As hiring has slowed recently, companies have become even more selective about who they are recruiting, so job-seekers must learn the latest “must-do” ways to succeed with pickier employers, an Avon career coach says.
“Hiring has improved this year over 2010, with 54 percent of employers in the survey indicating they have added workers,” says Ed Poff, managing partner of OI Partners-SIMA Career Coaching.
“However, companies have become much pickier in the types of employees they want, and job candidates need to adapt to these changes,” Poff says.
According to his global talent management firm, among the tactics job-seekers should use to deal with changes in employers’ recruitment and hiring practices, according to an OI Partners survey of 184 organizations throughout North America, are:
– Be prepared for more numerous interviews and for hiring decisions to take longer.
– Sharpen your skills at being interviewed by teams or panels of an employer’s people as well as being screened by telephone.
– Convincingly communicate your teamwork skills and your commitment to excellent customer service.
– Emphasize your experience that is related to the current opportunity, within the company’s industry, and how you achieved results similar to the company’s desired goals and objectives.
– Build and update your social media presence, especially on LinkedIn and Facebook.
– Increase searching for openings that are posted on the websites of potential employers.
– Acquire referrals from the targeted employer’s workers.
