Job Search Tips: How to Work with Recrutiers During Your Job Search

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How Do You Motivate Recruiters To Work With You?

You need to stand out somehow from all the other executive job seekers that are contacting the executive recruiters. Here are some types on some ways that you can help yourself stand out:

1)   Follow up on an emailed executive resume ideally with in 24-48 hours. That may sound short, but think about all the resumes we get. By the time you call we will have looked at 25- 50 resume just in 48 hours. After awhile human nature is to remember the resumes you most recently looked at. The fact that you followed up will in its self make you stand out.

2)   Mention your biggest professional executive accomplishment, or USP, Unique Selling Proposition. (Savings, major problems solved for your past employers) in your 7 seconds to get their attention.

3)   Ask them what you can do to help them with any of their executive searches?

4)   Ask them is there any additional information that you can supply them to better understand your professional executive experience? If they request that you do a form for them, send an account list or modify your resume. Do what they ask. They have an idea what their clients look for. In today’s market everyone is moving very quickly. There is not a lot of time to redo paperwork.

5)   Ask them to suggest how often you can follow up with them.

6)   Thank them for their time at the end of the conversation.

7)   Send a follow up note within 24 hours, preferably hand written or by mail.

8)   Follow up with them in the time period that was mutually agreed upon. Working your executive job search with recruiters is just like working your target companies. Keep track of your calls. Keep track of your follow up. Add 5 executive recruiter follow up calls per day or depending on the schedule that you have already set up with executive recruiters that you have already spoken with. An average search will last about 3 months. If you call every 30 days to follow up, that should keep you in touch with any searches that are still in the system and coming into the system. I always say my executive candidates that drive me crazy and are the best on their follow up make the best placements. You have to “know how to go for the order.” A creative idea you can consider is find some temp agencies that may place people on a “temp” or contract basis. With the economy still tight, some companies are concerned about making the commitment to hiring someone full time just yet. This is what we call in the business, “the puppy dog close”. Did you ever hear of someone that bought a dog and then returned it. The car dealers lately are doing the same thing. They are offering people to take cars over the week-end or for 3-4 days and then bring the car back. It is helping the dealers get some sales. People spend more time with the car and get more comfortable with it. Try the ideas I am suggesting and approach your relationships with executive recruiters with a fresh perspective and more realistic perspective.

*** The above material is some special information that was not included in my newest executive job search book, The NEW Rules of Job Search – How to Land an Executive Job in the New Economy. There were 5 more chapters that I did not include in my recent book. I am sharing with you in today’s blog post one of my ‘secret” informational chapters. This excerpt is from one my secret chapters, this chapter is, Do Recruiters really Care About You and How to Motivate Recruiters to Work With You.

Have a good week with your executive job search. Feel to contact me at sweet@ExecutiveJobSearchExpert.com if you are ready for professional help with ramping up your executive job search results. I look forward to helping you achieve great results with your executive job search!

Eleanor Eleanor Anne Sweet Executive Job Search Expert Coach ™

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