Sweet Jobs Tips: Happy Thanksgiving Executive Job Search Recipe

Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family, your friends and pets!Have a wonderful, special and great Thanksgiving with your friends and loved ones.

Warmly,

Eleanor

Eleanor Anne Sweet
President
Consumer Career Search.com
The Remington Group, LLC

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Sweet Job Tips: Target Companies: Uncover Hidden or Lost Contacts

Job Tip: Target Companies : Hidden and Lost Contacts

This week's Job Search Tips:

Job Search Success Strategies

Chapter 7 - Target Companies (pages 117-118) 

4 Tools for Uncovering Contact Names

1. You will most likely uncover some contact names through the resources I have mentioned earlier in this chapter.

2. Don't forget to go to each company's website. It always amazes me how much information is available on corporate websites with respect to their executives.

3. Use Social Media to research executives at your target companies. If you do not know the person, then see if one of your connections knows someone within the company.

I still have a strong professional bias toward LinkedIn over Facebook and Twitter. I do not, however, think Facebook and Twitter should be ignored if you are a "free agent." You never know where your next interview will come from.

4. Use the Google or Alexa search tools.

a. At Google.com, go into the Advanced Search

(www.google.com.au/advanced_search).

b. In the top box, enter the company name.

c. In the third box, type the title two levels above your title (your boss's boss's title).

d. Go back to Google's Advanced Search and put the first and last names of the person you've uncovered on the first line.

e. Put the company's name on the third line.

f. Run the search.

g. This strategy will give you some background information on your target contact.

These are some starter ideas on how to approach your target companies and organizations. If you are currently frustrated with the results so far in your job search, then now may be the time to start with a fresh slate.

You may have been doing all of this when you first started your search, but perhaps you have fallen off the wagon and gotten less disciplined over time. I know that one of the secret keys to a successful job search is a combination of a strong sense of discipline and persistence.

Take a second look at your search. Re-evaluate your target companies. Maybe there are some ways you could and should expand your list by widening your net.

Have a great week and week-end.

Take care,

Eleanor

Your Executive Job Search Expert  TM

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This week, try to reach out and help someone you know that has been affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Take care,

Eleanor

Executive Job Search Recruiter and Expert.  tm

PS

This weeks Sweet Job Search Tips are an excerpt  from my new book, The NEW Rules of Job Search - How to Land an Executive in the New Economy, Target Companies: How to Find, Manager, Research and Succeed! ( Page 117 - 118)

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Sweet Job Tips: Job Search Internet Success

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7 Steps for Job Search Internet Success

1. If at all possible, create an email account that uses a

professional-sounding name and is not tied into your

work environment. I suggest using your first name and

Last name, such as eleanorsweet@email.com or eleanor

.sweet@email.com.

2. If there are specific directions regarding the mechanics

on how to apply to the jobs you’re interested in, follow

them exactly per their request. This is not the time to be

a rebel and appear difficult. The hiring authority will not

be interested in you as a candidate if you do not seem as

though you have the ability to follow simple instructions.

If the job description does not specify whether to

send your resume as an attachment or in the body of the

email, then you should do both. If the employer asks for

your resume to be placed in the body of your email, then

do a “cut and paste” and put your resume in the body of

the message. At the end of your message, you can always

tell them that you have a professional, fully formatted

hardcopy version available upon request.

If the hiring authority is asking for a PDF fi le and you

need a free converter, go to www.cutepdfwriter.com and

download the software.

To convert your document, you will go to “print” and

save it from your printer menu under “Cutepdfwriter.”

When you highlight and hit enter, the document is then

converted into a PDF fi le.

3. When you save your resume, save it on your hard drive

with your fi rst and last name as part of the document

name (e.g., PattySmithResume.doc or SmithPattyResume

.pdf). Such a naming convention will make it easier for

the person receiving it to keep track of it and find it

later.

4. In the subject line of the email, be short and specific to

make things easier for the hiring authority (e.g., Product

Manager: Rick Stevens).

5. If possible, create an email signature that includes your

contact information such as name, email address, and

phone number.

To create a signature fi le in Microsoft Outlook, go to

Tools, Options, and then Mail Formats. The information

you place there will then automatically be put into the

body of all your emails.

6. Double check that you are sending your resume to the

correct person. Perform a spell check and make sure

your computer “address book” did not inadvertently pick

another person whose name is close in the alphabet.

7. Make sure you’re not using a spam blocker, thereby creating

problems for the person to whom you are sending

your resume.

My heart has been ripped out by the people hit by Hurricane Sandy. I am supplying a direct link below for the American Red Cross Organization for you.

Click Here to Help Hurricane Sandy Victims

This week, try to reach out and help someone you know that has been affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Take care,

Eleanor

Executive Job Search Recruiter and Expert.  tm

PS

This weeks Sweet Job Search Tips are an excerpt  from my new book, The NEW Rules of Job Search - How to Land an Executive in the New Economy, Internet Tools to Turbo Charge Your Search, Page 94-96.

Sweet Job Tips: Job Search Expert Weekly Success Plan

For this week's Job Search Tips I am giving you a time management plan to use with your job search.

Job Search Expert Weekly Success Plan  TM 

Ideas for your list:

1. Clean desk and loose papers.

2. Complete all filing and move everything forward in the

43 manila folders if you are using this method.

3. Download or transfer any ideas from the week that you

have not already entered into your job search idea book.

This is a spiral book, measuring approximately 5 x 7.5

inches, where any ideas worth looking into that come

to mind relative to your job search are captured during

the week. You want to confirm that these ideas are being

acted on and researched further.

4. Evaluate your big action plans. Decide which are complete

and which are incomplete.

5. Make sure you have moved forward, updated your

calendar, and marked all action items from calls made

during the week.

6. Review your “Waiting For” list.

7. Review your list of New Contacts/Companies ideas.

8. Make a list of anything that happened this past week

that you could have done better.

9. Give yourself some type of small treat and acknowledge

what you did accomplish this past week.Scoring an actual

interview deserves an extra-special something.

10. Remember to cut yourself some slack.

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The market continues to turn slowly.

Take care,

Eleanor

Executive Job Search Recruiter and Expert.  tm

PS

This weeks Sweet Job Search Tips are an excerpt  from my new book, The NEW Rules of Job Search - How to Land an Executive in the New Economy, Chapter 5, page 86-87.

Sweet Job Tips: Cover Letter Tips That Make the Difference!

For this week's Job Search Tips I would like to discuss
some cover letters tip.

3 Purposes of Your Cover Letter:

1. A business letter to transmit your resume to a prospective employer.
2. A letter of introduction to accompany your resume that
introduces you and your professional background to a
prospective employer.
3. A sales letter to convince a prospective employer that
you have something of value to contribute to their
organization-just enough to motivate them to grant
you an interview.

2 Hints Regarding Your Cover Letters

1. Send your paperwork to a high-level executive within the
company who works in the particular business function ordiscipline most closely related to the position for which you
are applying. Try to get it in the hands of a high-ranking
individual in the job area that is most appropriate relative
to your expertise.
This strategy will increase your odds of tapping into
the hidden job market. At this level, these executives
might be aware of additional positions that have not yet
been offi cially posted but need to be fi lled within the
organization.
A lot of times, even the HR people are not aware of
these future jobs. That being said, if you target high-level
executives, your information will likely be given greater
consideration than it would be by the overloaded HR
department.

2. Cull through your networking contacts and research to
unearth the name of an actual person within the organization
whom you can actually leverage to refer you. Then, if
possible, use the name of that person you have networked
with, either internally or externally, in your cover letter.

Have a great week!

Eleanor Anne Sweet

The Job Search Expert  tm