Hyde: 7 days to become a candidate that everyone will notice

    A weekly guide for the work of changing, seeking, and simply striving for change. We have 7 days that can be spent for the benefit of ourselves and our career. Let's start with small and very effective steps.



    // Monday
    Upgrade LinkedIn profile

    Is it a hard day? Not at all. For today, here's the task for you: use all the features of LinkedIn, which until then remained without your attention. We even have a whole list of those 8 useful life hacks for this useful resource: which are useful to you today.
    Here, catch 8 LinkedIn chips you didn't know about!
    We also advise you to add as many keywords as possible to your profile. Especially: if they relate to the projects on which you worked, or the characteristics of you personally. We already talked about this in the material “how to describe your skills in a resume” .


    // Tuesday
    Help a friend

    Tuesday will be the day of helping unemployed and destitute friends. In fact, today we suggest that you apply all your networking skills and try to help a friend find a good job (and among friends and relatives there is always someone who is looking for it). It is especially useful to do all this for those who are not yet ready to quit work, but want to understand what is happening on the market.
    Firstly, it’s good for your reputation as a person who strives all the time to help and support your neighbor. Characterizes you as a professional and personality. If in the circle of people who are interesting to you from a career point of view, there are those who will be ready to help your friend, then probably at some point you yourself will be ready to turn to him, but most likely he will contact you. Once again, maintaining business contacts will be helpful. It may seem to you that this sounds cynical, but you should not make hasty conclusions!
    Secondly, you yourself take a different look at the job search, this process will cease to seem so unpleasant and scary when you turn out to be an “independent” expert and try to help someone.
    Thirdly, it’s just karma.
    Fourth, you will become a person who will be immediately informed about new vacancies. Is it bad?


    // Wednesday
    Observing ourselves

    Here’s what you need to do on Wednesday. Work all day as it usually happens. But try to pay more attention to how you perform your duties, what pleases you, how much time you spend when your qualities as a leader or a responsible employee are manifested. Maybe you are genuinely dealing with stress? All this must be recorded as soon as you notice something special that may take place in your resume or cover letter. It will also be just wonderful if you recall some story that will embody all your qualities as an employee and write it down. No one canceled the storytelling in resumes, letters, and interviews.


    // Thursday
    Check your reputation online

    So we got to social networks. Today you should pay attention to all your profiles, because today all HR's will certainly find you, all your black jokes, endless selfies and more. Of course, you should not immediately clean everything that you published back in 2007, but just pay attention to what can ruin your online reputation. Okay, at least unsubscribe from MDK. By the way, subscribing to icanchoose would be worth it. because a candidate who is constantly striving to get useful information is a priori a wonderful employee!
    In general, your profile on social networks should not be too gray or boring, too loaded with professional information ( we are about VK, for example, there it is not very appropriate, but on FB there may already be some useful information about you, fortunately, there is a section for this). Do you know what a recruiter checks on your page? Your adequacy and liveliness. Keep in mind!
    We already talked about what to do with your profile so that it looks good.


    // Friday
    Thinking About Recommendations

    Your colleagues can probably tell you something good about your professional skills (and you just turn a blind eye to what they did on the corporate party). Therefore, today we advise you to think about which of your colleagues could tell something about you, remember about the projects that you carried out together. In the end, sooner or later, almost all of us need to change jobs, and we underestimate the tool of recommendations.
    How to do it?
    Write letters. Better come during lunch. If you have not yet informed your colleagues that you intend to leave your current place of work, then this is the time. However, the praise-scold rule also applies here. Just praise, ask. Sincerely, tell us about the moments that you experienced and which made you cooler as a professional. A team and a team. In general, do not be shy that you are changing your job, and all the more so as you ask someone to become your agent in these matters.
    If it’s absolutely tight with communication (you’re outgoing!), Then send a request to LinkedIn. Only preliminarily still warn that you are considering the option of changing the workplace. Especially if you ask for a leader. Do not take a person by surprise!


    // Saturday.
    Trying to understand what the employer wants.

    The best that a candidate can do is meet the requirements and study the situation on the market and in the company. It is important. Whoever is aware is armed! That is why on Saturday it is worthwhile to conduct a study, analyze the keywords in the described vacancy, read reviews on Glassdoor about what is important for the company, what questions are asked, what are expected from the employees, get acquainted with the values ​​and just understand what the employer wants and what you like sees.


    // Sunday.
    Thinking about how to get better.

    Let's agree that you will not devote all day to a frenetic job search. Sit in the morning and look for useful courses for yourself, or maybe you will find useful classes for advanced training? The world of information has given us the opportunity to improve without boundaries. That's why a new week of your life, start by investing in the future, start learning something really interesting, something that will make you a little better.

    By the way, recruiters like it when candidates have information on courses in their CVs. And we just have a selection of the best courses in December.

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