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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
I know there is a job open. HR seems indifferent. What do I do?
Question
I am awell experienced customer service professional. I am targeting one company here. They have positions in there customer service. I contacted their HR department and farwarded my cv but there response was cold. How to increase the chances of interview? can you advise.
Answer
As you know there are all different types of customer service positions requiring different types of experience.
Assuming your experience meshes well with the requirements of the job:
1. Construct a resume that makes the fit obvious to an HR person that you fit the position
or
2. Locate the hiring manager and contact them.
Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter
www.JeffAltman.com
I am awell experienced customer service professional. I am targeting one company here. They have positions in there customer service. I contacted their HR department and farwarded my cv but there response was cold. How to increase the chances of interview? can you advise.
Answer
As you know there are all different types of customer service positions requiring different types of experience.
Assuming your experience meshes well with the requirements of the job:
1. Construct a resume that makes the fit obvious to an HR person that you fit the position
or
2. Locate the hiring manager and contact them.
Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter
www.JeffAltman.com
Saturday, June 04, 2011
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
Thirteen Sites for Finding an Internship
This job (and technically it is not a job) may not be for you, personally. It may be for the teen in your family. Regardless, I hope it helps whoever reads it.
According to the US Department of Labor, an internship program must meet six specific standards.
1. The intern has to receive training that is equivalent to a vocational school.
2. The intern benefits from the experience
3. The intern cannot displace an employee
4. There is no immediate advantage from the Intern's Activities
5. There is no guarantee of a job
6. There is an understanding that the intern will not be paid
To translate the legalese, an intern is an unpaid person who works for a company that should get nothing substantial from the work the intern performs, yet the interns learns from the experience, doesn't replace a current employee and receives no promise that they will be hired.
Sounds real enticing!
In addition to the support provided by your student's university, here are a few websites that can help your "intern-to-be" find an internship program
1. Search4JobLeads.com: This site aggregates information from thousands of other sites as does
2. Indeed.com: I carry Indeed on www.jeffaltman.com/links.htm
3. CollegeRecruiter http://tinyurl.com/25jsn2: This site focuses on the college age person to recent grad
4. Careerbuilder: I have convenient Careerbuilder links on www.jeffaltman.com Search using the entry level link.
5. Monster http://tinyurl.com/yuof36 The Big Daddy site has many openings
6. Internjobs www.Internjobs.com
7. FashionInternship http://tinyurl.com/2qmlyf
8. AdvertisingInternships http://tinyurl.com/2sbbel
9. Entertainment Internships http://tinyurl.com/3by8ze
10. Marketing Internships http://tinyurl.com/359jro
11. Music Internships http://tinyurl.com/368gwm
12. PublicRelationsInternships http://tinyurl.com/2m2cxh
13. Yahoo HotJobs http://tinyurl.com/ytpnje
I hope these sites help.
According to the US Department of Labor, an internship program must meet six specific standards.
1. The intern has to receive training that is equivalent to a vocational school.
2. The intern benefits from the experience
3. The intern cannot displace an employee
4. There is no immediate advantage from the Intern's Activities
5. There is no guarantee of a job
6. There is an understanding that the intern will not be paid
To translate the legalese, an intern is an unpaid person who works for a company that should get nothing substantial from the work the intern performs, yet the interns learns from the experience, doesn't replace a current employee and receives no promise that they will be hired.
Sounds real enticing!
In addition to the support provided by your student's university, here are a few websites that can help your "intern-to-be" find an internship program
1. Search4JobLeads.com: This site aggregates information from thousands of other sites as does
2. Indeed.com: I carry Indeed on www.jeffaltman.com/links.htm
3. CollegeRecruiter http://tinyurl.com/25jsn2: This site focuses on the college age person to recent grad
4. Careerbuilder: I have convenient Careerbuilder links on www.jeffaltman.com Search using the entry level link.
5. Monster http://tinyurl.com/yuof36 The Big Daddy site has many openings
6. Internjobs www.Internjobs.com
7. FashionInternship http://tinyurl.com/2qmlyf
8. AdvertisingInternships http://tinyurl.com/2sbbel
9. Entertainment Internships http://tinyurl.com/3by8ze
10. Marketing Internships http://tinyurl.com/359jro
11. Music Internships http://tinyurl.com/368gwm
12. PublicRelationsInternships http://tinyurl.com/2m2cxh
13. Yahoo HotJobs http://tinyurl.com/ytpnje
I hope these sites help.
Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
thebiggamehunter@cisny.com
© 2008 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 many disciplines since 1971. He is a retired certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist.
He is the author of “Get Yourself Hired NOW! The Big Game Hunter’s Guide to Head Hunting Your Next Job and Every Job After That” (in ebook and audio formats) and “Get Your Job Search Organized NOW!” (ebook) Both are available at www.getyourselfhiredNOW.com Register at the site and you will receive free copies of The International Job Board List and a Guide to Resume Writing.
To receive a daily digest of positions emailed to you, search for openings that The Big Game Hunter is working on, to use Jeff’s free job lead search engine, Job Search Universe, to subscribe to Jeff’s free job hunting ezine, “Head Hunt Your Next Job, or his staffing ezine, “Natural Selection”, or to learn about his VIP program,go to www.jeffaltman.com.
Explore some of The Big Game Hunter's products in "The Universe" series
- Job Search Universe: Search thousand of Job Boards and Corporate Job Sites for job leads at the same time
- The Resume Universe: Information about Resumes and Cover Letters
- The Consulting Universe: Search and Post Consulting Assignments and Consulting Jobs
- Self-Employment Universe: Business Opportunities and Work-At-Home
- The Diet Universe: Health & Wellness Information
- Personal Finance Universe: Taking Care of Your Money better
Plus
- Search4Candidates.com: Refined Searching for Resumes and Candidate Leads
- Search4JobLeads.com: The site that recruiters use to find job leads
- VIP Personal Search: Hire Your Own VIP Personal Search Agent
- The Job Market Blog: Blogging and news about the job market since August 2001
- 4ITProfessionals: Search for jobs, resume services and post your resume—targeted on IT professionals
- HeadHuntYourNextJob.com: 4 Search Products in one place
- Indian Job Network: Network for Work in
Friday, February 29, 2008
You Hate Spam, Don't You?
So Why Are You Spamming Me?
One of the reasons I like Gmail as much as I do is because its spam filter is extremely good. The spam filter or local ISP provides is horrible and requires that every time I open it, I have to manually create rules that direct future spammer emails to go directly to my delete files. It is too time consuming, so I've switched to Gmail and abandoned the ISP's email account for me to the spammers.
At work, every day, I arrive to at least 100 and, more often, 150+ emails from individuals whose resumes in no way shape or form reflect the specifics of the requirements of the job description they are applying for.
I wonder why they sent the resume.
Many people are brought up with the idea that if your resume fits 20% of the requirement, you send it because maybe . . .
Or that if a recruiter does work in a specific field, but the ad doesn't fit your experience, you send them your resume because they might have something else. This strategy may work with junior recruiters but is frustrating to people like me who have high demanding and extremely demanding clients.
So let me explain why this is so troublesome.
On Monday, if I walk in to 100 new resumes, call and speak to each person for 5 minutes, I will take 5 hours qualifying every person. I will have done nothing to help the people who contacted me on Friday who may or may not fit the requirements. I probably won't actually speak to everyone; I'll need to leave messages that may or may not be responded to that day. I will need to keep everyone's resume organized and easily locatable so that when they decide they have the time to call back, I can easily retrieve it which delays my contacting someone from that day's group of 100 resumes.
And then I will have discovered that the resume was sent speculatively.
I know I am not unique in having this problem. Recruiters I connect with all over the country lament that they spend all day reading one useless resume after another.
So, here's a piece of simple and EXTREMELY USEFUL ADVICE. If you have the experience that is required of the job, make sure it is in your resume, even if that means adding it to your basic resume.
Do not just include it in a cover letter or cover email; PUT IT IN THE RESUME. Pretend that someone even busier than I will be reviewing it so MAKE YOUR RELEVANT EXPERIENCE OBVIOUS.
By doing that, you will get many more interviews and your resumes won't look like spam.
One of the reasons I like Gmail as much as I do is because its spam filter is extremely good. The spam filter or local ISP provides is horrible and requires that every time I open it, I have to manually create rules that direct future spammer emails to go directly to my delete files. It is too time consuming, so I've switched to Gmail and abandoned the ISP's email account for me to the spammers.
At work, every day, I arrive to at least 100 and, more often, 150+ emails from individuals whose resumes in no way shape or form reflect the specifics of the requirements of the job description they are applying for.
I wonder why they sent the resume.
Many people are brought up with the idea that if your resume fits 20% of the requirement, you send it because maybe . . .
Or that if a recruiter does work in a specific field, but the ad doesn't fit your experience, you send them your resume because they might have something else. This strategy may work with junior recruiters but is frustrating to people like me who have high demanding and extremely demanding clients.
So let me explain why this is so troublesome.
On Monday, if I walk in to 100 new resumes, call and speak to each person for 5 minutes, I will take 5 hours qualifying every person. I will have done nothing to help the people who contacted me on Friday who may or may not fit the requirements. I probably won't actually speak to everyone; I'll need to leave messages that may or may not be responded to that day. I will need to keep everyone's resume organized and easily locatable so that when they decide they have the time to call back, I can easily retrieve it which delays my contacting someone from that day's group of 100 resumes.
And then I will have discovered that the resume was sent speculatively.
I know I am not unique in having this problem. Recruiters I connect with all over the country lament that they spend all day reading one useless resume after another.
So, here's a piece of simple and EXTREMELY USEFUL ADVICE. If you have the experience that is required of the job, make sure it is in your resume, even if that means adding it to your basic resume.
Do not just include it in a cover letter or cover email; PUT IT IN THE RESUME. Pretend that someone even busier than I will be reviewing it so MAKE YOUR RELEVANT EXPERIENCE OBVIOUS.
By doing that, you will get many more interviews and your resumes won't look like spam.
Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
thebiggamehunter@cisny.com
© 2008 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 many disciplines since 1971. He is a retired certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist.
He is the author of “Get Yourself Hired NOW! The Big Game Hunter’s Guide to Head Hunting Your Next Job and Every Job After That” (in ebook and audio formats) and “Get Your Job Search Organized NOW!” (ebook) Both are available at www.getyourselfhiredNOW.com Register at the site and you will receive free copies of The International Job Board List and a Guied to Resume Writing.
To receive a daily digest of positions emailed to you, search for openings that The Big Game Hunter is working on, to use Jeff’s free job lead search engine, Job Search Universe, to subscribe to Jeff’s free job hunting ezine, “Head Hunt Your Next Job, or his staffing ezine, “Natural Selection”, or to learn about his VIP program, go to www.jeffaltman.com.
Explore some of The Big Game Hunter's products in "The Universe" series
- Job Search Universe: Search thousand of Job Boards and Corporate Job Sites for job leads at the same time
- The Resume Universe: Information about Resumes and Cover Letters
- The Consulting Universe: Search and Post Consulting Assignments and Consulting Jobs
- Self-Employment Universe: Business Opportunities and Work-At-Home
- The Diet Universe: Health & Wellness Information
- Personal Finance Universe: Taking Care of Your Money better
Plus
- Search4Candidates.com: Refined Searching for Resumes and Candidate Leads
- Search4JobLeads.com: The site that recruiters use to find job leads
- VIP Personal Search: Hire Your Own VIP Personal Search Agent
- The Job Market Blog: Blogging and news about the job market since August 2001
- 4ITProfessionals: Search for jobs, resume services and post your resume—targeted on IT professionals
- HeadHuntYourNextJob.com: 3 Search Products in one place
- Indian Job Network: Network for Work in
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Mapping Your Network
As you start to prepare to change jobs, one of the many things you can do to prepare to change jobs is to map your network. What's that?
Some of you may be familiar with the term from technology where a diagram or schema of a local, wide or metropolitan area network may be developed so that everyone has a sense of how the network has been constructed, who is on it and what the topology is.
Mapping your network is similar.
Start with your first level of relationships--who do you know? Look in your phone book, your online address book, your online connections and accumulate office and home email addresses, phone numbers and addresses. How about people you know from religious relationships? People you connect with on Facebook, myspace, LinkedIn and other social network sites
Your second level of relationship is to ask yourself who they might know who you could ask them to put you in contact with. Do they have a spouse or partner who works for a desired organization. How old are their adult children. Where do they work and what do they do professionally. How about the people from the online networking services. Who are they connected with and who is in their families?
Keep expanding outward for each person and develop a schema of your relationships and of those you are connected with. Once you've done this, you can figure out who you can ask for help and to do what for you.
Some of you may be familiar with the term from technology where a diagram or schema of a local, wide or metropolitan area network may be developed so that everyone has a sense of how the network has been constructed, who is on it and what the topology is.
Mapping your network is similar.
Start with your first level of relationships--who do you know? Look in your phone book, your online address book, your online connections and accumulate office and home email addresses, phone numbers and addresses. How about people you know from religious relationships? People you connect with on Facebook, myspace, LinkedIn and other social network sites
Your second level of relationship is to ask yourself who they might know who you could ask them to put you in contact with. Do they have a spouse or partner who works for a desired organization. How old are their adult children. Where do they work and what do they do professionally. How about the people from the online networking services. Who are they connected with and who is in their families?
Keep expanding outward for each person and develop a schema of your relationships and of those you are connected with. Once you've done this, you can figure out who you can ask for help and to do what for you.
Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
thebiggamehunter@cisny.com
© 2008 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 many disciplines since 1971. He is a retired certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist.
He is the author of “Get Yourself Hired NOW! The Big Game Hunter’s Guide to Head Hunting Your Next Job and Every Job After That” (in ebook and audio formats) and “Get Your Job Search Organized NOW!” (ebook) Both are available at www.getyourselfhiredNOW.com
To receive a daily digest of positions emailed to you, search for openings that The Big Game Hunter is working on, to use Jeff’s free job lead search engine, Job Search Universe, to subscribe to Jeff’s free job hunting ezine, “Head Hunt Your Next Job, or his staffing ezine, “Natural Selection”, or to learn about his VIP program, go to www.jeffaltman.com.
Explore some of The Big Game Hunter's products in "The Universe" series
- Job Search Universe: Search thousand of Job Boards and Corporate Job Sites for job leads at the same time
- The Resume Universe: Information about Resumes and Cover Letters
- The Consulting Universe: Search and Post Consulting Assignments and Consulting Jobs
- Self-Employment Universe: Business Opportunities and Work-At-Home
- The Diet Universe: Health & Wellness Information
- Personal Finance Universe: Taking Care of Your Money better
Plus
- Search4Candidates.com: Refined Searching for Resumes and Candidate Leads
- Search4JobLeads.com: The site that recruiters use to find job leads
- VIP Personal Search: Hire Your Own VIP Personal Search Agent
- The Job Market Blog: Blogging and news about the job market since August 2001
- 4ITProfessionals: Search for jobs, resume services and post your resume—targeted on IT professionals
- HeadHuntYourNextJob.com: 3 Search Products in one place
- Indian Job Network: Network for Work in
Are You The Target?
If an earthquake had devastated your home, would you sit and complain about it or would you be making new plans?
Too often, the first thing people do when their firm is experiencing problems is to sit and mope, complain, do anything other than fit for their jobs or hit the exits. After all, complaining does nothing. Action does.
So if you learn your firm is experiencing financial problems severe enough to put layoffs in the cards or your job in jeopardy, here are a few things to do.
If you run a business unit or a company and the numbers disappoint, don't just take it; make your case to the board, to the president, to anyone who should hear it. Don't let the numbers stand unchallenged. Make sure people know that it is not unique to your firm and that you have a plan to change things.
If you're the Average Joe or Josephine, be the "backbone of the organization." Come in early and leave late. Care about what you do and document everything. Make sure people know how much effort you put in without seeming like a martyr.
If you're fairly new to the firm when problems occur, become "the eager beaver" by becoming a sponge for knowledge. Ask lots of questions and get advice from everyone important. Get going!
If you're an "old timer" become a work machine. let everyone see you as important so that they don't believe that you and your high salary are disposable.
And while all of this is going on, prepare your resume and start connecting with people inside of your organization to see if you can transfer to a division where layoffs are unlikely or outside of your organization so that you can start interviewing before you are fired.
Too often, the first thing people do when their firm is experiencing problems is to sit and mope, complain, do anything other than fit for their jobs or hit the exits. After all, complaining does nothing. Action does.
So if you learn your firm is experiencing financial problems severe enough to put layoffs in the cards or your job in jeopardy, here are a few things to do.
If you run a business unit or a company and the numbers disappoint, don't just take it; make your case to the board, to the president, to anyone who should hear it. Don't let the numbers stand unchallenged. Make sure people know that it is not unique to your firm and that you have a plan to change things.
If you're the Average Joe or Josephine, be the "backbone of the organization." Come in early and leave late. Care about what you do and document everything. Make sure people know how much effort you put in without seeming like a martyr.
If you're fairly new to the firm when problems occur, become "the eager beaver" by becoming a sponge for knowledge. Ask lots of questions and get advice from everyone important. Get going!
If you're an "old timer" become a work machine. let everyone see you as important so that they don't believe that you and your high salary are disposable.
And while all of this is going on, prepare your resume and start connecting with people inside of your organization to see if you can transfer to a division where layoffs are unlikely or outside of your organization so that you can start interviewing before you are fired.
Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
thebiggamehunter@cisny.com
© 2008 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 many disciplines since 1971. He is a retired certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist.
He is the author of “Get Yourself Hired NOW! The Big Game Hunter’s Guide to Head Hunting Your Next Job and Every Job After That” (in ebook and audio formats) and “Get Your Job Search Organized NOW!” (ebook) Both are available at www.getyourselfhiredNOW.com
To receive a daily digest of positions emailed to you, search for openings that The Big Game Hunter is working on, to use Jeff’s free job lead search engine, Job Search Universe, to subscribe to Jeff’s free job hunting ezine, “Head Hunt Your Next Job, or his staffing ezine, “Natural Selection”, or to learn about his VIP program, go to www.jeffaltman.com.
Explore some of The Big Game Hunter's products in "The Universe" series
- Job Search Universe: Search thousand of Job Boards and Corporate Job Sites for job leads at the same time
- The Resume Universe: Information about Resumes and Cover Letters
- The Consulting Universe: Search and Post Consulting Assignments and Consulting Jobs
- Self-Employment Universe: Business Opportunities and Work-At-Home
- The Diet Universe: Health & Wellness Information
- Personal Finance Universe: Taking Care of Your Money better
Plus
- Search4Candidates.com: Refined Searching for Resumes and Candidate Leads
- Search4JobLeads.com: The site that recruiters use to find job leads
- VIP Personal Search: Hire Your Own VIP Personal Search Agent
- The Job Market Blog: Blogging and news about the job market since August 2001
- 4ITProfessionals: Search for jobs, resume services and post your resume—targeted on IT professionals
- HeadHuntYourNextJob.com: 3 Search Products in one place
- Indian Job Network: Network for Work in
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