Top Job Search Tips For 2016

Top Job Search Tips For 2016Top Job Search Tips For 2016Executive job search need not be a lengthy, convoluted path. In fact, you can achieve the shortest distance between point A and point B by making a straight line directly to the company and the hiring decision maker you need. Following are three strategies to optimize your job search for maximum results in minimum time.1. Shift your mindset from job search to company search.Job searching is a finite activity. Only a limited number of jobs will be advertised. If you apply for one (or two, or ten) and dont hear a response, those opportunities are over. If you interview and are not selected, that also is likely the end of the road.However, a company search uncovers practically infinite options. Build a list of ideal employers, perhaps based on distance from your home, company size, industry or corporate culture. Next, find out whats going on in those organizations. Google nachrichtensendung can provide you with extensive, up-to-dat e insight on whether the company is launching a new product, opening a new division or achieving an industry honor. All these scenarios indicate the company is in growth mode, and organizations that are growing are the ones that need to top your list.2. Offer your value aussage, not just your resume.The best way to use what you uncover in Google News is to factor specific information into your approach to the company. Instead of sending your resume, which 99.9% of your competition is doing, craft a targeted value proposition letter that succinctly states you know what the organization is working on right now and your particular brand of expertise may constitute a solid match.The letter you write is not a place for fluff. Delete all fillers about being a dynamic executive, with extensive leadership success. Put some teeth into this prove your value by presenting quantifiable examples of your achievements, and make sure those accomplishments are on par with the level of impact your id eal company would likely be looking for.3. Approach the decision maker directly.Yes, this last step is easier said than done. However, devote some time to identifying and reaching several of the right decision makers, instead of the same amount of time to blasting your resume far and wide across the Internet, where it will likely reach either resume scanning software or basically nobody.Options abound online. To find out a persons name, Google the likely job title and the company, like this query for example, VP, Marketing IBM. You can conduct a similar search on LinkedIn. Invest in LinkedIn InMail in order to contact the person. GooglePlus and Twitter can be treasure troves, because these are the social media outlets where people place entire professional biographies about themselves, which are often rich with contact information.Every public library in every major city has a free database of business information and executive decision makers you can likely access that from your h ome computer.Searching for companies as opposed to jobs, offering your value proposition instead of your resume, and approaching the decision maker directly are all strategies when, put together, will sharply increase the likelihood that you land the ideal role you want much faster than your competition.

Hiring For Skills Instead of Credentials

Hiring For Skills Instead of Credentials Hiring For Skills Instead of Credentials Its upsetting because thats the most perfect headline for any article about HireArt, and Im jealous that TechCrunch beat me to the punch. That headline is perfect because it succinctly captures HireArts unique essence - solutions-based thinking driven by a healthy irreverence for flawed traditions.The flawed tradition that sparked HireArt? Contemporary recruiting practices, which privilege irrelevant credentials over demonstrable skills, according to Julia Averbuck, HireArts head of operations.What does it mean that someone has a 3.9 GPA at Harvard? Averbuck asks. Yes, it means that theyre hardworking, but that doesnt necessarily mean that they can do this job.The solution? An souped-up take on the job board, one that notlage only syndicates an organizations job posts, but that also screens candidates for you.HireArt wants to be a system that could test someones ability to do the job, and it wants to improve the efficiency of recruiting, when it came to actual skills and not just credentials, Averbuck says.Origin StoryHireArt co-founders Elli Sharef and Nick Sedlet both worked for companies with well-respected recruiting processes. Sharef was with McKinsey Company, whose one-time managing director Marvin Bower was among the first to recruit talent straight out of geschftliches miteinander schools Sedlet was with Goldman Sachs, yet another powerful recruiter of fresh MBAs.But when Sharef moved to her next job, she learned that not every company is as adept at recruiting as McKinsey or Goldman Sachs. A lot of organizations rely on the wildly inefficient post-and-pray method, or other similarly unfocused methods of sourcing.Sharef saw how different it was, and how frustrating recruiting could be, Averbuck says. So what she wanted to do was she wanted to create a process that could replicate the McKinsey process, in that it could pick out the raw talent. It could really figure out who the best candidates are for the job.And as Sharef thought about the idea more, she realized that even the McKinsey process could be improved upon. Powerhouse companies like McKinsey and Goldman Sachs often focus their recruiting strategies on graduates from top-50 schools, artificially limiting their reaches. So, even though they have this great interview process, theyre actually not addressing every potential talent out there, Averbuck says. Sharef and Sedlet wanted to create a process that helps anyone - with any kind of background - shine beyond their resum.HireArts Take on RecruitingFor employers, HireArt is sort of a combination job board/ATS, but with much better sichtung capabilities. You head to HireArt, post a job, and it syndicates your posting. HireArt assigns you an account manager, whose job is to figure out what, exactly, you want from your new employee. We spend a lot of time upfront understanding what companies want, says Averbuck. Were not just going off of t he job requirements were not going to go off of some great idea we have. We do a call with the hiring manager to say, Tell us what youre looking for.Once HireArt has this information, it can start curating a candidate list - that is, a list of the top few candidates whom the platform determines are the best matches for you, out of all other applicants. In this way, HireArt is sort of like an ATS, separating the wheat from the chaff.Of course, the problem with ATSs is that so many of them filter candidates according to keywords on their resums. Hence the myriad articles on beating the system. And, at that point, a resum is pretty much worthless. It no longer shows off who a candidate is, but what a candidate knows a company wants to hear. Good luck trying to hire the best of the best in those conditions.HireArt, however, takes a different, more hands-on approach to candidate curation, using video interviews and work samples (more on those in a bit) to test relevant skills.Theres act ually two partes to the screening process, explains Averbuck. The candidate first sends in their resum, and then theyre invited back for a video interview. Whether they complete the video interview or not, in my personal opinion, is already an assessment of them.As Averbuck points out, applying to a job online is an absolute breeze, for the most part just send in your resume and see what happens. By asking applicants to complete a brief four-question assessment - two video questions, two written questions - HireArt hopes to test whether candidates really want the job or are just blindly sending off resums.The idea is that, if someone doesnt come back and do this extra 10-15 minute assessment, then theyre probably not that interested in the role, says Averbuck. Thats something that employers waste a lot of time on these days.Imagine, for example, posting an advertisement to Craigslist. How many applicants are you going to receive in total? (Conducting an experiment, writer Eric Aul d received 653 responses to a job ad in 24 hours. Afterwards, he took the ad down. How many more would he have received had he kept it up?) And how many of those are going to be quality candidates? (According to ERE, on average, more than 50 percent of applicants fail to meet the basic qualifications).An employers going to get 100-1000 resums on Craigslist, Averbuck says. You go through all of those resums, you pick out the best ones, and the first ten people you call just arent interested. They just kind of sent the resum because, Why not?Averbuck describes the video interview invite as the first line of assessment because, rather than assessing skills, it assess candidate interest. If a candidate cant be bothered to complete the assessment, they most likely cant be bothered to care much about the position if they land it.After this first layer of screening, we come to the actual assessment. The questions that HireArt asks candidates are specific to the level and the category of th e role which needs filling. For example, for a customer service role, we have them answer a customer service email, or we have them do a sample customer service call, says Averbuck. These are the work samples mentioned above little activities which provide snapshots of an applicants relevant skills.While HireArt generally deals with entry-level and non-technical jobs - the necessary skills for which are easier to assess online - the platform does have a process for evaluating higher-level candidates. For a more senior marketing job, for example, its a little harder to do work samples, but we ask for examples of prior work, or we ask them to talk about certain aspects of digital marketing that are going to be important for their jobs, says Averbuck.Its About FairnessFrom a candidate perspective - it feels weird to say this - but when Sharef and Sedlet started HireArt, they started it with a goal of fairness, of giving everyone a shot, says Averbuck.One can see why Averbuck feels weird saying that when youre used to screening candidates via the far-from-perfect systems of ATSs, screening candidates doesnt seem like an especially fair process. And the process is especially broken if youre screening for credentials instead of capabilities.But the hiring process should be fair, shouldnt it? Every applicant should have the chance to show an organization who they are. If who they are isnt right for that role, fair enough - but cutting candidates out before they get a chance to prove their worth seems not only cruel to candidates, but also counterintuitive to the companys mission. If youre looking to hire top talent, should you really be trusting resums and keyword filters? Can you afford to limit yourself to certain schools?Sharef and Sedlet started HireArt in part because they saw companies using the wrong criteria to hire people - e.g., looking for degrees instead of skills. They felt like a lot of companies were just screening for top-50 schools, Averbuck sa ys. Honestly, if youre a startup looking to hire a customer service person, for example, you probably dont even need to hire someone from a top-50 school.We started the company with the goal of showing that people were picking for the wrong categories, Averbuck explains.While HireArt acts as a third-party curator of candidates, Averbuck believes that this does not result in any sort of frustrating separation between applicants and companies. If anything, Averbuck sees HireArt as a way to bring prospective hires closer to employers If they do make it through to the top candidates, then theyre usually one of 5 or one of 10, Averbuck says. They get a lot of employer attention. They really do get the visibility.Going ForwardWeve figured out what we do well, Averbuck says of HireArt. Were at a point where we want to scale that.While HireArt is currently in the middle of raising capital to scale-up its operations, the company is also looking to improve some aspects of the platform. For ex ample, Averbuck says HireArt is looking to collect more data on how applicants are performing, so that it might leverage that information for the benefit of job applicants. Right now, we grade applications extensively, and we collect all of this data, but were working on how we can come around and figure out how to give this back to candidates, Averbuck says.HireArt also collects data on every candidate that gets hired, to see how well theyre doing and how long they stay.On a more general note, HireArt seems to see the value in constant improvement. As Averbuck notes before our conversation ends, We recognize that were definitely not there, in terms of Do we perfectly assess the abilities to do the job? But we assess it better than just a resum, so we want to keep improving how we assess it.Master the art of closing deals and making placements. Take our Recruiter Certification Program today. Were SHRM certified. Learn at your own pace during this 12-week program. 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These are the hardest-working countries and cities in the world

These are the hardest-working countries and cities in the worldThese are the hardest-working countries and cities in the worldResearch has found that the average American works more hours than a medieval peasant, but other countries and cities have certainly racked up their fair share of hours as well.According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) - using the fruchtwein recent data from 2016 - Mexico, Costa Rica and Korea top the list of average hours worked per year.The BBC reports that South Korea is cutting down on the number of hours employees can work per week with a new law that will apply to large companies in July eventually expanding to smaller companies.Hardest working countries in the worldMexico 2,255 hours per workerCosta Rica 2,212 hours per workerKorea 2,069 hours per workerGreece 2,035 hours per workerRussia 1,974 hours per workerChile 1,974 hours per workerPoland 1,928 hours per workerLatvia 1,910 hours per workerIsrael 1,889 hours pe r workerLithuania 1,885 hours per workerThe United States racked up 1,783 hours per worker in 2016, 16th place on the list.Ladders is now on SmartNewsDownload the SmartNews app and add the Ladders channel to read the latest career news and advice wherever you go.Hardest working cities in the worldAs for cities, Hong Kong workers put in the most hours on average per week (out of 71 cities) according to the UBS Proces Earnings report.Here are the Top 10 cities with the average weekly hours worked and thenumberof yearly paid vacation days they receiveHong Kong 50.1 hours weekly, 17 vacation daysMumbai 43.8 hours a week, 21 vacation daysMexico City 43.5 hours weekly, 17 vacation daysNew Delhi 42.6 hours weekly, 26 vacation daysBangkok 42.1 hours weekly, 9 vacation daysDubai 42.0 hours weekly, 30 vacation daysNairobi 42.0 hours weekly, 22 vacation daysTaipei 41.2 hours weekly, 13 vacation daysJakarta 40.4 hours weekly, 12 vacation daysBogota 40.3 hours weekly, 15 vacation daysThe highes t U.S. city to make the list was Chicago with 39.1 weekly hours worked and 14 yearly vacation days.

Listening 7 things fabulous listeners do differently

Listening 7 things fabulous listeners do differentlyListening 7 things fabulous listeners do differentlyListening is a bit like intelligence s of probing questions are What happened next? and Why did he say that? The key is to make certain that your questions really do add to your understanding of the speakers words, rather than deflecting the conversation to a different topic.4. Practice reflective listeningPsychologist Carl Rogers used the term reflective listening to describe the listening strategy of paraphrasing the meaning of whats being said in order to make certain youve interpreted the speakers words correctly.By doing this, you give the speaker the opportunity to clarify what she meant to say. When you practice reflective listening, dont simply repeat the speakers words to her. Use your own words to show that youve absorbed the information.5. Use positive body languageBecoming cognizant of your gestures, expressions, and tone of voice (and making certain theyre positive) wi ll draw people to you like ants to a picnic.Using an enthusiastic tone, uncrossing your arms, maintaining eye contact, and leaning towards the speaker are all forms of positive body language employed by great listeners. Positive body language can make all the difference in a conversation.6. Dont reisepass judgmentIf you want to be a good listener, you must be open-minded. Being open-minded makes you approachable and interesting to others. No one wants to have a conversation with someone who has already formed an opinion and is not willing to listen. Having an open mind is crucial in the workplace, where approachability means access to new ideas and help.To eliminate preconceived notions and judgment, you need to see the world through other peoples eyes. This doesnt require that you believe what they believe or condone their behavior it simply means that you quit passing judgment long enough to truly understand what they are saying.7. Keep your mouth shutIf youre not checking for und erstanding or asking a probing question, you shouldnt be talking. Not only does thinking about what youre going to say next take your attention away from the speaker, hijacking the conversation shows that you think you have something more important to say.This means that you shouldnt jump in with solutions to the speakers problems. Its human nature to want to help people, especially when its someone you care about, but what a lot of us dont realize is that when we jump in with advice or a solution, were shutting the other person down.Its essentially a more socially acceptable way of saying, Okay, Ive got it. You can stop now The effect is the same.Bringing it all togetherLife is busy, and it seems to whirl by faster every day. We all try to do a million things at once, and sometimes it works out. But active, effective listening isnt something you can do on the fly. It requires a conscious effort.Travis Bradberry is the coauthor of Emotional Intelligence 2.0 and the cofounder of Tale ntSmart.This article originally appeared onLinkedIn.

The Fight Against How to Write a Resume for a Job with No Experience

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Whether you are searching for your very first job or attempting to earn a career change, the approach starts with your resume. Its also important to think about the type of work you genuinely wish to be hired to do. The very last thing you would like is for your resume to let you down when youre actually the best suited pick for the job. Your job (while youre attempting to find a job) is to make certain you fit what theyre searching for. There are a few things that dont belong on a resume for work.

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