Tag: applicant tracking system

17 videos. 148+ links. 292+ takeaways from this 6 hr training lesson:

[JOSHUA’S NOTE: Below are 6 hours of high-quality, curated content gleaned from professional recruiters and head hunters blended with my personal experience as a talent development specialist training over 15,000 professionals and university students, neatly bundled up and in one place.]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. The recruiter’s power & dilemma
2. How Human Resources assess employees & candidates
3. How recruiters find the ‘right’ talent
   • Online people search strategies recruiters use
     • Explicit search
     • Implicit search
     • Natural language/semantic search
     • Indirect search
     • Maximum inclusion search
     • Iterative search
     • Probabilistic search
     • Social graph search
   • Offline people search tactics recruiters use
4. How to get your profile & CV in front of recruiters
   • Content:
     • Identify your realistic but ambitious next career step
     • Collect several target job descriptions
     • Sift through the target job descriptions
     • Assess your strengths, weaknesses and critical weaknesses
     • Build your CV around keywords & accomplishments
     • Inject personality & storytelling into your CV
     • Use your CV as a compensation negotiation tool
   • Form:
     • Choose an applicant tracking friendly CV template
     • Optimize your CV section by section
     • Re-scan & improve CV until acceptable benchmark
   • Blend your CV & online profiles
     • Your professional headline
     • Your profile summary & past work experience
     • Accomplishments, credentials & ongoing education
     • Collect professional recommendations
   • Copy top talent CVs & LinkedIn profiles that inspire you
5. How to find job openings and key hiring decision-makers
6. How recruiters ‘flip’ leaders and potential candidates
   • Control the conversation
   • Work from a successful communication ‘script’
   • Approach conversation as ‘mock interview’
   • Absorb person’s emotional state with each transition