Summary Sunday: Perspectives On Job Search

For perspectives on job search, it helps to look at how companies are recruiting and what’s changed since the start of the pandemic.

In case you haven’t noticed, companies are changing how they hire new employees.

Everything is virtual and online which means you’ll want to pay more attention to your online image/digital footprint. A virtual environment also means that recruiters can’t rely on in-person meetings to assess candidates.

This week’s summary taps into perspectives on job search from experts and delivers insight and actionable steps you can take to improve your efforts.

• Get noticed by online recruiters
• Write better cover letters and thank you messages
• Learn what industries are hiring
• Consider taking notes during a job interview (or not)
• Pick up some new Zoom tips
• Older workers are less stressed than younger workers
• What might the future of hiring look like
• Follow this list of 80+ people on LinkedIn
• Give and get feedback to boost your self-confidence

It’s important to note that there are different perspectives from different views (research, experts, recruiters, HR and more). None are wrong, but not all may be right for you. Test, experiment and assess your results.

Job Search

How To Get Noticed By An Online Recruiter | Olivia Kelly TheLadders

How to get noticed by an online recruiter

If you’re in the market for a new job and don’t know where to start your search, you might want to consider how you can start working with recruiters. Recruiters are always looking online for potential candidates to place in open positions.

Pre-Pandemic Versus Now: TopResume Survey Reveals What Recruiters Really Care About | TopResume

an overwhelming majority (68 percent) agree that the interview thank-you has become more significant, one-fifth (20 percent) are neutral on the topic, and a mere 12 percent disagree.

Pre-Pandemic Versus Now: TopResume Survey Reveals What Recruiters Really Care About

NEW YORK (October 20, 2020) – TopResume, the world’s largest resume-writing service, today announced its latest survey results, revealing that U.S. hiring professionals are focused on different key factors when considering job seekers amid the pandemic. Between August 26 and September 4, 2020, TopResume asked 334 recruiters, HR professionals, and hiring managers from across the country to share their opinions on previous deal-breakers.

Perspectives On The Current Job Market With Andrew Seamon | Career Pivot

This is a recession like nothing we have ever seen. For some nothing has changed. For others, it has been devastating.

Perspectives on the Current Job Market with Andrew Seaman [Podcast] – Career Pivot

Podcast #199 – Marc Interviews Andrew Seaman Editor of LinkedIn’s #GetHired Newsletter on his Perspectives of the Current Job Market Description: Andrew’s LinkedIn profile states the following: Journalist, editor, and media ethicist focused on bringing people together with the information they need to be successful in their careers and everyday lives.

Interviewing

Should Candidates Take and Read Notes In Interviews… Or Not? | Dorothy Dalton 3Plus International

There was a definite consensus around how you should take notes and there is a right and wrong way to do it. David Kiss writes: “I always take notes, but have learnt to do it without breaking eye contact. I’ve found this skill highly useful on multiple occasions (not only in interviews…)“

Should candidates take and read notes in interviews… or not? – 3 Plus International

I posed this question to my LinkedIn network “Should candidates take and read notes in interviews… or not?” Who would have thought that it could have generated such a heated discussion. The career and hiring sector is clearly not on the same page on this issue. Some fully advocate for it.

Tools & Tech

How To Use Zoom Like a Pro: 15 Video Chat Tips and Tricks To Try Now | Alison DeNisco Rayome CNET

How to use Zoom like a pro: 15 video chat tips and tricks to try now

The Zoom video meeting and chat app has become the wildly popular host to millions of people and from home during the coronavirus pandemic. Despite a number of privacy and security issues that arose alongside the platform’s rapid growth, it now features end-to-end encryption and other ways to protect your account and your chats from Zoombombing and other privacy flaws.

Remote Work

Opinion: Older Workers Are Working From Home More Successfully Than Their Younger Colleagues | Kerry Hannon MarketWatch

And while only 11% of Gen Z and 17% of millennials say that COVID-19 hasn’t negatively affected their mental health. More than double the number of boomers (28%), said it hasn’t adversely touched them.

Older workers are working from home more successfully than their younger colleagues

Returning to the office isn’t going to happen anytime soon. COVID-19 cases are on the rise again. And the result is that remote working is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Only 28% of U.S. employees expect to return to their workplaces by the end of 2020, according to a recent Conference Board survey of more than 1,100 U.S.

Recruiting Trends

Why Requiring a Résumé is Ruining Your Chance at Finding a Good Hire During the Pandemic | Dina Bayasanova Fast Company

For example, you can suggest sending in a one-minute animated video, writing a paragraph about themselves, or giving a short answer demonstrating their problem-solving capabilities. These alternatives all take the place of an ordinary cover letter.

Why requiring a résumé is ruining your chance at finding a good hire during the pandemic

By September this year, 1 in 3 Americans no longer worked for the same employer they started with at the beginning of 2020. Job markets are shifting beneath our feet, people are being catapulted into completely different industries, and it’s forcing us to take a hard look at what really matters when hiring.

LINKEDIN

The Ultimate List of 80 + LinkedIn Voices Job Seekers Should Follow | Things Career Related

The ultimate list of 80 + LinkedIn voices job seekers should follow

Like any list one creates, there’s a magic number in mind. It could be 10, 20, 30, etc. Mine was 50 LinkedIn voices job seekers should follow, but then I dug deeper in the proverbial weeds and found more than 50 voices who deserved to be on this list.

Well-Being

You Need a Personal Highlight Reel | Dan Cable Harvard Business Review

[The Positive Method] involves reaching out to people who mean the most to you of times, sharing anecdotes of when they made an impact, and asking them to share memories of you being the best version of yourself. You end up with a personal highlight reel: a set of memories of you at your very best.

You Need a Personal Highlight Reel

Sometimes, personal trauma – recovering from a serious illness, losing a close friend, getting laid off, or struggling through a pandemic – can make you question your assumptions and push you to change the path you’re on. But positive events can lead to post-traumatic growth , too: landing a new job, having a new baby, or falling in love.

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