Leveraging Resources For Your Job Search (Part1)

Stop Doing What Everyone Else Is Doing

Especially in these times you need to jump above and ahead of your competitive untrustworthy ruthless fellow job seekers who are also looking for the same type of positions as you.  More importantly, you need to find open positions others are not.

You can expect to have a success rate of 15% in order to get a call back after applying to open positions with of course applying the basics of properly optimizing your resume towards the open position.

So applying to 100 open positions will give you 15 companies calling you in for an interview.  If not, then you may want to address your resume.

Now one person can only do so much when searching for new job openings and applying to them one by one.  This is exactly what your competitors are doing.

The more positions you find the more chances you have in getting the job.

Note the following:

• 100 Job openings found
• 30  Will still be available
• 5   Will call you for an interview (if your resume is highly targeted)
• 1   Will offer you a position

The more positions you apply to the more possibilities and choices you will have when picking a job opportunity.

If using this approach you need to apply to 500-600 jobs in order to get some traction.  How you ask? is this even possible for one person?….No

In these times, even finding an opportunity may become difficult thus using the power of delegation and leveraging other’s time in parallel provides you with the ability to multiply your efforts within the same period of time.

There is nothing wrong with leveraging others time as long as they are being rewarded for their efforts and they are onboard to help in order to gain a reward.

So why not delegate your employment search?

• Facebook
• Linked-in
• Myspace
• Twitter

Now that we got your attention, lets get started!

Strategy Layout

“Whats all this!?… I just want to find a job!” you ask, well the following diagram maps out the details as segements below reference every part of it.

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Planning – Setting Up The Basics

So your not actually going to be doing your job search …more on that later.

Right now you have to stick with some basic project planning and follow a budget.  As you may not have a job right now, suck it up and live frugal for you will get it back 10 fold real soon.

The budget is low believe us, we have budgeted this down to the bare minimum so that you can run with it at it’s cheapest. (If you find cheaper rates than kudos for you as you may be able to squeeze in more resources on the same budget)

Right now you have to understand that you need to gain some freelancers to do your job search for you and when we say freelancers we mean your going to build a small team of six individuals, don’t fret you’ll be ok, this team can be built within a day, you’ll see.

Types of Freelancers

Here is an overview of what types of freelancers you’ll need and why:

1. Job Researchers. You will need these guys to actually do online research and find targeted open positions for you though various websites within your geographic location. Get 3 freelancers for a set price of 20.00 each.
2. Social Profile Creator. You will need a guy to actually create social profiles for you on many of the high traffic social media websites…. list of major sites will be provided don’t worry.  Get 1 freelancer for a set price of 45.00.
3. Community / Classified Advertiser. You will need a guy to go out there and place advertisements on your local free classified and social forums advertising your availability.  Get 1 freelancer for a set price of 30.00.
4. Email / Appointment Secretary.  You will need to get a guy to manage an email inbox and setup appointments for you because this part needs to be taken care of so that you can focus your efforts on practicing for your interview.  Get 1 freelancer for a fixed price of 65.00.

Doing Your Small Little Part

Yes even though you will be managing this process, there is a small part for you as well.  As we mentioned above the freelancers need to be told exactly what to do or else you may end up with a few problems with the end result. We don’t want this to happen.

Now before you go on a hiring spree on the small 200.00 budget, there are a couple of things you must write down for each position posting you will be uploading to freelance websites later on.

1) Before hiring your job researcher freelancers you should have a listing of specific instructions on what to use when looking for jobs. Tell them to use all of the top 100, top 50, top 10 lists they can find online for the industry your in.

For example if you were in IT then be sure to document (search for “top 100 IT companies in California”) and replace the 100 with 50 then 10 in search engines then look at each top listing of company names and go to each company’s website and look in their careers section for any open positions relating to “Graphic Designer” for example and record the page which has the position posting.

They should then record the page URL and list it within a excel document and email it to “Email Address 1″ as displayed in the diagram above.

Also include that they should run local searches using search engines which are local to you. Remember www.google.ca has different results than www.google.co.uk.  Just be sure to include your search engines website URL don’t assume they are all the same.

Document this as and save it…we will use this later.

2) Now before hiring your social profile creator you need to provide them with a list of social sites you would like a profile created at.

Document that you would like to create profiles at the following social sites:

Be sure to provide them with a profile image (This way your profile will be more trustworthy when employers see your profile.)

Now your probably wondering why your paying this freelancer 45.00, well don’t forget that this guy will also market you on twitter tweeting like a bird on your behalf.  For him to tweet he will need to know what to tweet or else you will start to find out what this guy does in his free time at home, which no one cares about.

Be sure to document tweets you would make, be sure they are relevant to your industry and are informative in nature.  Try to come up with 60 as he should be tweeting twice daily from your twitter account.

These can also be little tid bits of big issues in your industry.  Quote professionals in the industry who addressed these issues or have proposals to popular industry specific issues. This will show that you are engaged in your industry and follow well known names allowing interviewers to trust you more when they do run a profile check online.

ex:  First Last Name – finds solution to “problem”

Don’t forget to inform the profile creator to use your personal email address as shown in the diagram above. (it is important to have the social websites registered with your personal email address as its important for you to receive these direct inquiries from people really interested in hiring you.

Document these as well as the job posting and save it… we will use it real soon.

3) Next for the online community & classifieds advertiser you would need to document personal advertisements which indicate that you are personally looking for work.  No you dont have to place your name in these ads but what you can do is use your title ex:

“Professional Translator seeking challenging opportunity”

Then in the ad just have a URL pointed back to your social profiles to learn more and register using Email address 2 so that direct contacts made with the ad will be forwarded to the secretary.  You would want to create several variations of these ads when posting online.  Remember to document in the job posting that the freelancer should only place one ad in each online classified / community website.

Document these and save it for later use.

4) Finally for the Email/Appointment Secretary you would need to setup a core email address for them to use which you will have access to as well.  We will call this “Email Address 1 & Calendar”.  Use a Gmail account which has your first name and last initial or something similar.

Now you want to ensure that your secretary knows that they will have to go through many links in an email inbox and send out your application by registering an account if necessary on the site where the job opportunity is found and apply for the position which submitting your resume.

The secretary will also need to receive emails and book appointments on Google calendar for you through a designated time period you specify.

In addition you may be required to take direct phone calls which will be coming in from organizations who typically like to setup appointments over the phone.

This you should do and document into the same Google calendar in order to make sure you don’t book over a time when your secretary booked an interview for you.

So by now you understand the layout of this pyramid and how you’re going to be leveraging other individuals time in parallel in order to multiply your chances of success 10 fold.

Catch Part 2 to this guide as a conclusion to how and where to find these individuals and how to execute your plan in:

Leveraging Resources For Your Job Search  – Part 2 (coming soon)