Most human resources people are not qualified to judge whether a job candidate will be a good fit or not, as they are not competent to perform the job themselves. That's why they focus on the trivial crap at the bottom of the resumes. They can talk about that stuff without making a complete fool of themselves.
Number one advice from the experts: if you want a job, be a forcefully extroverted and extremely shallow "social climber" who treats their own friends and family like professional contacts!
Endril D. True. So sad. Sad that people play along and think this is okay or decent. They add more flowery and noble language but this is basically the case.
You’re reading into wrong. It’s manifestation. The things you talk about become your reality. If you want to be successful you have to be focused on success and be your own biggest advocate. It’s only shallow and negative if you’re trying to use the other person or don’t care about them.
@@ndril what an incredibly disingenuous question. There are obviously outside factors that can’t be controlled. But with the right attitude and mindset, you can overcome almost any situation.
As a hiring manager I am appalled by the prospect that someone like this recruiter may not be giving me candidates to talk to because of some idiot prejudice. Kayaking? Really? I don't care about that stuff. I care about whether the person can do the job.
I wish that companies were more interested in exchanging a fair wage for quality work than wanting to know my marathon time. I think we do a disservice to introverted people who don’t want to share their life storylies with this kind of nonsense.
I too have looked at hundreds of resumes over the years and I have never skipped to the bottom to see if someone got holes-in-one or completed a triathlon.
More proof that the entire hiring process is total bullshit. As if my picture and the fact I go kayaking has anything to do with my ability to do a specific job.
Interesting things like those helps the recruiter to start a conversation. It helps them understand the candidate as a person. Right fitment to the team/job comes second.
DisappearingBoy Agreed. I have bosses above me who are morons and you just know aren't that smart or articulate. I also know intelligent and capable people who never seem to get ahead. I don't know why this is happening but it must be damaging to society.
While I'm mentioning my tequila recipes on the front page of my resume, should I also add my favorite strain of cannabis, or most money I've ever spent on cocaine in the span of a weekend?
These tips are not useful for graduates... Sorry Linkedin is useless, its a social networking platform. You need parents or family who can help you onto a first job - referrals come from family. Privacy concerns - Linkedin asks you for your picture, and Linkedin adds this to your DNS (internet telephone number), so they have your location, your face, and they can track you afterwards. I am not a fan of linkedin...
These tips and strategies are especially important if you do not come from an affluent family and/or are the first person in your family to go to college. I know it's not fair and it's not based on who is the best for the job, but this is exactly how it works. I wish I had grasped this in college instead of 6-8 years later. The people you know and the people they know are the ones that get you good jobs, not blindly submitting your application in the same stack with every other person's. Build and maintain relationships, be actively involved at work and in life, offer to help other people find opportunities and they'll do the same for you. It's not what you know (until you get that interview), it's WHO you know that gets you in the door.
In other words, you need to have established connections already.... This is why so many first-generation or low income people have trouble because they do not have the established social networks that other third, fourth, or fifth generation college students have.
And then they don't have these sorts of connections. You can't even get into these circles. It's really hard. Not always possible. Hire more ppl to look through resumes and interview. But business in this country is perpetually trying to reduce costs in order to put more money into the pockets of CEOs and investors. We have less higher skilled jobs available because of this. Places are understaffed. I don't know the answers but I do know that the current system doesn't allow for the so called class climbing opportunities that America boasts. It's an unfair, exclusionary, unethical system. Maybe hiring a few more hiring managers. Or making efforts to hold onto employees longer (ie employee loyalty and incentives) would help.
When an entire generation of educated and experienced professionals suddenly become unemployable, recruiters become the enemy. Plus, recruiters are often forced to hire the wrong person, and then are forced to take the blame when they don't work out. Why all this madness? Why is there a historic income inequality? Why does pointing it out disqualify you? Greed and Austerity of course!
Jes Pulido I personally believe the system will fall in the next 20 years, capitalism cannot continue, especially with the creation of the Internet, online debt, massive inflation and the abuse of the global south The working class is becoming the poor class and historically that's when revolutions occur
mr south well, lets see. there is certainly a recession in democratic and peaceful thinking that might be problematic. i am still holding onto the idea of a EU and a successful UNO but it seems as though the optimism in western countries has become less over the last three years.
Or more like online dating, really... Getting a job is exactly like playing the social game to score someone out of your league. These hoops might be fun to jump through if we didn't also, incidentally, depend on a wage to survive...
I don't really understand what everyone's problem is with this guy. He shows you how to go the extra mile when applying for a job; He's got all pretty good advice.
+Isaiah Dix I get it, networking feels like getting a job through the back door. Unprofessional and Wrong. But, anyone who feels that way needs to get over it. Getting a job is you vs other applicants. Theres winners and losers. They are doing anything extra they can to stand out over you. If you expect to win while playing fair, quite honestly you deserve to lose for being so stuborn. Enjoy Walmart.
welcome to the modern world, and get used to it. It's vital to renew and adapt your tactics/approach beyond the competition and succeed at your own pace; This governs all things in life if you're a winner...If you fail, learn from it and try again! I think we've grown too comfortable as a society of complainers who drag their feet going through the motions while whining at the bottom (over everything) because we simply refuse to grow or up our game when others have. Yeah it sucks, but the dynamics have changed and so have the players.Take care and wishin' everyone the best!
KnightofJudah nobody said anything about not being able to learn and adapt. I watched this video and almost immediately tweaked some minor things on my resume just because it was coming from a credible source. I'm just uncomfortable at times with the aspect of networking (especially when no one cares) with people who can sometimes be rude and biased against you as a person. Because even if I'm very qualified for a position I can go out and try to network only to find myself relying on the good graces of someone who probably doesn't have my best interest at the end of the day.
Yep. You can either accept it and play the game or reject it entirely. However for someone like me who has difficulties in social situations it’s so crippling to my success and that’s just frustrating because some things are out of my hands. Oh well that’s life
He says flat out: there are not enough jobs for those applying. It's a crap shoot. Plus 2/3 are already hired before the listing is available online. There either will be a societal shift in terms of the job market "how normal folks go about their everyday" or there will be all out Dystopia if UBI isn't implemented. Automation and AI has for better or worse screwed up the way jobs/business has been done for all the time humans have been on Earth in a working setting. I have a BA and an MA and can flat out say there is absolutely no reason you need a degree in the 21st Century. The only reason I can think of is if you want a loan from a bank for a personal endeavor/business plan. Other than that there are too many graduates versus jobs available. By the way big sectors that are open with jobs like IT/Tech sector will be in the same circle of "forever applying" when Artificial Intelligence becomes smart enough to write themselves, i.e. Machines building machines. It's maybe a decade away
It's not just automation and AI, at this stage it's mostly the outsourcing of jobs to the second and third worlds (mostly second). Don't think I'm condemning the prospect of people who are less economically endowed having access to a source of income... but outsourcing jobs is a zero-sum game. We would do better to analyze the reasons for the circumstances of their economic regress, instead of exploiting their labor force. The picture you paint about AI is also too pessimistic (or optimistic, depending on one's outlook). The human mind will be irreplaceable for any creative task for the foreseeable future. Keyword being "creative." Now if you want to argue that most labor isn't creative, I would readily agree with that... UBI would simply allow us to move beyond immediate survival, and into a future where people have the leisure to do creative work.
because a job with many people applying will have the same exact thing. He said it was to differentiate yourself. For instance a job coding will have people saying they know java, dart, python, C++., the next guy will be almost the same thing
This only matters in jobs where your CV sells you, but there's a whole lot of industries where your portfolio is much more important. I've abandoned my linked in, and god a job thanks to a wordpress blog.
What in the world are you talking about? Nobody reads anything. That's why everyone that reaches out from linkedin is talking about a position requiring skills you do not have. Over the last 2 decades I have never seen anyone hired from a referral as a web developer. IT recruiting, in particular, is completely broken. Linkedin is the problem. It makes employers and recruiter lazy.
all sounds good. the whole "you get jobs by having the right friends" thank always frustrates me. So what if you don't know those people? are you just supposed to find something else to do? otherwise solid advice but i've never liked that.
Completely frustrating and wrong indeed. That happens worldwide unfortunately. Even if you have those right friends (that you'd need to fully trust) you also have jealous people who also can happen to talk to the recruiter about you. Just think you trust someone to give a reference and that person stabs you in the back. Imagine how dependent you'd be from others opinion and not from your skills. Sadly can't see any change to happen in the near future, quite opposite
And then they don't have these sorts of connections. You can't even get into these circles. It's really hard. Not always possible. Hire more ppl to look through resumes and interview. But business in this country is perpetually trying to reduce costs in order to put more money into the pockets of CEOs and investors. We have less higher skilled jobs available because of this. Places are understaffed. I don't know the answers but I do know that the current system doesn't allow for the so called class climbing opportunities that America boasts. It's an unfair, exclusionary, unethical system. Maybe hiring a few more hiring managers. Or making efforts to hold onto employees longer (ie employee loyalty and incentives) would help.
When I hear such kind of bullshits, I am then convinced that all these Human Resources "pro" are just a bunch of parasites between the Companies and the job seekers!
So I just have to get better in golf. That is the dumbest think I have ever heard. Recruiter aren't going to contact you because you had 3 holes in one unless you are trying to be a golf pro.
The problem with LinkedIn is that it presents just one view of yourself. It's not easy to 'focus' a CV to a role if you need to change your LinkedIn profile as well.
I like to devise some tests for applicants. If you worked on every position in company you get a deep understanding of that particular job so you can make test deep enough which can't be googled or reasoned out. Most managers didn't start at the bottom and HR people are even less qualified to do the testing.
I wonder if you took the easier approach to your subject, just to make a video. I find it interesting that you chose to focus your subject on how college students should approach their job search in this brutal global (gig) economy(nothing against college students).. To make my point. it appears to me, that you look like you could be past your college years. If I'm wrong, I do apologize. I just think while your delivering your message, you would have also included some suggestions for which those job seekers who are past their college years and have more years of experience could consider using. I am assuming those of us in the older demographic have experienced the reality, that no matter how effective our ability is to network, and use LinkedIn, it's still almost impossible to get in front of a hiring manager. And, for this reason, it appears to me that you were more interested in taking an important message, by focusing only on a younger demographic, and not including the older demographic that would presumably include yourself. No malice in what I'm saying intended. Best endeavors.
From someone who has been a hiring manager several times and networked himself into a supervisory role in the financial industry with no experience….. ALL OF THIS ADVICE IS GOLDEN!!!
I find everyone is asking me what I want to do after leaving college. I realised early on that I needed a concrete answer, and that one of these people will probably refer me for a job.
i really like big think and i've heard many useful things here, and i also support ads on your vids, but its really frustrating when you're in the middle of something very insightful and important and the add cuts the speaker mid-word. it really ruins the experience and renders watching these useless. cant they be placed intentionally somehow?
specialised in tequila recipes' he was reading a script from the start and the one time he had to think on the spot he says alcohol in a job interview xD
They can discount you based on your name as well. That one study that gets talked about often comes to mind where applicants with "non-white" sounding names were more likely to get rejected/declined or something. The study was done in the US, so can't say for sure if it applies elsewhere as well.
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I'll just do that. One of the most important things said here is figuring out what you want to do. Not a bad video. Some things are unrealistic for a lot of people though. I mean, if you don't know what you want to do, or haven't done much the past year, this story falls apart. What good is a linkedin profile without any activity? I'll try to fix mine up don't get me wrong, but it just doesn't seem that productive to me.
His tips about personalising your Linkedin profile are terrible: it only opens you up to discrimination even before there's a job opening in your preferred industry or workplace. When it comes to your profile, stick to things that are only relevant to the industry or job that you're interested in.
Flyingbuffaloman ha true, but it's in their best interest in a sense as it involves hiring the best people for the job, thus maximizing profits in this respect.
I hear so many people in England complain "there is no work out there", "there are no jobs"... Join a few employment agencies! They literally find work for while you get baked, play xbox & rave it up on the weekends. They tend to pay higher than NMW, & if an employer takes you on at any point (it happens a lot) you know they pay the agency £1-£1.50 + your wages an hour so you can tell them to jog on for less than 8.50+/ph
I'd love to hear this guy answer the medical school, "Why do you want to be a doctor?" question. I bet he could come up with a lot of good answers. I don't understand all the negativity towards him. He's dead-on with most of this stuff. HR people gets stacks of resumes with tons of people with equivalent educations and job histories. How do you pick someone out from 25 resumes that all say the same thing? It's random without something in there to help people personify a person to the page, and a face to the name. That's why referrals are accountable for 2/3's of jobs. You have 25 of them, and somebody says, "Pick that one, I know him" and there you go. Also, it's never "right" but everyone does it: you see that picture of someone and think, "This guy looks like a dick." He could be the nicest person in the world, though, but do you think he'll get hired? Of course not - hence why if you look good on paper with qualifications, the trick is to appeal to the human side. Give them a reason to think they could work with you and enjoy your company: "Hey, he plays golf, too! Maybe we could play some rounds together." You get what I mean - you need a way to distinguish you from the others and to put positive thoughts in a recruiter's head - they very much do judge book's by their cover. I got a job years ago because I shared a sense of humor with the recruiter. I listed "janitor" as one of my earliest jobs in my teens, and made a quick joke about how I preferred to call it "sanitation engineering" and boom, we hit it off. We laughed a lot through the interview and I could tell he was already going to say yes less than 5 minutes into it and he was just going through the motions. I got called on the drive on the way home and told I got it.
I work in statistical research and I would throw someone's application in the TRASH if they bothered to put that idiotic stuff on their resume. I only care about your relevant experiences and what conferences you have attended and if you have any publications. Also, I expect these resumes to be more than 1-page.
i've had both incredible success and incredible failure in job searches and I can say this guy knows his stuff. He did leave out a big thing though: FOLLOW UP. Be willing to send an introductory e-mail and then call a week or two later, and then call again a month later, and again 3 months later. Change up your wording and your approach each time (don't just say "I thought I'd follow up") but make it personal. Don't be afraid to annoy people a little bit. Most working people are really scattered and nervous and have probably forgotten your initial query 10 minutes after you sent it (sad but true). Your value does not decrease just because someone fails to notice it!
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So does that mean that I can put dank memes at the bottom of my resume?
now you get it
Maurice Flores Hahahaha. I like that 😂
Most human resources people are not qualified to judge whether a job candidate will be a good fit or not, as they are not competent to perform the job themselves. That's why they focus on the trivial crap at the bottom of the resumes. They can talk about that stuff without making a complete fool of themselves.
Jess Stuart GREAT POINT
Number one advice from the experts: if you want a job, be a forcefully extroverted and extremely shallow "social climber" who treats their own friends and family like professional contacts!
Endril D. True. So sad. Sad that people play along and think this is okay or decent. They add more flowery and noble language but this is basically the case.
Hey, if "social climbing" is shallow, then it doesn't matter and you can opt out of the process without complaining. Everyone wins!
You’re reading into wrong. It’s manifestation. The things you talk about become your reality. If you want to be successful you have to be focused on success and be your own biggest advocate. It’s only shallow and negative if you’re trying to use the other person or don’t care about them.
@@allentastic If someone you know loses their job, do you tell them "It's your fault, you probably weren't thinking enough positive thoughts" ?
@@ndril what an incredibly disingenuous question. There are obviously outside factors that can’t be controlled. But with the right attitude and mindset, you can overcome almost any situation.
As a hiring manager I am appalled by the prospect that someone like this recruiter may not be giving me candidates to talk to because of some idiot prejudice. Kayaking? Really? I don't care about that stuff. I care about whether the person can do the job.
They might be able to do the job. That'd be on you to test and decide. They are trying to bribg in someone who isn't a zombie.
I wish that companies were more interested in exchanging a fair wage for quality work than wanting to know my marathon time. I think we do a disservice to introverted people who don’t want to share their life storylies with this kind of nonsense.
I too have looked at hundreds of resumes over the years and I have never skipped to the bottom to see if someone got holes-in-one or completed a triathlon.
More proof that the entire hiring process is total bullshit. As if my picture and the fact I go kayaking has anything to do with my ability to do a specific job.
this is proof that people with not brain drives the future of human kind
Exactly...the entire system is broken and occupied by gatekeepers i.e. recruiters that think they know what they're doing but don't.
Interesting things like those helps the recruiter to start a conversation. It helps them understand the candidate as a person. Right fitment to the team/job comes second.
DisappearingBoy Agreed. I have bosses above me who are morons and you just know aren't that smart or articulate. I also know intelligent and capable people who never seem to get ahead. I don't know why this is happening but it must be damaging to society.
Nepotism will always be our downfall...
While I'm mentioning my tequila recipes on the front page of my resume, should I also add my favorite strain of cannabis, or most money I've ever spent on cocaine in the span of a weekend?
Only if it stands out. You don't want to embarrass yourself with a level of cocaine consumption under that of Tony Montana.
Careful folks. He explains how *recruiters* look at your resume, but hiring managers mostly have a different set of criteria.
These tips are not useful for graduates... Sorry Linkedin is useless, its a social networking platform. You need parents or family who can help you onto a first job - referrals come from family. Privacy concerns - Linkedin asks you for your picture, and Linkedin adds this to your DNS (internet telephone number), so they have your location, your face, and they can track you afterwards. I am not a fan of linkedin...
These tips and strategies are especially important if you do not come from an affluent family and/or are the first person in your family to go to college.
I know it's not fair and it's not based on who is the best for the job, but this is exactly how it works. I wish I had grasped this in college instead of 6-8 years later. The people you know and the people they know are the ones that get you good jobs, not blindly submitting your application in the same stack with every other person's. Build and maintain relationships, be actively involved at work and in life, offer to help other people find opportunities and they'll do the same for you. It's not what you know (until you get that interview), it's WHO you know that gets you in the door.
In other words, you need to have established connections already.... This is why so many first-generation or low income people have trouble because they do not have the established social networks that other third, fourth, or fifth generation college students have.
Its true. From a single parent family, no friends, no family - I had no idea you could get jobs through people.
Exactly!
And then they don't have these sorts of connections. You can't even get into these circles. It's really hard. Not always possible. Hire more ppl to look through resumes and interview. But business in this country is perpetually trying to reduce costs in order to put more money into the pockets of CEOs and investors. We have less higher skilled jobs available because of this. Places are understaffed. I don't know the answers but I do know that the current system doesn't allow for the so called class climbing opportunities that America boasts. It's an unfair, exclusionary, unethical system. Maybe hiring a few more hiring managers. Or making efforts to hold onto employees longer (ie employee loyalty and incentives) would help.
When an entire generation of educated and experienced
professionals suddenly become unemployable, recruiters become the enemy. Plus,
recruiters are often forced to hire the wrong person, and then are forced to
take the blame when they don't work out. Why all this madness? Why is there a
historic income inequality? Why does pointing it out disqualify you? Greed and
Austerity of course!
1:42
"Do I know her or him or not, and were they based."
You heard it here first folks, being based lands you jobs.
5:42 And this is why the work-place remains unequal and lacks diversity.
the joke that is modern capitalism and outsourcing
and big thinks advice? to obtain a job through inheritance(references)
It's messed up. It's like, you sometimes just have to play the system in order to survive. Even if that means being complicit in it.
Jes Pulido I personally believe the system will fall in the next 20 years, capitalism cannot continue, especially with the creation of the Internet, online debt, massive inflation and the abuse of the global south
The working class is becoming the poor class and historically that's when revolutions occur
mr south
well, lets see. there is certainly a recession in democratic and peaceful thinking that might be problematic. i am still holding onto the idea of a EU and a successful UNO but it seems as though the optimism in western countries has become less over the last three years.
dothedeed THIS
Lmao more like applying to be friends with someone than a job.
Or more like online dating, really... Getting a job is exactly like playing the social game to score someone out of your league. These hoops might be fun to jump through if we didn't also, incidentally, depend on a wage to survive...
I don't really understand what everyone's problem is with this guy. He shows you how to go the extra mile when applying for a job; He's got all pretty good advice.
He does, but a lot of people don't feel comfortable with the idea of networking to get a decent job.
+Isaiah Dix I get it, networking feels like getting a job through the back door. Unprofessional and Wrong. But, anyone who feels that way needs to get over it. Getting a job is you vs other applicants. Theres winners and losers. They are doing anything extra they can to stand out over you. If you expect to win while playing fair, quite honestly you deserve to lose for being so stuborn. Enjoy Walmart.
welcome to the modern world, and get used to it. It's vital to renew and adapt your tactics/approach beyond the competition and succeed at your own pace; This governs all things in life if you're a winner...If you fail, learn from it and try again! I think we've grown too comfortable as a society of complainers who drag their feet going through the motions while whining at the bottom (over everything) because we simply refuse to grow or up our game when others have. Yeah it sucks, but the dynamics have changed and so have the players.Take care and wishin' everyone the best!
KnightofJudah nobody said anything about not being able to learn and adapt. I watched this video and almost immediately tweaked some minor things on my resume just because it was coming from a credible source. I'm just uncomfortable at times with the aspect of networking (especially when no one cares) with people who can sometimes be rude and biased against you as a person. Because even if I'm very qualified for a position I can go out and try to network only to find myself relying on the good graces of someone who probably doesn't have my best interest at the end of the day.
Yep. You can either accept it and play the game or reject it entirely. However for someone like me who has difficulties in social situations it’s so crippling to my success and that’s just frustrating because some things are out of my hands. Oh well that’s life
basically: put on a mask of your choice. insert bs here. thank you.
Turn yourself into a commodity to be harvested and exploited.
He says flat out: there are not enough jobs for those applying. It's a crap shoot. Plus 2/3 are already hired before the listing is available online. There either will be a societal shift in terms of the job market "how normal folks go about their everyday" or there will be all out Dystopia if UBI isn't implemented. Automation and AI has for better or worse screwed up the way jobs/business has been done for all the time humans have been on Earth in a working setting. I have a BA and an MA and can flat out say there is absolutely no reason you need a degree in the 21st Century. The only reason I can think of is if you want a loan from a bank for a personal endeavor/business plan. Other than that there are too many graduates versus jobs available. By the way big sectors that are open with jobs like IT/Tech sector will be in the same circle of "forever applying" when Artificial Intelligence becomes smart enough to write themselves, i.e. Machines building machines. It's maybe a decade away
It's not just automation and AI, at this stage it's mostly the outsourcing of jobs to the second and third worlds (mostly second). Don't think I'm condemning the prospect of people who are less economically endowed having access to a source of income... but outsourcing jobs is a zero-sum game. We would do better to analyze the reasons for the circumstances of their economic regress, instead of exploiting their labor force. The picture you paint about AI is also too pessimistic (or optimistic, depending on one's outlook). The human mind will be irreplaceable for any creative task for the foreseeable future. Keyword being "creative." Now if you want to argue that most labor isn't creative, I would readily agree with that... UBI would simply allow us to move beyond immediate survival, and into a future where people have the leisure to do creative work.
Love the discourse here.
well that explains the 100 applications and no reply... so frustrating
Well, it really is true that they're too inundated to actually reply.
This "big think" was brought to you by Microsoft, who desperately want their purchase of LinkedIn to work.
Is this video coming off as unprofessional to anyone else? Why put your skills on the resume when you can talk about past vacations....
because a job with many people applying will have the same exact thing. He said it was to differentiate yourself. For instance a job coding will have people saying they know java, dart, python, C++., the next guy will be almost the same thing
LinkedIn is corny
This only matters in jobs where your CV sells you, but there's a whole lot of industries where your portfolio is much more important.
I've abandoned my linked in, and god a job thanks to a wordpress blog.
Lower expectations tips more like it. 'just virtue signal and you'll be fine in today's idiocracy' :\
What in the world are you talking about?
Nobody reads anything. That's why everyone that reaches out from linkedin is talking about a position requiring skills you do not have.
Over the last 2 decades I have never seen anyone hired from a referral as a web developer.
IT recruiting, in particular, is completely broken. Linkedin is the problem. It makes employers and recruiter lazy.
all sounds good. the whole "you get jobs by having the right friends" thank always frustrates me. So what if you don't know those people? are you just supposed to find something else to do? otherwise solid advice but i've never liked that.
Completely frustrating and wrong indeed. That happens worldwide unfortunately. Even if you have those right friends (that you'd need to fully trust) you also have jealous people who also can happen to talk to the recruiter about you. Just think you trust someone to give a reference and that person stabs you in the back. Imagine how dependent you'd be from others opinion and not from your skills. Sadly can't see any change to happen in the near future, quite opposite
And then they don't have these sorts of connections. You can't even get into these circles. It's really hard. Not always possible. Hire more ppl to look through resumes and interview. But business in this country is perpetually trying to reduce costs in order to put more money into the pockets of CEOs and investors. We have less higher skilled jobs available because of this. Places are understaffed. I don't know the answers but I do know that the current system doesn't allow for the so called class climbing opportunities that America boasts. It's an unfair, exclusionary, unethical system. Maybe hiring a few more hiring managers. Or making efforts to hold onto employees longer (ie employee loyalty and incentives) would help.
Episode 2 of "How to get recruited as a mindless corporate drone"
When I hear such kind of bullshits, I am then convinced that all these Human Resources "pro" are just a bunch of parasites between the Companies and the job seekers!
So I just have to get better in golf. That is the dumbest think I have ever heard. Recruiter aren't going to contact you because you had 3 holes in one unless you are trying to be a golf pro.
The problem with LinkedIn is that it presents just one view of yourself. It's not easy to 'focus' a CV to a role if you need to change your LinkedIn profile as well.
I like to devise some tests for applicants. If you worked on every position in company you get a deep understanding of that particular job so you can make test deep enough which can't be googled or reasoned out. Most managers didn't start at the bottom and HR people are even less qualified to do the testing.
BoxOfGod good point
I wonder if you took the easier approach to your subject, just to make a video. I find it interesting that you chose to focus your subject on how college students should approach their job search in this brutal global (gig) economy(nothing against college students).. To make my point. it appears to me, that you look like you could be past your college years. If I'm wrong, I do apologize. I just think while your delivering your message, you would have also included some suggestions for which those job seekers who are past their college years and have more years of experience could consider using. I am assuming those of us in the older demographic have experienced the reality, that no matter how effective our ability is to network, and use LinkedIn, it's still almost impossible to get in front of a hiring manager. And, for this reason, it appears to me that you were more interested in taking an important message, by focusing only on a younger demographic, and not including the older demographic that would presumably include yourself. No malice in what I'm saying intended. Best endeavors.
I don't know what I want...maybe that's why my life sucks
Hahahahahahaha - this was a good joke... (I got to delete my Linkdin account btw)
good stuff, lots of it doesnt make sense to me, since people seem to put value in irrelevant things. Too bad I have zero referral references.
From someone who has been a hiring manager several times and networked himself into a supervisory role in the financial industry with no experience….. ALL OF THIS ADVICE IS GOLDEN!!!
Great advice thank you. Im an expected college graduate looking for jobs. Referrals would be appreciated!!
I find everyone is asking me what I want to do after leaving college. I realised early on that I needed a concrete answer, and that one of these people will probably refer me for a job.
i really like big think and i've heard many useful things here, and i also support ads on your vids, but its really frustrating when you're in the middle of something very insightful and important and the add cuts the speaker mid-word. it really ruins the experience and renders watching these useless. cant they be placed intentionally somehow?
This was great advice. Thank you.
this tips are killing me. i used to worked for my degree which were unrelatable with my study. and talking wat i want? seriously financial freedom!
specialised in tequila recipes' he was reading a script from the start and the one time he had to think on the spot he says alcohol in a job interview xD
It is very sad that LinkedIn is used in any hiring function.
Brian Dickinson it's actually really useful and can greatly speed up the hiring process when going through recruiters and reaching out to your network
Garrison Whipple It's a terrible thing
not an argument
2:18 YES, I'm really going to put that I "...specialize in Mexican tequila recipes" on my fucking resume.
djayjp I found that piece of advice absurd
Best advice for job searching is to just wait for all the boomers to go into retirement
Any suggestions for skilled seniors. I'm retired. I miss working.
"Plant seeds on the wind" - nice, I like that. Thanks.
Write your phone number in bathroom stalls.
reality advice .. straight to the point .. thanks
Not a fan of pictures. Just allows people to discount you on the basis of age, race or gender without even considering you.
They can discount you based on your name as well. That one study that gets talked about often comes to mind where applicants with "non-white" sounding names were more likely to get rejected/declined or something. The study was done in the US, so can't say for sure if it applies elsewhere as well.
Thank you James, this was helpful and I appreciate your advice!!
This was amazing advice, thank you!
This man is very well spoken, what a great video.
Thank you!
Oh the horror
This was really helpful, thank you!
Glad you found it helpful!
ye if ur goal is a good job you're doing something wrong my friendo
Wait why am i watching this? I dont want a job
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I'll just do that. One of the most important things said here is figuring out what you want to do. Not a bad video. Some things are unrealistic for a lot of people though. I mean, if you don't know what you want to do, or haven't done much the past year, this story falls apart. What good is a linkedin profile without any activity? I'll try to fix mine up don't get me wrong, but it just doesn't seem that productive to me.
Delta pilot right guys
Basically one should express their intrinsic motivation and higher sense of purpose behind work
Good advice 👍
His tips about personalising your Linkedin profile are terrible: it only opens you up to discrimination even before there's a job opening in your preferred industry or workplace. When it comes to your profile, stick to things that are only relevant to the industry or job that you're interested in.
I wish I could give this video two thumbs up instead of just one... 8 minutes summed up a quarter of the book "what color is your parachute"
"...the tactics of searching for a job TODAY." LOL
NO DUDE, this is 2017, it's tactics for 1.5 year ago!! :P
What does it mean to "have the equivalent of a top level resume in all your affiliations - your... your, uh, your titles, your interests"?
So he supports the corruption of a meritocratic society by appealing to people's personal biases. Nice
Corporatism has never been or pretended to be meritocratic
Flyingbuffaloman ha true, but it's in their best interest in a sense as it involves hiring the best people for the job, thus maximizing profits in this respect.
Schools and universities are reasonably meritocratic, but American society (and American business society) is fucked. We are NOT a great people.
Help people help you by having for them a crisp answer in just one sentence for the question 'What do you want to do?'
hmm
great video learned so much today from this video thanks again rescare.
Ole adage “it’s not what you know but who you know”
I hear so many people in England complain "there is no work out there", "there are no jobs"... Join a few employment agencies! They literally find work for while you get baked, play xbox & rave it up on the weekends. They tend to pay higher than NMW, & if an employer takes you on at any point (it happens a lot) you know they pay the agency £1-£1.50 + your wages an hour so you can tell them to jog on for less than 8.50+/ph
I'd love to hear this guy answer the medical school, "Why do you want to be a doctor?" question. I bet he could come up with a lot of good answers. I don't understand all the negativity towards him. He's dead-on with most of this stuff. HR people gets stacks of resumes with tons of people with equivalent educations and job histories. How do you pick someone out from 25 resumes that all say the same thing? It's random without something in there to help people personify a person to the page, and a face to the name. That's why referrals are accountable for 2/3's of jobs. You have 25 of them, and somebody says, "Pick that one, I know him" and there you go. Also, it's never "right" but everyone does it: you see that picture of someone and think, "This guy looks like a dick." He could be the nicest person in the world, though, but do you think he'll get hired? Of course not - hence why if you look good on paper with qualifications, the trick is to appeal to the human side. Give them a reason to think they could work with you and enjoy your company: "Hey, he plays golf, too! Maybe we could play some rounds together." You get what I mean - you need a way to distinguish you from the others and to put positive thoughts in a recruiter's head - they very much do judge book's by their cover. I got a job years ago because I shared a sense of humor with the recruiter. I listed "janitor" as one of my earliest jobs in my teens, and made a quick joke about how I preferred to call it "sanitation engineering" and boom, we hit it off. We laughed a lot through the interview and I could tell he was already going to say yes less than 5 minutes into it and he was just going through the motions. I got called on the drive on the way home and told I got it.
This is great. I really like him, his advice and the ways he delivers his conversation.
This was a GREAT video!! Thank you for your advice!
I want to get paid until I can create my own projects.
how can i get a cool job in SA??? please assist.
Great information.. Thank for sharing good ideas...
Thats a good opcion thanks... Its fantastic
What do you do if you have no idea what you want to do out of college and are totally apathetic about life.
Travel. There are dozens of places all over the world that will hire you seasonally until you find yourself.
Get a job at a graveyard.
Great advice, a very eloquent speaker
Fantastic list of tips!
fascinating...
Thank you Sir
Hopefully you have the "what do you want to do" question nailed before you go to college, otherwise you are wasting your time at college.
I work in statistical research and I would throw someone's application in the TRASH if they bothered to put that idiotic stuff on their resume. I only care about your relevant experiences and what conferences you have attended and if you have any publications. Also, I expect these resumes to be more than 1-page.
Do you put this in the job ad or do you "expect" applicants to know how you think?
This video was extremely helpful I'm job seeking and he explained and gave me the confidence I needed.
i've had both incredible success and incredible failure in job searches and I can say this guy knows his stuff. He did leave out a big thing though: FOLLOW UP. Be willing to send an introductory e-mail and then call a week or two later, and then call again a month later, and again 3 months later. Change up your wording and your approach each time (don't just say "I thought I'd follow up") but make it personal. Don't be afraid to annoy people a little bit. Most working people are really scattered and nervous and have probably forgotten your initial query 10 minutes after you sent it (sad but true). Your value does not decrease just because someone fails to notice it!