ASTD jobs project:
Goal:
- Research companies that have training jobs available, and contact them and ask if they would like to come to our next meeting, June 7th, and do 5 minute speed interviews with our members who are looking for work
- Call the companies
- Build a list
Instructions:
- Go to LinkedIn.com
- in the search in the upper right hand corner, click for Jobs
- on the right, click Advanced
- on the left say “show more” to get zip code
- on the left, where it says zip code, put in 02115, and put in 50 miles
- see results for
- trainer
- to eliminate personal trainer and athletic trainer positions, you may have to say
- –personal –athletic
- Then try the same with
- instructor
- "course developer"
- instructional
- there should be 10-20 results or more
- do research to get the following
- company name
- job title
- hiring manager’s name
- look it up in LinkedIn to see if they gave phone or email address
- get phone number
- LinkedIn should have web page at top of job listing
- Otherwise, use google
- call them and use the script
- document the above in a spread sheet, and also have a column
- did you talk to them? Voicemail?
- Notes – if you talked, what did they say?
- Get email address if possible
- URL of the job posting
- whether the ad came from LinkedIn, indeed.com, or somewhere else
- and example of the results file can be found at jobs list
- Then go to SimplyHired.com at do the same type of thing
- Then try indeed.com for the same thing
- In fact, to try for training jobs in the Boston area, you can find hundreds of them listed if you search for
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=trainer+-personal+-athletic&l=boston,+ma
- it may also be necessary to remove dog trainers, etc by saying -dog
- then try it at monster.com
- then careerbuilder.com
- then craigslist.org
- Then maybe try the sites above for words you haven’t used like
- Trainers (i.e. see if plurals make a difference), instructor, instructors, training manager, training managers, and a bunch of other searches.
Script for voicemail
Hi, I’m calling from the Greater Boston ASTD, the American Society of Training and Development. We know that you have a training job available, and we would like to give you a free opportunity to do 5 minute speed interviews with some of our members at our next meeting on Monday evening, June 7th at Rebecca’s in Newton.
If you are interested, please call our President-elect, Patrick O’Malley, at his phone number, which is actually 617-PATRICK. If you are interested in ASTD, please sign up for our newsletter at our web site, which is at massastd.ORG
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for more information, email me at patweb@patrickomalley.com