Why You Aren't Getting Job Interviews...And How To Fix It.
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Why you're not getting job interviews - and how to fix it. If you are not getting responses to your job applications, you are likely invisible to recruiters. Here are some ways you can address this and get more callbacks on your resumes.
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1:05 - your resume isn't helping
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8:52 - resources to help get more interviews
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Honestly, I've been job hunting for almost two years since coming out of grad school and I've done all of this. This year I've submitted over 900 jobs with only 1 interview. I'm about to give up and go back to school.
life sucks
That’s unreal! I’m still searching for a job interview after interview but no success. I’ve been searching since June but that doesn’t compare completely with what your situation is.
Unfortunately, applying to jobs is not the same as it was a few years ago. Networking and building relationships is a better bet than wasting energy on job applications!
Take it from a recruiter myself who has helped 300+ professionals land great opportunities.
Applying is now not the most successful strategy.
Don't give up! Network more and you will successfully land a great job!
So after all that education and struggling to find a job, your takeaway is you need to go back to school? Why?
@@JaBlanche I mean I thought about this too, don't want to do another masters and end up in the same situation in a different field. But I'm in data science, and there are some masters degrees that have internships attached that would I guess get my foot in the door. Or I can just do a PhD, but I don't want to lol
I miss the days when you could just walk into a business and hand someone your resume.
I couldn't imagine how many people who have gone homeless because they couldn't find oportunities because of not having their resumes seen or who could not pass the ATS-filtering systems.
Hiring candidates should be a human process and not with machines. This just leads to candidates who lie to get the job. You end up with dishonest workers. The US also lacks non-corporate jobs. Non-corporate jobs create innovative ideas where corporations don't take the risks. The US needs more non-corporate jobs. To do this people need to get hired and be able to save money. People need to save and be able to break-even from the high cost of living.
the first one is on point, once i've fixed my resume my response rate have increased from near 0 replies to 10% reply
A resume refresh and personal projects make a big difference.
A considerable improvement.
I’ve been very purposeful about not doing a “spray and pray” method. I’m being selective about the positions I apply for and try to connect and message the hiring manager or recruiter. The annoying thing is all of the managers or recruiters who like to post about using linked in to your advantage don’t respond to messages. So many of them are very fake! Haven’t seen many like you Brian.
Being selective is key, you are on the right track. Assumption is no one will respond but keep the momentum and move on quickly if you do not receive a response!
@@RitaBaroodyYou are cute!
Consistency is key, but when I message, I do not care if they respond. It's more about visibility.
At 56, I applied to an internal position that was both a promotion and in a different department within my organization and was recently given the offer. Faced with a strong head wind of dealing with Ageism, IT layoffs/recession and fierce competition internally and externally from people a generation younger. Have a rock solid strategy. Relationship building is key - It's not what you know, but who you know...to receive internal endorsements/praise from colleagues into the hiring manager's ear, especially from those who report to the hiring manager to move you/resume to the front of the line. Let others be your megaphone to often speak highly of your work quality.
It is absolutely about WHO you know and WHO can internally refer you.
(coming from a recruiter myself and former hiring director)
@@RitaBaroody That is disheartening. I don’t really know anyone, and it sounds like that’s something you need to have in place _before_ trying to find a job. (No one is looking for hot unemployed singles in your area.)
The ageism is real. 90% of companies aren't going to hire a 50 year old with 30 years of experience, because we know the flags and we know what we're worth and will push back. Instead, they want the desperate 25 year olds with crushing student debt that are living paycheck to paycheck. That way they're too scared of being homeless to push back against unreasonable demands and substandard pay.
I’ve been following you for a little while. One of your videos talked about knowing the financial health of the company you are interviewing with. Man, that was so spot on and saved me a lot of time and money.
Thank you, brother!
I wanted to let you know I got laid off from a large bank recently. The effective date was 90 days after notice (so 12/08). I found your channel, bought the resume rocket fuel offering and took your advice. I have recently accepted an offer and while it’s a bit of a pay cut, the opportunity is very exciting.
Thank you!
Awesome to hear!
I got an accounting job where the post stated a Masters in accounting as an asset. I got it with a college business diploma with some accounting. I also ended up training a guy with absolutely no post secondary education who got the job just because he was the husband of a lady who worked at the company and was friends with my Manager ( they were from the same East Asian country).
I get interviews, just not jobs...
Please do videos on w2 contracting, since that's what most recruiters find people.
spot on! This video is a game-changer for job seekers. If you've been feeling invisible in the job market, these tips are the flashlight you need. Time to tweak that resume and stand out from the crowd. Thanks for such great advice!
Be the light!
Some of this video was ok, but it's way too short on content compared to your regular quality. For a 10 minute video you spend the first minute saying nothing, the last minute doing the usual pitch for your courses, but then from 4 to 6.5 minutes in you're also pitching a sponsor/setting up a sponsor lead in, to the point I'm not even sure about your website advice. 1:05 to 4:00 and 6:20 to 8:52 is the only actual content, that's just under 5.5 minutes for a 10 minute video.
Great videos, Bryan!!
I'm 57 with 40 yrs in the welding industry plus 23 yrs as a quality inspector. I think my age is the problem. My resume gets compliments on its practicality. I think my age is the problem, any thoughts?
Maybe your skills are outdated or the industry you are working for is shrinking.
I’d say to put less experience on your resume. Then people won’t see how extensive it is.
Employers don’t want to pay more for extensive experience; they’d rather hire a younger worker for less. Try adjusting your résumé so that it has fewer “tells” about your age. (Remove graduation/certification dates and jobs from more than 10 years ago.)
I'm in my mid-fifties and age is a thing. I only go back 15 years.
The real question is why are there 1000 applicants..?
Layoffs, people being more nomadic.
This wasn't helpful. I'm already doing all of those things and I've been looking for over a year.
Great advice! I’m a career coach with a recruiting background and I’m always looking for TH-cam videos to share. Glad I found your site!
In addition to your sage advice, I would add to make sure your resume is ATS compatible. Many people are lost in the shuffle because their information is not being properly recorded or even omitted. My guess is that you go over this advice in your video about resumes.
The biggest reason why people are stuck in job search is because they stop with simply applying to jobs and waiting for a response. If you want an interview, take the next step. 80% of jobs are found through networking and LinkedIn is this best tool to connect with people inside your target companies. My hope is that your subscribers will watch your LinkedIn video.
Keep the faith, everyone!
Thanks, Brian.
My pleasure!
As always, great content.
Well, this is all very well and good if you do the kind of work that means you have something to put on a website. My resume is all I have, which you're basically saying is the same as having nothing. In 11 months I've gotten 2 interviews. And no, I'm not applying to enough jobs, because there aren't that many to apply to.
I am in the same boat. Batting zero, and they don’t even bother sending a rejection letter.
Not the issue in my case. It’s not that I’m not qualified for the positions I’m applying for. I am well beyond qualified. Problems is that I took 18 months off to care for my mother. Even though I have reached out to recruiters who have successfully placed me in positions on more than one occasion in the past I have been blacklisted because of the time I sacrificed to help an ill relative. The recruitment industry is completely unregulated and sometimes I think I can’t wait until AI takes over and recruiters will be out of jobs 🤷♀️
AI recruiters will also filter out the long-term unemployed. More than anything else, recency of employment seems to be used as a proxy for competence.
@@amicaaranearum Correct, yet recruiters don’t understand that caring for an ill relative is still “work” even if it’s unpaid. I know personally there was a hell of a lot of paperwork I had to fill out for my mother in order for her to receive government benefits.
The assumption is that if you can afford to take that much time off, then you aren't desperate enough to blindly accept whatever inequitable terms and lowball pay they intend to offer.
@@amicaaranearum you deserve a $1 donation for that comment. 100% AI will make it harder for job seekers to find work. we'll be looking back at the early 2020s like "at least there were humans on the other end!"
Look into temp/contract jobs at places you want to work. Nothing beats getting your foot in the door.
I had a resume website up as part of a project but took it down because I thought that it was costing me money without benefitting me during the job search. If I were to put it back up, would it benefit me to have a very minimalist resume and a very flashy website?
This video is just a advertisement.
Buddy of mine changed his gender to female on his driver's license and suddenly he started getting interviewed a lot more.
Hmm.
Somehow that doesn’t surprise me.
I'm guessing depending on the position your buddy applied to, those positions look for women to fill those roles alot more than they're looking for men.
I have 2 questions please :
1. Could I be blacklisted by companies?? If I haven't heard from companies as often as I used to, could it be because I could have been blacklisted? Like stepping on the wrong toes and hence that manager would have blacklisted me? Is there such a list between companies or recruiters?
2. For your "unlock Linkedin " course, are you going to spend time with the candidate live, and assist tailor-make the linkedin profile, or is it recorded video modules to watch which is the same for all candidates?
Thanks for your reply in advance. I sure hope you do reply :)
Thank you for this useful message, personal branding is what I despise but you're starting to change my mind on this. I am also learning to be the CEO of my career
This is the mentality to have 👆
I got my resume professionally reviewed, and I am getting interviews, but I am still waiting for offers.
The resume can only get you so far. It's showing up at your Best that will land you the Job! Keep up the positive mindset and it will happen!
(take it from a Recruiter who has helped 300+ professionals land great opportunities)
Here's something I realize. These professionals think their way of formatting a resume is the best way, but that's all bullshit. I've heard stories about people having the best resumes for years, and they've never even gotten calls for an interview.
I am trying my best to land at a job but failing from past one year. I am content writer and this thing is happening for the first time in my career.
I am anxious really like what's wrong going on with me?
How old are you? Maybe this could answer your question?
I born in 1987. I am professional content writer. But I look hardly 28.
Why?
What age has to do here?
@@zahidrafique1175 If you look too young "you lack experience/probably lying about experience", if you look too old "won't be around long or expects higher pay"
The resume and applications can only get you so far. Networking is a better strategy and showing up at your Best that will land you the Job! Keep up the positive mindset and it will happen!
(take it from a Recruiter who has helped 300+ professionals land great opportunities)
Agree with customizing your résumé, as a recruiter on the agency side I have candidates that will probably be a great fit for the role when I talk to them but then I ask for them to add a few bullet points in their own words on their résumé to go into more detail about the technical skill sets that they have that would relate to this specific position and they just won’t take the extra few minutes to revise their résumé and it only hurts them and I try to explain that we want to give them the best first impression possible to the hiring manager so drop the ego and just spend the extra five or 10 minutes to change a few pieces of your résumé like the recruiter asks, please and thank you :)
I never do those extras. While it sounds like a good idea, I don't know exactly what they're after. They never show examples. I think it's best to give the recruiter enough raw data and let them format the resume and tweak bullet points. They have that expertise and it's a part of their job, while the thousands upon thousands of job hunters won't ever become expert enough do it right - we're experts at what we do, not resume writing!
@@DrunkenUFOPilot sorry we don’t get paid to write your resume, i’ll clean up the format and font but I cannot add what you’ve done for experience, the candidate needs to do that themselves, the company pays us not the candidates
I would never work with you!! A good recruiter has always tweeked my resume to fit what their client or employer was looking for! You are a mediocre recruiter, then!! Real Talk!!
I've been in the working world for over 20+ years, in 3 different industries! I repeat: I would never work with a recruiter that won't tweek my resume with my permission!!
@@MannyLoxx2010 if someone if a software developer I would hope they’d want to put in their own words what they specifically did with Java, Python, Airflow etc rather than a recruiter who isn’t technical explaining the projects, it’s best the candidate adds it in their own words because they were actually at the job.
And I’ve been the top recruiter at my company for 3 years in a row because I’ll present candidates that are good culture fits with good tempers
I think after months and months of just being ghosted, where neither the recruiter nor the company even bothers to acknowledge you, job seekers are starting to question the value of putting more time into any one application.
interviews are easy, getting pay that reflects inflation impossible.
i am in country with 6% inflation and increasing (russia) any tip?
I got better results applying to companies directly instead of going through job sites/recruiters.
I have found the customizing the resume and the software that has sprung up around it to be the biggest bit of snake oil in job searching. I spent 6 months of tailoring my resume spending upwards of an hour getting 70% matching and above and still still received no interview requests. I wasted so much time and money on tailoring my resume and received nothing from it. I really dislike this recommendation.
Stop trying to outsource your resume.
It’s been almost a year for me and probably 1000 applications. I’ve tweaked my resume, had coaching advice, practice interviews, but only about 20 interviews within the last 6 months and no job offer. I have 30 years in Telecommunications mostly PM and customer service positions. I’ve had professionals look at my resume and are puzzled as to why I haven’t landed. I’m throwing so many Hail Marys in. I’m going to now take yet another advice from you and create and add a website to my resume (I’ll have to go with a free one as I’ve now suffered financial destruction). I’m beginning to think it’s ageism. I should have landed by now….. oh, and I do network and am a part of 3 weekly groups. So what do you or anyone on here think is my issue?
30 years might be working against you. If it is ageism, you can fight against that a bit, especially in an era of zoom calls. Maybe drop old jobs from your resume? Don't include anything past 10 or 15 years ago? Or maybe just the last 3-4 jobs. Remove dates from your college graduation. Watch some videos on how streamers/youtubers light themselves, light is a great way to make yourself look younger so when they do see you they can't tell how old you are (lighting that hides wrinkles and no gray hair can take 20 years off your look).
Definitely ageism. And regardless of how much you tweak your CV, most online applications ask for year of graduation. Keep trying. Don't give up. Something will work out sooner or later.
Employers don’t want to pay more for extensive experience; they’d rather hire a young worker for cheap.
@@phonyalias7574 yes to all of your advice. I’ve did all based on another coach advise. I don’t look my age and am very vibrant and relatively keen on technology especially AI. Thanks for chiming in.
@@strangerdanger8462 yep, you’re right. Most do. I just want a chance. I’ll take less salary and get more after your ROI.
How to deal with large gaps in employment such as 8 years
he has videos talking about gap, and I don't think it's a big issue if you have reasonable explanation if you can be selected for interview.
tell them you signed an NDA and cant talk about it
Brian, I have a question. What do most people in management think about anime? Will I still have good opportunities if management finds out I like anime?
I doubt most leaders would have an opinion on anime.
@@ALifeAfterLayoff my boss saw it on my PC background and he asked if I liked that stuff in a weird way
please help for russia, thank you.
how to get job?
You've always said don't apply too much, now you're saying 80-90 apps is not good enough?
Focus more on the right kinds of jobs and not the "throw it against the wall and see if anything sticks" method. The numbers are less important than the quality of the fit.
How many job applications do you recommend per month?
As a recruiter and former hiring director myself, I recommend None. There are better strategies that can yield higher success in your job search, such as networking!
@@RitaBaroody I believe this is part of the problem. Building out a viable network is extremely taxing, especially for people who work in tech and already need to devote a lot of free time in learning new technologies. Now you have to spend hours every day on a social aspect after working 8 hours and then studying for whatever new skill is needed at work. And then find 4 - 6 hours every day to sleep. Just no. Networking has never worked for me. Being the best candidate for the job has 100% of the time. Maybe you have only hired people you know, but I've never been able to get a friend or colleague of mine hired at any place I've worked because there are better candidates. YMMV, I guess.
Agreed it takes some time. It can help to identify the best targets to network with vs just anyone. Sometimes the process is draining and taxing, and the coachees/professionals I work with are not dedicating hours each day rather staying more strategic and only committing a specific time. Also, leveraging recruiters and mentors can help connect you more efficiently as well.
ALL great points though that you make and I have seen be a huge struggle for others.@@fuckshit8208
Also, now AI bots are ruining a professional's chance of being considered as the hiring company looks at '200-500' applications and more than half could be from bots, and so now the hiring company is not as excited to go through all of these applications.
There's no "right" amount. The market will partially determine the volume - find the right jobs to apply to. In an active job search, you'll want to apply to as many as you reasonably qualify for.
@@RitaBaroody Isn’t it too late to build a network when you are out of work? It seems like that sort of structure needs to be in place _before_ you need to use it. (Why would anyone influential want to network with someone who does not immediately have anything to offer in return?)
You use AI to generate keywords for jobs you want to
You got one of the best stock intros ever lol jk
I was thinking the same the other day when watching a diff video of his 😂😂
Well why don't you make a video intro since it's so easy?
@@blueballedtech there is actually a complement in what I’m saying if you listen real carefully! 😉 it’s just packaged as a joke!
@@eggjewla idk why it took me so long to actually have the thought lol
With todays technology they can åay for background checks, check your finances etc. That is crazy to me. There are even companies who provide services to check peoples finances etc
And if you have a felony, it makes it even more difficult.
< 10% qualified? if the job wants 45 years of experience and a phD and MD and JD, then yea there's gunna be lots of unqualified applicants, even worse when you accumulative a couple generations that haven't have the ability to develop/learn/gain that experience, weird situation, seems like in the future there's not going to be any qualified people available
Recruiters are not with it. They know nothing on the job. They ask to much digging on age!
as an internet troll with over 20 years of experience, imma give you the solution that actually works for everyone. got no experience? bad resume? no problem! just go full NEET and dont even apply to anything! grow your own food and find some goods you can flip over the internet and boom, good pay, no boss, no HR bullshit. THEN apply for a few jobs and treat those recruiters like shit. they are usually women so they love that. they ask something like "why do you think you would be a good fit for this company", you reply with "why are you not in the kitchen". they ask you to tell something about yourself, tell them you got a 10 incher up and ready for them. because fuck all that. everyone should just quit and be his/her own boss
Now that's how you do it!
As a person with an art & design title, having a portfolio is crucial. I tossed every single resume that did not provide me a portfolio for any creative job I have hired for. It’s sad to think people expect to get hired when they can’t even follow basic criteria.
500+ applicants? Frivolous applications not even slight qualified? What if it cost $1 for every application? Spammers will slow down while honest people putting out only one or two maybe three per week can afford that. Or some sort of fine or minor legal whack on those who indiscriminately spray resumes all over? This is similar to problems with spam emails in the past. Today we have filters to snuff out most of the junk.
Weeeellll, the problem is in part the fault of the EMPLOYERS. They are using AI to screen applications. An application may have a perfectly qualified candidate that for technical reasons doesn't pass the ATS. Whereas an unqualified candidate may be able to slip through ATS. If HR is only looking at about 10% of the resumes, they are to blame when candidates are rejected for NO GOOD REASON. And I'm not paying SQUAT for a 10% opportunity to have my resume even read.
Where do your information, @ruthmariehicks? I'd love to see the source.