On the 9th
Day of Xmas - Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters revealed to me:
Nine Tools
for Researching Leads
There are a vast number of services you can subscribe to for free that will bring information on hot new companies straight to your desktop every morning. JustSell.com for example delivers a list of all the companies in America that were newly funded and categorized by state or province, complete with the contact numbers for their executives.
ZoomInfo – ZoomInfo is the research tool I
use the most. Can’t live with out
it. Are you in it? You should be! And listing yourself or checking your profile
is free. Register
and Create a ZoomInfo Web Summary and Be Found and then you can Let Opportunities Find You. This is THE career accelerator you can’t live
without. It’s your “job search commando”
.
America’s Career InfoNet – Their research tools for industry
and occupations are second to none AND it’s free. There are several pages devoted to using it
in Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters. Check it out for your self.
Just Sell - will email you a description of every company
which has received new funding each week. The free report is divided by state or province and includes a
description of the company and the purpose for the round of funding, and often
includes the email addresses of the senior executives.
The
Money Tree Survey - is a quarterly study of venture capital investment
activity in the United
States. It’s collaboration between
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture
Capital Association. It’s excellent and
it’s the only industry-endorsed research of its kind.
PE Week Wire is free and I have daily updates
delivered to my email box bright and early each day. PE Week is the only
industry publication that tracks and researches private equity deals for the
entire venture capital market. The weekly newsletter and daily website give you
in-depth news on industry trends, companies seeking investors, deals at all
stages, participating firms, deal conditions, proceeds and pricing. It’s been a valuable resource for me.
Dow Jones Venture
Capital - Tech, Life Sciences, HealthCare [which is
huge beyond] – Dow Jones Venture Capital tracks it and reports on it. Their conferences are second to none.
Vault – their industry career guides are
world famous. The thousands of career
opportunities on the site are a nice bonus.
Fucked Company – what can I say, some employers
are coy and creative when it comes to representing themselves to high
performance candidates. If you’re
worried about being “blue skied” then check out a prospective employer here.
Google Alerts are email updates delivered to your
email address once a day based on information you tell Google to watch
for. For example the announcement of new
executives or news stories on companies of interest to you. I use Google Alerts to find leads on
companies who have hired new VPs of Sales because these executives might need
my services to help staff their teams.
On the
surface everyone acknowledges that rejection is a fact of life when you’re job-hunting. That it pushes all the wrong buttons – not
once – but sometimes hundreds of times. Sometimes it’s not even the rejection letters; it’s
the dead silence - the lack of acknowledgement that you even exist. The fundamental truths of job hunting are not
pleasant. It’s all about being rejected
and ignored. Eventually the stress gets
to everyone. – so …. You
need to feed your opportunity funnel like a salesperson feeds their sales funnel. The previously mentioned services will
accelerate your search 10 fold.