6 Job Search Tips from Career Coach Peggy McKee

Looking for job search tips, Career Coach Peggy McKee has a few for you!

A few years ago, Career Coach Peggy McKee from Career Confidential presented at the webinar, “How to Find a Job in any Economy.” The information she presented is still useful and relevant today. The following job search tips were gleaned from her presentation with some of my own thoughts added.

The world is experiencing a global pandemic. Many have lost their jobs in the process and need a different approach to job search.

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6 Job Search Tips from Career Coach Peggy McKee

1. View your job search as a sales process where the hiring manager is the buyer, you are the product, and your resume is your marketing and sales material. You only have 15 seconds to capture their attention. So use the AIDA formula in your resume. Grab their Attention with your resume or profile headline. Capture their Interest by saying something captivating that’s important to them. Create a Desire by showing how you can make their lives better. And finally, take Action.
2. Never go through HR, go directly to the hiring managers. HR uses Applicant Tracking Systems as a spam filter to weed out as many resumes as possible.
3. Be proactive and work on expanding your network! Use social media to find and build relationships with hiring managers. Make sure that you always complete your profile for social media networks. Tap into the hidden job market.
4. If you are interested in working for particular companies, create Google Alerts for the companies so you can keep abreast of what’s happening and discover their pain.
5. Use SimplyHired.com and Indeed.com, which aggregate available jobs, and set up alerts for specific jobs you are interested in to be emailed to you.
6. Only spend 10 percent of your job search time using job boards, use them more as a research tool to identify trends, and which companies are hiring.

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Finding a Job Fast Using a 30 / 60 / 90 Day Plan by Peggy McKee, Summary

Job Search Tips: Hidden Job Market

Since this post was written close to 10 years ago, a lot has happened. Become more active on LinkedIn. Schedule updates everyday, some of which is content you create. Find a way to become a guest on LinkedIn Live events to showcase your expertise. LinkedIn just launched Stories, let others get to know you.

Research companies that you'd like to work for. Propose a project or even a position depending on what you find out through the research. Research speeches to see what's keeping leaders awake at nights. Be the solution to the problems they're facing. Read books across disciplines to expand your worldview. Do what your peers aren't doing.

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Also one of the things that James Altucher recommends you do is to generate ideas every day. You'll build your idea muscles and it will be easier for you to solve your own problems.

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Please refer to the blog post, 6 Ways to Maximize Your LinkedIn Presence – Tips from Carol McManus, the LinkedIn Lady. How can you use this information? What do you have to add to the conversation? Let's keep the conversation flowing, please let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.

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