What to write to a recruiter
How To Reach Out To A Recruiter - Coaching Moment
are you struggling to get recruiters to
connect with you my name is JT O'Donnell
and welcome to coaching moment this is
the youtube series that helps remove the
roadblocks to career success so today I
want to talk to all of you out there
that are struggling to connect with
recruiters at companies that you want to
work at we've seen a lot of comments
lately a lot of hating on recruiters and
I don't think that's a good thing folks
they have a tough job and what I want to
do is put you in the mindset of a
recruiter so that you can understand the
best way to stand out and actually get
them to respond to you so the first
thing that I want you to realize is that
recruiters get solicited all the time
all day long they get lots of connection
requests on LinkedIn lots of unsolicited
emails of people trying to say hey I'm
the perfect person for your job and I
want you to stop right there and think
about that because maybe you're guilty
of this maybe you've sent a note saying
here's why I'm amazing and why you
should check me out now that might sound
great but where did you get that advice
from I want you to turn around imagine
the last time you got sold to buy a
salesperson that was really overbearing
and told you they had the perfect
solution for you I guarantee the
reaction in your head was says who and
that's exactly how recruiters feel when
you sell them and say that you are
perfect for the job their immediate
reaction is says who I'll be the judge
of that and they almost go into more of
a not a negative but a more critical eye
when they're looking at your materials
so you don't want to set that
expectation so my first piece of advice
when reaching out to recruiters is not
to tell them that you are the best
candidate for the job instead what
you're trying to do is open up a
dialogue around the company and what
they look for in an ideal candidate so
something you might send via LinkedIn
would be we've never met but I came
across your profile when looking for
recruiters at XYZ company I'm a big fan
of the organization and I would love to
hear from you what you look for in ideal
candidates for the company see now
you're looking at their expertise you're
asking for their advice around what it
takes to get hired there this is a much
better way to introduce yourself and
make a good first impression which leads
to my second tip when it comes to
reaching out to recruiters
well sometimes you're gonna have to
reach out blindly because you don't know
anyone it is by far better for you to be
introduced to a recruiter at a company
and there's a couple ways you can do
that the easiest way is for you to go
through all your connections and look
and see if you know anybody in your
network that knows this recruiter and
ask for that introduction but another
way to do this is to actually connect
with people who work at the company
first so you might research and find out
that somebody you know just got hired
there or maybe you see somebody that got
hired in a similar skill set and you
don't know them but at the very least
you could reach out to them on LinkedIn
and say hey we haven't met but I see you
just got hired at XYZ I'd love to hear
what you think it takes to get hired
there once again by connecting with
several people in the organization you
can get more information about what it
takes to get hired they may be willing
to introduce you to the recruiter which
is now a warm referral there's going to
be a much greater chance that the
recruiter will speak to you but I'm also
going to tell you one other secret why
you should do this especially on
LinkedIn when recruiters use LinkedIn
especially their paid platform if they
look you up on the platform it tells
them who you're connected to in the
company so if I'm a recruiter and I see
that you know 2 3 4 5 10 people at the
organization I'm going to far more
likely to review what you've written to
me and to actually talk to you so again
this strategy is all about connecting
with other people in the organization in
order for it make to the right
impression to the recruiters so that
they want to talk to you ok so there you
have it folks 2 tips to recap please
don't oversell yourself when reaching
out to a recruiter they're a stranger
you want to talk more about what they're
looking for in a candidate and less
about yourself and secondly whenever
possible you want to get referred to the
recruiter directly and as I share
there's a couple ways to do that
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alright everyone good luck reaching out
to those recruiters and I will see you
next time in a coaching moment
