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By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

Click here if the video does not play properlyWhat should I do when I haven’t found a job 8 months after graduation?

What should I do when I haven’t found a job 8 months after graduation?

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“So the first thing I would say is you’re doing something wrong. Understand that you’re doing something wrong and start looking at correcting it. Here’s the formula that I tell people: you’re not going to get many calls or contacts out of LinkedIn because a recent grad is a dime a dozen. But I’m going to present this in a way that’s general so that experienced workers will get something from my answering this question too.

If you’re not getting responses to your resume, you’re either sending it for jobs that you’re not qualified for, or it doesn’t demonstrate a fit, which means it’s a bad resume. If you’re not getting contacted by people on LinkedIn – and again, this doesn’t apply to a recent grad – if you’re not getting contacted by recruiters through LinkedIn, your profile is missing keywords and thus it’s not coming up in searches.

If you’re getting first interviews but not invited back, you don’t interview well. If you get invited back but you’re not getting invited to meet the hiring manager, you probably have to work on your area of expertise since that tends to be what happens on the second interview; they go into more depth about your knowledge. If you’re getting to the hiring manager, the overall boss, and not getting any further, you’re having a problem with relationship skills, which probably isn’t happening with you. But for a more experienced person, you’re probably getting intimidated in your meetings with them and not presenting yourself as an equal in the conversation. The one thing that I know that senior professionals care about is they want to make sure that they can trust you, and the easiest way to do that is to talk to them as a peer.

Now back to our grad who’s been out of work for eight months: you may have a skills deficiency; you may be sending out your resume to the wrong firms. I would say that the best thing that you can do is contact other graduates from the school that you attended who are in the same degree program as you and ask them how they got their job and see if there’s anything at their firm. I would go back to the university, to the career services office, and ask for input from them. I wouldn’t hire a coach. You probably can’t afford a coach and a coach isn’t going to be relevant for you. But you can go back and network with people that you went to school with, who are graduates who are further along, a year or two ahead of you. Talk to them about how they found work. Talk to career services. Ask the more experienced grads how they landed and work at that. Your network has to be able to help you.“

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ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves career coaching, all as well as executive job search coaching, job coaching, and interview coaching. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1900 episodes, and is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council.

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