Are You A Job Search Amateur? #shorts

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Are You A Job Search Amateur? #shorts

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

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Ever feel like you’re great at what you do, but terrible at finding a job? You’re not crazy! The skills to land a job are totally different from the skills to do the job. Let’s talk about why job hunters often feel like total amateurs.

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Once you understand that the skills needed to find a job are different from those needed to do the job, you’ll start doing things to learn those skills, get better results in your job search, and land your next role more quickly. Spamming your resume to the Western Hemisphere isn’t getting you results is it? Uploading your resume to one applicant tracking system or another isn’t getting you the results that you want. There are things that you’re obviously doing wrong. And yes, it’s a tough market out there, but there are things that you’re obviously doing wrong
If you’re not getting interviews:
Your resume sucks.
Or your LinkedIn profile and resume aren’t congruent
You’re applying for things that you want to get but aren’t qualified for
Or your resume doesn’t make a case for yourself
If you’re speaking to recruiters and you’re not getting past them, you’re not hitting the check boxes for them for what they’re looking for. If you’re getting past that recruiter to the hiring manager and it’s not going any further, you’re not connecting with them or you’re not demonstrating your expertise that they care about.  Often people talk about what they’ve done and not talk about what they’ve done that matters to an employer.
There’s a lot more that I go through, but the long and the short of it is there’s a lot you don’t know about job hunting that, for me and others like me, we know from like the back of our hands because in my case, I worked in recruiting for a long time and filled a lot of positions, and now I help you navigate the job search process.  I have a lot of great content available for free at JobSearch.Community
Go there, download the content, become an insider so I can work with you directly, and you’ll get access to all the other content, and I’l
l coach you.

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ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER

People hire Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter to provide No BS Career Advice globally because he makes many things in peoples’ careersJeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter easier. Those things can involve job search, hiring more effectively, managing and leading better, career transition, as well as advice about resolving workplace issues. 

He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with over 2800 episodes. 

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You will find great info to help with your job search at my new site, ⁠⁠JobSearch.Community⁠⁠ Besides the video courses, books and guides, I answer questions from members daily about their job search. Leave job search questions and I will respond daily. Become an Insider+ member and you get everything you’d get as an Insider PLUS you can get me on Zoom calls to get questions answered. Become an Insider Premium member and we do individual and group coaching.

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Schedule a discovery call to speak with me about coaching you during your job search at ⁠www.TheBigGameHunter.us⁠ to discuss one-on-one or group coaching with me 

LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/T⁠⁠heBigGameHunter⁠

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