Mail the Resume!

In this electronic world of submitting your resume online, filling out endless applications and being treated like a number, it’s time to take a stand. Go old school and mail your resume. Yes, print it out on good paper, write a handwritten short cover letter and hand write the address on the envelope. Get ahead of the fray and dig through Google, LinkedIn, Glassdoor etc. to figure out who you need to send the letter too – the hiring manger AND then – do it.  

It works, when is the last time you actually got a real letter? Never - right? The mail you get is just junk mail and the occasional bill that you forgot to have emailed to you.

Mail it – go old school – United States Postal Service old school! You might actually get a response from a real live person. 

What Makes a Candidate Not Place-able

When trying to work with a search firm you may hear, “I can’t place you.” There are a variety of reasons why that may be true. Keep in mind that it’s not personal and you can still find a job but that specific recruiter can’t help you. Bottom line: the client is paying the recruiter a fee so they get exactly the person they want.

• You are out of the recruiter’s specialized field
• You want to move into a new job or industries – most of our clients want people straight out of their industry – they want the industry expert
• You’ve job hopped too much. Clients don’t like to pay a fee for this type of background
• You have no degree. In tech recruiting and some project manager jobs degrees don’t always matter but most of our clients want that basic skill
• You have a very unusual background/skill sets that are niche