How to Use Cold-Calling for Your Job Search

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Cold-calling sounds intimidating and most shy away from it but with the holidays coming up, it could be a passive job search strategy that Kimberly Robb Baker can work for you. There are few people in the office, who will have more time to open mail and actually read it (Mmmmm…)! In this day and age, you could stand out because people are still sending resumes instead of a brief letter as a tease to become interested in you.

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Kimberly Robb Baker is back to share with us how to use cold-calling to get responses from employers. Kim is the founder of MovingOnUpResumes.com (@ThisLittleBrand),and an award-winning resume writer who is a master story teller. Her work has been published in many resume publications including JIST and Barron’s. publications including JIST and Barron’s. Her 10 years of sales experience is useful for her clients to use this technique as a way to find job leads and not sound as salesy.

Cold-calling is useful for reaching outside your network
Even for an introvert realizing you have little to lose when you reach to people you don’t know
Kim says that cold-calling is good exercise to learn how to help with speech fluidity and communication skills
You are planting seeds hoping that opportunities will manifest through cold calling you otherwise would have missed
You can create warm calling opportunities through social networking
Cold mailing is also the same strategy. She mentions Cold Bait as a resource for cold mailing
Cold mail letter is a brief way to send to snail mail prospects, no more than 158 words, casual language
Don’t beg, just be specific to the need you provide
Kim provides an example of how a Director or Marketing would position the letter
Try not to sound salesy, try adding quantified results but only one that would attract attention
Think about the positioning the possibility in short rather than pain of the company, not the same approach as a cover letter
Delivery through snail mail will yield up to 3%
Join groups of potential contact through LinkedIn to send them an Inmail
Use a “P.S.” and include your LinkedIn profile link, sign off respectfully

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About Mark Anthony Dyson

I am the "The Voice of Job Seekers!" I offer compassionate career and job search advice as I hack and re-imagine the job search process. You need to be "the prescription to an employer's job description." You must be solution-oriented and work in positions in companies where you are the remedy. Your job search must be a lifestyle, and your career must be in front of you constantly. You can no longer shed your aspirations at the change seasons. There are strengths you have that need constant use and development. Be sure you sign up to download my E-Book, "421 Modern Job Search Tips 2021!" You can find my career advice and work in media outlets such as Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Glassdoor, and many other outlets.