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7 Reasons Job Seekers Should Embrace Text Recruiting

7 Reasons Job Seekers Should Embrace Text Recruiting

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Recruiters are making the hiring process more cost-efficient for employers by using text recruiting software. If you’re a job candidate who hasn’t received a text from your friendly neighborhood recruiter, you eventually will. Recruiters working for employers increase hiring efficiency while sorting through scores of candidates per position using Artificial Intelligence (AI) via a chatbot or human recruiter.

Upon receiving your permission via the employer, a recruiter or chatbot sends a text asking you to follow a link to schedule an appointment, fill out a questionnaire, or learn about the next steps. For both parties, it’s like a real-time conversation you would have with friends, although you shouldn’t respond as you would to your friends. In most cases, there is no need to wait hours for a response. According to Jobvite, job seekers respond 45% faster via text than email.

Text recruiting communication could challenge some candidates:

  • You must be responsive immediately. The recruiter is also texting other candidates with information requiring an immediate response. Failing to respond to the text could disqualify you.
  • The content of your texts matters. It’s essential to keep in mind that “autocorrect” is not an excuse for poor messaging.
  • Keeping up with several companies via text recruiting will require organization skills and good recall of what you said to whom. Sending the wrong response to the wrong employer means…well, you know.
  • Tech adverse candidates will be exposed as being tech unsavvy. (Remember when you put that you’re “tech-savvy” on your resume?)
  • Your words weigh the heaviest. There’s no way to use intangible body language (smiling, laughter, rapport) to impress or inform.
  • Your mistakes in texting (grammar/spelling/inappropriate language) are a documented reflection of your inability to communicate in writing.

Here are a few of the advantages:

  • It’s time-efficient and saves you travel time to an interview.
  • You can show you’re tech-savvy and a great communicator.
  • You will be judged solely on your responses.
  • A great conversation will stand out because it’s documented.

Text recruiting can enhance your hiring experience and offer ways for you to make a good impression if you:

Know your audience. When you receive a text, it’s likely an automated message rather than a personal message. Interpersonal chatter is not appropriate; therefore, answer the inquiries sent.

Write well. You want to double and triple check your message to ensure the message you send represents you. It’s not appropriate or professional to use casual text language, (e.g., 2, U, K).

Respond to the right sender. If you’re confirming an appointment but send your response to the wrong person, you may disqualify yourself. Make sure you are replying to the correct sender.

Call if you are confused about the message. One text message from an employer does not negate the value of talking person-to-person. Call if you receive an unclear or inappropriate message. Think it doesn’t happen? Read these text messages from recruiters. Nothing replaces face-to-face communication.

Don’t follow-up via text to an unanswered text. No answer to your texted question? Call. It’s the surest way to facilitate clarity between both parties. Technology is not perfect, and neither are you.

Keep it Sweet and Simple. Text messages are easy to misinterpret and misunderstand. Call or meet face-to-face if the message requires more than a few sentences. If you need to ask a question, then shorter is better. If you fear your answers aren’t clear, then call.

You are what you text. How you communicate in person is what will come across in all written communication, including texting—tone, brevity, clarity, and personality count. You must exercise caution in every kind of communication during the hiring process.

To be seen as a reliable and qualified professional, you must act professionally no matter the communication medium the company uses to hire. Content and context matter during every phase of the hiring process. If you’re uncomfortable with the nuances of technology, it will appear in text messaging.

About Mark Anthony Dyson

I am the "The Voice of Job Seekers," career consultant, job seeker advocate, career writer, and founder of this award-winning blog. I help the employed, unemployed, underemployed, and under-appreciated find jobs using job search strategies to navigate the new job market. I aim to give a safe place online to those with different needs, cultures, and ethnicities to find their voice in the job market. Thousands have read my career advice throughout the web as I write about everything from job search strategies to the mobile job search. I have published more than 400 articles on this blog and some of the largest career sites such as Recruiter.com, YouTern, and Come Recommended. I've been quoted in major online publications such as Monster, TIME/Money, Fortune, Business Insider and MSN. FlexJobs, JobMonkey, Aerotek, Career Pivot, and CareerSherpa listed my podcast as one of the top podcasts to help your job search. Love for you to sign up for the weekly newsletter. I share the latest articles I've written, new podcast episodes, and answer any questions you may have. The new job search is scary and if you need help, I am here for it!

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How Can a Headhunter Help Your Job Search

How Can a Headhunter Help Your Job Search
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The headhunter is a good thing that could happen to job seekers these days. Christopher Taylor shares the difference between being recruited and headhunted. Chris is a former headhunter and now a job search strategist. 
 

Let me know what you think in one of three ways:

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More about Chris:

Christopher Taylor is a former recruiter who writes for The Muse and is also a career practitioner. His articles appeared in TIME, Business Insider, and Forbes. You can learn more about him and what he does at Occupation Optimist. 
 
  • Being approached by a headhunter is a good thing during your job search
  • Chris shares the headhunter is employed by the client while a recruiter works eternally
  • Headhunters are only as good as their client
  • Not many candidates took advantage of working with a headhunter
  • Headhunters can plug you into a network
  • Headhunter understands the culture, the salary, may know the interview questions, and how to stand out
  • Headhunters have multiple clients looking for various roles, but will take the time to offer some guidance
  • People should change their thinking about headhunters as they could advocate for you
  • More often job seekers will have a LinkedIn profile instead of a blog and LI profile
  • Since most don’t have a blog, it is the one thing to stand out
 
You can also sign up for my weekly newsletter at the top right of my page to be on the first list of my free e-Guide, “300 Modern Job Search Tips for 2020!” This year, it will be free for a limited time. If you’re on the list, you’ll receive the tips first. 

About Mark Anthony Dyson

I am the "The Voice of Job Seekers," career consultant, job seeker advocate, career writer, and founder of this award-winning blog. I help the employed, unemployed, underemployed, and under-appreciated find jobs using job search strategies to navigate the new job market. I aim to give a safe place online to those with different needs, cultures, and ethnicities to find their voice in the job market. Thousands have read my career advice throughout the web as I write about everything from job search strategies to the mobile job search. I have published more than 400 articles on this blog and some of the largest career sites such as Recruiter.com, YouTern, and Come Recommended. I've been quoted in major online publications such as Monster, TIME/Money, Fortune, Business Insider and MSN. FlexJobs, JobMonkey, Aerotek, Career Pivot, and CareerSherpa listed my podcast as one of the top podcasts to help your job search. Love for you to sign up for the weekly newsletter. I share the latest articles I've written, new podcast episodes, and answer any questions you may have. The new job search is scary and if you need help, I am here for it!

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Recruiter Real Talk for Your Career with Mark Jaffe

Recruiter Real Talk for Your Career with Mark Jaffe
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real talk for your career!

I am excited to have Mark Jaffe as my guest to talk about his new book, Let Me Give it to You Straight: An Outspoken Guide to Working with Headhunters, Advancing Your Career and Reaching Enlightenment…Without the Sugarcoating. Mark drops some valuable gems about executive recruiting. But listen to his advice on how anyone can successfully interview near the end of our conversation. Mark drops some valuable gems about executive recruiting. But listen to his advice on how anyone can successfully interview near the end of our conversation.

Have you ever worked with a recruiter?  What has your experience in working with a recruiter? I would love your feedback on these questions or anything that you’ve heard on any of our shows in one of the three ways:

1) Leave a voice mail or text message at 708-365-9822. Let me know if I can share it on future shows
2) Email me: mark@thevoiceofjobseekers.com
3) Go to TheVoiceofJobSeekers.com and press the “Send Voicemail” button to leave a message online

If you are a career coach or career advice professional and would like to contribute advice or voice your opinion, leave a message along with your name and website. I will include both on an upcoming show and show notes on the blog.advice professional and would like to contribute advice or voice your opinion, leave a message along with your name and website. I will include both on an upcoming show and show notes on the blog.

Mark has been an executive recruiter for more than 30 years and quoted in many national news outlets such as Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. He was ranked by BusinessWeek as “One of the World’s 100 Most Influential Headhunters.”

Here are some of our talking points:

    • I asked Mark to describe the differences between recruiting now and back in the late ‘90s/2000s. His dating analogy made it clear that job stability was prominent as most executives had many career choices. Therefore, recruiters had to reach out to those who barely qualified for the position they were recruiting for. In today’s job market, the executives  who are stable and thriving, and have their heads down are the ones that are being sought-after and are being sold on the idea of working for someone else
    • In his recruiting practice, they are agents of their clients (like all recruiters). They do not shop around candidates.
    • They do “de Novo research” (keep in mind these are executive searches), not relying on any current databases, or list of waiting candidates (keep in mind these are executive searches), not relying on any current databases, or list of waiting candidates
    • Essentially, there are two types of managers in the corporate world, those who play (or hire) to their strengths, and those who spend equal or greater amount of energy or cover their weaknesses. The first is about the team, who can run circles around them in certain areas, and the latter manager hires the candidate who he or she can control
    • Job seekers should think of themselves as the solution to the company’s problems by understanding the needs of the business, and wrapping his or her head around the company’s goals and objectives. Mark advises that during the interview to be a consultant and draw information out of the interviewer information about the business solutions the company needs. Talk with the interviewer collaboratively, creatively, and constructively
    • Mark says that the great candidates know what they are good at and go into interviews knowing what he or she like to do, and see if they can understand the company’s challenges, objectives, and goals
    • Learn what is keeping the interviewer up and night instead of trying so hard to sell  yourself. Mark says,“You be the doctor and let the company be the patient. Don’t be a screaming advertisement.”

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About Mark Anthony Dyson

I am the "The Voice of Job Seekers," career consultant, job seeker advocate, career writer, and founder of this award-winning blog. I help the employed, unemployed, underemployed, and under-appreciated find jobs using job search strategies to navigate the new job market. I aim to give a safe place online to those with different needs, cultures, and ethnicities to find their voice in the job market. Thousands have read my career advice throughout the web as I write about everything from job search strategies to the mobile job search. I have published more than 400 articles on this blog and some of the largest career sites such as Recruiter.com, YouTern, and Come Recommended. I've been quoted in major online publications such as Monster, TIME/Money, Fortune, Business Insider and MSN. FlexJobs, JobMonkey, Aerotek, Career Pivot, and CareerSherpa listed my podcast as one of the top podcasts to help your job search. Love for you to sign up for the weekly newsletter. I share the latest articles I've written, new podcast episodes, and answer any questions you may have. The new job search is scary and if you need help, I am here for it!

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