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Your Career: How To Apply For a Job at a Company That Isn’t Hiring…Enclosed is a Template to “Apply” for a Job Even If the Company Isn’t Hiring

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Welcome back, economy.  USA TODAY reports employers added an average of 246,000 jobs each month in 2014, the best year for job growth since 1999.Fifteen years is a long time, but it finally seems companies have started to hire in a meaningful way.

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That’s why you should rethink what it means to look for new opportunities.Typically, you apply for the positions you find on job boards and company websites.

What if you discover a company you love but find it’s not hiring — or at least not hiring a position relevant to your skills?  Spurred on by the positive job market, you should do the unusual: Apply even when there are no open positions.

First of all, what do you have to lose? Nothing. Exactly.  Second, what if your email pitch is compelling and puts you on the company’s radar?  Then if the boss does need to make a hire, you come to mind.

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That’s the case at my own PR firm. Recently a college student introduced herself even though we had not posted any open jobs. Now the girl is high on our list once she graduates.

I created a template to “apply” for a job even if the company isn’t hiring.

You never know where a single email can lead.

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Hi ______,

My name is ________, and I am a [recent grad from _____ or job title and your expertise; for instance, a “web developer who specializes in small business websites.”] I hope you’re doing well.

I realize you don’t have a job posting for a [job title; for instance, “web developer,”] but I would still like to make introductions and explore ways I can help your team on [however you can add value; for instance, “website projects.”]

I checked out the [company name’s] website and like the projects you do, in particular [name two and explain why; for instance, “the landing page for the Tampa hospital system and the ecommerce page for the rental car startup. The two sites are fresh and easy to navigate. That’s the kind of work I like to do.”]

[Then, give a little info on your experience; for instance, “For the past _____ years, I have worked with (talk about your experience so far and list examples of past clients); for instance, “various media firms in Houston to create sharp websites for a range of clients. I have completed websites for a veterinary clinic, auto body shop, 24-hour gym, family-owned grocery and a teacher’s supply store.”]

Please see a few examples of my work down below:

  • [link to examples of your work, if available; you can also attach files if it makes more sense]
  • Example #2
  • Example #3

[If you are a recent grad with no real-world experience, provide links to college projects, case studies, internship projects or volunteer efforts. Let the person see what you’re all about.]

I have attached my resume to the email. Please let me know if I can provide more information.

Thanks so much,

You

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Notes: In the email, prove you researched the company, link the reader to your own projects, attach your resume and ask nicely for a reply. Then, step back and see what kind of response you receive. The result might surprise you.

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Strategy: 5 Things Your Resume Must Convey In 10 Seconds…Reach Out to Your Hiring Manager Directly With a Pain Letter & Human-Voiced Resume Sent Straight to the Hiring Manager’s desk.

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If you pitch your resume into Black Hole recruiting sites, you’ll be resting your job-search hopes on a keyword-searching algorithm. That’s why I don’t recommend that approach to job-seekers, no matter how closely a job-seeker’s resume matches the posted job spec.

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The Black Hole – HR Managers, Posted Ads, Job Sites, Recruiters, etc.

I recommend that you reach out to your hiring manager directly with a Pain Letter and Human-Voiced Resume sent straight to the hiring manager’s desk.

Your Pain Letter will speak so directly to your target hiring manager’s specific issues that your resume is sure to get a look if the manager opens the envelope at all. That’s why we write ultra-targeted Pain Letters versus boring, boilerplate cover letters.

That being said, your resume still has its own heavy lifting to do. In the typical ten-second glance, your resume has to convey at least these five critical points:

Your resume has to convey the fact you know exactly what sort of pain your hiring manager is facing.

You may have written the best Pain Letter in the world, but you still have to get across in your resume the idea that you understand exactly what your next manager needs to have done. Let’s say you’re going after a Business Development role.

Your Pain Letter makes it crystal clear that you understand the challenges associated with selling a brand-new cloud software application to mid-market businesses. Luckily, that’s what you’ve been doing for the past five years, very successfully. Still, your career history includes a wide range of selling experiences, not just in the software realm and not just for startups.

When your manager flips your Pain Letter to see your Human-Voiced Resume just behind and stapled to it, s/he has to see immediately that you’re the kind of Business Development person who can step right into the organization and get the sales pipeline activated.

If your resume isn’t customized to talk about opening new accounts for brand-new software releases, you’ll need to make that experience clear before sending your resume-Pain Letter package in the mail to the startup VP you’ve got your eye on. It’s very easy to lose sight of the fact that Business Pain is specific.

In our bodies, back pain is different from toothache pain. It’s the same way in business. We want to know that you can be effective in the situation we’re facing, specifically, so make that connection plain!

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Your resume has to make it clear that you’re intelligent and business-savvy.

If our second point sounds so obvious that it’s not worth mentioning, you may not spend your days reading resumes the way I do. Your resume has to convey your intelligence and sophistication. That means that it can’t have one typo, one misspelling or one usage error in it, and the language you choose to describe your background has to convey your maturity and intellectual depth.

This is why I warn job-seekers away from cliches like “Results-oriented business professional with a bottom-line orientation.”

When your hiring manager scans your resume, s/he has to think “I want to meet this person,” not “This looks like every boring resume I’ve ever read before.”

 

Your resume has to communicate your story.

Some people use a functional resume format rather than a chronological one, typically because they’re nervous about some gap or blemish in their career history and hope that the functional resume style will obscure or minimize it. That’s a bad move in my opinion.

The number one thing you want to get across to your next manager is your story. There’s nothing wrong with your story, no matter what twists and turns you’ve taken to get here.

When you can see the soundness and logic in your path, other people will too. Don’t hide your story and make your manager hunt for dates and titles and the chronological aspect of your career. That’s the part they’re most avid to know!

Your resume has to tell Dragon-Slaying Stories.

Your former titles and the dates of your past positions are important to give your hiring manager the broad outline of your career to date. Inside that outline, he or she wants to know what you’ve left in your wake at each past job. You can make it easy for him or her to do that by telling short Dragon-Slaying Stories in your resume, like this:

  • After our acquisition of Angry Chocolates, I led the integration of the two firms’ databases for customer, vendor and product information in three weeks without affecting our day-to-day processes on either side.

The reader of your resume wants proof that you know what’s up and how to deal with the curve balls life throws at us. You can share that proof in quick Dragon-Slaying Stories that tell us all we need to know to pick up the phone and call you!

Your resume has to prove that you’re human.

Apart from their value as ‘proof points’ for your hiring manager’s benefit, there’s another big benefit to Dragon-Slaying Stories and the Human-Voiced Resume format in general. The other benefit is that when you write your resume in a human voice, your manager instantly knows that s/he’s dealing with a living, breathing person rather than a corporate automaton or an empty suit.

The more personality and spark you can put into your resume, beginning with the Summary at the top of it, the better. If your hiring manager reads your resume and knows immediately that a coffee date or phone call with you is going to be lively and intellectually stimulating, you’re going to get a lot more responses.

You might feel like you’re taking a risk putting a human voice in your resume, but that’s only  because we’ve been trained to write resumes for automated recruiting portals rather than for humans. When you know that you’re writing to a person at his desk (or hers), it’s much easier and more fun to use a conversational tone.

The reception to your Pain Letter/Human-Voiced Resume combo is going to be more human, too — and the resulting conversation when the two of your connect will make sparks fly! I’ll be rooting for you. Dig your sparkly, behind-the-suit personality out of mothballs and bring it across in your Pain Letter and Human-Voiced Resume. Wait until you see what happens next!

 

Forbes.com | January 14, 2015  | Liz Ryan 

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Strategy: 10 Simple Things My Dad Taught Me About Networking…Looking Out for How you Can Leverage Your Contacts to Help Others Is the Foundation of Being a Connector

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It’s often said that whether or not we like it, we end up morphing into our parents as we grow older.

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I was fortunate to have my dad role model for me some really critical lessons about the power of being a connector and master networker, and I’d like to share his top lessons with you:

  1. Always remember birthdays. My dad taught me the value of remembering things that are going on in other people’s lives. One thing he does is makes it a habit to calendar the birthdays of the important people in his network and send them a snail mail card each year. This is generally dozens of cards a month and it makes a lasting impression.

 

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2. Be a connector. Looking out for how you can leverage your contacts to help others is the foundation of being a connector.  It’s about giving without the expectation that you will get something in return.

3-Look at the world as a puzzle. Whether you’re speaking with your friend or person you met at an event, listen carefully to what they’re telling you. Are they expressing concern or frustration about something? Have they expressly mentioned a need? Is there someone in your network with whom you could connect them to help or move them forward on their journey in life? Look at the world like a puzzle, using your network to connect others to help both parties advance.

4-There aren’t six degrees of separation…there are two, you just have to think hard about how to get there! This builds off of lesson number three. It’s easy to visualize now when you look at tools like LinkedIn that document for you how many degrees of separation exist between you and someone with whom you’d like to connect. The statistic is technically that there are 4.74 degrees of separation, but thinking of it as two simply served as a perspective shift for me on the power of your connections.

5-It’s not necessarily what you know, but whom you know. Think back to the last time you needed something intangible and how you got it. Getting a job is certainly easier if you know someone. Closing that big deal goes more smoothly when someone refers you. The examples go on and on. Certainly what you know is not to be discredited entirely, because once you get in the door, you have to back it up with something. But, would you have gotten in the door without a connection? Or would it not be a boost to have had someone singing your praises before you arrived?

6-Do talk to strangers. My dad is the king of striking up a conversation with anyone, especially his plane seatmate. He’ll know your life story by the time the flight lands and in all likelihood, you’ll have an email in your inbox within 24 hours connecting you to someone who will be of value to you. He is never out for anything for himself in these chats; he rarely even tells the other person much about himself. But, he’s been able to gift the power of his network to countless people over the years simply by saying hello and asking questions.

7-It’s all about your follow-through. If you don’t follow up, send a thank you, do what you said you’ll do or keep in touch, a relationship falls flat.

8-Being on time is late; 5 minutes early is on time. A big part of networking is what happens after an initial meeting and the impression you make. Part of that is being respectful of someone else’s time by arriving early.

9-Relationships often pay dividends years down the road. If you can do something for the people you meet right away, that’s a bonus. But sometimes, it takes years to find that opportunity. Either way, a relationship in itself has value.

10- Never underestimate the power of someone’s rolodex (or CRM, LinkedIn contacts, or whatever other modern-day version you prefer). Being kind to someone could result in their singing your praises or connecting you to someone who becomes a great influence. Being unkind, cold or selfish could result in the opposite — never, ever burn bridges.

Finally, a bonus tip: Use proper grammar and dress the part during meetings. Both contribute to the impression you’re making and the way you carry yourself. Thank you, Dad, for all the valuable lessons that have served me well as an adult.

Darrah Brustein is a writer, master-networker, and serial entrepreneur with businesses in merchant services, networking and financial education for kids; she is also the founder of Network Under 40, a networking organization young professionals.

 

Forbes.com | January 13, 2015  | Darrah Brustein 

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Your Career: How To Get The Job Interview…What is Causing a Hiring Manager to Lose Sleep is the Business Pain in the picture, & it’s Almost Never Stated or Even Hinted at in The Job Ad.

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The hardest part of a job search is getting the interview. Once you’re in the door at a job interview, your chances of getting the job rise dramatically. Of course, getting a good job isn’t just a numbers game. You have to have a good sense of what your hiring manager is dealing with — what’s keeping him or her up at night, in other words.

 

What is causing a hiring manager to lose sleep is theBusiness Pain in the picture, and it’s almost never stated or even hinted at in the job ad.

You don’t have to restrict yourself to reading job ads and responding to them, either. You can start a conversation with any hiring manager aboutBusiness Pain. You can write a Pain Letter and send it with your Human-Voiced Resume directly to the manager who’d be your boss if you got the job.

 

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How to begin? Start with this search on LinkedIn LNKD -1.76%. We teach this search in our LinkedIn workshops and it’s very popular, because the results you’ll get from this LinkedIn search will fuel your job search.

The search is called Who’s Around, because your search results will tell you which employers in your geographical area have people on board who do some of the same things you do in your work.

To begin a Who’s Around search, log into LinkedIn and look for the open search box at the top of the page. Next to the search box you’ll see the wordAdvanced. Click on that word; it will take you to the Advanced Search page of LinkedIn. We’re going to use the Advanced Search page to search the massive LinkedIn user database.

You’ll see open boxes all the way down the left side of the Advanced Search page. We won’t use all of them – just a few. We’ll use the keyword box (at the top) to search for keywords that are relevant to you in your job search. Think about keywords that are most pertinent to the sort of work you do. Here are some ideas:

  • Cost Accounting
  • RF
  • social media analytics
  • employee benefits design
  • software documentation
  • Channel Sales

When you conduct a Who’s Around search, you’ll plug one keyword at a time (one keyword or phrase per search) into the Keyword field on the LinkedIn Advanced Search page. Next, you’ll plug in your geography. That’s all the way down at the bottom of the Advanced Search page. You’ll be asked to enter a zip code or postal code so that LinkedIn can focus your Who’s Around search on people who are based near where you are.

Now, hit Search. What is LinkedIn’s search engine going to do? It’s going to look for LinkedIn users who have the same words in their profiles that you entered into the Keyword field, and who are are located not far from you. You’re going to get back a list of search results, and those search results are people. They’re other LinkedIn users. You’re going to read each profile, because some of these LinkedIn users work for employers who are doing work you should know about.

Some of the employers may be small. They may be flying under the radar. They may not even have a website yet! That’s okay. You’re going to look at the profiles and learn about these LinkedIn users who have keywords — interests, that is — in common with you. Who else are they connected to? Some of their connections are folks you should know — leaders at organizations who might be able to use someone like you.

You can send these leaders Pain Letters, and I hope you do. Pain Letters are not magic bullets — only about one in four Pain Letters results in a return phone call or email reply, but that’s still a lot better than the results you’ll get lobbing applications into faceless Black Holes recruiting portals.

Your Pain Letter will speak directly to a busy businessperson about something he or she cares more about than almost anything — solving his or her biggest problem at work.

That’s how you’ll get a job interview. It takes a little pluck and a bit of elbow grease to send a Pain Letter to your hiring manager, because you have to do some research to write a thoughtful and intelligent Pain Letter.

You have to formulate a Pain Hypothesis, but it isn’t hard to do. There are only a small number of possible Business Pains, to begin with. Your next employer may be having trouble getting new products out the door. They may be falling down in their marketing efforts.

You’re a wise businessperson — investigate and make an educated guess about which roadblocks are in your hiring manager’s way. Next, write about it. Tie your Pain Hypothesis to a quick story about a time when you solved a similar sort of Business Pain, and your chances at meeting the hiring manager face to face zoom upwards.

Try it! It’s a new year, a great time to step away from cold and dysfunctional systems that don’t work.

Read more about Pain Letters and the non-traditional Whole Person Job Search approach at the links below.

Forget Cover Letters- Write a Pain Letter, Instead! 

Dear Hiring Manager, I Feel Your Pain

How to Get Past the Hiring Gatekeeper

Five Things You Don’t Need To Include On Your Resume

These Ten Zombie Phrases Are Killing Your Resume

How To Write Your Human-Voiced Resume

How to Follow Up on a Pain Letter

Is Your Resume Ready for Action? Find Out!

If You Did It, Claim It On Your Resume! 

Is the Zombie Voice in Your Resume Hurting Your Brand?

 

 

Forbes.com | January 11, 2015 | Liz Ryan

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2015/01/11/how-to-get-the-job-interview