Job Seeker: What Would it Mean if Someone Would Just Hold Out a Helping Hand to You…
and have you finally realized the HR system isn’t really in the ‘help you’ business?
Discover How to Find People Like You and Get them To Help You Into Open Jobs.
Dear job seeker:
Do you troll job ads and ever wish you knew someone, anyone in the companies that are posting jobs that look right for you?
Have you ever sat and stared at a job ad, fighting yourself to click “Apply Now” because you know filling out yet another 57-step online application will just be a frustrating waste of time. One new client told me recently -
“I can do that job…my resume says I can…but I know I have a snowball’s chance in H–L of getting a response when I submit a resume.”
Unfortunately, some of the challenges you’re facing can’t be solved with a better resume or cover letter, or by the simple act of sending in whatever resume you have.
Why? Because all those ‘Apply’ buttons are feeding your hopes and needs into a morass of issues, any of which can keep you out of the running, and NONE OF THEM have anything to do with you:
"Got just a few resumes in for this job...
- Complete Overwhelm – HR is usually doing too much and spread too thin to be effective – they’re literally under a mountain of resumes.
- Inexperience – HR are almost always trained gatekeepers who aren’t experienced in your specialty and can’t see your skills for what they really are.
- Bad timing - there are internal timing issues (especially in a bad job market like today’s) that force you to face hundreds of competitors instead of a few.
- Poor attitudes – most HR people truly dislike the hard work involved in recruiting and interviewing…and most managers really don’t like it either – they just want the thing done, with someone who can solve their problem.
All of these cost you chances at jobs you could do, simply because the system is so hard to penetrate.
That system is designed to make life easier for them…which means the chances are pretty slim you’ll ever get an interview for any job posted on line – even if it looks perfect!
Aren’t You Sick and Tired of the Endlessly Frustrating, Dead-End Game You’re Forced into By the HR World?
It’s like a never-ending nightmare…walking down a long hall of web pages, the walls covered with ads, job descriptions and ‘Submit’ buttons. You keep walking and pushing the buttons, but nothing ever happens. As I’ve coached people over the last several years, I couldn’t count the number of people who have said to me: “In the old days, you just called a few people you knew, word got out that you were looking, and then you got interviews.
EXACTLY!
And truthfully – many of those same clients thought: “You can’t get help anymore…no one will help you.”
They were wrong! You can get people to help you today, but it’s a completely different world than it was 15, 20 or 30 years ago. People won’t help you just because you need help…you have to work to get them to notice you, understand your value, and step into your circle. Then you can ask them to help you.
You can get the same result today, you just need a different set of tools and a method to focus your time and energy. Once you have those tools…
YOU CAN-
See a job…
Find People Who Are Like You…
Win Their Trust…
Get Their Help…
and land a Great Job.
It’s not that the online job hunting game will go away – you’ll just know how to use it to your advantage by getting the data, thinking like the boss, and then using very specific tactics to get people to respond to you.
My clients do this, and I can tell you confidently that 40% of those who are in a job today used exactly these techniques to get around the HR group rather than going through some job board or a 3rd party recruiter. It’s not complicated…but getting complete strangers to act on your behalf requires that you learn a little bit about human nature and learn to market in a way that entices and rewards people for helping you.
It’s nothing new…just good, old-fashioned direct-marketing tactics applied to the job hunt.
Your job search will CHANGE radically when you can:
- Discover precisely what makes the on line job hunting system so darned frustrating - you will see it for the first time and truly understand why it’s so difficult to get noticed.
- Use the information in the HR system for YOUR benefit - you will see how to use the information to your own ends.
- Have X-Ray vision into the hiring manager’s needs – look through the words on a job ad and see exactly how to market yourself to the manager behind it.
- Scoop in more advertised jobs that fit you in less time - detailed information about how to use better search techniques and engines to increase the quantity of jobs you can apply to.
- Turn complete strangers into advocates - use marketing tactics to find and entice people OTHER THAN HR to help you get your message to the manager
There’s a ton of practical advice, tips and tools that will help you get closer to the people making hiring decisions:
- Behind-the-curtain truths about how employers use job boards and what they actually expect to get from them (pg. 4)
- A surprising admission about how effective job ads are for corporate recruiting (pg. 5)
- How to cut useless browsing time and still find MORE of the right jobs on line (pg. 6)
- The simplest technical tools for simplifying the process of finding more online jobs (pg. 9)
- How to see “inside the hiring manager’s head” based on publicly available information anyone can get (pg. 10)
- What four clues you can find in most job ads that will help you figure out what the job is really about (pg. 11)
- How to find MORE people who are worth approaching for assistance (pg. 14)
- Ways to “pre-guess” what’s going on in the heads of people on the org chart where your job is (pg. 17)
- Simple, non-icky ways to get people to respond when you reach out to them (pg. 19)
- Four things you may be doing that STOP people from wanting to help you (pg. 23)
- Entrepreneur’s rules of follow-up that will get you a lot farther than you’re getting today (pg. 25)
- Make introducing yourself and following up easy for you (pg. 28)
The HR rat race at the other end of the submit button isn’t the only game in town.
I’ve put SEVEN corporate recruiting platforms together in my career. I’ve filled more than 768 jobs. I have worked alongside some of the best corporate recruiters in a generation in my market. So I know how these systems work, and I know I can count on 20-30% of all jobs getting filled by someone that only gets into the system at the END of the process, not the beginning .
Those are candidates I don’t ever have to do any work to push into the pipeline, because they get in there themselves…through friends, networking contacts, good old fashioned elbow grease, or some other method. LOTS of people try this. Some learn to do it well and then go back to work…and, frankly, will probably never struggle to find work again, regardless of the job market.
If you stand in line, you’ll starve. If you get proactive and learn some basic marketing and selling skills, you’ll get better results. Every month I teach my one-on-one coaching clients how to get what they can from information and jobs everyone can see…and then how to get more interviews with better,easy-to-use marketing tactics.
But I realize that lots of people can’t afford coaching, and MANY more people could benefit from this information than I can ever help in person, so I created this simple product. No matter how frustrated you are right now with the whole job hunting game, you CAN learn to Go Around HR to generate more interviews for the jobs you see.
No Fluff – No Fat – Just What You Need to Know
Many people who want to sell you something stuff 347 pages of information in their product…but you don’t need that. You need what’s in here – it’s slim, direct, and to the point…30 pages of pure gold about how to put yourself in charge of whether you get heard and seen when you apply for a job.
In about 60 minutes you can digest the information, start testing the concepts and begin to focus your time and energy on getting in doors, rather than worrying about whether HR will like your resume, or reading 14 people’s opinion about which resume is the right resume.
Here’s How:
1. Download my “Go Around HR” eBook – just by clicking on the green button below or one of the links in this letter (it’s only $27 – for the price of one lunch networking meeting you’ll get priceless ‘insider information’ to help you get more interviews.)
2. Read and follow the simple steps – in a few hours you will know how to generate more interviews.
3. BONUS – email me for a FREE 30 minute implementation session – at the end there is an offer for a free 30-minute “implementation tuning” time. You and I will look at what you’re doing and I’ll help you perfect what you discover in this eBook. You don’t just read and try…you get HELP!
This is expert help in a form that’s inexpensive, easy to use and effective. So will learn, get started on your own, and then I can help you perfect what you’re doing to make sure it’s going to produce the results you want and need.
One person…one better response and you could be back to work.
I don’t mean to make you feel bad, but sometimes people I talk to need a wake up: you think you’ve tried this. You think it won’t work for you. You wonder why anyone would help you.
You’re wrong.
And not knowing know basic marketing concepts that can grab attention and get people to call you is what’s making this job market particularly brutal for you. I’m offering you CHEAP, GUARANTEED help – I charge clients $125 per hour for personal coaching, but I’m only going to ask you for $27 for this eBook – very little for 3 accumulated years of experience helping people run circles around HR, find advocates inside companies, and get back to work.
I can’t guarantee you how fast it can help you, but look at it this way: if you got a job even one measly hour faster than you would have (much less a week or a month) without this help, you will have paid for this book, assuming you’re making what my average client makes.
Since it’s an eBook, there’s no charge for shipping and handling…and no waiting for the post office to deliver your book to you.
You get thousands of hours of distilled knowledge on self-marketing, all wrapped up in a $27 eBook!
My “I Don’t Want Your Money If I Don’t Earn It” Guarantee:
Just like everything else I do, if this doesn’t help you, then you have every right to not have to pay for it. So download the product. Use it. If it doesn’t help you, contact me with proof of your efforts for a complete, 100%, no-nonsense refund.
Why spend another day, week or month trying to penetrate the defenses the HR world has set up for you?
You can download this information and get started RIGHT NOW getting seen for more of the job opportunities you know you can win.
Scott Birkhead
President
Most Placeable Candidate
PS – I know…this is a short letter and a short product. Don’t let that fool you – you don’t need page after page of bloated information, you just need a few facts and a push in a different direction. Just remember:
- These are the same techniques I use to sell professional and recruiting services through relationship selling. I use them because they WORK…
- As a headhunter I learned that if I sold to HR I’d go broke – and so will you if you don’t learn how to go around them like I did…
- They’re also the same ones my job-seeker clients have used to get jobs….
- They’re the same ones that will work for you, or your money back!