Do’s and Don’ts After The Interview

7 Steps You Can Take to Help You Gain The Advantage

Things you do after the interview can influence a firm to hire you or to turn to someone else. Here are a few things to remember to do AND NOT DO.

1. Obtain a business card from everyone you meet at the interview so that you can address them properly when you . . .
2. Send a thank you letter via email to the people you met with. Express your interest in the job and reinforce why you believe you are qualified to be hired. Spell check and grammar check the email before sending it. I receive so many emails with lazy spelling mistakes.
3. Don’t send the same thank you note to everyone. Personalize it
4. Don’t forget to spell and grammar check each note.
5. Establish contact with your references to insure that they will be sjupportive of your candidacy and to hear what they have to say about you; if their reference is lukewarm, replace them with someone else. Such references are as useful as having a bad reference.
6. Follow up after a few days to continue to express interest and to determine their timetable for making a decision. Be patient and don’t call too often.
7. People often make the mistake of putting all their efforts on hold when they did well on the interview. The problem is that sometimes a job goes “on hold” or “the perfect candidate” walks in the door and you’re rejected for the job. KEEP LOOKING. KEEP INTERVIEWING. KEEP NETWORKING.

Following these steps will help you in many ways.

Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
jeffaltman@cisny.com

© 2007 all rights reserved.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, is Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New York search firm, He has successfully assisted many corporations identify management leaders and staff in technology, accounting, finance, sales, marketing and other disciplines since 1971. He is a certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist.

To receive a daily digest of positions emailed to you, search job openings, use his free job lead search engine, Job Search Universe. to subscribe Jeff’s free job search ezine, Head Hunt Your Next Job, or to learn more and sign up for his VIP Personal Search Agent service, go to, http://www.jeffaltman.com. To subscribe to Jeff’s free recruiting ezine, Natural Selection Ezine, subscribe at www.naturalselectionezine.com

If you would like Jeff and his firm to assist you with hiring staff, or if you would like help with a strategic job change, send an email to him at jeffaltman@cisny.com (If you’re looking for a new position, include your resume).

Get Your Resume on the Web and Not Just on Job Boards

Free Sites Make It easy

More and more companies and search firms are using tools like Talenthook and Infogist to search the web and job boards for resumes. They do so because these tools allow a company to locate resumes that fit their requirements on multiple job boards and websites concurrently and then send an email to them requesting the individual to contact them This is an enormous time saver for businesses.

But the problem still remains the results of all contacts. The major job boards fill fewer than 10% of available positions! They fail more than 90% of the time! Even if you believe that employment firms who advertise there and fill jobs should be included in the number of jobs filled and add every single position that employment agencies and search firms fill into the job board number, both categories fill no more than one third of all available jobs.

Part of the reason for that is that job boards are so expensive. To purchase access to the resume data base of one the major job boards, a firm must be willing to spend $100000 - $25000. How many small to midsized firms, the place where most of the major job creation has been in the US for the past decade ,do you think are willing to do that?

One way you can get your resume found by these firms is to have your resume posted on the web. If you have your own website, you create a page within your domain, optimize it for search engines, robots and spiders and get yourself found.

If you don’[t have a website, Microsoft and Google, to name a few will provide you with a free website where you can register a domain or an address to have your resume hosted. Microsoft’s service is located at http://www.office.live.com. There you can register a domain of your choosing (as long as it is available) and get your resume online.

Google’s PageCreator will offer you a sub domain of Google (www.yourname.google.com) Neither software they offer is sensational but they will do the job.

Make sure you optimizes your site for search agents. The geographic area where you are willing to work, your current salary and compensation plus your legal right to work in the country of your choosing (US examples would include citizen, green card holder, EAD, H-1b, F-1, B-1, to name a few) and then (SHAMELESS PLUS COMING) email the link to your site to theresumeuniverse@gmail.com and we will include it in our new free search engine. The Resume Universe uses Google technology to allow employers and search firms to search for resumes for free (and your resume is posted for free, too!

Using tools like Talenthook and Infogist, or just searching using The Resume Universe or Google will go a long way toward helping you add choices to your job search and more businesses being able to find you . . . for free!

Jeff Altman

The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
jeffaltman@cisny.com

© 2007 all rights reserved.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, is Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New York search firm, He has successfully assisted many corporations identify management leaders and staff in technology, accounting, finance, sales, marketing and other disciplines since 1971. He is a certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist.

To receive a daily digest of positions emailed to you, search job openings, use his free meta job lead tool or to subscribe Jeff’s free job search ezine, Head Hunt Your Next Job, go to, http://www.jeffaltman.com. To subscribe to Jeff’s free recruiting ezine, Natural Selection Ezine, subscribe at www.naturalselectionezine.com For information about personal search services, go to www.VIPPersonalSearch.com.

If you would like Jeff and his firm to assist you with hiring staff, or if you would like help with a strategic job change, send an email to him at jeffaltman@cisny.com (If you’re looking for a new position, include your resume).

Start Your Next Job Looking Great!: Two simple steps to getting a head start on everyone.

No matter if you are a beginner or a senior executive, you arrive at your new job with a "halo" around you. You were the one they chose; you are the solution to what they needed.

Halos don't last forever and your path to career success can be smooth or paved with ruts. How would you like to arrive at your new job with a leg up on everyone else and it might only take you two hours. TOPS!

Would you want to know two simple techniques to creating a great impression?

Step #1. Meet with your new boss and/or colleagues to get a clear picture on what you will need to do in your first 30 to 60 days to get off to a great start. It doesn't matter what they told you during the interview; things change AND they will probably be more forthcoming out their needs so that you can start mapping out solutions, milestones and targets that make sense

Step #2: Select 2 or 3 goals to accomplish during that time. Often, you will be handed a list of objectives and need to prioritize them for maximum impact.

DO IT!

Following this advice will often get you off to a great start and help cause people to notice you in a good way.

Jeff Altman The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
jeffaltman@cisny.com

© 2007 all rights reserved.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, is Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New York search firm, He has successfully assisted many corporations identify management leaders and staff in technology, accounting, finance, sales, marketing and other disciplines since 1971. He is a certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist.

To receive a daily digest of positions emailed to you, search job openings, use his free meta job lead tool or to subscribe Jeff’s free job search ezine, Head Hunt Your Next Job, go to, http://www.jeffaltman.com. To subscribe to Jeff’s free recruiting ezine, Natural Selection Ezine, subscribe at www.naturalselectionezine.com For information about personal search services, go to www.VIPPersonalSearch.com.

If you would like Jeff and his firm to assist you with hiring staff, or if you would like help with a strategic job change, send an email to him at jeffaltman@cisny.com (If you’re looking for a new position, include your resume).

Creating a Resume for the Web

Don't Just Rely on Job Boards

Most people believe that when they create a resume, all they have to think of is posting it on the major job sites and a few minor ones, send it to a few ads and, voila, 15 interviews later the job of their dreams appears.

What if I told you that the major job boards are only filling approximately 7% or 8% of the available positions would I have your attention?

You see the problem with the major job boards is that your resume will only be seen by companies that are willing o spend the tens of thousands of dollars to subscribe to their resume data base.

And the others, like the small and midsized firms that have been driving job growth in the US for the last 20 years are often shut out from seeing it.

So when I speak about putting your resume on the web, I mean posting a search engine optimized resume online that can be found by robots, spiders, crawlers, Google, Talenthook, Infogist (Talenthook and Infogist are tools that search the web and multiple job boards concurrently) and others and not just simply post it on job boards.

So what can you do if you don’t operate a website and want to post your resume?

Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and others will all give you free space to post your resume.

Once it is online, these tools plus my new addition to “The Universe series” of search engine products will allow your resume to be found by anyone.

My new search engine, The Resume Universe (www.theresumeuniverse.com) is a free search tool for everyone. Free to have your resume included in the search results; free for companies to search. After all, do you want your resume to be found by the best company or the best one willing to spend $15000 a year to search?

To have your resume included, email the link to your resume (not the resume, the URL where your resume is) to theresumeuniverse@gmail.com.

I believe this new tool, coupled with my job led search engine Job Search Universe (www.jobsearchuniverse.com) will go a long way toward helping people find work.

Oh yes, if you want to have your resume re-done, contact my friend, Matt Sislowitz at Radical Resumes (www.radicalresumes.com); Matt does great work and is fairly priced

Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
jeffaltman@cisny.com

© 2007 all rights reserved.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, is Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New York search firm, He has successfully assisted many corporations identify management leaders and staff in technology, accounting, finance, sales, marketing and other disciplines since 1971. He is a certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist.

To receive a daily digest of positions emailed to you, search job openings, use his free meta job lead tool or to subscribe Jeff’s free job search ezine, Head Hunt Your Next Job, go to, http://www.jeffaltman.com. To subscribe to Jeff’s free recruiting ezine, Natural Selection Ezine, subscribe at www.naturalselectionezine.com For information about personal search services, go to www.VIPPersonalSearch.com.

If you would like Jeff and his firm to assist you with hiring staff, or if you would like help with a strategic job change, send an email to him at jeffaltman@cisny.com (If you’re looking for a new position, include your resume).