FREE Audio Job Search Lessons

Is Your Job Search

Stalled?

In a recent survey, over 50% of executive and managerial candidates currently conducting a job search have been out of work for over a year. Why is your job search taking so long? In this radio program, Brad and Barry talk about the most important elements of an effective job search. Are you ready to assess what is working and what is NOT working in your job search? Your success in finding a new job is NOT about 1 or 2 big wins, it's all the little details of effective execution.

Are You Using

LinkedIn Effectively In

Your Job Search

LinkedIn is the most effective on-line tool for professional networking. However, most executive and managerial job search candidates underutilize the power of LinkedIn for the their job search. In this program. In this radio program, Brad and Barry discuss the various elements of creating a powerful and effective strategy that incorporates LinkedIn as a key component of your job search. Can you be easily found by recruiters, HR professionals and hiring managers?

Creating A

Compelling LinkedIn

Profile

LinkedIn is one of first places recruiters, HR and other hiring managers go to find people. Too often many candidates never receive a call because their profile was incomplete or poor. The reader of the profile doesn’t understand what you do and why you are better than all the other profiles on LinkedIn. Every professional candidate today must have a LinkedIn profile. It is as important as your resume. In fact it should be viewed as your on-line resume.
This program describes what a compelling profile looks likes, what you must include in your profile and how to expand your contacts in less than one hour of your time. If your profile isn’t compelling then you are spending more time in a job search than maybe necessary. After you listen to this program take some time and implement the steps outlined so your profile is complete and compelling.

Don't Assume You

Will Get A Good

Reference

Time and time again candidates assume when a person tells them they will be a reference, it means a good reference. Not true. In a recent poll 54% said they were given a reference and it turned out bad. This busts the theory that people will only give references they “KNOW” will give them a good reference.
This radio show explores who your references should be, what is expected for a GREAT reference and how to properly prepare you reference.
You should never fall in the 54% again. A GREAT reference can be the tipping point for you to get the position versus someone else that gets either bad or just a good reference

Why

Job Boards

are a Poor

Job Search Strategy

Are you investing too much time responding to job ads on job boards? Are you depending too much on finding your next job through a job advertisement? The vast majority of jobs are not posted on job boards. This pool of available opportunities is called the hidden job market. Research studies have shown that 80% or more of all jobs are NOT listed on job boards. In this radio program, Brad and Barry help you to focus on how to penetrate the hidden job market by determining how appropriate are the contacts in your network, how to establish a networking relationship, and how to build trust over time with the most important people in your network so that you can generate an abundance of job leads and referrals.

Top 10 Reasons

Candidates Fail at

Networking

Studies show that over 80% of all jobs are within the “hidden job market”. Only 15%-20% of all jobs are filled through job board advertising or through recruiters. If all you’re doing as a candidate is applying for jobs posted on-line, your job search is doomed to fail. To see the great opportunities within the hidden job market, a candidate must be effective at job search networking. In this recording of our weekly live radio broadcast, we share the top ten reasons candidates fail at networking and how to overcome these common failure points of job search networking.

Understanding

the

Circle Of Transition

High turnover exists because most candidates accept positions they should never have accepted in the first place.

Candidates with high turnover need to understand why it happens and how to stop it. The first step in accomplishing this is understanding when you are in the Circle of Transition. If you don't know about this circle you will never get past the high turnover problem.

We believe this is one of the most important aspect in one's career and most candidates don't even know it exists.

To stop your high turnover and get out of the Circle of Transition you must first listen to this recording.

Don't Be A Box

Checking Job

Seeking Victim

Don’t Be A Box-checking Victim

STOP allowing yourself to be box-checked in the interview by recruiters, HR, and hiring managers. You CANNOT SUCCEED in the interview if you are being box-checked against a traditional job description listing precise years of experience, exact industry experience, product knowledge, specific channels, and detailed skills. No one could pass these interviews with flying colors. Successful interviewing requires you to move the interview from a typical interrogation into a conversation about the needs and obstacles in the job. Brad and Barry provide specific examples, tactics, and recommendations in this radio program on how to move every interview from a box-checking interrogation into a conversation about the work that needs to be done.

How Recruiters Read

Resumes In 10

Seconds or Less

Recruiters screen your resume in less than 10 seconds for a few very simple reasons. Do you know the top 5 reasons why a recruiter will toss your resume into the circular file after a quick glance? Are you making simple mistakes and errors that consistently get your resume thrown into the trash? Learn how to overcome those resume mistakes that are preventing you from being interviewed.  In this radio program, Brad and Barry dissect, discuss, and recommend improvements to overcome the most common resume mistakes and errors that permit recruiters to read your resume in less than 10 seconds

You can download a complete and very detailed article on this topic.CLICK HERE

Is Your LinkedIn

Profile Hurting or

Helping You Job

Search

Increasing  Your

Resume Response

Rate

Job Search

Networking Using

LinkedIn

Using social media in your job search can be the key to your success. Recruiters, HR and hiring managers are using social media sites like Linkedin more and more every day.  As a job seeker you should be using Linkedin daily. This program outlines 5 or 6 techniques you can use that don’t take a lot of time but will have tremendous impact on your job search. These few things will make you findable, will set you aside from others, will ensure your network expands, will guide you through the maze of social media traps and most importantly help you move rapidly down the path to your next job.

While listening to the radio program be sure and download our 8 Point LinkedIN Profile Assessment guide so you can follow along. ow.ly

Why Your Job Search

Takes So Long

Many candidates conduct a painful, protracted, long, and difficult job search. For most executive level positions, the average time period to find a job in a poor job market is 9-12 months. Many candidates are telling us that the time period in some industries is extending to an even longer period. Can you afford to be out of work for 6,9,12, or 18 months? How do you go about cutting the time it takes to find a great job in 50% of the time that is the average for your type of job? Brad and Barry provide an overview of their trademarked, deeply researched, field-tested, and validated job search process called the Career Success Methodology. You’ll discover that you don’t have to be experts at each of the simple steps – you just have to go through each step. Job search fails due to NOT following a structured methodology to find a job using classic best practices. Are you not hearing about enough job opportunities? Are you not being invited in for enough interviews? Learn the inside secrets from two of the best known recruiters on how to use best practices to conduct an effective job search.

Finding A Job

Using Social Media

Too many candidates are relying on tribal job search methods which are now out-dated. These methods include answering jobs on job boards, calling a few contacts for referrals, attending job fairs, and waiting for executive recruiters to call. Many companies today are using as their primary recruiting strategies the leverage of social media, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Blogs, Ning, Networking Discussion Groups and Forums in specific industries or geographic areas. Are you looking at the job listings on LinkedIn? Are you a member of 50 groups on LinkedIn (the maximum allowed) – do you frequently check out the job listings in those discussion groups? Are you leveraging the job search applications on Facebook? Do you follow job opportunities on Twitter using the wide range of tools, applications, keywords, and hashtags? Do your follow the recruiters who serve your functional specialty or trade/industry segment – are you linked to them to see their postings on LinkedIn, on Twitter, Facebook, their blog? Are you active in writing a blog, guest blogging, tweeting about your expertise, participating in group discussions in LinkedIn. Brad and Barry will walk you through a comprehensive approach to leveraging social media to find job leads and opportunities in this lively radio broadcast.

Jump Start

Your Job

Search

Every now and then you need to step back and assess how your search is going. We take you through a step-by-step approach how to do that. This show is all about building on what is good and improving or fixing what isn’t working. These 8 steps will make sure you identify why your resume isn’t getting noticed, why you aren’t getting referrals, why you are getting interviews but no offers and help you fix the problem. But it also makes sure you don’t diagnose the wrong problem. Candidates often work on the wrong thing, mainly because they don’t know the real problem. In addition, we give you access to our free job search assessment tool to help you. You can download this tool and follow along as we discuss each topic. Download your assessment first it is free and will be helpful as you listen to the show. CLICK HERE to get your assessment.

Standing Out At A

Networking

Event

Stop attending networking events for the sake of just networking. If you aren’t getting the value and referrals you need from networking then why keep doing it. There is a better way.  Most candidates think the more people at a meeting the better. WRONG. The more people at a meeting the harder it is to stand out.
If your goal for networking is to get job leads or meet people for referrals or get to the decision makers, and that isn’t happening then you are the person this show is about.  Using the techniques we discuss you will discover there is a better and more effective way to network so you reach these goals.
These are the reasons people network during a job search but few have the expertise how to reach these goals. Listen and you will see dramatic change in your networking results.

Interviewing

Do's and

Don't

Changing a few basic interviewing techniques can dramatically change your interviewing success rate. Whether with a recruiter, HR or hiring manager these few Do’s and Don’ts will prove to impact your job search. We discuss the three or four most common mistakes candidates often make, what you can specifically do to fix them and provide you with simple solutions. Few candidate even know they are committing these do’s and don’ts.  In just 45 minutes you can be on a path to a great interview.

Resume

Do's and

Don't

Knowing how your resume is screened will help you understand why you do or don’t hear back from recruiters, HR or hiring managers. These are not the basic do’s and don’ts such as spelling, grammar or formatting. You already know those things. We are discussing the practical application of the common mistakes candidates make that causes their resume to be screened out. Most of these mistakes are so easy to fix, so common sense and so obvious one wouldn’t think it would take a whole show to discuss. We give you insight into what our clients tell us, their actual screening methodology and what you can do to get past the 10 seconds resume screening 90% of the time.

A Critical

Interviewing

Mistake

This is one of the most common mistakes I have seen in hundreds of interviews. Yet, it is one of the easiest to fix.  Candidates know this is going to happen in 95%  of all interviews, so why are they so unprepared for it.  I don’t get it.

Avoiding this mistake cannot only ensure your success, but when done correctly and with some preparation it can ensure  your success. You don’t have to make this critical and very common mistake.

Three Most

Important

Words In Your

Job Search

These three simple words have the biggest impact on your job search. They can make the difference between getting a job or not. That is the power they have. If you don’t know what these are then this is a MUST listen to. We not only give you the words but discuss how to ensure you implement them. Make sure you are the one that wins the interview and then the job. We are serious about the power of these on your job search.

Top 10 Job

Search

Mistakes Part 2

Are Your Job Search Mistakes preventing you from conducting an effective job search? Is your job search taking too long? Learn how to overcome the Top Ten Job Search Mistakes to reduce the time it takes to find a great job. In a previous radio show, we discussed the first 5 of the Top Ten Job Search Mistakes. In this radio program, we discuss the back half of the Top Ten Job Search Mistakes. Stop falling victim to an ineffective job search, a job hunt that takes too long, and a lack of job leads and referrals. Discover the Top Ten Job Search Mistakes and the steps to overcome each one.

Top 10 Job

Search

Mistakes

Are you making one or more of the Top Ten Job Search Mistakes? Are you frustrated that you are not getting many job leads, referrals, interviews, and offers? In this episode of the weekly IMPACT Hiring Solutions Job Search Radio Show, Brad and Barry discuss how to overcome the Top Ten Job Search Mistakes. This list of the Top Ten Job Search Mistakes is based on 25 years of Executive Search Experience, over 1000 search assignments, and interviews with over 200,000 candidates. Don’t be the one making typical mistakes in your job search.

Brad and Barry also discuss the release of their new FREE Job Search Plan Self-Assessment Scorecard. Within the span of a few minutes, the time it takes to complete this Job Search Scorecard, you can understand the steps required to launch an effective job search, re-start a stalled job search, and find your next dream job. You can download the FREE Job Search Plan Self-Assessment Scorecard CLICK HERE.

Master Your

Job Search

If you can master your job search by becoming an expert at resume writing, interview preparation, job search personal branding, and job networking, you have the opportunity like thousands of other candidates to dramatically reduce the time it takes to find a new job.
Thousands of candidates who have employed the simple, but effective strategies of our Career Success Methodology, have reduced their job hunting time by 30%, 40%, and as much as 50%.
One of the first steps in mastering your job search is to uncover all the best practices known in the core areas of conducting a job search, such as developing a job search plan, preparing a resume, interview preparation, job networking, and job search personal branding..

What's Your

Job Search

Plan

Having a written and comprehensive job search plan is one of the most critical components of a job search. In today’s market you will rarely get a position without one. Your plan must include both off-line and on-networks. This show discusses in great detail exactly why you need a plan, what a plan should be and how to leverage the plan. If you are new to the job search, understanding the importance leveraging the internet is the most important issue to grasp. Is your Linkedin profile up to date, is your resume searchable on Google and how are you active in groups.
You need a job search plan and this show is the place to start.

Common

Candidate

Inteviewing

Mistakes

We discuss some of the most common interviewing mistakes candidates make. This program is dedicated to helping ensure those that listen will not make these mistakes. The mistakes are so common that most candidates don’t even know they are making them. Having conducted over 10,000 interviews as a recruiter for over 30 years and co-interviewed thousands of times with clients, these common mistakes are the biggest reasons most candidates don’t get the job. If candidates would avoid these few mistakes their success rate would dramatically increase.
By doing these few things (not knowing them - doing them) and your competition making these mistakes, you will win the job and they will be eliminated.

What you don't

know about

under and

unemployment

There are two sides to every job search. We all know the tactics of a search, writing the resume, interviewing, networking, etc. These are important but the most important aspect is the personal and emotional side of every search. Sooner or later these emotions take hold. Dealing with the family, spouses, finances are the 800 pound gorillas in the room that few if anyone ever talk about. Our guest, Pam Christian, is an expert dealing with the personal side of un or under employment. Pam speaks nationally, she has been on numerous radio shows, written books and conducts workshops and seminars on this subject. Pam shares with us her life experiences going through the tough times while unemployed and how her family survived this 4 year period. She also gives solutions and resources you can tap into BEFORE the worst happens to you. Her website www.wydk.org lists these resources and future events for you to download. In addition, you can download from www.impacthiringsolutions.com a FREE skills assessment tool to help you evaluate your transferable skills.

Winning the

Phone Interview

Hiring often starts with a phone interview. For candidates who don’t understand the unique subtleties of a phone interview it is often the end of the interviewing process. Using our DRESS UP model for conducting a phone interview will ensure you move on to the next step. We discuss the biggest reasons why many candidates fail the phone interview and give you solutions on how to “Win the Phone Interview.” Learn to win the phone interview and you will the win the job.

To download our FREE Chapter on "Winning the Phone Interview" just CLICK HERE

Do you stand out

on Linkedin

Research studies in recruiting and hiring indicate that over 95% of all recruiters, human resource professionals and hiring managers are using LinkedIn to search for top talent. Are you visible in their searches for candidates? Or are you beige – fading into the woodwork and invisible to recruiters and hiring managers? This episode of our weekly Internet Radio Show on Job Search and Hiring Top Talent dug deep into how you can easily become visible on LinkedIn to improve your job search to generate an abundance of job leads and referrals.

Put on your

sales hat

Understand the 4 key best practices all top notch sales professionals use to attain success. Apply these sales best practices to your job search to cut your transition time in half. Ever wonder why some candidates can complete their job search in half the normal time, have an abundance of great job leads and referrals, and quickly find an outstanding opportunity? The reason why some candidates “succeed” in their job search and some “fail” miserably is that the most successful job search candidates apply the 4 key best practice of sales to their job search. These top caliber candidates “Put On Their Sales Hat” in their job searches.

Engaging

Recruiters

Generating

referrals

in your

job search

A career coach is something many people consider engaging. Marcia Bench, Director of the Career Coach Institute discusses everything you should know before considering engaging a career coach. What questions to ask, should you even get a coach, how they work and how they will benefit you, what should you pay and what qualifications they should have. Before paying for a coach, you must hear what Marcia advises.

Being different from the rest of the crowd is critical, not important - critical, during a job search. We discuss not only how important it is to develop a personal brand, but the steps to doing it and finally how to get your brand into the market place.

If you want to get noticed by recruiters, hiring managers, CEO's and referrals, you have to brand yourself so people remember you and refer you. We give two resources in this talk that will make sure you are different from the rest.

Don't be the same- - be different and download this show.

“Why Traditional Resumes are Worthless” is because they leave off vital information. This is all about resumes and why many never get noticed. Why do some work and some don’t. What special information is required for Sales and IT people. Why the resume isn’t about you. How to focus on benefits and not features and why most resumes never get past the 20 second review. I answer emails about how to show 30 years of experience, should you use functional or chronological resumes and whether or not to use a professional resume writer. If you want answers on what to do to get your resume noticed all you have to now is listen.

Using social media sites such as Linkedin, Twitter or Facebook to find customers, new employees or a job is new to most people. Today’s show is all about how you can leverage these sites to get what you are looking for. My partner Barry Deutsch and I discuss all the reasons to begin using these sites but most importantly how to use these sites to accomplish your objectives. Social media sites are all the rage but few know how to use them to drive business, sales or sourcing for people or a job. Most become overwhelmed and just give up. We will show you how to start, which sites are best suited for your needs, how to engage people and the real purpose of these sites. Social media may be right for some and a waste of time for others. Find out which category you fall into.

STOP NETWORKING TO FIND A JOB. Instead learn how to develop relationships so you have people marketing and selling you. Interview with Dave Elliott. Learn how to convert networking contacts that forget about you, into a relationships that become advocates for you. The key to successful networking is getting a 100 or 200 people that know you to become your sales team. Dave Elliot will show you how he does it and how you too can take networking contacts and turn them into relationships.

“’The most important first step in a job search. STOP Networking it is a waste of time. How to get to the people and companies you want , with half the effort and networking contacts.”