Pull paragraphs, or brand bites, from your bio to use in email messages when you send your resume to recruiters and hiring decision
makers at your target employers.
Use this as a marketing lead document, which can be part of a networking strategy both in person and via email, as well as in the hands of
contacts at target employers.
These get you faster attention than other means; so finding connections and building relationships with
someone at your target employers helps get you referred internally.
Since your network should include recruiters, hiring professionals and
others at your target employers, the right people will be informed that you've published a new article.
When you
look at your target employers, their website and job postings will often provide information about the mission, goals, and values which are important to them.
Pain — seize the opportunity to portray yourself as a proactive executive and solicit a position
at a target employer by presenting a business case on how you will solve a company's pain.
Opportunity for Advancement - If you are interested in moving up within your field, then you will want to determine how and when you could be
promoted at your target employer and what those positions might be like.
If you've been even an occasional follower and reader of this blog, you know that recruiters and the hiring decision
makers at your target employers are searching online when they source and assess talent.
For that, you get job insights that compare your qualifications to open roles, salary data, featured applicant status, and 3 free InMails to recruiters or
employees at your target employer.
How LinkedIn Groups can reinforce your executive brand and help you stay top of mind with hiring decision makers
at your target employers.
Ask your current contacts (friends, family, colleagues, other job seekers, etc.) if they know anyone working
at your target employer.
Your cousin's new boyfriend may work
at your target employer.
Send a note to them with some updates on your life including your desire to work
at your target employers.
Act as if you were already working
at your target employer, using jargon, terms, and metrics of your target employer in your resume and when you talk to employees.
Following the organization and its recruiters on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or other social media is a smart way to keep up on what is going on
at your target employers and make connections which can help you get in.
Ask the people you know to suggest potential employers or to connect you to people who work
at your target employers to learn more.
Does anyone in your network or your networks network know someone who works or has worked
at your target employer?
ATS software changes all the time, but why risk that the resume format you chose online can't be read by
the ATS your target employer uses?