What to Do to Be Noticed by Telecom Recruiters?
People who are dreaming about a career in the sphere of telecommunications, often ask this question and seek for the answers in the most hopeless places. Today, recruiters are increasingly using the Internet to gather the information about the potential candidates. So, can you. Why not to first make inquiries about the company you wanna work with, services and the products it provides before getting the job? What to do to be spotted and be invited for an interview first?
It is in your power not only to attract the attention of a recruiter, but also to produce a positive impression so that the potential employers be proud to have about your candidacy.
According to the research, conducted by ExecuNet, 77% of recruiters use search engines to collect the information about the candidates. Among them, there are 35% that say they refuse to consider the candidacy because of the information found on the Internet. According to the BusinessWeek magazine, the proportion of recruiters using search engines and social networks for a comprehensive evaluation of candidates reaches 87%. Which means that in the case you wanna get spotted by the Telecom recruiters to start a career and become a sales pro or someday become one of the most highly paid people in Telecommunications, your weapon to attract the attention of recruiters should be social networks, company web sites and their professional blogs.
Most likely that you will be searched by name, profiles in social networks, especially professional ones, which may contain your CV or other data related to you as a professional, etc. and usually appear on the first pages of the search engine.
To get spotted, you are to post the topical information only and regularly up date the content if anything changes, meanwhile not forgetting to evaluate it in terms of how it looks in the eyes of the recruiter.
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Jason Fleischer, a recruiter at Abacus Group, says that the candidate’s resume helps to form the first impression of him/her, and an analysis of his activity in social networks helps to supplement and “revitalize” the image of a specialist.
However, recruiter search is not always limited to search by the name of the candidate, sometimes certain keywords are used for this. Your task is to ensure that these words, most clearly characterizing your professional activity, are listed in your profile in the social network or any other digital signature. For this, according to Fleischer, the words that are often used to describe vacancies, and those that are most often used in the sphere where you work or wanna work, are also appropriate.
In addition to the above mentioned ways, you can create your own Google portfolio, where you can collect all your Internet content, add useful links to profiles in social networks, and so on.
What if you find some interesting information that could compromise you in the eyes of a recruiter, because it’s not self-made, up to date and an outright lie, in addition?
Andy Beal advises to take such cases, serious and if the allegations are false or the information is distorted, demand corrections. And it is the corrections in the original record, and not a refutation in the form of another. According to him, 90% of appliers are correcting an impartial record if they are told that there are no confirming facts there. You can also delete the negative information about yourself on social networks, if it’s possible, on a personal blog or any other profile in order to clean your reputation.
However, working on your professional image, do not overdo it, either. Jason Fleischer also adds that a photo with a beer at the wedding is not a cause for concern. If you like to have fun, this does not necessarily mean that you do not know how to work well. And it even will be better if you demonstrate that you are an individual with the diverse interests, but not a walking stereotype or some obsolete image of a professional that no longer fits a modern life.
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