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How to pump up your career
Networking can open all the right doors
Sunday, January 13, 2008

http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/base/business-8/1200202523269900.xml&coll=1

Allison Brinkman, an account manager with Eisen Management Group, a mid-size Cincinnati public relations firm, credits TV talk show host David Letterman with getting her a new job.

When she graduated from college, Brinkman faced the challenge of finding her first job. Asked during a job interview what she could bring to the company, she responded with a prepared Letterman-style Top 10 list, ending with the No. 1 reason for hiring her: that "she wouldn't stop bugging him until he gave her the job."

That tenacious approach got Brinkman hired.

If you want a new job, you have to find a positive way to stand out from the other candidates. Contrary to popular belief, there is usually no one candidate who is clearly more qualified than all the rest. Everyone who gets beyond an initial screening interview can probably do the job.

Employers are too busy to waste their time interviewing unqualified candidates. What gets someone hired is that they are more likable, fit in better with the corporate culture, wow the interviewer with some particular success or simply focus more on what is important to the person making the hiring decision.

Before you can bowl over the interviewer, however, you have to get in the door. Most people miss out on great jobs because they are never even in the running for those positions. It is unlikely you are going to get your next job by posting your résumé on the Internet or searching the job boards.

[Read the full article here: http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/base/business-8/1200202523269900.xml&coll=1 ]