From the course: Working with Recruiters to Get a Job
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When you're making a career pivot
From the course: Working with Recruiters to Get a Job
When you're making a career pivot
- When you're making a career pivot, you probably don't have a lot of experience in that field that you're trying to shift into or if you do it's not very current, that is why they call this a career pivot. As such recruiters might have a hard time convincing their clients to consider you among the top contenders. Now, this isn't to say you shouldn't consider making a career pivot not at all, but I want to encourage you to think about this through the perspective of that recruiter and of the hiring manager. It's like this, if you're the recruiter, you're trying to move very quickly and fill that position fast. You've got a commission on the line and you're only going to earn it if you beat everybody else to find that winning candidate. Likewise, if you're a hiring manager, you really want that recruiter to dish up just a diamond of a candidate, somebody who's really obvious of a fit for that role. I mean that's what…
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