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It’s a couple of years old but I’m a huge fan of Guy Kawasaki and I was recently reminded of his blog post while I was reading other information online. It’s from his personal blog called How to Change The World.
He called it The Art of Recruiting and he makes a number of great points including: Hire Better Than Yourself (which is so much harder than most people are willing to admit) and Check Independent References.
We get asked a lot how you can go about checking independent references. The easiest way that we’ve found is to utilize the Topgrading technique of career history review. Included in their career history form is something called TORC which stands for Threat of a Reference Check. By simply asking the question, “And who was your manager there? And what will they say when I call them?” you can get a lot more information out of someone. A simple example of how this works: I was on the phone with a candidate this morning who was sharing with me all of the wonderful things he had accomplished in his current role and couldn’t even think of a weakness he had until I asked the aforementioned question. Suddenly I’m hearing about the deadlines that he missed and the way he and his manager never really got along. Don’t be afraid to push hard on someone whose career history you’re not really buying in to. And check references…
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3 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Chances
We have thousands of job seekers sending their resumes in for every single position we have open at any given time (and sometimes, there are a lot of positions). You aren’t doing yourself any favors by sending in your resume to jobs you are not qualified for. In fact, you are probably lessening your chances of actually getting a job that would truly match what you are looking for.
Because of this, we’d like to offer up 3 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Chances with Us:
1) Cross check your qualifications: If you are going to apply for a job, please read the ad and try to determine if you really have the skill set necessary to fill the job. Just because you may have some of the same keywords in your resume that the job posting has, does not mean you are qualified for the job. Having experience as a medical claims coder in a hospital does not make you qualified to be a doctor.
2) Include your contact information: We often see this with technical applicants. They will not include their location and contact information in their resume. Full disclosure is the key here. Please don’t make us guess if you are in our search parameters. Also, if you want the job, make it easy on the person reviewing your resume to be able to contact you for an interview. Making them chase all over trying to find a way to get a hold of you will just cause frustration on their part and could eventually make them mark you off their list of potential candidates.
3) Include Dates: Again, full disclosure is best when it comes to relevant information within your resume. When we see a resume that does not have the dates listed within their employment history, it often means that the applicant has something to hide. Either the person has a jumpy, job hopping work history or they don’t have the required years of specific experience. Either way they are not being open about their work history, which makes us question their intentions in the first place.
If you are considering sending your resume in for a job you are truly interested in, look your resume over and make sure it has all of the important details listed. Making a few small changes to your job search and resume strategy can make a large impact on your results.
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