• Cooper Kearns - From Fired to Hired and Life as a Recruiter!

  • Jul 14 2020
  • Length: 40 mins
  • Podcast

Cooper Kearns - From Fired to Hired and Life as a Recruiter!

  • Summary

  • 0:00 Intro
    0:23 Welcome, Cooper Kearns!
    0:48 Cooper Kearns introduces herself
    1:38 You got Rehired!
    2:19 How did you cope with the layoff when it initially happened?
    4:07 What were some strategies you employed or planned to use during your layoff?
    6:35 Value of Posting that your open to new opportunities
    7:00 What does the company you work for do? Who do they staff?
    7:42 How is the marketing / creative industry surviving during this covid job crunch?
    8:15 Digital Marketing and Digital Advertising have seen steady opportunities!
    8:55 What are some things you look for in people trying to get a job in the digital marketing and digital advertising world?
    9:12 Certifications are beneficial for the digital space
    9:58 What's the hot certification right now?
    10:47 Is there a cost associated with those certifications you mention?
    11:20 Anyone can pass a test, what can people do beyond getting a certification to help drive their marketability and show proficiency?
    12:37 Showing metrics is a good driver and shows comprehension
    13:08 Portfolios are key but make it clean, up-to-date, and match your resume.
    13:55 Any cool tools that people are using to showcase their work?
    14:50 What's something you would like them to stop doing?
    16:27 Are you direct placement or contract to hire?
    16:45 Contract to hire route can be a faster path to a job.
    17:20 Contract to hire is a little scary to some people
    17:39 I flipped a job from Contract to hire to full time during the interview process
    19:00 I've seen similar situations where people converted a contract to hire offer to a full-time offer.
    19:18 Do adding all the statistics in my resume have value? Should I be including them?
    21:37 Frustration with companies passing because resumes are missing data
    22:07 What is the right size for a resume nowadays?
    24:48 How important are those items at the bottom of your resume, the clubs, references, extra activities, etc.
    28:35 Is there a format for your resume which can make it pop? 
    29:31 What is the most important part of someone's resume?
    29:55 Experience and consistent professional format, of course!
    30:40 Attention to detail goes a long way.
    32:21 What are some pointers you can provide to people for those first-round interviews?
    34:19 Come prepared with questions at the end!
    35:35 What question do you wish candidates would ask more?
    36:12 What's a question you wish they would stop asking?
    37:06 what was the last thing Cooper bought off Amazon
    38:01 How does someone get a hold of Cooper Kearns?

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