Adam Stark, my man from the other side of the pond we got when targeting companies
i know a direct boss is a priority and ATS last resort you're learning if i can't find the boss
who else should you target and what's the best pecking order before the ats
love it okay love this one buddy great question wonderful one to kick to kick us off
so just real quick priorities and the way i'm gonna i'm gonna do a little mix and match in here
so give you the whole kind of little concatenation i target companies not roles so the the primary
focus of the job search priority one what are the companies i want to target don't you worry your
pretty little self about whether they've got an opening or not okay where do i want to go
how can i get there let's find somebody who i can tag tackle send a message to or whatever
sometimes it's a multi-step process to get there second thing is it's okay to look at
are there open positions but they should be in the context of of your target companies if
you find an open position and that company was not on your target list you add it if you find
people that you know your long-lost friend who whatever you stumbled across on facebook
oh it works at such and such does that look like a good company
in the target company list all right and then you look for connections bosses try to identify them
see if you know anybody who knows the boss see if right if you know the recruiter if
you know the hr person if you know anybody who works at the company or whatever so just look
for relationships now the preference is to get somebody to introduce you to the boss i realize
that's a luxury right but if you're gonna go and you're gonna go cold to get now we're getting
to the spirit of specifically what adam asked i'd go boss first i probably would go teammate second
i would go into the recruitment department third hr and recruiters in that order why
okay boss hunting works effectively if if and only if you have requisite skills that that
boss will need at this moment in time that is why it works the intersection i do this i need this
he she has this bang connection okay always good bosses are always on the lookout for great people
even if they don't have open positions and a boss might have 10 people if they've got 10 people two
or more could go they might trade out they might have an open position that hasn't been published
yet and so on and if a boss has 10 people and no open requisitions and you send a message
to the recruiter who has open wrecks for other hiring officials can you see the difference in
level of priority i don't that guy doesn't need anybody he would go over on that team right so
that's why that's why recruiters are down on the line okay so boss first go go at it second thing
look for somebody on the team hey i was looking i'm in the middle of my job search and i i
noticed you work at such and such a company i was looking at this company because i was thinking
of potentially applying i wanted as part of my due diligence i wanted to check in with you
to see how you enjoy working there would you be open to sharing that with me
right something like that you didn't ask them to refer you didn't ask anything you asked them
for their help and their insight okay multi-step chess not checkers right okay sure adam i'd be
happy to share with you i really like working here great annie what do you like about working
is there anything in particular you put you you or is there anything you particularly love
next iteration right or something like that and you're having a dialogue that's awesome you know
what based on what you just said i think i'm going to apply before i do that just out of curiosity
would you benefit if i was one of your referrals that's a yes or no question that's not a will you
submit me that's a will you benefit third react third response as a matter of fact i really like
you adam because you're a great guy uh look you know send me your resume blah blah blah
hey this is great maybe we could have a phone call real quick or maybe i trust you enough i'll
pass this along to my boss right that's the way to go all right now this is all assuming
that you're not sure if there's an opening and if there is an opening you can point to the opening
that hey i was considering applying for this position when you start doing stuff like that what
happens is you're introducing the possibility that somebody could select you out i'm on the team and
i'm looking at adam's resume and i'm thinking i know what i do but he doesn't have this skill and
i as a team member think he should when i is the boss might not care if he has that or not right
so you start getting into weird stuff here but that's i would go that next and then third i would
hit the hr and recruitment department and and if you got if you're fortunate enough to hit a smart
recruiter or a smart hr person what they're going to do is they're going to say oh man i know you
know andy's always on the lookout for those good event planners good sales people good whatever
right like what you are so i'm gonna i'm gonna send it over to andy and we're gonna
we're gonna let andy decide this kind of thing or you know that's that's how i would go and
man i would be like that whole process i would i would be willing to take months before i ever
put my resume into an applicant tracking system and you might somebody i know are out there i
know you're out there snickering right lady i don't have months yeah that's right you don't
have months you need your job fast so where is your time better spent go out and find more of
these companies that you can do that with so that you are constantly pressing out into the world
yourself giving yourself the highest probability of getting acknowledged in an interview going
into the applicant trashing system is not that way so i would be sending this to many many
locations each day however many you can or however many you can over the course of the
week and i'm not worried about that job i'm worried about my job search i'm not concerned
where is my damn card here what did i just get done saying hang on where is it
short timers you're focusing on the wins long timers studying their plans my plan says that
i'm going to find my job and he's telling me that if i have faith and i keep doing the job search
challenge type activities if you don't know what that is just head to my youtube channel
if i keep sending messages to people then i have a greater likelihood of
getting responses and getting okay that's what i'm talking about where
ever you're thinking well i gotta go in the applicant drag system and hopefully i get a win
well you're gonna get a ton of losses that way so put the plan together stick with it stay
consistent and use that pecking order that is a damn good question there adam i love it i love
it that's i know i really rambled but there was a lot of great lessons in that one and um i i i
i wish a lot of luck but but that's how i would go about it that's how i would think it through
you