{"id":411,"date":"2011-02-15T05:19:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T10:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2011-02-03T18:24:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T23:24:47","slug":"one-secret-to-increasing-personal-referrals-and-land-the-job-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/one-secret-to-increasing-personal-referrals-and-land-the-job-you-want\/","title":{"rendered":"One Secret to Increasing Personal Referrals and Land the Job You Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/one-secret-to-increasing-personal-referrals-and-land-the-job-you-want\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Do you want to dramatically increase the number of personal referrals to the job you want?<\/p>\n<p>Then engage your personal advocates! Personal advocates are people who know you, like you, trust you and want the best for you and it is up to you to educate your personal advocates, and be sure they know what you\u2019re up to, your goals, who your target companies are, what positions you are targeting and why you are a good fit for both the target position and the target companies.<\/p>\n<p>When you start your job search prepare what I call an \u201cupdate letter\u201d and send it to your personal advocates. I suggest sharing what you have been up to, what you are looking forward to doing, your one-paragraph r\u00e9sum\u00e9, and as appropriate a personal update. Next review your contacts, network, colleagues and co-workers. Create an initial list of possible advocates. Create your plan to engage your advocates. Execute &#8211; send your \u201cupdate letter\u201d and don\u2019t to follow up.<\/p>\n<p>Accelerate your search today!<\/p>\n<p>Do you have tips that have helped you engage your advocates? I would enjoy hearing about them. Feel free to share them here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to dramatically increase the number of personal referrals to the job you want?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,7],"tags":[21,11,5],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-tips","category-job-search-focus","tag-branding","tag-build-a-network","tag-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}