Contacting The Job Posteer

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There are no absolutes or magic pills to guarantee success when it comes to your job search.

That being said, there are ways we can increase the % chance you see success to landing your next gig.

It’s all about focusing on the fundamentals & staying consistent. Overtime, you’ll increase your chances of success.

The comparison I like to make is your job search is the equivalent to baseball.

We want to increase your batting average. The higher your batting average, the more likely you get on base. The more you get on base, the more likely you score a run. Or maybe you just smack a dinger out the park one day.

One of the best ways to do this is by getting proactive and contacting the job poster directly.

Here’s why:

Recruiters are absolutely overwhelmed right now.

Idk how accurate, but I saw a stat a few months ago that said the unemployment rate for corporate/inhouse recruiters was ~30%!!!

It’s easy to dunk on recruiters and point the finger at them, but if you want to make any progress on your job search, you need to understand their situation and make life easy for them.

What does that mean?

The folks who lasted are spread thin and overwhelmed. To put into perspective, my wife is an internal recruiter and is working dozens of jobs with tons of candidates per job.

How does this affect you?

Sure, there may be some recruiters that look at every single applicant for every single job. But I can tell you those recruiters are in the minority.

Most recruiters will either 1. Use keyword searches within their ATS to narrow filter and rank the best candidates 2. Only contact the first X amount of candidates until they find enough that fit.

In scenario one, no, you do not get automatically rejected. But you may get passed up on. These filters are solid, but HR tech is so bad that you can’t rely on them as a job seeker. Instead of assuming you were rejected if you don’t hear back, contact the job seeker directly. Even if they say no, either way that was or original assumption anyway so who cares.

In the second scenario, recruiters may see 100 applicants. But if they find a solit 5-6 within the first 50 candidates, then they may not see a need to go through everyone else. Michael Jordan can be candidate number 69, but in this scenario, it won’t matter.

So the best way to combat this is not leaving it to chance and messaging the job poster.

How do we do this?

To start, you’ll have to think like a recruiter. What I’m about to show you is what half the recruiting industry is built on.

It’s called “MPC” or “Most Placeable Candidate”.

Essentially we call a good candidate, act like their sports agent and reach out to a bunch of decision makers asking if they’d like to interview them.

You’ll be doing this process, but on your own and cutting us out.

The key here is to not overthink it. If this was a bad idea, literally half of our industry wouldn’t exist. This is arguably the best way for an agency recruiter to drum up new business.

The other key is to not get discouraged. Most people do this 10 times, don’t hear back, and then say it’s a bad idea. The difference why it works for us and not you is that we do this 10 hours a day a million times over and don’t care if we get rejected.

So stay consistent, carve out some extra time and take the extra step. You’ll eventually start seeing some more hits.

Let’s Begin:

1: Fire up linkedin and go to the jobs tab.

2: Type in your skillset and location. For this example we’ll use a cybersec engineer

3: From here, click the job posting. You’ll see here clearly the job poster is high level

4: Hit the apply button. Fill out the application and you’ll see there is a job id at the top, write that down because we’ll need it in a few minutes.

5: Go back to the linkedin posting, click the job poster’s profile. Then, download a chrome extension called “apollo.io”. This let’s you scrape a user’s work email address from their linkedin profile.

6: From here, draft an email. Attach your resume. Keep it brief and only a few lines which says:

• You’re interested in the role

• Why you’re a fit

• The job ID you are applying for specifically

• your resume attached

• Best way to reach you

7: What happens if there is no job poster listed?

Let’s use this job for example.

Click on the party city linkedin company page and go to the people section

Now we scroll down and look for people with manager/director titles since they’re a decision maker.

Now we narrowed it down to a couple people, the guys on the top right and bottom left.

Email them both separately, and say something like

“Hi Joe,

I saw this job opening for a cybersecurity engineer and thought you might be the job poster since you’re a manager/leader of security at X Company.

Here’s the Job ID/URL of the opening I’m interested in and just applied.

I’m interested and a fit for XYZ reasons. Here’s my resume attached for your convenience.

Looking forward to chat”

Voila!

You’re on your way to increasing your chances to get an interview.

Don’t leave it to chance and just cold apply and call it a day.

Get a bit proactive and take the extra step to reach out to them directly!

If you’re looking for some help on how to “MPC” or general job search/resume advice, feel free to book a call below

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