Prepare Your Job Search Now For Longer Social Distancing

What if social distancing guidelines extend beyond April? What about beyond May, June, or longer?

How will extended stay at home rules affect your job search? And how can you prepare your job search now in case disruption to the economy goes longer and maybe gets worse?

What if unemployment numbers continue to increase, coming closer to the high end of forecasts (30% unemployment) rather than the minimum 10% estimate (note that minimum unemployment estimates are the same as the peak of the 2008 recession)?

Each week that social distancing is extended, businesses, non-profits, government, and education have their finance teams estimate the negative effects on revenue and losses. As organizations see their customers paying bills later, they reforecast cash flow, sometimes daily. Then they make recommendations of how to reduce losses, including additional rounds of layoffs.

So your job search could easily take longer than you expect.

But there are many things you can do now to prepare your job search for the effects of longer social distancing rules.

1. Improve Your Resume: Your current resume is probably OK. But OK isn't good enough as competition continues to increase. Greater competition for fewer jobs mean you need to be the best you can be, not merely OK. Average resumes will stay buried in the ATS, while superior resumes will get interviews.
2. Ditch Outplacement: Realize that your outplacement firms' job is to discourage you from suing your ex-employer, not to find you a job. They are paid low fees per person, and encouraged to spend time holding your hand and listening to you vent (better than you venting to a lawyer). They are not paid to give you cutting-edge, top notch job search and resume advice ... just the basics. That's why outplacement firms teach average strategies based on random applications, volume and luck - rather than a strategic, laser-targeted approach.
3. Improve Your Job Search Strategy: Your current job search strategy (reinforced by what outplacement firms teach) keeps your resume stuck in ATSs, and keeps you from interviews when you're qualified. It's not because you're a bad candidate - It's because you're following advice that conflicts with the real process employers use to find 80% of their new hires.
4. Recognize That Average Looses Opportunities In A Recession: Taking the 2008 recession as a comparison, employers ignored average candidates, because they had so many qualified applicants. Then, and now, employers focus on only the best candidates, the ones who stand head and shoulders over their competitors. Employers get pickier, because they can afford to be. Employers have to be more selective, because they need teams who can do more with less. Average performers and average candidates lose opportunities that they're qualified to do every day ... because they're average.

So how can you change your resume and job search strategy to land more interviews and offers?

I'll show you a job search and resume strategy that gets through and around ATSs so effectively, it will at least double your interviews. This approach is more effective in beating unemployment, takes less time, and will at least double the amount of interviews you land - because it works the same way employers choose candidates and new hires.

This is the 3rd recession I've recruited/coached through, so I've seen first hand what resume and job search strategies succeed during recessions. I've also seen mistakes candidates make, causing their recession job searches to fail. I've been through this before and know what works and what doesn't.

As a top national recruiter who reads hundreds of resumes per day, who has helped hundreds of thousands of candidates in their job search, and seen thousands of employers' job search processes from the inside, I've got a different perspective than most career coaches.

I see that most job seekers do essentially the same things, even when they think they are job searching differently. I also see most job seekers were taught search methods that get screened out by ATSs and eliminate them from consideration, because they conflict with the employer's hiring process.

But I've been teaching job seekers to overcome ageism for 13+ years by using non-traditional resume/job search strategies that demonstrate impact rather than just being average. I'll show you how to beat ageism and find a great job during the recession by understanding employers' point of view and hiring processes ... and using this understanding to beat your competition.

(I'm not just a career coach. I've also been a top national recruiter for the last 15 years ... so you'll get advice from a different perspective - an insider's point of view.)

Let me show you what you can do now to change your job search and resume so you can find a great job during the coronavirus recession, even if you're unemployed or over 40.

Join me Friday 5/1/20 at 11:00am ET/8:00am PT, for my Resume Revolution! webinar (enroll at https://bit.ly/2VyWvEE for no charge) to learn how to beat the ATS and find a great job during the recession.

Want to see how well this can work for you?

"Great cutting edge advice on your resume, the cover letter dilemma and everyone's job search issues and questions. I guarantee you will hear something new in Phil's webinar that you can use in your job search today - information which you have not heard anywhere else! You will not be disappointed." - S.M.

"Phil has a great grasp on the practicalities of recruiting from the employer perspective, as well as the changing trends in seeking out the next opportunity including the use of social media. I have many takeaways from this webinar and recommend this as a must attend!" - F.E.

"This is straight talk from a guy who has the experience, research and contacts, and the know-how to help us maximize our opportunities. He doesn't pitch gimmicks or shortcuts; he gives guidance, answers questions about the job market and how our resumes are handled, and gives tips that help us get the results we want. Well worth it!" - J.M.

"Amazing info shared by Phil in the Resume Revolution Webinar! Who knew that I was wasting my precious time by relying on job boards?? (well, Phil did, of course...)" - S.H.

"His advice on my resume improved my response rate to easily 7/8 for every 10 sent, and I can say the resulting response was directly responsible for helping to find and land my current engagement." - D.M.

You'll Learn All This At Resume Revolution!

* Actionable tips to beat the ATS and find a great job during the recession

* How to double your interviews and resume response rate

* How to empower yourself in job search

* How to optimize your job search and resume to today's market realities

* What's different about this recession

* Why things that worked during a strong job market won't work today

... plus

* Come for the Webinar - Stay for the Q & A with job search experts

Enroll now at https://bit.ly/2VyWvEE , or find our future webinars at https://ResumeWebinar.com .

P.S. I've launched the National Unemployment List and invite you to add your name if you're unemployed, affected by temporary closures, had your hours reduced, or have been laid off. The National Unemployment List will be distributed to employers, hiring managers, internal and external recruiters, to help everyone get back to work quickly. So add your name to the National Unemployment List at https://bit.ly/NationalUnemploymentList.

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