Your resume needs to target the specific kind of job you're seeking and resonate
with hiring decision makers assessing people for that job.
With a stack of freshly printed resumes in hand, you are equipped to distribute them to additional
hiring decision makers who may unexpectedly arrive, empty - handed, at your meeting.
You probably know that recruiters, employers, and other
hiring decision makers routinely search online (including blogs) to source candidates and find out more about people they're considering.
Busy HR people and
other hiring decision makers typically allow only 10 - 15 seconds to scan a resume and decide whether you're a person they want to interview.
Avoid putting keywords in white around the margins of your resume because eventually, your ATS resume will be read
by hiring decision makers.
While
most hiring decision makers will read your resume digitally — as you are reading this blog — the key driver of your career is not technology; it is YOU and your story.
The Companies pages provide a wealth of valuable information to gather market intelligence for due diligence on companies of interest and people who work there,
including hiring decision makers.
If you're doing it correctly, you're building all the information in it around what your
target hiring decision makers are looking for in candidates.
The findings were taken from a survey of more than 1,000 job seekers, working professionals, and
hiring decision makers across a number of industries.
Executive recruiters and
hiring decision makers seek «social proof» to confirm you are who you say you are, and to learn more about you.
We have the
former hiring decision makers on our team and they know what their colleagues are looking for in resumes since they did this job not a long time ago.
Send a link to your relevant blog posts to
hiring decision makers at your target companies, asking for their thoughts and encouraging them to post a comment.
Working from your list
of hiring decision makers or people of influence at your target companies, look at their LinkedIn profiles and see which Groups they belong to.
Your value prop statement will come up with your name — a powerful first impression to attract recruiters and
hiring decision makers who are vetting candidates.
If you do face any skepticism as to why you took an entrepreneurial path, your honesty and positivity will gain you many points
with hiring decision makers.
The wider your visibility online, the more likely you are to be found by executive recruiters and
hiring decision makers sourcing and assessing talent through social recruiting.
Get clear on what kind of job you want, who your target employers are, what their needs are, how you can help them and who their
key hiring decision makers are.
Recruiters and
hiring decision makers assessing you through your resume (or LinkedIn profile and other career marketing materials) don't have time to sift through irrelevant information.
Similarly,
hiring decision makers don't like having their emails filled with inferior resumes, consider it the HR version of spam.
♦ Start your own website and begin building web pages showcasing your promise of value and loaded with relevant key words to help
hiring decision makers find you when they're vetting candidates.
The idea is to circumvent the gatekeepers at your target companies and connect directly with key
hiring decision makers where they hang out online and offline.