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Advice for Employers and Recruiters

The Race to Career Success

September 24, 2007


Job Search Contestants: To Your Mark

  • Prepared Elevator Pitch and Career Marketing Materials.
  • Checked Resume Key Words for Currency to the market you desire to work in.
  • Checked your Reference’s contacts are current (check out Plaxo for help), and updated your endorsements

Get Set

  • Spell checked your resume and cover letter, all portfolio materials.
  • Assemble a resume review dream team– someone in the field you desire to work, a resume expert, and/or a recruiter for input.
  • Updated your address book, day planner, or contact information.
  • Refreshed your social networking profile with objectives, career portfolio samples, and links to the resume/endorsements.
  • Target researching, do informational interviews with your contacts on your social networking, such as LinkedIn for interview strategies, referral suggestions, and how to open doors on your correct opportunity.  Remember particularly as a student, differentiation opens doors, and a well networked leader IS a diverse problem solver.

Go!

  • Sell skills, highlights and competence. Relaxed optimism will do more to convey you as the candidate for your choice of opportunity.  When you are prepared, you are able to represent yourself better, think about their needs better, and get off on better footing.  Plan to manage highlighting your strengths with examples, your opportunities with their requirements. 
  • Self criticism and self judgment during interviews is often a cause for unnecessary tension. Plan your experience, your strengths and your benefits to be a better representative of your skills.  Preparedness and visualization can be powerful strategy.
  • Create momentum, don’t stop after each activity.. Repeat until recognize the successful attributes of your dream job.

TIP;  To use social media for career searches, learn from the experts.. In your university, your networks, or to expand your potential, consider joining the Social Networking resources such as the LinkedIn Helping Friends Career/Jobs Network  – in these networks, hiring managers and recruiters, come together with jobseekers and students, and that is where opportunity is created!.

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