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😱BULL SHIFT – Foreign Experience or a Foreign Degree Does Not Mean No Experience and No Interviews | Perth Resume Writers

I just had a lot of people in my Private Career Mentoring Group (Perth Resume Writers) – http://bit.ly/securinginterviews have been letting me know that they cannot secure interviews in Australia because they DO NOT HAVE ANY LOCAL OR AUSTRALIAN PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE.

This is BS!!!!

I told them you need a BULL SHIFT!!!

Let me tell you a story of my past client Latip.

Latip was a successful engineer at HP in Singapore.

This guy also went to Scotland to do his engineering degree.

He came to Australia but could not secure a role as an engineer.

His thinking was that he didn’t have any local Australian experience and local qualifications.

Latip ended up taking up local trade qualifications …blue cards, white cards and any forms of cards possible.

This got him nowhere in 2 years!!!

When he got in touch with me, I did a BULL SHIFT on his mindset and told him he was awesome and did not have to worry about it.

Fast Forward 8 weeks he secured an interview.

Shortly after that, he was offered a Business Development Engineer Role at Pfizer a Global Pharmaceutical Company in Australia.

To Sum things up…….You Are Amazing and Awesome.

Don’t listen to lousy recruiters or HR advisors telling you to need local experience or local qualifications to secure professional roles.

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😱Why Free?!

Because I know how hard it was for me to secure a job in my field in a foreign country with no PR and no experience….and I know how beneficial this can be to you.

Trust me here’s no strings attached.

Just here to help.

I wish I had this support before which would have got me results faster.

☎️On the call, I will discuss with you the exact strategies used by my clients and how fast they secure interviews…within weeks and some in days …not months or years!!!

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Be Awesome, Be Grateful, Be Yourself
Sal

Danny Ali Testimonial | Inexperienced Oil and Gas Candidate Secures a Role at Technip in 2 weeks with Oz Resumes | Perth Resume Writers

Hi there, Sal here from Oz Resumes, Perth Resume Writers.

Here’s another awesome client, Danny Ali who has no experience in Oil and Gas but managed to secure a role at Technip in 2 weeks!

Check out her Video Interview Below.

Video Transcription:

[Sal] – So I just ask again, when you actually started when we did the resume for you and all the instructions on how to apply for. How long did it take you to show up in Technip after you got the resume and the instruction from us?

[Danny] – It’s probably like a half of a month.

[Sal] – Oh, just about like one month or half a month?

[Danny] – Half, half a month.

[Sal] – Half a month. So it means about like two weeks. That’s quick.

– Like a two weeks or three weeks, something like that.

– Awesome and then after they basically called you up, you had an interview and then, yeah, that’s it. Is that correct?

– Yeah they called me for the interview and then asked me to come to the interview. After that, finished the interview. They call me again and we talk about the other stuff about the salary and then, that I’m willing to be transferred to Lebua and all that other stuff.

– Yup, that’s good. So they actually went through with you like what your training will be like and everything else. So it’s an oil and gas company, Technip, and what will you be working there as?

– As an assembly test for to be hangar for chemistry in the offshore.

– I see, I see. So that’s good, so offshore job. Thanks so much for that.

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❇️Disclaimer: Sometimes getting a job is difficult. We help our clients overcome the mindset, difficulties, and burnouts to help them achieve results. Everybody is different which means results will differ from one person to another. If you want a “get a job quickly with no effort or work” please go somewhere else as we choose to help people who want to work for their success not demand it.

Nurul (HR Graduate) Gets a Job with Oz Resumes in Under 4 Weeks No Experience & During the Christmas Break! | Perth Resume Writers

Hi again, Sal here from Oz Resumes, Perth Resume Writers.

I’d thought I should share some exciting news about a recent client we helped out.

This is a client interview you’re going to want to watch…

Nurul (HR Graduate) Gets a Job with Oz Resumes in Under 4 Weeks with No Experience & During the Christmas Break!

Check out her Video Interview Below.

Video Transcription:

[Sal] – Ah, okay, everything’s good, okay.

All right, hi everyone.

This is Sal, I’m from Oz Resumes.

Just got an awesome client here who’s a recent graduate in HR and management from Curtin uni. She’s recently been offered a job in her field in HR after only working I think four weeks with us.

So Nurul, yes, tell us more about yourself.

[Nurul]- Hi Sal, I’m Nurul and I’m originally from Singapore.

I recently completed my Bachelors of Commerce majoring in HR and Management.

I was recommended to Sal from Oz Resumes by my cousin who is an engineer who also went through the same coaching with Sal.

So I started the coaching program with Oz Resumes on the 10th of December and today is the fourth of Jan and I got the job offer.

[Sal] – Yup, cool.

[Nurul] – That’s 25 days or just under four weeks for a job offer.

[Sal] – Awesome.

[Nurul] – In the first week, I had one email from a recruiter one call from company and a face to face interview and interview with another HR company, all from different companies.

[Sal] – Yep

[Nurul] – Yep.

I’m currently offered an HR role and being offered about 45k per year. I’m on a PR VISA but I’m on a work-related VISA.

[Sal] – Oh so you’re not on PR but you’re currently like on a graduate VISA kind of thing?

Is that correct?

Yeah Cool.

[Nurul] – Yeah.

[Sal] – Alright so just not to mislead anyone, everything like this, there was some work involved, I mean it’s not like a one-hit kill kinda thing that you are gonna get a job so could you tell us more about what was the work involved to get those interviews and the job offer?

[Nurul] – Yep, I had to send out quite a fair bit of applications daily, but it was to a certain targeted audience which got me the right kind of attention for the interviews and offers. It’s not a walk in the park and there was work involved but it was definitely worth it.

[Sal] – Awesome, well thanks Nurul for your time, it was a pleasure coaching you and having you on the program.

Cool thanks a lot.

[Nurul] – Thank you.

[Sal] – Thanks, alright!

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Part 1 – How to Secure Interviews with Applicants Who are More Qualified | Perth Resume Writers

Hi there, it’s Sal again one of your local Perth Resume Writers. Some of the fears that my clients have are if they apply for jobs and there are candidates who are more qualified than they are. This blog post will provide some solutions to this problem.

Know Yourself

As Sun Tzu’s book The Art of War would say, “Know Thyself” (I’m paraphrasing here lols). It is basically a competition between others so, it would be good to know what are your strengths and weaknesses. One way is to do an identity test or character analysis.

Identity Test

You can do this with a few free online tests like Myers Briggs or MyGeniustest.com by Roger Hamilton. Once you know what type of person you are it would be easier to hone into your strengths and turn your weaknesses around or spend time developing strengthening your weakness.

Resume

Everybody has qualifications and skills but it is how you write up your resume that shows value to the potential employer which will help them pick you out of the lot.

Write up your strengths and show the kind of return on investment (ROI) you are to your previous companies. What that means is, show them previous goals you have achieved in your previous job. What all business owners understand is ‘If I spend one dollar you can give me two dollars or more back”.

Here is one example of an ROI in a resume,

John worked in a tax accounting firm doing tax returns for the company’s clients. He introduced an excel spreadsheet with formulas which can tabulate faster calculations for an asset register. This spreadsheet saves time for the client, the firm and allows him to work on more clients portfolios.

This is an ROI as John has shown how he can increase productivity for himself, the firm’s clients and the firm.

Skills outside of the job

A hiring manager would see hundreds of resumes, so you have to stand out with something interesting. Even staking goods at a supermarket is something different if you word it to an ROI. What the hiring managers want to see is that you understand the value of your role and how you can contribute to the company.

Check out the next blog post where I will talk more about this topic!

Thank you for being you and Stay Awesome!

Regards
Sal

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Solving the Great Challenge of Getting More Calls for Interviews | Perth Resume Writers

Hi there, Sal here again, one of your local Perth Resume Writers. Today we are going to talk about a typical challenge one of my clients has asked me to address, How to Get More Calls for Interviews!

Let’s address the problem and provide some solutions for this challenge.

Problem – Not Getting More Calls for Interviews

Let’s break this problem or challenge into 2 parts. Part 1 – Getting Calls for Interviews and Part 2 – How To Get More Interview Calls. Then provide solutions for these problems.

Part 1 – Getting Calls for Interviews

Why is it that we are not getting calls for interviews. Let’s look at you like a product on a shelf in a store and needs to be sold. In order for a product or item in the store to be sold, there must be demand.

So what that means the product must be marketed or advertised to the correct audience who want and need to buy the item.

So back to being a person that wants more calls for interviews, we need to advertise or market ourselves more. How do we do that you ask? Easy. Apply for more jobs. Not just on job seeking websites but also, have more than one source of applying of getting your name or resume out there. Here are a few solutions to get the decision makers or hiring managers to pick up the phone and call you:

Solution 1 – Expression of Interests Emails

That’s right, send out expression of interests emails to the decision makers of the company. Just go to Google and search for <profession> <location> (e.g. Accountant Perth), then go through each website and copy the emails on the contact page.

Then send out your resumes, cover letter and a brief expression of interest message on your email.

Solution 2 – Snail Mail Your Resumes

As emails are getting a bit noisy these days you need to bypass the noise and get the attention of the decision maker. So again go to Google and search for <profession> <location> (e.g. Accountant Perth), then go through each website and grab the local address of the companies on the contact page. Print off a copy of your resume and cover letters and mail them out but the attention the letter to the ‘Hiring Manager’ or better yet the name of the CEO, Director or Decision Makers.

Solution 3 – Connect with Decision Makers and Hiring Managers on LinkedIn

As you have already gone on to Google to search for the companies you are sending these expressions of interests out to, you can also see the about us page to see who the decision makers of the companies are and then go to LinkedIn and search for the names of these executives to add them to your network. This will help trigger their memory when they see your expression of interest email and letter.

Solution 4 – Add Value to Facebook and LinkedIn Groups within your Profession

Join Facebook and LinkedIn groups that are relevant to your profession (e.g. Perth Accountants) and then contribute to any thread which you can solve a problem or comment to thank them for contributing the post if you find it helpful. These engagements create traffic to your Facebook and LinkedIn Profile. Make sure you have a pinned post on your Facebook and LinkedIn profile stating that you are looking for a job in your profession on your Social Media Cover or Banner photo section. This will prompt whoever (hopefully decision makers) to see that you are looking for a job and that will prompt them to call you or email. Make sure you have your email address and phone number (f you want them to call you) on the cover/banner photo so it will make them easy to contact you. The steps are also available in my last blog post on How To Get More Interviews by Listening & Providing Value

Solution 5 – Volunteer in Companies Related to Your Profession

You can also volunteer in firms (e.g. accountant if you are an accountant) so you can place something on your resume if you do not have any experience. There are times when that work experience would lead to a paying job. You can also volunteer at relevant organisations such as CPA Australia (if you are an accountant) or Engineers Australia (for Engineers) etc. Try out the local chambers of commerce or councils to see if you can help out there.

Solution 6 – Attend Career Fairs

Go to career fairs to get the directories of exhibitors and some name cards you can use to email or snail mail your expression of interest letters. See Solution 1 and 2 in this blog post.

Solution 7 – Attend Networking Events

There are usually free networking events on websites like meetup.com or eventbrite.com. Look for networking events that are industry related or job networking events. You can also go to your local chambers of commerce to see if there are any local networking events.

Solution 8 – Ask Around

Always ask people in your network if you can help out and let them know that you are looking for a position in your profession.

Part 2 – How To Get More Interview Calls

Easy, rinse and repeat solutions 1 to 8.
I hope this blog post has helped you, if not there is an anonymous survey link below for you to fill out and let me know what you want me to help you with (be specific).

Thank you for being you and Stay Awesome!

Regards
Sal

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How To Get More Interviews by Listening & Providing Value | Perth Resume Writers

Hi, it’s Sal your local Resume Writers in Perth. Thank you for dropping by my blog again.

Following up from my last blog post about How to Get More Interviews, we are going to focus more on How To Listen and Provide Value to actually help you get that job and bypass any interviews.

1- Where to Ask or Comment or Provide Value

Easy, just join LinkedIn and Facebook groups to the industry that you are working in. For example, if you are an accountant, hit the top of the search bar in Facebook then select Groups and then join the relevant groups.

2- What to Ask or Comment

Once you have been approved to join the group, start reading any comments and threads in the groups and comment to provide value.
Always start with thanking or acknowledging the person who started the thread or comment. Then provide some value by commenting to the thread. For example, if you are an accountant in the accountants Facebook group,” Agree with you XXX, I feel that having Charted Status or being a CPA is not necessary for solving XXX problem.”

Keep commenting and adding value to several Facebook and LinkedIn groups.

3- Connect – Add them on LinkedIn or Facebook

Once you see that there are replies to your comment, acknowledge them by first thanking them then add more value and also add them on Facebook or LinkedIn. Always drop the person a small message on messenger before adding them on Facebook. For example, “Thank you XXX for your comment earlier. I thought it would be great if you can accept my Facebook add request and let me be part of your awesome network.

Regards

Sal”

As you are unable to send a message on LinkedIn to the person you want to add unless you have a Premium LinkedIn profile, there will be a small message box that will allow you to add when you are about to add the person on LinkedIn. Type in the similar message as you would on Facebook. See above.

Once they accept your add request, always thank them.

4- Start a Conversation

Great now you are connected and have successfully networked professionally. Next step is to start a conversation and the best way of that is to ask a question that the other party may find useful. You can even ask them about the what problems their position that they need resolving.

It can be technical or personal if the other party is open to talking about it.

Always end the conversation with a question as this would encourage conversation. Conversations will usually end up with an Interview Conversion.

5- Ask to be Connected to other People in their Network

Now that you have built a conversation, added value and a brief relationship with this person on LinkedIn or Facebook, you can ask them if they can connect you with anyone that has any openings for the position that you are looking for.

Rinse and Repeat

That’s right Rinse and Repeat steps 1 to 5 in this blog post and you will start to get some results in a few days!

I hope you enjoyed the content in this post and hope you can let me know if it has been beneficial or was it crap and leave me some awesome feedback in this anonymous questionnaire.

Regards
Sal

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How to Get More Interviews | Perth Resume Writers

Hi again, Sal here. Thank you so much for dropping by to Oz Resumes in Perth. Here we are your Perth Resume Writers, Career Coach and job placement advisers.

I always get the question about how to get more interviews with my clients.

This blog post will tell you some applicable tips.

1 – Reach out to Decision Makers

At the end of the day the one who makes the decision of whether you get a job is a person or human being. So you need to reach out to that decision maker and make sure that he or she sees value in hiring you.

When I say value I mean there is a return on investment when they hire you. But there are several ways of getting in touch with these decision makers.

2 – Use several Ways of connecting to Decision Makers

LinkedIn is Free but if you invest in the sales navigator feature, it will allow you to really find these decision makers to a precision level (e.g. Job Title, Company, Industry, etc).

Letters

You can also choose to mail (yes mail), expression interest letters to the decision maker. Emails are too common these days, so you can opt to mail the hiring manager or CEO of the company your resume. You can also choose to track these letters from your local post office tracking service.

Email

Use email software such as Email hunter to track down specific email addresses of hiring managers or CEOs of a company you want to send your resumes to. It is a great email data scraping tool which allows you to input a domain/URL of a company and will scrape all the emails linked to that domain.

3 – Ask, Listen and Provide Value

Once you have the attention of these decision makers, set a time to meet up with them or chat or email them to ask how is it that you can provide value to them. Be it making a cup of coffee or helping out get information about a tender. The more you listen to the problems they have, the more problems you can learn to try to solve and provide value.

Stay tuned for the next blog post where I will go into more details about providing value to help you get more interviews and job offers.

Also, check out more value videos on interviews.
Regards

Sal

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How To Size Up Your Interviewers | Resume Writers Perth

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Hey, Sal here from Oz Resumes, Resume Writers Perth. Thank you so much for dropping by my blog today.

There have been a lot of questions that have been asked by my clients about profiling or even sizing up the interviewer before the interview. The reason they keep asking me this is because they want to be super prepared for the interview and not leave any chance of losing out or failing the interview.

Here are a few tips for me to share on how I help my clients size up the interviewers and come in prepared.

Check out their LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn helps you understand a bit more about the interviewers’ profile. When I say profile, you want to see if they are extroverts or introverts.

Extroverted LinkedIn Profile

An extroverted profile usually will have the interviewer’s picture with colour and a coloured background. Introverts tend to not want to show their face on LinkedIn or have a profile picture with no colour (black and white). You will also notice that the details of the LinkedIn profile are usually explained in a ‘dot-point’ format. It would have information about their experience and qualifications but will not be as detailed as an introvert’s profile.

Introverted LinkedIn Profile

As mentioned above, an introverted interviewer’s profile would usually have either no picture or have one with a black and white colour format. Sometimes there are introverted profiles with coloured profile pictures, but it will probably be those taken professionally from their company staff photo album. You will also notice that the introverted LinkedIn profile will either have not many details about their work or very detailed explanation of their experience and qualifications.

What to do now that you know if the interviewer is Introverted or Extroverted

Now that you know the interviewer is extroverted or introverted you have solved half the battle. The next step is to say the information that will resonate with them.

Extroverts

With extroverts, it is quite easy to build a relationship and in the interview. During the interview pay attention to what he is saying. Find something similar or commonality. For example, in my case, I was originally from Singapore and most interviewers or Australians would have visited Singapore. That is something to bring up at the interview. So when the extroverted interviewer hears that, it will trigger him or her to talk about his experience in or of Singapore. This is my little diversion tactic but also to leave an impression with the interviewer. He or she will remember me as ‘Oh that Singaporean guy’! But be aware and not to go overboard as sometimes you may get carried away and talking too much about your personal life and will leave a bad impression. Be tactful and just find that one common thing to talk about briefly and then go back to talking about the job.

Introverts

Introverts, on the other hand, you have to be focused on talking about the job details. You will need to talk about your experience relative to the position. So to keep things simple, memorise your resume.

Summary

In conclusion, keep it simple on sizing up your interviewers to extroverts and introverts. Hope this information has helped. Stay tuned for more useful tips on interviews!

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Why Having the Colour Blue on Your Resume is Important – Resume Writers Perth

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Hey, this is Sal again from Oz Resumes. Thank you for dropping by my blog. Here’s a quick transcription of my Video on ‘Why Having the Colour Blue on Your Resume is Important’ – Resume Writers Perth :

Hi there, this is Sal from Oz Resumes again. Thank you again for watching this video. Really appreciate your time. Today I’m just going to talk about tips on how to improve your resume, and to build trust so that people call you. So one of the most important things I realised, when I was testing out resumes for clients and myself, is colour.

Colour makes a difference

A certain specific kind of colour makes a difference. Obviously, you wanna have a majority of your resume in black and white, but the main headings, use blue. Facebook blue, specifically. When you say, “Why blue?” It’s like, oh, it doesn’t make sense.

Social Media Platforms – Blue

Okay, no, just beside testing, but if you look in real life, look at all these popular social media platforms. I’m not saying all social media platforms, I mean popular ones, like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. What colour are they? Blue. Why, because blue builds trust and it’s also a form of authority if you look at the police force, navy, blue again. And it’s been tested as well, psychologically, you look at the reasoning behind blue, blue is trust. So I would advise, in your resume, the first main thing that you wanna have, or fix up, is to change all the headings to a blue, and if you can, specifically Facebook blue. That so far has the highest conversions from all the resumes that we tested. Thank you again for watching this video.

This is Sal from Oz Resumes, hope to see you soon.

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How Do You Get Paid Doing Unpaid Work Experience – Perth Resume Writers

Hi This is Sal from Oz Resumes. Thank you for dropping my blog again.

Here are a few quick tips by our Perth Resume Writers and Job Recruitment Agencies on How to Get Paid while doing Unpaid Work Experience.

Transcript of the video down below:

Hi, this is Sal from Oz Resumes. Thank you again for watching this video, I really appreciate your time.

So I got a couple of questions that was asked to me because I recommend people do work experience and work for free, and some people have been messaging me, asking me questions, Oh, Sal, how do you work for free and also not get paid? I mean, it’s not practical, you know, I want to get paid.

I said, true, but you need to have experience, you need to put something on your resume, so here’s what you do when you are doing work experience for free but still want to be practical and earn a living: Get another job that pays, and when I say that, here’s a real-life scenario of how things work.

One of my friends that I was helping out early in the day, engineer, and he’s working security, and the other days he was doing two days’ work experience, like working for free in an engineering firm, so because of that two days he basically put that company as his work experience and kept on applying while he was working security the other three or four days, so he kept himself in a practical situation where he could still survive and money by working security on the four days or three days, if I’m not wrong, and the other two days he worked for free for this engineering firm, and then after that what he did was he kept applying for jobs while doing that for about a month or two, and because of that work experience, the two days that he sacrificed to work for free and worked with security the rest of the week, keeping himself afloat financially, you know, he got interviews and calls and offers, so what you want to do is obviously be practical, obviously you want to work in your profession if you can get a paid job, that’s great, but if you can’t, you need to put something there with experience, to do work experience for free. Another example is for me, myself, and my wife when I was here, I’m an international student so I didn’t have any accounting experience.

My wife, she’s an engineer, but she didn’t have any Australian accounting experience, so what we did was I was the guy that was working security just to make ends meet every day, spit shoes, so we could pay the rent food and all that jazz while she did work experience for an engineering firm. Then when after that within a few months she got placed in a paid engineering position because of that work experience. I needed one, decided to start myself out and get myself a job as an accountant, so that’s how you do. Be practical, obviously you want to do work experience for free, but do something else, working in Macca’s or whatever security, whatever part-time job, cleaning, to keep yourself afloat, but at least when you have work experience, it’s leverage that you can use in your resume, and it will attract more potential employers to call you for interviews.

Thanks again for watching this video. Sal from Oz Resumes, I really appreciate your time here.

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