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) Introducing Yourself to Recruiters Who Don't Yet Have an Opening that Matches Your Skills
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Bog'liq RESUME AND BIOGRAPHY2.) Introducing Yourself to Recruiters Who Don't Yet Have an Opening that Matches Your Skills
A key job search strategy for many professionals is to work with retained or contingency recruiters. It’s all well and good to apply for open positions advertised by recruiting firms, but since you need to tailor your resume, how can you do so when there is no relevant open job?
A bio is a great alternative in such situations. By sending the recruiter your bio rather than your resume, you alert them to your candidacy without focusing their attention on a single job title or function. If you’re looking for a range of positions rather than a single title, a bio will do a better job of highlighting your experience without prematurely narrowing any ensuing discussions to a single title ~ an especially important issue if you are looking for jobs spanning multiple levels (mid-management, director-level, VP-level, etc.). This way you open the door to multiple career possibilities at once.
3.) Sharing More about Yourself with Folks You Recently Connected with on LinkedIn
If you network assertively in your job hunt (and you should), you will find there are times when it’s helpful to have a non-resume document to share with new connections as a way of introducing them to your background. In these situations, a resume is way too much information, while a bio is perfect. Bios don’t shout “I’m a job seeker” yet they summarize your career brand succinctly and showcase your greatest strengths and achievements.
4.) Getting Target Companies Interested in Your Candidacy before There Is a Relevant Job Opening
Likewise, a bio is the perfect career communications tool to use to kickstart conversations with target employers before they have an open job that matches your skill set. This is the essence of the Hidden Job Market: finding out about opportunities before they go public, so you can be “first in line” for consideration. Here again, resumes are too much in such circumstances. They essentially cause you to close the employer’s door in your own face. A bio, on the other hand, invites conversation and mutual exploration of ways you can help the company to achieve their business objectives. This sets the stage for job co-creation as mentioned above, wherein you collaborate with the target employer to design a job that fits you to a “T.”
By now I hope a key distinction is clear: your bio is best leveraged to help you create career opportunities before they are advertised. Once advertised, career opportunities are best pursued with your resume.
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