Tips for job seekers to stand out and get hired.
I’ve shared the same advice with several job seekers recently, pulling together a number of my LinkedIn posts on job hunting. Rather than keep copy-pasting, I published those thoughts more broadly in a blog post so I can just point people there in the future.
The main principle I offer is that people don’t hire you because you have a set of skills. They hire you to handle a business issue. If you can show you will create more value for the company than somebody else with similar skillsh, you are more likely to get the job.
With that perspective, getting hired becomes a matter of understanding what makes you different than other people applying to the jobs you want, learning to tell that story effectively, and getting your story in front of somebody ready to hire.
How have you applied these tips in your own job searches? What other tips would you add?