Three Key Steps to a New Opportunity By Doug Beabout

Seizing a new opportunity is not a project; it is a full time venture.

It must be managed as one. No other person, no matter how committed or experienced, can do this for you. I offer this overview forged in three decades of hands-on success in professional recruiting.

Key #1:

Resumes

Your resume must grab the attention of a hiring manager in 10 seconds. Generic resumes are commonly used and no more effective than a billboard in the desert. The resume you provide a potential employer (or contact who may be of help to you) can only create results when it is created for the specific opportunity for which you are seeking consideration. How does your resume appear as compared to the hundreds that accompany it whenever a position is open? Remember, when you look to buy a car, you do not start looking at a 1970 model. Does you resume look like they all do; dated and dry?

Key #2:

Research

Leveraging your consideration for a new opportunity demands that you do in-depth research. Learn about the employer’s history, projections, goals, philosophies and mission statement. Do not depend solely on the employer’s website alone. Discover who are their vendors, customers and markets. Real research advantages are gained on the keypad of your phone, not just on Google or another search engine. Employers prefer applicants who are aware of their organization’s and industry’s special needs and challenges. Success in seizing an opportunity is dependent upon learning as much about the employer as they will strive to learn about you.

Key #3:

Exposure

The odds are not in your favor if you depend on the results of sending a resume to an employer. By doing this, you stand a 1-in-550 chance of gaining an interview. Furthermore, you will find little confidence that it is an opportunity for which you are truly best qualified or one you will ultimately be interested in accepting. The means of exposure via direct contact with hiring managers, Internet resources, social networking and local associations dramatically increase your potential to gain an interview for a desired opportunity. Success in securing a good opportunity in any economy, and certainly a recovering one, requires a full speed, proactive effort. It is in fact a full time job in and of itself. Surfing the Internet, emailing a resume and working these actions into an otherwise ineffectual day is a recipe for disappointment. Gain the position you seek by learning the proven techniques of effective resume/CV creation, career research techniques and practices and the proven pathways to discovering your next and possibly best career opportunity.
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