From the course: Switching Your Career
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Understand the hiring manager
- Here's a secret. For managers, the hiring process is actually not about selection, it's about elimination. When you understand hiring from the manager's side, you have a unique advantage. While you can't control what others think, having insight into your audience's pain points and needs can inform your behavior, which can change the outcome of an interaction. You can better anticipate and neutralize potential objections as a non-traditional candidate. So let's flip our perspective and step into the mind of a hiring manager to understand their biggest concerns related to career switchers, and more importantly, how you can overcome them. First, managers hate hiring as much as candidates hate the job search. They do. It's time-consuming and takes them away from their busy day jobs. Once you realize this, you can understand that you have a huge advantage if you make it simple for them to choose you. Do the heavy lifting for them by understanding their concerns and clearly showing them…
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