🚀Alex Hutchings’ Post

Spray and pray is NOT the way.💡 As much as we'd like to help every candidate that comes our way, we're ultimately paid to deliver specific shortlists to our clients. With limited time in the day, responding to unsuitable candidates would put us out of business. We understand that the job market is tough, and our hearts go out to those impacted by layoffs. We see many posts about candidates applying to numerous live roles, with little to no response. But sending more applications doesn't increase your chances of landing a role. 💹 The market is awash with great talent, and companies are changing their minds like this great British weather, so now is the time to be more measured and targeted with your job hunt. A good example can be seen below, out of 965 applications we received for a role, only 2 had the required experience and 963 were rejected by a cold auto-reject feature on LinkedIn. 🤦♂️ Instead, why not try this: ✔build a target list ✔engage with hiring managers ✔tailor your message for specific roles ✔explain how you can add value and solve pain points for clients. ✔leverage mutual contacts ✔have a clear follow-up process in place. Tough times call for a refined outreach process. DO NOT MASS APPLY to vacancies without understanding if you represent a match. And above all else, stick with it. The market will bounce back. 🙏🙏🙏

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Robert R.

CISOinTraining/ Advisor/ NIST & DoD RMF problem solver

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Noticed post. Spray n Pray has always part of my search strategy. Worse case scenario is for exposure to upload resume for future recruiter searches. You can't always prioritize things like direct outreach, leveraging contacts, follow-up as they don't always work in your favor. At most you just include it somewhere in the process/plan. For most it is basically down to the typical application process. Just some of my "in the trenches" posts to include web references for further research. No sales, coaching, affiliations, or referrals. Just FREE. [ TOPIC - CAREER - Do you have a Transition Plan? ]

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Pearl Mistry

Recruiting Seniors, Executives in the Global Financial Trading | FinTech | Blockchain | Crypto space

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