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So what is the secret? It is just one phrase: Keyword-stacking. (Location 143)

Recruiters begin their candidate search with keywords. (Location 172)

When you know how recruiters search, you can keyword-stack and optimize your profile so that you are produced as a qualified candidate in the recruiter search. (Location 267)

Recruiter 3-Step Search Process Recruiters do a three-step process within the recruiter application. > Step 1: Keywords > Step 2: Location > Step 3: Narrowing Terms (Location 279)

However, at the beginning, keywords are the primary way candidates are found. Therefore, you need to understand the in-demand keywords for your background so that you are being produced as a candidate during the recruiter search. (Location 290)

The following fields are the next most popular options.   Narrowing Terms: • Title, • Industry, • Rank, • And years of experience. (Location 306)

A single entrepreneur who owns a marketing firm may title themselves as Director of Digital Marketing even if they have no team. However, in a company with 2,000 or more employees, a Director of Marketing will likely have a team with multiple direct reports. (Location 326)

Five Types of Recruiters 1. Third party recruiters: retained or contingent 2. Internal company human resource (HR) recruiters 3. Staffing agency recruiters 4. Executive career managers 5. Head hunters (Location 348)

Keep in mind that, no matter what level you have attained, you absolutely should want to get these calls. Many candidates tell me they only want calls from internal recruiters, however it is much (Location 359)

If a third party recruiter is calling on your resume or LinkedIn profile, it is an indication your profile is properly optimized and that your skills are in hot demand; it may also indicate a short supply of talent in the market. In other words, you are doing your career, resume, profile, and job search correctly. (Location 370)

In both cases, the recruiters are paid about 20% of the job candidate’s annual salary. (Location 381)

Type 4. Executive Career Managers (Location 452)

Unfortunately, there is no agency in the hiring industry that represents the candidate. (Location 476)

Just know that you are paying for career coaching and not for job placement. (Location 480)

To identify the right positions for you, you need to start with the search terms you just listed. The job market itself will reveal additional parameters. Begin the search, add more, and try different combinations to identify your Core-3© stream of jobs. (Location 647)

The first thing you need to do is survey the job marketing to identify your Core 3©. The job market survey will uncover additional skill sets to add to your list. This will require many searches. (Location 747)

Exercise 2.3 Survey the Job Market   Begin the survey by going to www.Indeed.com and then follow these steps: (Location 752)

Once a stream of jobs has been identified, it is time to build a “composite” profile that pulls the keywords from multiple job ads targeting that one position. Our next step is breaking down the job ad to create a keyword-stacked market-based resume. (Location 785)

This may sound a little bit controversial but … the first part of the resume has NOTHING to do with your personal experience!! (Location 823)

Your resume (and your online profile) is based on the typical job requirements of your goal position. (Location 827)

To start a great resume, you literally set aside your work experience for a moment and focus on the top of the resume, which is a re-write of the related job advertisements that you have found. (Location 830)

The #1 Resume Hack: Write the Resume to the Job Advertisement. (Location 835)

This document is also used as a template to build your online profiles on LinkedIn, Indeed.com, Careerbuilder.com, Monster.com, staffing agencies, and niche professional job boards. (Location 840)

The industry standard in resume creation and submission is a Microsoft Word Document (.doc or .docx). Even the most cursory review of the job market will indicate immediately that MS Word is the mandatory resume submission format. This is true because although Adobe PDF is popular and better at retaining its format shape, the Applicant Tracking Systems cannot read a PDF document. (Location 870)

it is critical to maintain at least a half inch margin; .75 inch is also good. If your resume is too crammed with words, the recruiter will not be able to read it. A recruiter will read the resume from left to right with the top half of the page being the most important visual space. Create a resume that presents the most important matching information first. (Location 882)

Generally speaking, you should only be listing the last ten years of work history. This can be pushed to 15 years but it is not advisable. More history tends to age the candidate and the older worker tends to have a lot of redundant or irrelevant history as well. Only keep older information if it is critical for the next job. (Location 928)

3.2 The 4-Easy Steps to a Resume that Gets Calls   This resume format optimizes for keywords and skyrockets your chances of being found in employers’ systems and online by recruiters searching for you right now. (Location 1003)

This section is completely replaced by the Title Bar, Summary of Skills, and Skill Highlights. (Location 1017)

Exercise 3.2.1: Title Bars (Location 1047)

3.2.2 Summary of Skills (Location 1055)

Tip: Use another job advertisement in another city to build your resume.   Some job ads have very few line (Location 1197)

value for the positions based on their past roles. Below is an example of quantified accomplishments: (Location 1207)

Follow the steps below to begin writing accomplishment statements. At a very minimum, re-write the job advertisement line items to describe your work background. (Location 1228)

But professionals will need to leverage more than one job board to double their interviews. (Location 1380)

also use a free profiling tool, Carol Tuttle’s Dressing Your Truth, to identify my client’s power-colors and style. Google her program. (Location 1525)

Summary of Skills   LinkedIn offers a Summary of Skills section. (Location 1568)

Indeed.com is the most important website to set up customized job alerts because it aggregates job postings from multiple websites offering the most robust job market information. (Location 1633)

Set Up Recruiter Push “Let Your Next Job Find You”   Buried underneath the job alert preferences is a handy little hidden section that allows you to notify recruiters of your job interests for 90 days.   Go to the Jobs and then Preferences on LinkedIn and then under the job alerts is a section that says “Let Your Next Job Find You.” (Location 1640)

Exercise 5.5 LinkedIn Profile (Location 1796)

there are two other primary questions on the mind of the recruiter. 1. Will this candidate be a happy, productive, and non-disruptive employee? 2. Is this candidate stable and willing to remain in the position for at least two years? (Location 1879)

The winner is the candidate who performs the best in the interview, and the majority of that performance is based on the content of their answers. (Location 1887)

Tip: My recommendation is to treat every job as if it were your dream job (Location 1892)