By Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter
On November 20, 2010, I launched “No BS Job Search Advice Radio” as a weekly podcast on blogal cradio. I called in a phone number that was delivered and began a 15-minute conversation with an audience that did not exist. I talked about myself, talked about how to eat a phone interview, and then spent a few minutes talking about jobs I am recruiting.
On January 30, 2018, the show reached 1000 episodes (today it is more than 3000 episodes). It has more episodes in iTunes than any other job Search podcast. The sound quality has improved. I no longer recruit after transferring to coaching where I work with people all over the world to help them transfer to new roles. Along the way, I converted from a weekly show to a daily one to a five-day-week show where I give a daily tip about job hunting because I think job search doesn’t have to be so hard, difficult or painful or take as long as it does. It’s just that the skills needed to find a job are different but complement the skills needed to do a job.
Along the way. I have gathered a number of thoughts about what job hunters need to do to be most successful.
No one is looking for you at work. One of the hardest things people need to hear is that their employer doesn’t really like them. You are a tool to perform what they want. They don’t care about you. Your boss/manager may tell you a lot of things at the time of review or between it communicating how important you are to the organization. Do not abdik your future to mother and/or far company you are working for. They look at their needs (and rightly), not yours.
It starts with courage. Job hunting will force you to challenge a number of your assumptions about professional success. If you are like most people you are likely to be rejected many times before you are hired. Putting yourself in the way of others’ assessments and opinions, right and often wrong, is brave.
Exercise will help you get better. If you’ve never heard the story of Michael Jordan practicing bad shots, Jordan would practice by going to the bad line, repeating his shooting ritual and sinking the first shot. Next time, just before shooting, he closed his eyes and shoots. After all the edge, there was still 15 meters away and 10 meters above the ground. Closing his eyes made him pay attention to his mechanics and how it felt. Job hunters tend to hunt hunting by shooting their eyes closed until they have experienced enough pain to start learning to do better. You need to learn first and then close your eyes, not the other way around.
Coaching helps. . . Very. Large athletes have all coaches. Large underholders do too. Most people try to find out on their own without an ally to help them perform at a high level. After all, you are an amateur when it comes to job hunting and a professional on what you do. This is a skills deficiency that is easily correct with coaching. Maybe you have a friend or mentor, a wife, husband or partner who is knowledgeable. You can hire a coach through LinkedIn’s Profinder feature or hire me. Either way, you have an idea of what to do. A coach helps you with course correct before too much pain occurs.
Find out what’s most important to you in your next job or organization before you start hunting hunting. Until you can define what success will look like in your search to the same degree that your employer has to choose someone to do the job (or better than some of them, but it is another conversation), you have no idea whether this will be the right role or whether you should continue to look. Your uncertainty about what you are looking for and how to evaluate for it is part of the reason why somewhere between 50% and 60% of the new hires fail.
Learn how to hunt hunting before you need it. If you drove from New York to Boston without working GPS or any cards, you might have a vague idea of how to get there, but will probably make a lot of wrong twists. Job hunters do it all the time. They are clueless about how to search, have let their network disappear on them and suddenly hover into action to find work and do this again. . . And again and again. You don’t want to have to find out when there’s a real or imagined pressure on you to find work. Be proactive instead of reactive.
Branding and networking work together. It’s fascinating to me that the least listened shows are my branding episodes. Branding and networking are intertwined with each other as critical career development strategies, but most people see it as a little more than window dressing. Your brand helps you grow your network. Your work helps you confirm your brand. Your brand and your network when it is congruent will help you bring you into your next position as well as a successful career.
It is easy to blame others for matches. It’s hard to see in the mirror and look at our part in our problems. When you don’t practice and just wing interviews when you let your network go to hell, when you have a resume and LinkedIn profile that is common when you have no thought about your job -seeking playoffs when you get to negotiate with your new employer when you refuse to ask for help, yes, a finger pointing to others and four pay attention to you. You are often your biggest problem. You will change your circumstances without any effort. How often does it work?
Bonus: LinkedIn Messaging is a game election. This topic will be on the show soon, but isn’t there yet. The ability to send a recruiter who does not call back when out to an employment manager for feedback knows when they are online because of the little green dot, message more people and get pretty immediate answers change a lot for all of us. Less hiding for humans creates more transparency. . . It goes two ways. You will not be able to emerge it is recruiting so easily trying to plan for an interview that you will not continue.
There is so much more I can draw attention to, but these are some major themes among 1000 episodes. If you are not a subscriber to “No BS Job Search Advice Roadio”, you can subscribe to iTunes, Spotify, Google Play and other podcast services.
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