put into their system, including your work history and education and relate it to the job that you are applying for. By using this method you are helping yourself to get found.Once you have listed your skills in your resume, you will need to consider the kinds of jobs that are available. By listing your skill sets, skills, qualifications and accomplishments for each job, you are showing that you have the required skills to do the job and the employers will know that you are a good fit for the position.Try and list as many skills as you can and list the ones that are relevant to the job that you are applying for. Listing skills that are relevant to the job that you are applying for is much easier to do than listing skills that are not related to the job. By doing this you will make it easier for the search engine to match your skills with the job that you are applying for and they will find you more easily.