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Your Career Matters
GETTING RECRUITED
Look at recruiting from the employers' perspective.
Getting job interviews is the mirror image of recruiting candidates.
Both are sales and marketing tasks.
Rather than perfecting your efficient processing by the Human Resources
rejection machine, you should strategize how to get recruited by
a progressive company.
Here is a list corporate recruiting practices. For each of these
recruiting methods, there is a strategy for you to be on the receiving
end of their outreach.
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CEO calls - The CEO of the firm
calls (or visits) a candidate directly and then tells them how important
their contribution to the firm will be. |
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How ready are you for a CEO to
call and say "Tell me about your background in just a couple of minutes
and give me an example of how you've benefited your employer."
Not how much do you want it. But are you ready now? Let me hear it on tape.
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Employee referrals from our top
performers - "A" players know other "A" players. |
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- How many allies and advocates
are positioned to refer you? |
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Referrals by "Friends"
of the firm. |
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- Beyond your network of contacts,
is a matrix that can find you. |
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"Who's who" database
matches - Individuals that appear multiple times in our top talent database
because they have been independently identified by several different employees
as being a top talent in their field. |
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- How findable are you? |
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The Web - Individuals whose
ideas and work have been found to be superior on technical listservers,
chat rooms & on individual's portfolio web pages. |
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- Recruiters especially value
'passive candidates' discovered in this way. |
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"Invited" open houses
at your facility to meet with managers and key team members. The process
becomes even more effective when "same day" offers and acceptance
bonuses are included. |
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- Are you pre-qualified for any
of these events?
- Should you accept the first offer? |
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Converting "temps"-
Identifying top performing contractors, consultants, ex-employees, interns
and temporary workers and converting them to regular employees. |
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- Caution: Careers have been
ruptured with this strategy. |
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PR and Employer of choice write
ups - Getting written up for great technical leadership for management practices
in leading business and technical publications. Conference presentations.
Being listed in a magazine as one of the "great places to work." |
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- A career marketing plan includes
a robust list of favorite firms. |
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"Non-recruiting events"
where people are not expecting to be recruited. Identifying and building
relationships at social events that are frequently attended by professionals
in our target field. Trade fairs and conferences can also be effective. |
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- How is your supply of conversational
anecdotes which are evidence of your capabilities?
- See the Personal Networking Calendar to find these events. |
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"I've always wanted to
be" questions - Getting hot prospects to fill out a questionnaire highlighting
elements of their "dream job", their criteria for accepting a
new job or what frustrates them about the current job? |
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How many edges can a sword have?
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Is your job search positioned to be on the receiving
end of the best employers' proactive recruiting practices?
If your are learning new things here, you'd better believe
there is much more. What you don't know, can hurt your career.
Call Gary Ames at 1.866.JobHunt = 1.866.562.4868
www.QuickJobSearch.com |
