Unemployed Job Seekers Can Overcome Critical Hiring Manager Risks

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 or even average performance.

And 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 degrade their teams' performance. Hiring manager look for new hires who will raise team /department/company performance.

As a candidate you need to recognize these risks so you can mitigate them. But just saying, "I was doing great" 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 show hiring managers that you were a top performer and mitigate performance hiring risk. Here are 3 ways to prove to hiring managers that you're not "somebody else's problem" or an average performer:

1. Overwhelm the hiring manager with impact:?Most resumes focus on tasks, responsibilities qualifications and job 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 tasks/responsibilities/descriptions to instead show the impact you made on your organization/department/team, you take out the guesswork by proving your success, describing 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. Who needs qualified 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 job description - That gives you no advantage over others, it usually was written 1+ years ago (so it reflects past problems, not current) or is generic (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, 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 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).

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