One of the biggest challenges of looking for a job in a crowded job market is getting your resume in front of the right person.  Sure, you can submit a well-written cover letter and tailor-made resume to any number of online job postings, but isn’t that what everyone else is doing?  Specialized staffing agencies are often the best way to guarantee your resume stands out.  One reason for this is the lack of HR staff members at a company, and their need to streamline the hiring process.  Even the largest companies in Dallas, for example, are using technical staffing agencies to narrow the field of potential candidates. 

If you think your cover letter and resume are landing in the “inbox” of the hiring manager at a Fortune 500 company, think again.  In most cases these days, there are simply too many resumes to have them delivered this way.  Employers can easily set up an email box with partner staffing agencies and have them screened first.  Not only does this eliminate some potential matches for the job, it is also a highly automated process.  Some staffing agencies are using software that scans a resume for the presence of certain keywords related to the position, which means your resume is rarely viewed by human eyes before it reaches the employer. 

When you work directly with specialized IT staffing agencies, you get the benefit of learning their “tricks” for getting you in the door.  For example, if a technical recruiter at the agency thinks you’re a good fit for a new IT position, they may give you advice about how to tweak your resume by sprinkling in certain keywords.  They may also volunteer to write and executive summary on your behalf, presenting you to the employer as a candidate.  By the time your resume and summary are shown to a staffing agency’s client, they have already increased your chances of getting in the door. 

Another way that staffing agencies can help their clients is by keeping an “ear to the ground” in a specific industry.  For example, the IT recruiters at Dallas-based GTN Technical Staffing maintain a strong professional network of contacts in the Dallas IT landscape.  By interacting with this network on social networking sites such as LinkedIn, they often learn about new opportunities well before the general public.  With the help of a Dallas technical recruiter, you could already be interviewing for a position before it is ever promoted on the job boards. 

Find out more about how technical staffing agencies can help you get in the door at your targeted companies.  Visit GTN Technical Staffing today.