Quality not Quantity – Applying for Jobs

I had a great interview this morning with a company called Liaison that provides insourcing – onsite marketing and creative services for large clients. It’s a fantastic concept that can supply a company with a few creative team members or an entire marketing department and serves to keep overhead low and keep more people employed.

I think it’s the perfect solution for marketers during this tough economy and a nice alternative to hiring a hoity toity MARCOM agency – but that’s a post for another time.

During the course of the interview, the guy I was interviewing with asked me how my job search was going. He didn’t want specifics, he just wanted to know if I had any other opportunities and a general overview of the job market.

I told him that interviews are hard to come by, but that’s partly my own doing, because I don’t apply for jobs that I’m not genuinely interested in. It’s a waste of my time and the recruiter’s time if I arbitrarily apply for every job with “marketing” in the title.

In the long run, you only serve to disappoint yourself when you think of how many applications you’ve submitted with NO response and your resume just ends up getting in the pile with every other applicant that’s doing the same thing!

I had mentioned that I was a blogger, and he said that I had to blog that. As a recruiter, he wanted more job applicants to know that the job search is about quality, not quantity.

Take the time to submit quality applications to jobs that you’re genuinely interested in and qualified to perform and you’ll increase your chances of finding that perfect job fit.

That’s this job-seeker’s tip for the day, straight from a recruiter!

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