I love the good common sense offered by my colleague, Billie Sucher. Not only does she offer good home-spun remedies and recipes, she is a capable and energetic career professional. Check-out her latest, written from her “sick-bed” and posted on Career Hub.
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This time, I’m touting this approach via a well-respected recruiter, Nick Corcodilos, (author of the Ask the Headhunter books, blogs, articles, etc.) To view the post in-context, look for “Get HIred: No resume, no interview, no joke:
Cut out the middlemen
Your challenge is to avoid the process that takes your keywords but ignores your ability to learn and to stretch. The alternative is simple: Cut out the middlemen — HR and the recruiters and the headhunters — and go directly to good managers you’d like to work for. Find out what work they need done, and show how you will do it. Show how you will boost their business and they will hire you.
Read that again: Go to good managers you’d like to work for. That means making choices before you approach anyone about a job. It means avoiding the cattle calls. It means avoiding waiting in line. It means avoiding asking for jobs from people you don’t know who don’t know you.
If you understand this, you have an advantage: Everyone else is diddling the job databases, while you’re out talking to a handful of managers you really want to work for who really want and need to hire you. No resume, no interview, no joke.
Here’s what to do next
Pick three companies or managers you really, really want to work for because they are the shining lights in their industry. Then come to The Blog and describe (briefly) three problems or challenges each company really needs someone to tackle. (You don’t have to name the companies.) And I’ll show you what to do next to get in the door. No resume, no interview, no joke.
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