4 Ways to Stand Out When There Are So Many People Job Hunting
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Especially during difficult times, it is important to stand out versus your competition when you are trying to get an interview.
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People often ask me how they can stand out in a job search when there’s so many people out there looking, I’ve identified four ways to do it. Now I just want to be clear. Many of them take time to cultivate and some of them don’t. But the idea is you need to stand out otherwise, you’re just like everyone else. So how do you do that?
Number one is, and this is a time consuming one, you do things to develop a personal brand for yourself and your capabilities. If you’re different than other people, you stand out, right? If people know, like, trust and respect your work, not just simply in your organization, but in the world at large, you have an advantage over others. How can you do that? Right? Get interviewed for podcasts. Be more public with your capabilities and your knowledge. You can write for LinkedIn, you can develop a website with a blog, there’s lots of different ways to do it. But way number one is to build a brand for yourself.
Number two is if you make the mistake of applying for a job, it’s tailoring your resume and your application for each position you apply for. As I’ve said many times, you know the old saying the broken watch is right twice a day. But when you’re submitting the same resume all the time, you’re like that broken watch. You’re missing out on options for yourself that you could get, if only you took the time to make the fit obvious as though a six year old was going to read the resume.
Number three, keyword optimize all your material. That’s your LinkedIn profile. That’s any resume that you do. Think of it as having terms in a job description that need to be mirrored in your resume and your LinkedIn profile. And the last way, number four, and this is really the most important thing that you can do, you develop a personal network where you can be referred into organizations. You develop connections with people, where, again, they know, like, trust, and respect you so they want to recommend you. And thus, if they work within an organization, remember, they’re getting an employee referral bonus for each person who they recommend who’s hired. So you want to be recommended into an organization so that you cut the line and get to the front.
I remember traveling through Moscow, when we were returning after an international adoption and there were 1000 people waiting on line for customs. No joke, and we’ve got a young baby. And we were able to walk to the front of the line because in that culture, people with infants walk to the front of the line and that’s fine with the culture. You need to be able to walk to the front of the line. That’s what this is all about. How do you get to the front of the line so that people are favorably disposed to you.
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves career coaching, as well as executive job search coaching, job coaching, and interview coaching. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with over 2400 episodes.
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