Thursday, October 24 - "Which Apps Should I Tailor?"

Good morning!

Just checking in you. How are you doing today?

Here’s what’s on the job description for today:

1. New roles from a global technology and management consultancy.

2. Amir asks, “I don’t have the time or energy to tailor every application. Which ones should I do that for?”

IN HIRING

Capco

• With a main focus on financial clients, this company provides solutions to five segments: capital markets, banking and payments, insurance, asset and wealth management, and energy.

• With 591 open roles, Capco is among the fastest hiring consulting companies available in the space.

• Here are a few of the most interesting roles available:

  • Project Manager / Business Analyst - Wealth and Asset Management - Click here for full details

  • Project Manager / Business Analyst - Banking Change - Click here for full details

  • Management Consultant - Technology - Click here for full details

Click here for the company’s career page

TODAY’S QUESTION

Amir asks, “I don’t have the time or energy to tailor every application. Which ones should I do that for?”

Recommendation: this is how I would balance applying to the right number of roles and the number of tailored applications if I was you:

• First, I’d want to make sure my resume tailoring is actually working. Am I getting interviews from the jobs I apply to cold or the jobs I send tailored applications to? If I’m not getting substantially more interviews from the roles I send the higher quality applications to, it may be worth exploring how good my job of adapting it to the job description actually is.

  • I would focus on trying to get good at making sure one of the most recent positions shows a lot of relevance to the responsibilities highlighted on the role description.

• Second, decide what type of role you would like enough to do for 5 years, if given the opportunity. What characteristics are most important to you such as title, pay, company brand, learning, industry, whatever. Then create a best-case scenario, where the job is perfect, a neutral-case where the job is good but not ideal, and worst-case which fits everything you wouldn’t take or be a fit for at all.

• Finally, aim to tailor all the roles or as many roles as possible from the best-case scenario pool.

  • Time and energy permitting, send cold applications to the neutral-case scenario pool. No need to apply to the last bucket, as other activities such as sleep, being outside, or networking would add more value.

  • Most importantly, find a pace of applications that doesn’t burn out. If you set yourself up to do 20 a day, you’re unlikely to keep that for very long and will need a week off shortly. Anyone in this madness of a job market knows it’s a marathon and stamina is required.

Conclusion:

Tailoring applications is a pretty fundamental part of the job search but if you can find the right balance between effort and output, you’ll set yourself up for long-term success.