Does Being Vulnerable Help Land a Job Interview?
How far does someone have to go to land a job interview? Some candidates are now openly angling for their dream job on LinkedIn—and tagging an employee of the company in question. Other applicants are including family photos in their pleas for work. Experts say it's the latest sign of how frustrating the job-seeking process has become.?We look at the pros and cons of these moves. Plus, find out how to quickly recover from a setback at work.
1) Telling a Firm, and Everyone Else, You Want Its Job
In the latest sign that candidates have reached a new level of frustration—if not desperation—in today’s overflowing job market, some applicants are taking their case to social media. In what HR pros call a high-risk, high-reward move, they’re posting open letters to prospective employers, along with direct pleas for colleagues’ help. To be sure, candidates have been attaching “open for hire” buttons to their LinkedIn profiles for years, but some are now taking a more naked approach, tagging firms, seeking assistance from their professional peers, and in some cases, running family photos alongside lists of skills. “I’m eager to get back into the workforce full-time. I need to. Please and thank you,” says one poster on LinkedIn.
For their part, candidates say they have little choice but to resort to such measures, since new “easy apply” buttons allow hundreds of people to dispatch their résumés within minutes to a single job listing. And while recruiters say the novelty of these posts does catch the eye of some firm leaders, many worry that it can also create a sense of desperation that can turn them off.
2) AI Skills Are Up 142-Fold? Yeah, Right.
Those who spend their days with their noses in résumés have observed a sea change this year: Everyone, from entry-level applicants to executives, is claiming to have artificial-intelligence (AI) skills. LinkedIn recently released data indicating a?142-fold increase?in applicants listing AI know-how on their résumés over the last year.?
Skepticism is warranted. Like ‘big data’ and ‘digital skills’ before it, ‘AI skills’ is the latest buzz phrase to make the rounds.?But many job applicants believe that claiming to have AI abilities is currently critical to getting past résumé filters—which scan for the minimum qualifications for the role—during the hiring process.?
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3) 5 Ways to Overcome a Work Setback
Whether it’s losing a client, blowing a presentation, or missing a deadline (to name just a few), nothing shakes an employee’s confidence more than a work setback. Questions about ability, performance, and job security start to creep in, leading to anxiety and even depression. Employees regularly rank mistakes among their top five workplace fears, and?about 15% of them believe that making one will get them fired.
But nobody’s perfect. In fact, experts say, failing is an invaluable part of learning and growing in your job and career. Here are five ways employees can try to emerge stronger and better following a setback.
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5 个月Personally I feel AI based resume filters actually hinder the recruitment process as it doesn't really look at the context of a candidate's experience. There is a rush to automate absolutely everything these days and eliminating the human element from processes is not necessarily a desirable thing
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5 个月As one of the people referenced in this article, I would like to add that the decision to make a vulnerable LinkedIn post did not come easy. But after seven months of job searching by the book, I thought it was time to change things up. As a single mom over 50 with one kid heading to college,I thought, “what else have I got to lose?”
Yes good point, Bo?tjan Dolin?ek
HR Director - Asia Pacific & ANZ Flora Food Group
5 个月Good point!
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5 个月I think much less about "desperation" in job seekers than I do in a radically broken recruitment processes. WFH opened jobs nationally with exponentially higher applicant list. Outdated technology stacks that sort on keywords add little/no value in applicant selection and frustrate job seekers by having to continuously realign resumes and profiles. I know plenty of hiring managers seeking talent and talent seeking hiring managers. Rare the two shall meet. Very interesting to watch this play out. It feels more like a lottery when responding to an opportunity presently and many people, me included, feel that using networks to find new roles has significantly higher odds than responding to posted positions. Recruitment has lagged behind in advanced automation and really requires AI enabled disruption .