JobSearchTales

Job Search Tales: Help yourself to a job by helping recruiters

msurkan@hotmail.com (Michael Surkan) — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:57:06 +0000

In this episode Jay Kraker, Lesa Keller and Olivier Taupin explain how the Star Performer initiative offers job candidates a tremendous opportunity to build relationships with recruiters by helping them. The Star Performer group on LinkedIn helps match recruiters with job seeking volunteers who make it their job to help them fill their openings. It doesn’t matter if the best candidate is someone else. Building relationships with recruiters is invaluable for helping job seekers ultimately find the role they want. This is a win-win program. The recruiters get a dedicated assistant who plugs their openings on LinkedIn and candidates get to build the relationships they need.

You can learn more about the Star Performer program by watching this video: http://bit.ly/staradviser

You can sign-up for the Star Performer program here: http://bit.ly/startrain1

NOTE: Please contact Michael if you are interested in being a guest on “Tales from the job search trenches” podcasts. Michael would like to discuss your job search strategy, and brainstorm ways to improve it with you.

Job Search Tales: Take control of your job search - pay for placement

msurkan@hotmail.com (Michael Surkan) — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:22:44 +0000

In this episode Scott Avidon talks about how his efforts to offer a commission for a successful job referral has resulted in an abundance of interviews and job offers. Ironically, most people who contact Scott with job opportunities don’t want to be compensated, but the very act of offering a commission has gotten Scott a lot of welcome attention, even leading to an interview on CNN. Scott has a great background in creative product development and marketing but it wasn’t getting him very far in his job search until he began his unorthodox job search approach. Scott talks about how the competitive job market has made it critical for candidates be creative to stand out from the crowd.

You can check out Scott’s web site and CNN interview here: http://scottavidon.com/

Job Search Tales: Know thyself and the job will follow

msurkan@hotmail.com (Michael Surkan) — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 04:35:11 +0000

In this episode Teresa Dahl explains how finding a good job requires a good dose of self discovery and positive attitude. If you aren’t confident in yourself, or what you want, why should an employer feel good about having you on the team? Focussing on the companies, roles, and managers, that fit you well may limit the over-all options but actually increase your chances of landing a job by allowing you to put in the quality effort of networking and research needed to land a job. It even pays to be honest, telling employers what you really believe your strengths and weaknesses are. No one trusts a person who says they are perfect.

You can find out more of Teresa’s ideas about careers here: http://dahlassociates.com/