The Modern Candidate

How to be a “Modern Candidate”!

The Modern Candidate Tool Chest

Today’s modern candidate needs to be equip more than ever to face the increased competition of the current job market. We know how challenging the market is right now and we have responded with our “Retooling the Modern Candidate” course. This course is designed around giving you the edge that you need to effectively promote and present yourself to increase your chances of success.

1. Social Networking

This is a must tool for any modern Candidate. We cover these platforms in detail during our course, assisting our participants in setting up and maximizing the effectiveness of their use.

LinkedIn, Twitter, Xing – these sites are a “must” for the Modern Candidate

Beware of publishing information that is too personal or that you would not want a perspective employer to see. That last multi keg party photo gallery is best left in your private website, rather a public platform!

2. Spice up your CV

a. Portray Achievements: Don’t mess up your resume only describing job responsibilities. Include your achievements and the unique work in your career you have done.

b. Give References: If you are buying a product online you would go in for a product which has a lot of good testimonials / customer reviews. You can apply the same logic to your resume it sure works. Take out recommendations from sites like LinkedIn, Performance reviews or customer ‘thank you’ letters and add them on your resume.

c. Uniqueness About You: Try to contact your previous employers and ask for your skills which make you unique. Look for some common occurrences and try to get an idea what your targeted employers are looking for. Keeping in mind the unique skills, try to include them in your CV.

d. Personal Branding: If you have blog, Twitter profile, you can always mention them on your resume. This will add more credibility to your profile. Every employer will feel this and this process may rank your resume high among other job applicants.

e. Don’t Use Objective: Instead of an objective giving out possibilities you can start your resume with how your skills can add value to the organization that recruits you.

f. Your Work Approach: Portray to employers how you approach your work. Instead of the traditional work terms use words like you have the ability to understand, build relationships, have knowledge, and organize. This will add more meaning to your resume.

g. Describe Your Personality: Some people use resumes of others and revise them instead make your resume more practical and a documents which describes your personality rather exaggerating.

h. Get Resume Verified: Over 45% resumes contain false statements or misrepresentations. Aware that bad hires cost businesses billions of dollars in losses every year, 86% of recruiters in a recent survey done by Crederity prefer to review resumes listing credentials that have been verified. Check your resume using our service offerings. Get a special offer in our Frog Community.

3. Get training and coaching

Don’t treat the time between jobs as “Down Time”. Use this time to sharpen your presentation and communication skills! This is the best time to focus on yourself and by doing so, your market worth to your next employer.

We are happy to support you with. Check out our various offers or the dates for our next courses in the Frog Community.

4. The “Video CV”

The Video CV is the new Business Card for candidates. It summarizes who you are, what you do and what you are looking for in an easy to distribute format that HR departments and hiring managers are increasingly embracing as the best way for them to get a first impression of the candidate. Take advantage of our special offerings in the Frog Community and get your own Video CV.