Hey awesome reader!
Do you ever wonder why all you get or mostly get is a rejection? Aren't you good enough? Aren't you standing out well? Do you need to work more on your skills? And a lot more questions regarding why you keep getting a rejection!!
Regardless of your career path, I believe you're really doing your best to secure the job, position, internship, contract, and so on! But do you really think something is wrong with your ending up with rejections?
Having asked yourself these questions, I will be sharing with you ideas that can help you stand out and ways you keep to in successfully securing that role, position, or internship!
Before I go on! Know that you just found yourself a piece of gold! What would you do with it? It's left to you! But I would advise you to take part in this discussion by sharing your thoughts and opinions in the comment sections!!
Quick Questions And Important Information About Applications
- Do you ever think you stand out in every application review? Open applications to roles, scholarships, and other opportunities from various organizations receive thousands of applicants! Have you ever imagined if the recruiters read and review every single resume uploaded? Yes! You may feel you have said more than enough about yourself and your skills in your resume! At this point, do you think your resume got to the front desk of the recruiters?
Why wouldn't your resume get to the front desk? In cases where there's no application fee levied on your applications(most application fees are meant to sum up for recruiters! By that is relieving to them they are getting pay in return), there are tools used to filter resumes uploaded by applicants! Do you think your resume made it through the filtering process?? Most recruiters filter the resumes to match certain keywords(stacks, skills that match what they are looking for).
- What are you bringing to the table? Do you ever consider the things you will like to contribute to the team or the organization if you're selected?
Approaches To Securing The Perfect Role/Position
- Making Connections: Agree with me that your network can judge your net worth and your chances of getting opportunities! Do you know applicants send recruiters privates messages and build good relationships?
Make networks with people already at your desired organizations! Do you know there are direct hires too? Which doesn't require you submitting application forms but might require directing technical tests and a faster mode of hiring!
Your connections with internal people from these organizations will give you chances of learning about changes and immediate openings!
- Have a Solid Online Presence / Profile: Your public profiles and your public activities should talk more about your recent and most updated skills! Talk more about what you're building, things you're doing, impacts you're making!! Believe me, there are lots of people seeing you!
It's called the internet! Very wide and spacious for everyone to be seen and noticed! Sharing update about the things you do and your projects may get the attention of these organizations! The project you just talked about might be the next feature they are thinking of implementing!
You wouldn't be surprised when these organizations start reaching out to you personally on how you can be useful to the team! Or how you can make an impact working with them!
- Self Confidence: Agree with me that you don't need to know about every single technology to get a role at these firms! You only need the confidence to make it work!
You should always be ready to learn new things when you're considering a position! Forget about whatever it is you know! Whenever you are in the new tech space, it's always different approaches to the way they do things, the way they deploy their codes, their methods, and so on! You must be ready to learn new things!
I would like to share my experience with you all on I worked on my first ever real-life project built with PHP and MySQL! I had no prior knowledge about PHP and it's usage! The project was built in weeks and used by thousands of people! You might be thinking if that was easy? It wasn't! But I was confident enough to take up the task and learn something new!
Organizations are interested in smart people! You need to prove that you're really smart!
Another thing you should always know is that there's no tech expert who claims to know about every technology! You should never be worried about technology! Try to ask people and make researches! There is documentation with the best approaches to be used for each tech!
Equip yourself with the ability to make researches and find solutions! 70% of the problems you encounter have their solution published online somewhere! But you will only find them when you research your problems!
- Reaching Out To These Organizations Personally: A have a conversation with a user on Jumpstart.me A recruiting platform where you have to make up your profile and keep it updated as you can and be able to apply to roles from organizations in just a click!
A user shared how she keeps reaching out to organizations daily! Reaching out to organizations she's interested in!
The conversation went as:
Me:"Hey Christina,
Read your comment about find companies and personal emails daily, send these people personal emails!
How has it been so far with you?"
Christina:"I am on day 5. So I take a good amount of research into what organizations I would want to work with. I am not just applying to jobs because it will be a job for me. I google top companies in tech, non-profits, or etc. Whatever your field of interest. Then I will spend time finding who might be in charge of recruiting and email them personally. If you have a hard time finding the emails you can find them on hunter.io
These are really helpful tools and people usually are really helpful. Email back and point you in the direction of someone who can use your skills. So far I am on day 5. That is 15 emails. I have received 4 emails back and some LinkedIn connections. I am having a hard time because I am a transitional career person and my degree doesn't really relate to my skill set. I am hopeful so I will just keep looking. Linkedin is a great place to look at jobs and companies but I wouldn't rely on applying via those automated systems. I hope that helps!
Cheers,
Christina Keys"
To understand the conversation better, Christina intends in sending or writing 3 emails directly to the organizations she's interested in daily! That sounds like a great approach! It really is!! This helps you make research about the organization ahead and learn about ways you can contribute to the organization! With that, you know the things to include in your emails.
- APPLY APPLY APPLY: Nithinaray - An IOS developer at Twitter shared on a Podcast(#ShowupStandout): "You miss 100% of the opportunities you don't apply to"! There's no chance of getting an offer if you don't apply! Even if they accept only one person, that person could be you. So why not apply?
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- Resume Formatting: The best format to submit your resumes is in PDF formats! Making sure your Resume is well structured from your contact info to your skills, to education, and the rest! Proper structuring of your resume makes it easy for automated tools and programs to read through and successfully filter the required information needed!
Conclusion
This is an open discussion! Your thoughts and opinions are welcomed! What other approaches do you think will increase your chances of getting that position? How have you tackled rejections?
It's never cool to feel rejected for roles you think you're a great fit! You're really doing your best! You're the best! You need high self-esteem and confidence in this labor market! Tell the world you're the right person for that role!
Things you should know! These top developers have applied to hundreds of positions and get rejected too! A very minimal number will reach out to them for technical tests and maybe just 2 organizations will end up offering a position! Do not feel stressed when rejected! It's a chance to work more on yourself and try again! At that point, your price just increased!!
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Top comments (2)
What if my project doesn't get used by hundreds of people? Should I talk about them on my LinkedIn anyway, or does that look like bragging (because I assume everyone has these not-a-lot-of-user projects anyway?)
I will personally advise you to talk about the projects you're working on! Share them on your LinkedIn! Tweet about them! Write about them! You don't know which of your projects your desired company is interested in! But please note: be very careful about your personal projects you share before it's launched!! The purpose of me advising you to share some of these projects is to showcase your skills! Try and opensource your projects and people can either learn from it or help you out on them!
Now I hope you get the point of you sharing your projects! Know the projects you're sharing! Maybe don't share your multimillion idea project yet! Share other projects that will prove your skills!! Prove your skills!! Prove it!!