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7 Things You Need To Get A Job In 2024

7 Things You Need To Get A Job In 2024

What do you need to get a job? Most job seekers think a good resume and cover letter are enough to land job interviews and stand out to employers in the hiring process. In today's competitive job market, you need a lot more to get a job.

Here are the seven things you need to get a job in 2024. Let's see if you have all of them.

What Do You Need To Get A Job?


1. A Job Search Strategy

You do not want to waste your time applying for jobs that are going to ghost you. You need to know what types of opportunities and companies will actually hire you. From this moment forward, make sure you have a proactive job search strategy.

2. A Skimmable Resume

We call it the six-second resume. That's because recruiters and hiring managers skim your resume first to make sure you have the five or six main skill sets they put on that job description. Otherwise, you won't be considered.

3. A LinkedIn Profile That Is Searchable

Keywords are very important on LinkedIn. Recruiters and hiring managers use a tool that helps them find people who are a match for the jobs they are hiring for. If you don't optimize your LinkedIn profile with keywords, you will not be found.

4. LinkedIn Posts

You need to post on LinkedIn, especially if you are looking for professional jobs. LinkedIn changed its algorithm recently and people who actually post on a regular basis rank higher in search results, and that's how you're going to get seen more.

5. Answers to Behavioral Interview Questions

You need to be ready for behavioral questions in job interviews. Everyone is doing evidence-based hiring now, which means they're going to ask you questions like, "Tell me about a time when you did X or Y." If you don't understand what behavioral interview questions are and how to answer them correctly, you will end up giving too little information or too much information, and that'll get you ruled out.

6. A Follow-Up Process

You need to know how to follow up after each interview, whether it's a phone, video, or in-person interview. Following up correctly will help you stay in the running.

7. Salary Negotiation Skills

When you get to the final interview, you need to know how to negotiate salary like a boss. Do you know how to approach the employer to get more money? If you don't, you could miss out or leave money on the table.

Do you have all seven of these things? If not, I can help.

At Work It DAILY, we have a 7-day risk-free trial to our job search career coaching platform, and we recently dropped a new program called the Job Search Accountability Program (JSAP). We're going to make every single day of your job search easier.

Honestly, if you don't have all seven of these things, getting a job will be that much harder. But this is not rocket science or brain surgery. The Job Search Accountability Program (JSAP) gives you the answers to all of these things quickly and easily, all at your convenience. So, I hope to see you in there.

Good luck, and go get 'em!

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4 Signs Your Thank-You Note Will Hurt You, Not Help You



While the pressure of doing well in your job interview may be over, there's still work to be done. Following each job interview, always send a thank-you note. Not sending one can cost you. But at the same time, sending one that you don't put much thought into can backfire as well.

While the follow-up thank-you note is not the defining factor of whether you will get the job, if written effectively, it does help maintain your standing as an impressive candidate for the position.

There are plenty of tips on how to write a good follow-up thank-you note. Here, we'll focus on signs your thank-you note isn't ready to be sent to a potential employer—yet!

1. You Didn't Check The Small Details


Yes, they may be small details, but one little mistake is enough to hurt your chances of landing the job.

Check your thank-you note for any misspellings or grammatical errors, and make sure you address it to the correct person. The last thing you want to do is misspell someone's name. Like your resume, your thank-you note requires an extra pair of eyes for proofreading.

2. Your Note Feels Generic


Man on phone follows up with employers during his job search by sending a thank-you note

"Thank you for the meeting! It was a pleasure."

Of course it was! Just about every other person who's been interviewed will say the same.

Your thank-you note needs to help you differentiate yourself from all other job applicants. Reflect back on the job interview and highlight a particular point for your message where you can express genuine interest in working for the company and with those you met at the interview.

Avoiding coming off as generic in your thank-you note also means you're customizing your message for each individual you met with. Never send out the same note because it may be shared between the hiring manager, department head, and other individuals you shook hands with at the company.

3. You Didn't Keep It Succinct


Woman writes a follow-up thank-you note after a job interview

A follow-up thank-you note is not like writing to a pen pal. Keep the message professional and succinct. Highlight a specific point in the interview that can serve as your basis for communicating your interest.

The follow-up thank-you note should ultimately help you build a platform for continued communication with the employer throughout the entirety of the hiring process.

4. You Didn't Get Right To It


Job candidate writes a follow-up thank-you note after an interview

If an entire week has passed since the job interview and you're just getting to sending the follow-up thank-you note, you're telling the employer you don't care much for the job.

It's always advised to send the message as soon as possible—within 24 hours of the interview. The sooner that follow-up thank-you note reaches their inbox, the more excited you'll seem about the job opportunity.

As you craft your follow-up thank-you note, be sure you're not making any of the mistakes above. Send a message that is unique and effective to help keep you in the running!

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You haven't heard back from a recruiter about a job you're interested in. What should you say in your follow-up email?

When you're following up with a recruiter on a job where you feel like they've ghosted you or you simply haven't heard from them in a while, I know that you want to email them and say, "I'm just following up to see where you are in the hiring process."

Don't do that.

Never use the word "just" or the phrase "I'm just following up." It sounds passive-aggressive. It's a real turnoff. And I know you're thinking, "But they're the one who blew me off." They might be, but they're also the customer in this scenario. You want their job. They're trying to decide whether to hire you, aka pay you (a business-of-one) to provide a service for the company. They're the customer. We're never rude to the customer.

So, here's what you send instead...

How To Follow Up With A Recruiter


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Example of a follow-up email to a recruiter:

Dear recruiter,

I wanted to be proactive and see if there's anything else I can do to further my candidacy for the XYZ job. I'm really interested.

Sincerely,

Your name

That's it. By wording your follow-up email this way, you're being polite, not calling them out, and keeping it short. And that's exactly what recruiters are looking for.

Does this email get you a response every time? No. But it certainly increases the chances that a recruiter will respond and let you know where everything's at in the hiring process.

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5 Ways To Kill Your Chances With A Hiring Manager



I'm a big fan of the X-Men comic books and have always loved the powers of Dr. Charles Xavier, who is telepathic. Who wouldn't want the ability to instantly read a person's mind and affect their behavior? This skill would come in extremely handy during interviews with hiring managers, many of whom seem to belong squarely to the school of “say little and express even less."

Here are five ways to turn off a hiring manager and ruin your chances of getting the job.

1. Lack Of Specificity In Your Resume


Woman hands the hiring manager a resume

A big mistake job seekers make is submitting overly general resumes. This makes sense in theory. After all, the more applications you can shoot off, the more interviews, right? But this can really turn off a hiring manager, who wants to know exactly how your background will enable you to tackle the problems they need to be solved. Clichés just won't cut it at this stage.

Here's what you should do instead:

  • Create a shortlist of 5-10 positions you're an ideal fit for.
  • Study the job postings for positions like this, as well as LinkedIn profiles for people who currently have these jobs.
  • Tailor your resume to quickly communicate fit for these roles.

Once you have a solid framework in place, include metrics-based quantifiable accomplishments on your resume for every major position you've held that proves your ability to execute.

Here's an example: Saved global Telecom company $500M over 2 years through development and deployment of end-to-end Complexity Reduction methodology resulting in purchasing and inventory efficiencies.

2. Too Aggressive About Career Advancement


Hiring manager talks to a job candidate during an interview

Look, it's great to be ambitious. And of course, the job you're after today is probably not the one you want to retire on. But you need to place your focus squarely on becoming the ideal candidate for THIS job before even talking about the next step. Neglect to do this, and a hiring manager will naturally start thinking that you might jump ship within a year, and they'll be back to square one.

Create a short "value presentation" for the interview that talks about how your three to four strongest skills can be applied immediately towards helping the company. It's similar to a 30-60-90 day plan. Get creative here!

For example, if you're going after a product development position, why not run some quick usability tests on a company's products, document them, and develop some design suggestions?

3. Too Open About Weaknesses


Woman talks to the hiring manager during a job interview

A hiring manager is not a career counselor. With the latter, it's perfectly fine to be honest about vulnerabilities in your personality or "pet peeves" that drive you crazy in the work environment. But if you take the same approach with a hiring manager and confide things like you have trouble balancing family responsibilities with workplace demands, you'll most likely get passed over.

They're not only looking to find the best candidate but manage risk.

Learn how to "spin" negatives into something that ultimately leads to success. For example, if you're asked what your greatest weakness is, you can tell a story about how you once had chronic shyness and needed 30 minutes to "amp yourself" up for a simple phone call, and now, through courage and repeated exposure, you can handle dozens of calls with high-level clients per day. Negative to positive.

This is also known as the "Experience + Learn = Grow" model, which is the best way to answer behavioral interview questions. Therefore, you should definitely learn this strategy before your next job interview.

4. Not Following Up


Man follows up with a hiring manager after his job interview

Following up matters! It shows that you're truly invested in landing the position and aren't just treating it as one of many potential opportunities.

We recommend emailing everyone you met at the company within 24 hours of your interview thanking them for the opportunity, followed by an email sent a week later that essentially continues the conversation—adding greater detail to questions raised, sharing an industry article of interest, and so on.

You're making it clear that the interview was the beginning of an ongoing relationship, no matter the outcome of the interview process.

5. Lack Of Enthusiasm


Hiring manager shakes the hand of an enthusiastic job candidate

If a hiring manager has to choose between the most qualified candidate on paper and a less qualified candidate who brings genuine passion to the table, they'll go for the latter every time. You can teach someone almost anything except enthusiasm.

So, if you have a personal connection with the company you're interviewing for, and believe that this is a meaningful step in your life's ambitions, or simply love the unique culture they've developed, take time in the interview to let them know!

It also doesn't hurt to explicitly state, "I'm very interested in this position, and would love to see a positive outcome," or something similar. Excitement fuels job offers!

Making the five mistakes above will ruin your chances with a hiring manager every time. To secure your chances of getting the job, be sure to tailor your resume, create a 30-60-90 day plan, learn how to answer behavioral interview questions, follow up after the job interview, and state your enthusiasm for the position.

It'll be impossible to ruin your chances with a hiring manager with that strategy.

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