Eric Jackson, I am using the boss hunting email and i seem to be getting responses to put uh
my info in the ats because they have to view applicants for the ats for legal reasons they do
they do are they telling me no no they're telling you
yes okay so uh andy lacivita school of living life
any any action you take or even if you're just sitting there and something was acted upon you
the immediate reaction is i'm sure that was for my own good because life happens for me not to
me what can i do with this right now okay i sent a boss hunting letter i'm eric jackson i sent a
boss hunting letter and the boss said hey eric thanks for reaching out i'm assuming something
of this nature would you please put your resume in the applicant tracking system what can i do with
this right now i immediately go back to the boss i say gratitude thank you so much for uh responding
and i appreciate the direction i will do that right now thank you second thing you say is
i'd love to be able to follow up with the recruiter or whoever is in charge
the human resources person whoever's in charge of recruiting for this position to ensure they got my
application and were able to review my resume would you be open to sharing with me who that
person is so i could follow up with them in a week or so question mark right off it goes
and one of two things is going to happen they're either going to get and then i
would put my resume in the applicant tracking system but i would also do one other thing
since you got a couple of lanes here we got to go through you go back to the recruit or to the
hiring official they're gonna do one of two things dead silence or i'm not sharing sorry one of three
things or here's the name okay any of those if it's dead silent you don't need to worry if it's
i'm not sharing the name say okay i appreciate it thank you very much i i will try to stay in touch
with you hopefully this will be positive okay and then the the other option is here's the person
in in the first or s in the sorry the second or third scenario so dead silence
here's actually dead silence or i'm not giving you the name i would try to find the recruiter
and i would say to them uh i i wanted to reach out because i'm applying to your organization i i uh
so and so asked me to put the right my resume in the applicant tracking system
which i did i wanted to follow up with you or whoever is the appropriate person who's recruiting
for this position to see if you had a chance to review my resume so and so told me to put it in
the applications which they did right you didn't say i know so-and-so you said so-and-so told me
okay so now what's what's the inference on their part and the implication on your part
i know this person right so that's what i would do and then if if you can't figure out who the
recruiter is or the human resources person is then you know you take your you take your shot
but that's that's how i would go through that so if you don't get the name if they
dead silence back from the hiring official or they don't give you the name then you take a
shot if they give you the name then you put it in their amplitude trace and you send it again
to the recruiter just say hey i i wanted to reach out to you directly because i i appreciate how
you know many applications you probably have in the applicant tracking system so i just
wanted to send this to you directly so you'd have it i would appreciate you blah blah blah
there you go right so you got that so you're all covered what can i do with this right now
right that kind of stuff then what would i do because the indie las vegas school living life
let's say a month goes by right back to the hiring official hey i wanted to check in with you
i hadn't heard anything back i did apply i did apply i even tried to reach out to this person
thinking that might help but i haven't heard anything back so i wanted to check back in with
you on two things number one see if there's you know any if the you know any opportunity to work
with you and if not uh would would you be you know is there anybody as you can see i'm job searching
is there anybody else you know that i might be able to connect with in your network or any other
recommendations you have it's a low priority for me but if it's a company that i really really want
to work for here you got to remember something folks on the one hand you might hear me say
don't spend a lot of time following up with people who aren't getting back to you and that's true
but when you are automated meaning because what went into my calendar was immediately i talked to
him he did this i put it in the application system where's my damn where's my damn note card i'm here
right this is what's happening but this iteration is what it's the follow-up that says what does it
say 30 days out if i don't hear anything there's an alert in my calendar that says email that guy
there's nothing to the follow-up the follow-up is boilerplate that i already generated i cut
it i pop it on top and i send it takes me 10 seconds alert copy paste forward go
that's that's when you're in the groove right like when you when you got your system set up
and you got your boilerplate set up and and and you planned it the night before
so that when you wake up you up find out here by tomorrow that email's going out at eight o'clock
hell i might even schedule that email so so that's the way i would do that when somebody
gets back to you that is gold that is that is your first goal i need to elicit a response
what can i do with that response well the response is hey come on in for an interview you go in for
an interview the response is hey we're not hiring okay you go back to them what can you do with that
all right i really would have loved to work for you do you know anybody right hey who's
the recruiter can i get the recruiter in my my resume in there anyway just so you have in
your system but what can i do what can i do what can i do don't stop till you're till you're done
eric jackson that was a great one thank you hope that helped
you