Want a Job? sale your self !! To get an Interview call is a big deal now a days. If a company is looking to hire the new employees, there are More than 10000 of aspirants standing in the queue to apply. Companies contact to recruitment firm and consultancies to reduce their short listing processes. Consultancies download resumes from numerous job portals as per the criteria and requirement mentioned by the companies. (Searching based on the keywords mentioned in resume)They call the aspirants ask few questions and forward the resume to concern hiring company. Thus process end. If you are lucky you will be one of it. If not then?? So what to do??? Sale you’re self Customer Requirement: Customer’s looks for new product when there is a need, they start looking for the availability of product in the market. From the thousands of brands, number of products, from top brand to local ones, they are going to choose only one which makes them feel satisfied. Customers look for the best features, long life, compatible, easy carrying. Buyer’s got to know about the product through advertisement on TV, Radio, Social sites, mouth publicity, etc. They get attracted to few products because of the marketing strategy ,Discount offered and aesthetic views of the product and good feedback from other users, and most of the time “Saste me acha” . Afcourse even we do the same when we go out to purchase any thing. We buy things with our pre define budget, also the one on which we can trust. Job seeker is like a new product came out from the particular university with so and so marks, with great efforts he had done his graduations and now he is a finished product available in the market. But who knows him? Do you know Mr.XYZ pass out from XYZ University with distinction? He is good software engineer and had won numerous quiz competition? NO!! So it’s the time to launch a product, Do marketing of yourself and finally sale yourself to the customer, Sorry I mean the recruiter. Launching Product: Launching you and making yourself outstanding from your competitors is the 1st step to win a job. Know yourself 1st, Understand where you are good and where not. Where you would like to work, which location you will preferred, which domain you would like to work with, Highlight your work, your papers, you’re project you work earlier with. Do research on your studies and your competitor’s skills, your aptitude and communication skills. Read blog details or go through the profiles on linkedin working on similar domain, what they are expertise into, where you are lacking, what should you know about of the field you are looking for. Then update your resume with required skills, don’t overwrite in your resume, be what you are and what you want to do. This is how you will be able to launch yourself, would able to answer and stand outside the crowd differently. Marketing: Yes marketing is the second most important part. You have to market your capabilities, your knowledge, your concepts, skills, techniques, your education degree, your marks, and everything you good at. Be conscious on to whom you are adding and to what you are posting on your social sites, it reflects what you are and how you behave as an individual, as well as what moral you carry. Make accounts on job portals, I will repeat it as job portals, not a single portal will help out, post resumes to number of portals, with maximum key words you are expert in. Complete the profile by mentioning best at what you are, what you are good at, what skills you hold, Mentioned the salary you are seeking for, survey initially what is the current salary offered for the particular domain you are looking for, and then put your expectation. make account at linkedin professional network, join groups which interest you, follow your dream company, update your knowledge time to time, work as freelancer to learn new and to gain name in market, as well as you will get experience too. Sales : Sale is to sold out. By hook or crook salesmen has to sold out the thing. He can succeed into sales only if the product is launched and marketed finely.He should be creative and pushy too. Similarly a job seeker has to sold himself at a recruiting firm by assuring him that he/she is the only best product available in the market with all qualities and creative idea recruiter looking for. Presenting himself as relaxed, confident, sensitive, faithful and trustful and the only job seeker who is perfect and suits for the job opportunity. He knows for what he had applied and what work is being expected from him. He is well sound and expert in the skills which will be required for the offered job. Simultaneously he is pro active and focused too. He is the one who is ready to work with best competitive salary. He has his entire document which proofs his academic performance which shows he is not a fake person. He had studied the complete background of the company before applying it which shows his seriousness and home work. Recruiters will hire only if the job seeker is suiting his criteria in all means. Why normally we get reject? 1st step of elimination: In the 1st process more than 70% applicants get out itself as because they haven’t updated their resumes on the job portal, Consultancies may haven’t got there any details, resume was not updated ,they haven’t updated there new cell number ,new location, expectation of salary too high, location preference not available,worst case there was no network available when recruiter tried to contact them. 2nd Step Of elimination: More than 20 % roll out here. Consultancies shortlist few candidates, forward there updated resume to Hr team, Hr shortlist few profiles based on 70% of References, 20 % of Referrals and remaining 10 % on the resume received from the consultancies as well as the job portals. 3rd Step Of elimination: Candidates get the call for interview, but he fail in the interview and thus he lost the job,and he need to start again from the step one and standing out now with more than 10,000 aspirants. Now readers you have got a link how sales process will help you to reach your dream job. It will be summarize as below: Product links with job seekers as he is the product available in market, but who knows him until he hadn’t marketed himself in the availability of products, Customer is the recruiter he is going to buy the best one and also the one which is new in market as old fashion clothes are always rejected. Job seeker has to publish himself for that, he must highlight his skills, his activities, He must be able to present himself well on social as well as networking sites. He must be available on job portals with updates resume and curriculum activities which links to advertisement and availability of the product . Aesthetic looks will link with his dressing style,no one would like take a thing home whose appearance is torn or fade. Salary negotiations will be the product as Saste me Acha. He must be ready to sale out in competitive rate. To acquire a job today you must be a good sales person , product launcher and a marketing guy. Yes you have to market your self 1st and sale your self to recruiter , to gain the position. Best of Luck ahead . Remember To Crack An Interview Sale your self..
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 07:09:40 +0000
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