Have you ever noticed how applying for jobs online just seems to waste so much time, and rarely, if ever gets you a response. If you need to see the response rate go up, and actually want to score an interview or more from all of the online job applications that you submit, these five critical suggestions will make that BIG difference for you.

1. Five Critical Elements
For Getting Your
Online Job
Applications Noticed

2. Have you ever noticed how applying for
jobs online just seems to waste so much
time, and rarely, if ever gets you a
response.
If you need to see the response rate go
up, and actually want to score an
interview or more from all of the online
job applications that you submit, these
five critical suggestions will make that
BIG difference for you.

3. The Job Search Field Has Changed
You have to know and understand that
the Job Search tactics that worked 10
years ago, don’t work today. Even the
ones that may have worked a year or
two ago, are now floundering. The Job
Search environment has changed that
much!

4. The thing that has changed the most is
how employers use the Internet to
collect, sort, and manage potential
employees. For many jobs the
competition is extreme, there may be
thousands or tens of thousands of job
applications for the job or jobs you are
interested in.

5. While it is true that a good resume can
make a huge difference in this endeavor,
it isn’t the only factor. Below are some
elements that will make your application
noticed and will get you more responses
than you have ever had in the past.

6. Keywords
When you fill out an online job
application, the application ends up in an
online database. Employers pull
applicants out of the database through
methods that are much like a Google
Search. They select specific criteria and
“search” the database for the right
applicants. If you understand this, you
will understand that you cannot make
much progress towards getting an
interview with a generic resume.

7. You will need to look at the job
description and make sure that the
keywords that describe the job can be
found in your resume and application.
The database robots will pull up the
applications with the most keywords
found. If the keywords aren’t found in
your application, then yours will not
bubble-up to the top of the list of job
applicants looked at for the job.

8. It is really that simple. Insert the
keywords liberally in your resume and
application for the maximum opportunity
of being noticed.

9. Currency
If the left-overs in the refrigerator are
over a week old, do you eat them, or
throw them away? Well, the same can be
said of the online job profiles on Monster
or Careerbuilder. Your resume and profile
are sorted in order of newest to oldest in
the database searches, after the initial
keyword matching.

10. If your is more than a week old, it looses
it’s front page ranking and begins to slide
down in the results. After a couple of
weeks, it may not even be on a page that
potential employers will look at.
 You want employers and recruiters to
find your profile and resume, so you will
have to update it weekly. The easy way
to do this is select a sentence in the
resume that is easy to rewrite.

11. Save the original sentence, then create a
rewritten sentence that says about the
same thing. Once a week, pull up your
profile, and exchange the the sentence
with the version that you rewrote, or go
back to the original, alternating each
week.
This will have your resume updated each
week and keep you on the top of the
employer’s and recruiter’s search results.

12. Follow Up
I’m reminded of a story of a man who
bought a lottery ticket. He was scolded
by his wife, derided by fellow workers,
and so he put the ticket away in a safe
place and forgot about it. After his death,
his children found the ticket, and found
that his number had hit, and that he had
left thousands of dollars unclaimed.

13. Now, I don’t condone buying lottery
tickets, but, if you have already gone
through the trouble of doing the work--
you might as well follow up and see what
the end result was!
This is the piece of the job search puzzle
that most people leave out. It can be the
one thing that actually gets you noticed,
the one thing that changes everything in
your job search.

14. After submitting your job application
online, in a few days, call the main desk
of the hiring company.
Ask for the person that accepts the job
applications for the job that you applied
for, and ask them if they received your
application.

15. Take one more step and tell them that
the job application engines haven’t
always been kind to your resume, ask if
you can send a resume by email directly
to this person that is in charge of
receiving the job applications, and be
sure to get one to him or her
immediately.

16. You are getting to know someone who is
involved in the hiring process at this
company, and you are getting your name
and perhaps your resume in front of that
person.
You will have made great strides in this
new job search environment just by
getting to this point. But, don’t stop here.

17. Follow up in a week or so, ask if the job
has been filled. If it has, ask if another
one like it is likely to open up.
You may not get the job that you applied
for, but you may be on the top of the list
for the next opportunity.

18. Network Support
Do you want to drastically improve your
odds of being hired? It has been
estimated that people who have contacts
within a company, that will recommend
them, are four to ten times more likely to
be hired. But, finding someone in the
company to recommend you might seem
difficult to impossible. However, a social
network that caters to job seekers and
employers, may be of help in this
particular endeavor.

19. The network is called LinkedIn. If you
aren’t on LinkedIn yet, you need to get
there. If you are there, you just may be
able to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
Do a people search, and search for the
company name in the search bar on the
LinkedIn site. Perhaps filter your results
to your surrounding area so there aren’t
too many to sort through.

20. You will see a list of people in LinkedIn
that work at the company you have
applied for. Hopefully, one of them are in
your network.
Perhaps they aren’t on your first level, so
you don’t have direct access to their
email address, but use the LinkedIn tools
to contact them through the people that
you know.

21.  If you have a friend that has a friend
that works for the company, that is proxy
for knowing someone that works there,
and if the friend of the friend wouldn’t
mind passing your resume along, or
turning in your name to HR, then you
have improved your odds of being
considered for the job by leaps and
bounds.

22. Incorporate the above elements into your
online job application process today and
see what a difference it makes. For Job
Search Rules and Natural Laws that cut
through the digital clutter of today’s
competitive environment and land you
your next great job refer to
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