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    • Ask Devex: How can a diversified professional 'hack' a recruiting process focused on specific skills?

    Ask Devex: How can a diversified professional 'hack' a recruiting process focused on specific skills?

    Kate Warren, executive vice president at Devex, returns to answer all your career questions in this month's online event. Warren shares highlights from our 2018 Hiring Trends report, which could help shape your job search strategy, and tackles common job seeker challenges.

    By Emma Smith // 06 April 2018
    Kate Warren, executive vice president at Devex, returns to answer all your career questions in this month’s Ask Devex. The event kicks off with an overview of our 2018 Hiring Trends report based on a survey with 100 global development recruiters in 22 countries. The report offers insights to help job seekers know where to expect the most hiring and what recruiters are looking for in candidates, says Warren. Warren also tackles a wide range of common job seeker challenges, including how best to explain or utilize an employment gap, how to create a general CV that applies to different positions, and how to transition to a career in global health. One of the biggest challenges for candidates is that while employers and hiring managers almost always say soft skills are key to organizational success, “the recruitment process is very much built around identifying more technical, objective competencies,” explains Warren. This creates a bit of mismatch she adds and it can be challenging for candidates to quantify and describe experiences in their CV in a way which helps them get past these filters. Candidates should make sure they are contextualizing their soft skills through actual results advises Warren. Instead of simply saying they are a team player or skilled in diplomacy, they should provide examples which demonstrate these skills and the impact it had on their work and the organization she explains. Forging personal relationships is also very important in showing an employer why you would be a great fit for their organization. “Try to make connections with organizations, recruiters, and hiring managers so that they can really get to know you beyond your CV,” says Warren as this is “also really important for breaking in and getting past those initial filters that focus on very hard criteria.” Devex members with a Career Account can watch the full recording below and participate in future Ask Devex events the first Wednesday of each month.

    Kate Warren, executive vice president at Devex, returns to answer all your career questions in this month’s Ask Devex. The event kicks off with an overview of our 2018 Hiring Trends report based on a survey with 100 global development recruiters in 22 countries. The report offers insights to help job seekers know where to expect the most hiring and what recruiters are looking for in candidates, says Warren.

    Warren also tackles a wide range of common job seeker challenges, including how best to explain or utilize an employment gap, how to create a general CV that applies to different positions, and how to transition to a career in global health.

    One of the biggest challenges for candidates is that while employers and hiring managers almost always say soft skills are key to organizational success, “the recruitment process is very much built around identifying more technical, objective competencies,” explains Warren. This creates a bit of mismatch she adds and it can be challenging for candidates to quantify and describe experiences in their CV in a way which helps them get past these filters.

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