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Hi all,
We're trying to relocate (within the state - not long-distance) and I found some jobs for my husband, but we don't know anybody at these companies. I know online applications can be a real long shot. Any tips for getting an interview without an "in"?
If you have LinkedIn, you can look for employees within companies who you may have some kind of connection to such as same college and etc. I usually look for an internal recruiter/HR person in LinkedIn at the companies I am interested in and then send my resume off to them. Occasionally, I look for a manager in the division of the job that was posted and then email my resume to them. You will be surprised at how well this works since sometimes you might strike gold and actually send it to the hiring manager or someone who knows the hiring manager.
Hi all,
We're trying to relocate (within the state - not long-distance) and I found some jobs for my husband, but we don't know anybody at these companies. I know online applications can be a real long shot. Any tips for getting an interview without an "in"?
Thanks!
Why do you think you need an "IN" to get a job over applying normally? And "In" may help, but it may also be nothing.
Be very careful about these "In" and "connections" as a lot of it is propoganda and hype. You have the groups that promote "networking" who need to make you feel that that is the only way to get a job. They do it because thats their business to run networking so they need you to buy into the belief, otherwise why affiliate yourself with that group?
The second is a bit more sad. In todays shifting emplyment picture, many are finding out that their value to a company or industry has evaporated. They go out every day hunting for the job only to find out so many others are superior to them in education and expereinces, or that their specialty isn;t as special as they throught. As time goes by, the start to join the long-term unemployed. Now they can say that they lack the education experiences or skill needed in today's employment world, but that means that the issue is with themself. Or, they can find some exccuse to make it seems like its not really them, but something else. What is more convinient than to claim that although they are more than qualifed, they are not getting the job due to inside favoritism and such. That means it's not them, but others. It's not my fault, but their fault... A very sad excuse.
Apply for the job as best you can and don't ever not apply because you think an "IN" is required, because the day you stop applying is the day your qualifiaction would have got you hired! If you start believing that an "IN" is needed, thats when you become another of those unemployed CD posters who responds to every post that its "Every One Elses Fault, Not Mine!"..........
Why do you think you need an "IN" to get a job over applying normally? And "In" may help, but it may also be nothing.
Be very careful about these "In" and "connections" as a lot of it is propoganda and hype. You have the groups that promote "networking" who need to make you feel that that is the only way to get a job. They do it because thats their business to run networking so they need you to buy into the belief, otherwise why affiliate yourself with that group?
The second is a bit more sad. In todays shifting emplyment picture, many are finding out that their value to a company or industry has evaporated. They go out every day hunting for the job only to find out so many others are superior to them in education and expereinces, or that their specialty isn;t as special as they throught. As time goes by, the start to join the long-term unemployed. Now they can say that they lack the education experiences or skill needed in today's employment world, but that means that the issue is with themself. Or, they can find some exccuse to make it seems like its not really them, but something else. What is more convinient than to claim that although they are more than qualifed, they are not getting the job due to inside favoritism and such. That means it's not them, but others. It's not my fault, but their fault... A very sad excuse.
Apply for the job as best you can and don't ever not apply because you think an "IN" is required, because the day you stop applying is the day your qualifiaction would have got you hired! If you start believing that an "IN" is needed, thats when you become another of those unemployed CD posters who responds to every post that its "Every One Elses Fault, Not Mine!"..........
I cannot yet rep you again although you richly deserve it.
It's definitely possible to get the job without having someone on the inside. If our only hope of getting jobs was to have someone we knew working for each target company, we'd be in bad shape. I've gotten several jobs without knowing anyone who worked for those employers.
Hi all,
We're trying to relocate (within the state - not long-distance) and I found some jobs for my husband, but we don't know anybody at these companies. I know online applications can be a real long shot. Any tips for getting an interview without an "in"?
Thanks!
It HELPS a lot but it's not the only way to get hired at a company. Most of the time you don't get a job because of a "Inside Connect" it's because someone you know is friends with that Inside Connect.
It's not about you who know, it's about who your friends KNOW
20-30% of jobs are attained without networking. So it's very possible, but just much harder. I suggest you use a two-pronged approach. Continue with cold applications as others have suggested. But also get involved into the area you're looking to move to. Join the country club, tennis club, church, etc. Get to know people. Have dinners. See what comes about.
Last edited by NJBest; 08-02-2012 at 09:00 PM..
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