Food for Thought.
Does this picture sound familiar?
You are thinking of leaving the military or you are already in the transition phase and it has been several month that you are now ‘out-of-work’ and things are getting tight. Savings are slowly dwindling or gone but your expenses just keep increasing. Your power bill and other bill are still and have to be paid.
So you get up every morning determined to find new job opportunities. You go online and start CLICKING on Internet job boards or target company websites that use online applications.
You REVIEW several good sounding opportunities and decide to APPLY. You upload your resume, answer questions about your experience, then answer the mandatory legal disclosures about ethnicity and then you hit “send”, PRAYING this time will be different.
You click, review, apply and pray 5, 10, maybe even 50 times in a single day. You keep following the recipe and doing the same thing, over and over again.
And each time after you hit send, you sit back and wonder why the phone’s not ringing or no one replies. Your resume shows that you are a perfect fit for that job, but you don’t ever get a response. No return emails, no phone calls, NOTHING.
No way to even know they got your application!
Let’s face it. The traditional approach to finding a job has turned to C*R*A*P. . . .
Clicking, Reviewing, Applying and Praying
If you’re one of the 99.9% of veteran job seekers who has been following this approach you know exactly what we’re talking about. You’ve gotten no results and you’re frustrated, discouraged, probably a little angry and don’t know where to turn.
There is a huge pool of talent on the street and the competition for each and every job is incredibly fierce. Clients who in previous years had offers lined up before leaving their previous job are going months without even a single interview.
And yet, we talk to Human Resources (HR) professionals all the time who tell me they’re having a difficult time finding the right talent to fill their open positions! And at the same time, we’re hearing from well-qualified job seekers who tell us they’re having a hell of a time getting in front of a hiring manager for an interview despite their “perfect resume and knock ‘em dead cover letter.”
We don’t have to tell frustrated job seekers like you that something is wrong.
What’s wrong is no one told you HOW the new digital job hunting world really works!
No one has shared the “dirty little insider secrets” to the REAL story behind using the internet for job searches.
We want to share the cold hard facts about job hunting in the digital world.
You’re facing competition from thousands of applicants worldwide, bogus job listings, come-on’s and scams, out-of-date job boards and company websites, unsolicited contacts from recruiters and salespeople trying to sell you job search related services, cumbersome online applications, scanning software that will kick you out in an instant if you fail to include the right keywords and, finally, overworked and underpaid personnel jockeys who, believe me, don’t have a clue about the nature of the work to be done. They would much prefer to hit “delete” instead of briefly glancing at your resume for as little as 15 to 30 seconds.
This is what you’re up against.
The system as it now exists is a quagmire that you have to somehow try and navigate.
The whole system seems to have become C*R*A*P.
To succeed in your job search in our new economy requires creativity, a willingness to think outside the box and innovative approaches to effectively meet the challenges of finding employment. Things have changed. Times have changed. And times are tough. You need new tools and new tactics to this new job reality.
We can assist so don’t follow thousand who are using the CARAP approach to job and career search. Let us know how we can help.
Coach Tom Stein,
Certified Career Management Professional