12/29/24 - 32 Job Seeking Tips and Techniques to Get You Hired

This article is an overview of an article on the Career Sidekick website. Link to the original article: https://careersidekick.com/JOB-SEARCH-TIPS

The author, Biron Clark, is a former executive recruiter who has worked individually with hundreds of job seekers, reviewed thousands of resumes and LinkedIn profiles, and recruited for top venture-backed startups and Fortune 500 companies. He has been advising job seekers since 2012 to think differently in their job search
and land high-paying, competitive positions.

He has shared hundreds of tips on LinkedIn based on his experience as a recruiter, and was even named a LinkedIn Top Voice for it. His 22-page article is a compilation of his best job hunting tips and advice, taken from his posts that have received the most positive feedback from job seekers and other career experts.

If you read his entire article, you’re going to know a wide range of great job search tips and techniques that most other job seekers don’t know. These aren’t just cookie-cutter tips. The goal is to share unique, modern online job searching tips that can be difference-makers in your job hunt and career… whether you’re a student, new graduate, manager, or executive.

Some of the key topic tips in the article include:

1. Where Employers and Recruiters Look First on
Your Resume

2. Nine Ways Your Resume Looks Outdated

3. Your Resume Isn’t About You… It’s about the employer.

4. Numbers and Data Are Key to Grabbing Employer Attention

5. How to Set up Your Resume to Land Your First Manager Job

6. How to Tailor Your Resume to a Job Description

7. How Many Pages Should Your Resume Be?

8. Great Topics to Ask About in an Interview

9. Be Ready to Explain Why You Want Each Employer’s Job

10. You Should Also Know What You Want in a Job

11. Advice for Job Seekers Interviewing for a Senior-Level Position

12. Four Key Steps to Take After Every Interview

13. Two Great Phone Interview Tips

14. What Top Employers like Google Look For

15. How to Get Recruiters to Help You in Your Job Hunt

16. Employers Do NOT Care if You’re “Actively Seeking” Opportunities

17. Little-Known Job Searching Tip: Use Video to Stand Out

18. Apply Even if You Don’t Meet Every Requirement

19. You Don’t Always Need a Cover Letter

20. Job Search Networking Tip: How to Break the Ice

21. Networking Can Be Your Job Search “Unfair Advantage”

22. Make Everything About the Employer

23. Break Down Your Job Search Step-by-Step to See What to Fix

24. Don’t Worry About Job Titles

25. Don’t Ignore Opportunities Just Because You’re Employed

26. The BEST Type of Company to Apply to

27. Don’t Stop Job Searching Until You’ve Signed an Offer

28. Build Skills to Bolster Job Security

29. Watch Out for Counter-Offers

30. Failure is a Part of Success, Not the Opposite

31. Have a Narrow Focus

32. Stop Over-Analyzing and Just Start!