How to get a new job in 12 weeks and road-testing microcredentials
Byron Gray says cold messaging on LinkedIn helped him land his current job. Photo: Jamila Toderas

How to get a new job in 12 weeks and road-testing microcredentials

Have you ever cold-contacted a hiring manager on LinkedIn?

Candidates must be proactive in their job search because the vast majority of vacancies are filled before a job ad is ever written. That's the view of recruiter?Richard Triggs.

And he wants us to lean into that idea as we approach our next job search.

This week, Triggs breaks down?his four-step approach?to accessing what some call the hidden jobs market – or the vacancies that are never advertised publicly.

Triggs says his experience of “coaching literally hundreds of people through this process” suggests people who spend an hour a day following his advice will land a job within 12 weeks.

And it’s advice that?Byron Gray?swears by too.

The growth and partnerships manager at captioning service Caption Connect believes he would have missed out on his current job if he hadn’t contacted the company’s hiring manager on LinkedIn. He says more than 100 people applied for the role, but he was the only one out of a handful of interviewees who made a direct approach.

“I applied [for the job], but I also built a relationship with them,” he says.

“And it’s the relationship that got me in front of them. The relationship is what enabled me to gain a better understanding of what it was that they needed.”

Also this week, we explain?why work-from-home is here to stay, review the case for?appointing more young company directors, and examine why a rising number of employers are?actively encouraging their staff to run businesses on the side.

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Cheap, fast but needs persistence: My experience of a microcredential course

Workers are regularly told they need to “upskill” to future-proof their careers against technological disruption and other forces of change.

And completing microcredentials – short certification courses that allow individuals to learn new professional skills – is seen as a much faster and cheaper way of doing that than quitting your job and going back to university. Which is why AFR Success completed one and wrote about the experience.

We explain how we chose the course, what we learned, and?whether it helped improve our work performance. The piece was part of a broader special report into micocredentials that you can access?here.


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Alex Armasu

Founder & CEO, Group 8 Security Solutions Inc. DBA Machine Learning Intelligence

9 个月

Thanks for putting this up!

Tonderai Mudonhi

Corporate Solicitor | Financial Markets Law | Ex-Director, Government of Zimbabwe | Legal Advisor, Securities & Exchange Commission | Fintech Enthusiast | Former COO & General Counsel, Poscloud | PPP Specialist

1 年

Useful. You need to go beyond your standard CV and cover letter submission.

Just wondering why Comments have been turned off on the AFR article about student debt/HECS.

CHESTER SWANSON SR.

Next Trend Realty LLC./wwwHar.com/Chester-Swanson/agent_cbswan

1 年

Thanks for sharing.

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