TRU Tips | August 2023

The TRU Staffing Partners Hot Jobs newsletter provides readers with a weekly tip for our professionals and hiring managers in the data privacy, ediscovery, and cybersecurity spaces. With more than 12 years of experience in staffing and recruiting for our industries, our TRU Tips are relevant and crucial for anyone hiring or job hunting in our communities.

August 2nd, 2023

Expertise doesn't always trump preparation when job searching.

Top 3 tips for out-of-work job seekers:

1. Resume advice from generalists is often counterintuitive to what hiring managers are looking for on paper.
   The quality and caliber of your interview may have more to do with you getting a job than the quality and caliber of your talents getting or not getting a job.
2. Negotiating on behalf of yourself requires compromise, being reasonable, having industry market intelligence data points, and courage.Resume advice from generalists is often counterintuitive to what hiring managers are looking for on paper.
3. The quality and caliber of your interview may have more to do with you getting a job than the quality and caliber of your talents getting or not getting a job.
   Negotiating on behalf of yourself requires compromise, being reasonable, having industry market intelligence data points, and courage.

August 9th, 2023 

If you’re reaching out to hiring managers or agencies on LinkedIn and your outreach sounds like it has been copied and pasted, it probably won't get you the response you want. Aim for a more personalized message.

Top 3 ways to avoid your LinkedIn outreach reading like a “copy/paste” template:

1. Use the person's actual name: “Hi Jane” versus “Hello.”

2. Add specifics about the company or role in the outreach. Make it about them, not you.

3. Ask a question — you might just get an answer.

    

August 16th, 2023

75% of job seekers are accepting the first offer they are extended (compared to 92% Q2 2023 and 55% Q2 2022).

Top 3 tips for crafting your resume:

1. Drop the objective & use the summary.

2. Use power verbs & adjectives.

3. Your most recent experience should be the lengthiest & most detailed. 

August 23rd, 2023

18% of TRU contractors have been asked and accepted conversion to full-time employees in June and July. (Compared to 0% in Q2 2023).

Top 3 ways to recalibrate the purpose of bringing people into the office:

1. Throw out cubicles. If you’re at the office, be with other people.
   

2. Lunch gets ordered in, everyone eats together. Breaking bread is part of building culture.

3. Gamify the day: Each in-office day should have an objective.

August 30th, 2023

Online job descriptions are like a wish list of what the dream candidate would look like and are not always meant to reflect reality. Don't let a job description deter you from applying if your experience doesn't match every bullet point.

Top 3 ways to use online job searching tools:

1. Information gathering for job opportunities.

2. Curating an online presence.

3. Role & candidate research.