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How to get that jobb
H o w to get th at j o

New York headhunter Carl Rogers gives us some advice

You may think that headhunters work solely for the itself, but how it i ts within the structure of the company.
employer, but they are also working for the future That means doing a lot of research beforehand. Learn
employee. Their goal is to make the best match about the company in greater depth than just reading
between the candidate and the company that’s looking the homepage of their website. Find out its challenges
to employ someone. As one of New York’s leading and goals, its culture and competitors, and all
headhunters, here is some advice I give to candidates to its products.
make them the obvious choice for the position they are
Now you are ready for the interview. Treat it as if it were
competing for.
the i rst day on the job. You are there to present a new
Look upon your CV not as a record of your past but as project, which is ‘the advantages of hiring you’. Turn PDF from sachtienganhhanoi.com
a statement of what you could do for that company in the interview around by asking what problems the
the future, if they employ you. Prepare a separate CV manager hopes to solve by employing you. They might
for every company you approach. Find out as much as start by giving you a list of your daily duties or tell you
possible about what the job requires, and then add a it is to replace someone who is leaving. You may have
paragraph at the top of your CV that says how you will to make it clear that you are asking more about what
specii cally do that job in a way that targets the needs of they hope to gain from you as an employee, rather than
the manager you will be working for. That way, you will just the day-to-day things they expect you to do. This
stand out as someone who will help the employer, not demonstrates your extra enthusiasm and fl exibility. When
just someone who is looking for a job. you get a clear idea of what it is they are looking for,
If you send your CV to Human Resources, the such as higher proi ts or more clients, this is your moment
department responsible for the recruitment of new staff , to outline the steps you would take to do this. Show the
it is highly likely that it will get lost or just i led away. We manager how you think and work by suggesting what
headhunters try to avoid HR departments as they can you would do to reduce costs or broaden the client

be inei cient. So should you. You need to go directly base. Candidates are rarely so forward thinking in an
to the person who will be making the hire. If the job interview and for this reason this strategy is very eff ective.
advertisement explicitly asks for a CV to be sent to HR, do
You will come across as a person who understands
it, but send another one to the manager who is making the job and is prepared to do it. Who doesn’t want to
the ultimate decision for the job explaining what you’ve employ someone who wants to solve problems and
done. So while all the other candidates are still waiting to achieve goals? This is the fundamental reason for the
be interviewed by HR, the person who will make the i nal
interview. A company holds interviews so it can hire the
decision about who to hire already knows who you are.
best person for the job. Your interviewer will be delighted
So that you feel coni dent when you walk into the if that person turns out to be you – because then they
interview, you need to know not just about the position can stop interviewing and get back to work.

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