Overcome Critical Hiring Manager Risks To Beat Unemployment Faster

Most hiring managers have no problem hiring the right unemployed candidates.

But they don't want to hire the wrong unemployed candidates ... the job seekers who were let go for performance problems, below average or even average performance.

In 2024, hiring managers have the luxury of choosing between many qualified candidates - They expect to see many times more qualified candidates than the interview spots they're trying to fill.

Hiring managers know that even large-scale layoffs are also used to fast track terminations of average or underperforming employees (so the employer doesn't have to go through years of documentation, feedback and second chances).

This is why you present a risk to a hiring manager if you're unemployed - Are you unemployed because you were underperforming or an average performer? Employers don't want to hire somebody else's problem, and hiring managers don't want new hires that reduce their teams' performance. Hiring managers look for new hires who will raise team /department/company performance.

As an unemployed candidate you need to recognize this risk so you can mitigate it. But just saying, "I was doing great", "I had great performance reviews" or "I was caught in a layoff" isn't enough to mitigate a hiring manager's risk. You need to show proof.

If you do these 3 things, you can clearly prove to hiring managers that you were a top performer and mitigate performance hiring risk. Mitigating performance risk will be one of the most effective ways to beat unemployment faster.

Here are 3 ways to prove to hiring managers that you're a top performer and beat unemployment faster:

1. Overwhelm the hiring manager with impact: Most resumes focus on responsibilities, experience, qualifications, skills and descriptions of the day-to-day job you did. This forces employers to guess if you were a success, or failure ... or an under/average performer. By translating responsibilities/experience/ qualifications/skills to instead show the impact you made on your organization, department, or team, you take out the guesswork by proving your success, and describe yourself at your best, rather than on an average day.
2. Don't be satisfied with being qualified: You're competing against many qualified candidates, including ones who are currently employed. When hiring managers expect as many qualified candidates as they see in 2024, qualified makes you appear just like everyone else … average. Who needs qualified (average) when there's better talent available? You need to show you did more, to prove that you'll do more for your next employer.
3. Demonstrate you understand (and have already solved) the hiring manager's key problems: By showing the hiring manager "I know what you need and I'm the solution to your problems", you present yourself as way better than the other candidates who are just qualified. But don't depend on the published job description - It gives you no advantage over others, it usually was written 18+ months?ago (so it reflects past problems, not current), is generic and written by HR not the hiring manager (so it doesn't reflect an individual hiring manager's needs).

Almost no resumes use these three things to prove success. It's not because you want to write an underperforming resume ... It's what you've been taught to do by most coaches and outplacement firms. It's what most resume writers have been taught to do though their certification testing/training.

So, if almost no resumes accomplish these three steps, but yours does, think of how you'll look to employers when your resume features them. You'll stand head-and-shoulders above your competition, land more interviews, advance in the hiring process more often and have faster (and more lucrative) job offers. Your competition will complain that it's unfair that they aren't getting interviews and offers because they're qualified (not realizing that qualified isn't enough).

Rather than just letting your unemployment job search continue to underperform and remain slow, why not learn how to take unemployment risk off the table?

During my next free Resume Webinar, I'll show you how to make your unemployment job search much faster, by overcoming unemployment risk you present to employers, and instead position yourself as the top candidate, while others are satisfied with qualified.

Join me for my next free Resume Webinar (enroll at https://x.resumewebinar.com/Registration for no charge) and learn how to accelerate your job search, so you can find your next job faster in 2024.

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