#FIFTY people submitted a resume and a cover letter and only TWO put their phone number in their signature or signed their messages at all

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Ok now that I’m back home and have some spare braincells, let me just be totally absolutely clear about what I meant.

Say you submit a resume on Indeed, and you get a message from the employer.

“When are you available for an interview?”

Wow! Great!

You reply to that message. That message on Indeed.com, the place you’re logged in to. The same place the employer sent you the message from.

You’re not in your email. You’re in Indeed.com. Everything looks totally seamless and smooth on your end. Why would you sign a message? They didn’t sign theirs.

“I’m free 10am on Tuesday or 3pm on Wednesday.” you type and send off.

“Great I’ll have (employee) get you scheduled.” the employer responds.

Wow what a totally normal exchange.

Indeed.com fucked it up for you.

See, what happened is the employer has a login. On that login, they can see all the chat threads and all the applications.

To make sure they don’t miss anything, Indeed.com sends them a little email with “[Your Name] has responded: [Your Exact Message].”

That’s it.

That’s all.

There’s no link to your profile. There’s no attachment of your resume. There’s not even the entire thread. Just the very last message you sent.

Indeed.com wants everything to stay in its ecosystem. It doesn’t WANT people to reach out to others via email. There’s no way to respond back to that little alert email and send a reply to the applicant.

If they have to log back in to Indeed, they’re not just seeing YOUR message, they’re seeing that they got 50 new applications and here’s an easy click button to see all these new shiny candidates (competition).

It’s easier when they see a little reminder email about a message to grab the phone number from that email, rather than log back in to Indeed.

And if they’re getting slammed with meetings, emergencies, or just plain old work and try to get someone else like an Administrative Assistant to help with scheduling then you’re really fucked. Because that other person just plain doesn’t have the logins and can’t get any information other than what’s in those little reminder emails.

If you make it easier to reach you no matter what is happening on the backend, you get contacted faster than the other guy.

Give yourself the edge.

“I’m free 10 am on Tuesday or 3pm on Wednesday.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

[Your Phone #]”

Format it like that and help yourself win.

🚨HEY IF YOU’RE APPLYING FOR JOBS ON INDEED.COM 🚨

On the employers side, when you respond back to a message of theirs it sends them an email with the exact message you type. It does NOT include any of your documents or a link to your original application.

My boss forwarded a bunch of emails from people who he’d like to get scheduled for an in person interview with.

You know who’s getting a call? The people who wrote their number after their name in their signature.

I have scheduled an interview with everyone who put contact information in that message. Everyone else now needs to wait for my boss to get out of meetings so he can log in to Indeed.com and one by one hand send over their information.

Even if he miraculously got all that information to me in the next 30 minutes, the people who didn’t include their phone number in their signature will have to be scheduled for an interview next week. This weeks slots were all filled by the folks who I could call.

Do yourself a favor. Put your contact information in your signature.

If the guy who has an interview scheduled for tomorrow is good, he’s getting hired. And everyone else lucked out because they didn’t know LinkedIn looks stupid on the other side.

Sincerely,

(Name)

(Phone Number)

After every message folks. And I mean that sincerely.