How to Land Interviews Do Your Homework - Melissa Llarena

How to Land Interviews Do Your Homework How to Land Interviews: Do Your Homework How to Land Interviews: Do Your HomeworkYou’ve submitted cover letters. You tailored your resume. You called the human resources manager directly and left messages yet you STILL have not landed an interview at your target company.Go all in if you are committed to working for a specific company in a defined industry.I want you to draft a one page competitive analysis for the hiring manager.Here is what you should include in that work product:• Identify the firm’s three closest competitors • Showcase their shortcomings • Point out their greatest strengths • Provide recommendations on specific next steps your target firm should take to gain or protect market share within the next 1-2 years • Offer a glimpse of how you and your team would go about implementing these ideas in a cost effect mannerThe key is that you are laser-focused on landing a role within this company because you do not want to waste your time getting to know this f irm if you don’t intend to practically put all your eggs in this one basket.Keep your ideas to one page.Format your work as you would an executive summary.Identify the hiring manager and email it to her with a brief note conveying your interest in the role.This strategy most recently helped an executive land a CXO role within a multinational company.I’d be happy to provide feedback to anyone who has a draft and wants to step up their game within the next few days.