Use these cover letter formats to reach
hiring decision makers more directly, exactly when they need you.
Developing stories around your passions, values, key attributes, strengths, and differentiating factors is a powerful strategy to help you communicate your unique promise of value, and help recruiters and
hiring decision makers more readily connect with the value you offer over your competition.
Not exact matches
Following a national survey of 600 HR
decision makers and 959 freelancers, we found that the Affordable Care Act is triggering companies to
hire more freelance workers, especially since 2016 is when the tax penalty for uninsured workers is the highest at $ 695 per employee.
Legal blogger Kevin O'Keefe noted that
more and
more,
decision makers are looking towards firm blogs to decide whether to
hire said firm to represent them.
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.
The 2015 Candidate Behavior study, conducted by Inavero on behalf of CareerBuilder of
more than 5,013 workers ages 18 and over and 2,002
hiring decision makers between February 3 and February 18, 2015, sheds light on the differences between what candidates expect from potential employers during the job application process and what employers actually deliver.
More likely than not, the
hiring decision makers you're targeting are hanging out on social networking sites like LinkedIn and Twitter.
Karen's aim was a resume that would mesh well with what she calls «the eye dance,» the way a
hiring decision -
maker's eyes will flit very quickly (usually no
more than about 20 seconds) over a resume.
More often than not today, recruiters and
hiring decision makers, who source and assess potential candidates based on their online footprint, will find YOU before you ever locate them and send them your paper or digital resume.
With
more than 300 million users and potential viewers of your profile — most likely including
hiring decision makers at your target companies — LinkedIn is undeniably the most important social network for personal branding, job search, and career management.
→ Recruiters and / or
hiring decision makers» own preferences — some say they want lots of background on candidates and prefer 5, 6 or
more pages.
Executive recruiters and
hiring decision makers at your target companies are
more likely to land on your profile when they're sourcing and assessing good - fit candidates.
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.
The idea is to continuously build
more search results for «your name», so that executive recruiters and
hiring decision makers at your target companies will find plenty of diverse information about you, when they're sourcing and vetting candidates.
You'll have
more opportunities to meet and speak with executive recruiters,
hiring decision makers, and others who can help you with your career goals, because they won't be inundated with meeting requests, like they will as soon as January gets here.
That said, we have to say that there are some common elements that will inevitably make your main marketing document
more attractive in the eyes of
hiring decision makers.
The bad:
More often than not, a
hiring decision maker will check one's online presence.
You'll have
more opportunities to meet and speak with executive recruiters,
hiring decision makers at your target companies, and others who can help you with your career goals, because they won't be inundated with meeting requests, like they will as soon as January gets here.
Moreover, in my conversations with
hiring decision makers, C - level and Board members, executive recruiters and others who are presented with candidate dossiers, once the resume has reached the «I'm interested stack,» the reader wants a
more robust marketing vitae that deeply sells the candidate's value and resounds with the audience at which he aims.
This
more substantive approach to communication feeds the
decision -
maker's complex
hiring needs.
Storytelling helps you make an emotional connection with employers and generate chemistry for yourself as a candidate, compelling
hiring decision -
makers to want to learn
more about you by asking for an interview.
These days,
hiring managers and
decision makers are
more likely to talk to candidates who have been recommended by someone they know and trust.
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.
Networking your way into jobs to circumvent Human Resources and connect directly with
hiring decision makers is
more important than ever.
This scope of practice request would remedy this situation, and would provide physicians and other employment
decision makers with
more options in the
hiring of competent and knowledgeable allied health personnel.
The highly «niched» resume writing profession (after all, how much
more niched can you be than writing ONLY career - focused documents selling to a very targeted
hiring audience of
decision makers, recruiters, human resource leaders, CEOs, COOs, CFOs, board members, venture capitalists... and
more?)
Our critique will cover the specific issues you need to address to make your resume
more effective in obtaining interviews with
hiring decision makers.
Being intimate with one's value proposition and targeting one's message indeed «is»
more appealing to a recruiter or
hiring decision -
maker.
Hiring managers are the
decision makers and you need to work a little bit to make their daily duties much
more easier.
More and more hiring decision makers are reviewing resumes on the go — on PDAs, netbooks, or other small scre
More and
more hiring decision makers are reviewing resumes on the go — on PDAs, netbooks, or other small scre
more hiring decision makers are reviewing resumes on the go — on PDAs, netbooks, or other small screens.
You need to have a branded, 100 % complete profile (according to LinkedIn's criteria) for passive job search — to be
more easily found by executive recruiters and the
hiring decision makers at your target companies.
Hiring decision -
makers cited this peeve
more than any other.
Again I tell my clients over and over, «
decision makers do not
hire qualifications and skill sets they
hire people, and
more important they
hire people they like.»
10: Have you been a
decision maker who has made the final
decision to
hire 10 or
more people in your lifetime?
Given the fact that
more and
more recruiters and
hiring decision makers are researching viable candidates online before even considering them, a VisualCV will increase your visibility and position your on - brand information front and center when they are vetting candidates like you.
It helps recruiters and
hiring decision makers at the companies you're targeting determine what makes you a good?fit
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With an estimated
more than 80 % of recruiters and
hiring decision makers Googling candidates for social proof, and their practice of choosing those with strong online presence over those without, it's counterintuitive to remain invisible online.
You know that you're
more than likely being Googled by recruiters and
hiring decision makers before they approach you.
Recruiters and
hiring decision makers assessing you through your resume (or LinkedIn profile, etc.)
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