Why You Should Apply Through a Company’s Career Page, with Sabrina Pomar
Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job
Mac Prichard
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
It’s so easy to use LinkedIn’s quick apply, isn’t it? No more spending hours filling out applications. But those quick apply links might be hurting your chances of getting the job, says Find Your Dream Job guest Sabrina Pomar. Using quick apply submits your resume, whereas a company’s career page allows you to submit a complete application. It also allows you to learn more about the company, says Sabrina, so that you gain clarity on their mission and needs, which is crucial to your job search because it allows you to form questions that show your interest in working there and what you can offer.
About Our Guest:Sabrina Pomar is the talent sourcing specialist at the Cascade AIDS Project.
Resources in This Episode:Learn more about the Cascade Aids project and their Prism locations by visiting their website at www.capnw.org/.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm your host, Mac Pritchard. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm also the founder of Max Lest. It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest that helped you find a fulfilling career. |
| 0:25.6 | Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert about the tools you need to get the work you want. |
| 0:31.6 | You see a position on a job board. |
| 0:34.6 | You also find the same job on the employer's website. |
| 0:40.5 | Where should you apply? |
| 0:42.6 | Sabrina Pomer is here to talk about why you should use a company's career page. |
| 0:48.2 | She's the talent sourcing specialist at the Cascade AIDS Project. |
| 0:52.4 | It's a nonprofit that provides HIV services, housing, education, |
| 0:56.7 | and advocacy. Sabrina joins us from Portland, Oregon. Well, let's get going, Sabrina. We're |
| 1:02.0 | talking about online applications today and why you should use a company career page when you |
| 1:07.7 | apply for a job. Before we get there, I do want to touch on quick applications. |
| 1:12.4 | You and I spoke about this in the pre-interview, and I just want to set the context here. |
| 1:16.6 | What is a quick application? |
| 1:18.6 | And how does it work, Sabrina? |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah, a quick application is something that you will probably see on LinkedIn or Indeed. |
| 1:30.4 | And it's just a quick, if you have your resume uploaded to any of those career sites, you can just hit the quick application |
| 1:37.9 | and it will just send a generic application. I do know LinkedIn, if you've uploaded your resume, it will send that |
| 1:47.7 | resume to your prospective employer. And so it's just a one-click button. You send it and you've |
| 1:56.6 | applied. Now, I know you as a recruiter and hiring managers. He pluses and minuses to this approach |
| 2:04.0 | using a quick application. Let's talk about the pluses to begin with. How does a quick application |
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