Click on that word and it will take you to the Advanced People Search function of LinkedIn.

You'll see a Search bar at the top of most LinkedIn pages. Navigate to the Advanced People Search page on LinkedIn. Here's how to use LinkedIn to find your hiring manager's name. If you can't find your own hiring manager, write to the head of your function inside your target employer - the CMO, CFO or CTO, for instance. If you try for a while and can't find the exact person's name, go up the organization chart.ĭon't write to the CEO, who has a fearsome administrator ready to throw your carefully-written Pain Letter straight back into the same Black Hole you were trying to avoid. When the organization is even a little bit smaller, it's fairly easy to find your hiring manager. It's difficult to do when the hiring organization is IBM or some other enormous corporate behemoth where hundreds of people share the same titles. In our research we are able to find the hiring manager's name about ninety percent of the time. Use the career and money advice in The Millennial Game Plan to get and stay ahead for good. The Forbes eBook To Succeed In A Brutal Job Marketĭon’t let a rotten economy spoil your goals. The address is easy - it's the company's location.Įven if your hiring manager works from home, once you send your Pain Letter and Human-Voiced Resume to the organization's headquarters or their facility in your town, they'll route your letter to the correct manager because his or her name will be written front and center on your envelope. This means that you've got to identify your hiring manager by name, and get his or her street address. You're going to send your Pain Letter in the same envelope with and stapled to your Human-Voiced Resume. You're going to send your Pain Letter straight through the mail to your hiring manager's desk, avoiding the Black Hole recruiting portal completely. No CFO in his right mind would approve the funds to hire a new staff member unless something was very broken.

If there were no pain, there wouldn't a job opening. It might be runaway turnover on the staff, or an inventory system that's so bollixed up no one can tell how much inventory is on the shelves.

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