How Texting is Helping Recruiters Screen 10 Times the Candidates Daily

How Texting is Helping Recruiters Screen 10 Times the Candidates Daily With the U.S. unemployment rate at an all-time low, hovering under four percent, the talent market is getting more and more competitive. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 6.7 million job openings and just 6.4 million available workers to fill them. Connecting to candidates has become increasingly difficult and relying on traditional recruiting techniques like phone calls and emails to connect with an on-the-go workforce will likely result in losing out on a worthy applicant. Instead, companies are utilizing methods that align with the communication preferences of today’s talent generation and switching to text-based recruiting. Check out a few ways this new technology can help recruiters boost candidate response times, connect with more applicants with less hassle and retain candidates or hired employees. Connect Faster to Higher Volumes of Talent Recruiters are facing one of the busiest, yet best, times of their careers with a 16-year low unemployment rate and a record-high number of job openings. In this demanding, candidate-driven market, screening the high number of candidates necessary to fill open positions is a big challenge for recruiters. SHI, an $8.5 billion global provider of information technology products and services, began using text-based recruiting platform Canvas in November 2017 after realizing its limited recruiting staff didn’t have a way to communicate quickly with candidates. With traditional recruiting practices, the company’s recruiting team would often miss out on great candidates as they were flying in and out of the job funnel in less than a week with other job opportunities. Technology, like text-based recruiting, is making it easierâ€"as much as 10 times easierâ€"for organizations to screen a high volume of talent daily. In fact, after SHI switched to text-based recruiting, the company cut response times in half. Streamline Screening Texting works particularly well in the early screening process when bringing job applicants into the funnel to begin the conversation. It is not meant to completely replace in-person and phone interviews. While those are still great options for second and third round discussions, just like in the online dating world, text can be a great “get-to-know-you” tool. Ranked among the nation’s most integrated healthcare systems, Indianapolis-based Community Health Network (CHN), first started using text-based recruiting in May 2018. By the end of June, the organization had 22 recruiters trained and using the tool. The organization utilizes text-based recruiting after the application is complete and recruiters have a mobile number to reach out to the candidate. From there, they communicate back and forth through a text to really get a sense of how the candidate might interact with a patient or customer. They can then determine whether to bring the candidate in for a phone call or in-person interview. To date, CHN has contacted  nearly 7,000  individual applicants and obtained an 85 percent  response rate using text-based recruiting. Before, using traditional recruitment methods like email and phone conversations, response rates typically ranged from 45-60  percent. Engage with New Hires As a recruiter, being able to reach and connect with candidates during the initial screening process is extremely important. With traditional recruiting methods, it can take days or weeks for recruiters to get through their dreaded email inbox to respond to waiting candidates. If the flow of conversation isn’t consistent, the potential employee could become frustrated and go looking elsewhere. SHI uses text-based recruiting to stay connected to new hires. The company sends short video touchpoints  to keep the connection alive with  college seniors  who are gearing up to begin their employment post-graduation with the SHI. These short videos are sent through the text-recruiting platform and are an easy way to establish a relationship and remain top-of-mind. CHN connects with its candidates every step of the way through text-based communication, from proactively sharing benefits and PTO information to automatically responding to questions and responses through an automated Canvas Chatbot feature. Candidates respond positively to the text-based communication and both parties can use emojis, Bitmojis and humor to show their personality. Different Trades? Text-Recruiting Still Works Healthcare, technology, and software sales are a few of the most competitive industry types. While they might be different in nature, text-based recruiting has given them a way to stand out to top talent and give recruiters an edge. SHI and CHN recruiters are motivated by the innovative, easy-to-use technology as they no longer have to worry about spending countless hours on candidate research. The days of missing a call back from a candidate if the recruiter steps away from their desk are overâ€"finally, they can even text dozens of candidates at once. Text-based recruiting may seem like uncharted territory for a lot of recruiters and candidates, but the benefits of reaching and engaging top talent are unparalleled. Companies and executives are quickly adapting to using text-based recruiting, just as candidates have adapted to using text messaging in nearly all walks of their lives. About the author:  Aman Brar  is CEO of Canvas, the first text-based interviewing platform that enables recruiters to screen more job candidates and market employment brands. With Canvas, companies have transformed their reach and engagement with talent by designing their recruitment strategies in a way that aligns with the communication preferences of today’s workforce.

Best Resume Writing Services in New York City - Keep Your Resume Flauntf

Best Resume Writing Services in New York City - Keep Your Resume FlauntfIn order to make your resume look good and get it to get you the first interview for a job you should use the best resume writing services in New York City. When you have a resume that you can put out there and get you the job you want the last thing you want is for it to be thrown into the trash.This is why having a good resume should be on your list of things you want to do and accomplish before you're out of the door and into your new life. The first thing you want to do is to learn as much as you can about your resume, about being able to use it to your advantage and the skills and abilities you will need to have in order to get hired. You want to have the best resume that you can and if you don't know what you should be putting on it or how to properly write it, then you will not have any luck getting a job.Getting your resume out there and having it be noticed is one of the best ways to get the interview yo u want and get it noticed by the company that you want to work for. It takes more than just having a nice looking resume when you apply for a job; you need to have a strong resume that shows what you have done and what you can do. If you have a resume that you have no clue how to properly use or you didn't write it yourself then you should turn to the best resume writing services in New York City to help you out.It's one thing to find top companies out there but you want to make sure you're going to be able to have them write the resume for you. This means that they can tell you exactly what the standards are that they require and what you should be putting on your resume to make it stand out from the rest. Having the best resume writing services in New York City to help you out is the best thing you can do to ensure that you have a chance at landing the job you want.If you can get your resume to get your application noticed, then you are going to be the one getting the job you want . Having an attention grabbing resume that looks fantastic on paper isn't enough; you need to make sure that you can get it onto a resume template so that you can be able to use it yourself. With the best resume writing services in New York City to help you out you can be sure that you will get the attention you want when you need it most.Resumes are the only thing that you will be using to show them what you have done and what you can do. You will have your resume and this is it and only this. If you want the best job you have to make sure that you're going to get the best resume that you can out there so that you can show what you've accomplished and all of the abilities you have and what you can do.Don't let anyone take the first step to your candidacy when it comes to getting a job with the company you want. Having the best resume writing services in New York City can ensure that you get the resume to use and the job you want.Never give up, keep on fighting and make sure that yo u are on the road to getting the job you want and the job you deserve. You have to make your resume stand out when applying for jobs so that you can get the interview you want and have it noticed by the company you want to work for.

Personal Branding Interview Harrison Monarth - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Personal Branding Interview Harrison Monarth - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Today, I spoke to Harrison Monarth, who is the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Confident Speaker, and his latest book is called Executive Presence: The Art of Commanding Respect Like a CEO. In this interview, Harrison talks about the natural laws of perception, why professionals should care about social intelligence, highlights some core communication strategies and more. How do the natural laws of perception affect the way we’re perceived in business? While we all take the data and stimuli around us in through our five senses, rarely do two people bring the same set of criteriatastes, biases, experiences, memories and preferencesto the process of filtering and interpreting the incoming information. That’s why identical sets of information can result in very different perceptions among different recipients. Listening to Mozart can amount to torture for one listener while another is transported to a state of emotional bliss at the sounds of Eine kleine Nachtmusik. Similarly, watching the confident presentation style of your company’s star sales executive may inspire you to reach the same level of success for yourself, while the same presentation might have the more introverted colleague sitting next to you shudder at what he perceives as unjustified swagger and cockiness. Same sensory input, entirely different perceptions. That’s why the more you know about your target audience and anyone you communicate with, the more you can apply your working knowledge of the perception process toward the generation of a favorable outcome for you. Why should professionals care about social intelligence? Social intelligence is really about how you are perceived by others, or better put, the management of what will be perceived by others. It is an understanding and when you get it right, the masteryof what elicits a response from other people, both in relationships and in casual encounters, and even in front of an audience full of strangers. Why is it that some managers get people to line up behind them with staunch to-the-death loyalty, while others remain the butt of cruel water cooler banter and reluctant hierarchical deference masquerading as respect? The answer is social intelligenceâ€"the first manager has it, the second doesn’t. And if the second one has somehow risen to the position of “boss”more and more unlikely in today’s business culturethen everyone has a problem. Social intelligence can be as simple as knowing that a smile and the remembering of a name aligns with attraction and loyalty much more than a scowl and a limp handshake, regardless how well you execute the job description. Social intelligence is not just a buzz word; it’s an entire spectrum of survival skills that can make the difference in one’s career. What are the core communication strategies of Executive Presence? I would say, knowing the impact of how you come across is the most critical. Everything else is based on this. From ethically engineering buy-in and gaining compliance to learning how to change attitudes and behaviors to managing interpersonal conflict and always seeking to improve relationships. And of course the awareness that personal branding is not a choice anymore but a requisite for a successful career. It’s also critical that we are constantly on the lookout for reputation busters, often self-inflicted through careless online communication and social media activities. Everyone needs to carefully manage their reputation in our world of search engines, 24/7 visibility and instant communication. How can professionals make media work for them and their personal brand in our 24/7 news culture? It’s critical that professionals understand how the media creates meaning in the minds of the viewing public and incorporate that knowledge into their own messages when they communicate through any particular media channel. One of the keys in successfully promoting one’s personal brand through the media is knowing how to communicate in pithy sound-bites. Those are the compelling quotes and clear messages that cut through the noise and stand out. Another is mastering the art of responding to difficult questions while enhancing your credibility. The media is not interested in promoting you. They’re interested in the back-story and the answers you’d rather not give. Therefore, anticipating and being prepared to answer difficult questions is critical to protect one’s reputation and credibility. It’s important to remember that everything about us communicates a message to a watching, listening, judging public. And from our grooming and style to our content and delivery and of course our behavior, we tell the world who we really are, whether we like it or not. That’s why paying attention to all of the communication signals we’re sending is critical as we craft a powerful personal brand that is consistent and elicits positive emotions and valuations. How does your company GuruMaker help executives with personal brand and perception management? Why did one of your clients dub you “The Speakinator?” The concept behind GuruMaker was to help people become authentic and powerful communicators who get their message across with impact. We teach people from all professions and walks of life to craft messages that resonate with their audiences and then communicate those messages persuasively so the result is a change in thinking, a change in behavior or perhaps the reinforcing of lightly held attitudes that need strengthening. Whatever the intention of the communicatorâ€"be it an executive, politician or other professionalâ€"we help them communicate powerfully, persuasively and consistently to build and maintain a strong personal brand. We are to a large extent in control of the perceptions we create in others and that’s what my book, EXECUTIVE PRESENCE is about and what GuruMaker as a company teaches. As for having been called the “Speakinator”, one of my clients felt that a presentation I gave to his company’s sales team resonated powerfully with all attendants and had them really fired up. Add my slight native German-Austrian accent to the mix and the comparison to the “Terminator” was born. How have you built your personal brand over the course of your career? I’ve always been aware that everything I put outâ€"from my writing, speaking and behavior to the reputation I createâ€"will leave certain impressions that will either be reinforced or changed depending on what I do next. It’s no different for any brand. Powerful brands stand for something and elicit certain perceptions and emotions in people. We do the same as professionals, friends, peers, colleagues and leaders. I have made certain choices in my life of what I want to communicate and figured out ways to do this consistently in order to create the executive presence and the perceptions my public has and future constituencies will have of me. Personal branding and the competencies that lead to executive presence is something everyone can learn and master in their quest to become successful. It is also something every professional should aspire to if they want to make a difference in their lives, the lives of others and their chosen professions. - Harrison Monarth is the New York Times bestselling author of The Confident Speaker, with coauthor Larina Kase, PsyD, MBA. His new book Executive Presence: The Art of Commanding Respect Like a CEO is packed with the high-impact information and research Harrison has gained through his extensive experience as founder and president of GuruMaker â€" School of Professional Speaking, a high-impact communications consulting firm that counts Fortune 500 executives, professionals and political candidates as clients. Harrison has personally coached senior corporate leaders from top companies such as Merrill Lynch, Hertz, Intel, Cisco Systems, as well as the American Heart Association and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. He also provides coaching and message development services to various members of the United States Congress. Harrison is also a frequent contributor to the media on the topic of effective communication and an international columnist, penning the monthly colum n Across the Pond for the British magazine Training Journal, the UK’s leading publication for learning and development professionals.

The Gift of Good Hiring

The Gift of Good Hiring December is a month for friends and family, and for giving. This year, I was approached by a contact in the industry and was ask to help an old friend of his, someone who might have some useful skills for my clients. When I moved across to Luxembourg, Ignites and several news outlets ran the story on my move, partly because it was AIFMD-related, and the gentleman he knew had some experience of AIFMD. My contact suggested how we could split the fee, in case of success. Being a generous and kind sort of gang, we do like to say thanks to those who help us on our way. This is usually by way of an iPod nano, rather than percentages, and I was more than a little taken aback by the suggestion. Resting the whole case: This hit home, once again, the huge disparity between the average person’s perception of a good recruiter, and the reality of what we actually do, and I do feel it is important to stick up for good recruiters. I can’t think of any other industry where someone could so easily assume half of the fee for doing almost nothing. It is like asking a lawyer to advise you, but then only paying them if the one clause or comment they find, rests the whole case. It is absolutely ridiculous to think that one CV is going to be enough, even if it is perfection. I have been doing my job for 8 years now and I have never made a placement from a single CV on its own. The ‘right’ answer: Recruitment is not about finding one person, it is about finding a solution. Just as with law, there will be many adaptations of what the ‘right’ answer is. Think of AIFMD, causing so much discussion today, based largely on the fact that no one can entirely agree on what it means. This however does not mean that companies don’t hire a lawyer at all, favouring to try and get secondary advice from friends, given that each lawyer will tell you something different. No, companies will find a lawyer or law firm who they feel understands them and their business the most, and then will work alongside them, to tease out the right meaning for their structure, knowing that the whole process is a journey of discovery that will make the advice, the best and most suitable advice for the firm. Without the process being carried out through each phase, you can’t get to the right answer. Without a decent recruitment process, and all the re-aligning that it will take, you are playing with lady luck to try and hire the right person. Giving us more commitment, gives you better results: This is the fundamental reason that asking recruiters to work outside of a retained mandate arrangement is a wild goose chase. Asking the person to work for free until they might just so happen upon the perfect person. Hmm. Who could provide really amazing results not knowing whether they will be paid at the end? A gambler? Perhaps. Sometimes companies think they will increase their chances of finding the right person by giving the job to several agencies. More agencies means more chances to find the best candidate. Not so. After the initial burst of energy, from which you rarely get a result, you have several recruiters who don’t know you very well, each giving you a smaller percentage of their commitment and of their time. Ultimately they  refocus their energy on other clients who treat them as partners. Recruitment can be a long and hard process, and having one committed firm by your side will give you far more than having 3 firms who will soon lose interest in your needs.  Aski ng recruitment companies to work alongside one another is inviting them to approach your crucial hiring decision on the basis of speed â€" instead on the basis of who can do the best quality job. Time and effort makes a good process, and a good hire: The groundwork involved in a proper recruitment process, talking to many passively and actively-looking candidates, is incredibly time-consuming and potentially very risky for us. In a typical recruitment process at Funds Partnership for every 5 CVs we present to a client there are at least another 20-30 candidates in the background. It is the large numbers of ‘almost suitable’ but  unseen  profiles, whose CVs will  never  see the light of day, that turns a hiring process into a successful hire. The large numbers of people that we consider from our network, but who don’t make the shortlist for any reason, is what makes our final selection particularly strong. If you only consider 10 people, and put 5 of those forwards, it’s pretty low chances any of them will work out. If you multiply this, and consider both those actively looking as well as those who are  not  actively looking, but whose skills best suit the role perfectly, then you have a solid chance of covering the whole market and the chances are you will find an amazing candidate who will love the job. Sourcing from the whole market: Even for a contingency agency, the big advertisers online who don’t rely as much on the industry network, there is a huge amount of work that goes into putting forward good CVs. Seeing as we focus on both contingency and on search techniques, we are   lot more proactive in selecting the people we think are right, not just those who happen to be available. This means our first mapping phase can take 2-4 weeks, depending on the role. In that time it is not unusual not to have a single CV generated. But it is this process which yields the most value to our clients, so this is why we do it. By having a vast knowledge of the Asset Management / Asset Servicing industry, we can accurately identify where suitable people with un-tapped potential will be. Working exclusively with clients gives us the time to tap into theentire  talent pool. More than 70% of the candidates in our network are not actively looking, and this means it takes an interesting, above market, role in order to attract them. RELATED:  How to Build an Active Candidate  Sourcing  Strategy The tip of the iceberg: Ironically when you are working with a good recruiter, it is even easier to take their background research process for granted. The machine is so well-oiled that you don’t hear the cogs turning. If they only present 5 CVs it does not mean they have only spoken to 5 people. If the recruiter has done their job right, every CV presented is someone who will be invited for interview. I have taken to sending certain clients times along with new CVs, because I know they will want to meet certain people already. Just because we make it look easy it does not mean that it is. What you are seeing is just the tip of the iceberg. When your assets under management are more than just numbers: Every firm on the planet will tell you their people are their main asset. When it comes to the most important part of people management, the people, some companies still seem to have a problem to spend good money on finding the right person. Hiring well is much more important than managing well, if you start out with the wrong person, you can never turn them into something they are not. Worse, if you hire a bad egg, it can spoil the whole batch. When working with companies who manage other people’s assets, private wealth…when working with pension funds whose investors are all of us, and our children’s futures, would it not be sensible to set aside a fee to hire a good team, properly? When every conference I attend one of the main topics that come up every single time, is  always  finding the right people, I simply don’t understand the disconnect. In setting up funds or asset management products, we all know the cost of lawyers, accountants, IT service providers, data managers, and all other matter required. But… people? Some firms with legal fees in the hundreds of thousands, office locations systems in the millions, will struggle to pay a good recruiter a fee that is in the tens, and I really don’t see the sense in that. Good hiring is a gift, and having a good recruiter by your side does not cost you, it saves you in the end. Author: Rana Hein-Hartmann is Director EMEA of Funds Partnership,  a specialist firm for mid-senior hires in Asset Management and Asset Servicing operating throughout Europe and Asia.

Different Styles of Resume Writing

Different Styles of Resume WritingMany of us would like to make our resume stand out from the crowd, especially if we are applying for a particular job position. Since so many people in this world are vying for the same job position, you will have a tough time competing with the others who are offering the same job to you. Thus, the only way you can gain an advantage is by writing your resume in a unique way.While many professional resume writers offer a generic template for their clients to use, you will still be able to come up with your own unique style. However, it is very important that you focus on presenting yourself in a unique way. One of the things that you need to remember is that it is better to come up with your resume in the manner in which you can't do yourself.Using different styles of resume writing will surely get your resume noticed. While the common templates provided by these resume writers include pages of information about you, you can still come up with your o wn unique style. This will help you in distinguishing yourself from the rest of the applicants for the job position.By employing different styles of resume writing, you can come up with a document that people will find interesting. You will also be able to present yourself in a manner that will lead your future employer to notice you. As a matter of fact, most employers today value personality and creativity more than anything else. Your resume can be the key to giving them what they want.One of the best ways to employ different styles of resume writing is to prepare it in an organized manner. You should write down all of the relevant information that you believe will help you achieve your goal of obtaining a good job. You should include all of the necessary qualifications and certifications that you have. Do not leave out any information as some companies want to see qualifications and certifications, but may not want to know why you have them.Another thing that you can do is to wr ite your resume in an order in which you can't do it yourself. You will have to put together several different styles in a way that is very organized. At the end of the day, all of the work you have put into creating a good resume will be for naught if it is not organized.Finally, you need to do some research before you actually start writing your resume. Use the resources available on the Internet in order to gather the information you need to create a unique resume. You can also check out some sample resumes on the Internet to get some ideas on how to write your own resume. Doing some research will help you come up with your unique style of resume writing.Besides being creative, you need to make sure that your resume is attractive. It is one of the first things that your potential employer will look at. This is why you need to come up with a resume that is both impressive and attractive.

Make Running Your Company As Easy As Possible

Make Running Your Company As Easy As Possible Whatever kind of a business you might have, you have to agree that there is no reason to make it any harder to manage and run than it needs to be. You should be aiming at all times to make running your business as easy as possible, and this is actually something that you can do by approaching it in a number of ways first of all. In this article, we are going to take a look at some of the things that you can do to make running your company as easy as possible specifically. As long as you are taking advantage of these kinds of opportunities, you should find that it is considerably easier to keep your business going strong, so it is definitely a good idea to focus on these elements early on in the life of your company. Focus on these, and you will find that your business is much easier to run. Simplify Your Goals First things first, it is always a good idea to make sure that you are clear on whatever goals your business might have, so that you can be sure of following them and getting them right from the very start. If you are struggling to do this, you might find that it is beneficial to make those goals a little simpler, as it is in doing so that you can expect to be able to actually approach them in the best possible way, and the most efficient way you can. You will therefore need to know how to go about simplifying your goals, and that is something which you can do in a number of ways. Understanding how to do exactly that will mean that you can hope for a much easier way of doing business, so it’s definitely something to think about. Most business goals will be based on a particular amount of profit or the achievement of gaining a certain number of customers. If you have these kind of quantitative goals, you will certainly want to know that you are achieving them expediently, and you can do that by making sure to keep them as simple as possible. Or if you have goals which are looser, and more based on ideas and values than any real-world numbers or terms, you can simplify those aims by actually finish a way to make them more concrete. Do that, and you will know much more easily what you are actually aiming for, which will likely result in a much greater chance of getting those goals. By simplifying your overall business goals, you make the actual running of the business considerably easier too. Make Better Use Of Your Time It’s important to make sure that you are using your time well if you want to run your business as smoothly and easily as possible, but so many business owners find that they end up wasting their time, or much of it, and this can be a hard thing to change at first glance. If you start to look into it, you will probably see that there are many places and ways in which you do waste time at work, and the same will be true of your colleagues and employees. Changing this is a long process, but there are a few things you can focus on to begin with to really get the ball rolling. As it happens, there are a number of ways to ensure that you are using your time better within the business which is always going to be good news for the business itself. For instance, you might want to think about if there are any tasks you are currently doing manually which could be better and faster handled by some technology. Often there will be specific software which can help with a situation which you need help with, especially if you are wasting a lot of time and energy on it. You might, for instance, want to use software like Copper.com to help you with your customer relations and to make entering data quicker and more automated. Or you might find that it is necessary and a good idea to use some kind of scheduling software to ensure that you are organizing your workforce in the most effective way possible. From the little to the large, these kinds of tech uses will help you to spend time more efficiently in your business, and in so doing ensure that you are going to make running your company considerably easier not just for you, but for all those who work with and for you. Focus On One Thing At A Time As with anything else in life, in business you can make things much easier for yourself just by ensuring that you focus on one thing at a time. This is important, and yet so easy to overlook that so many people end up not doing it. However it will be vital if you want to make sure that you are going to be able to run your business as easily as possible, so it is something that you need to be sure you are focusing on to some degree or another. If you are struggling to focus your business on one area at a time, there are fortunately a huge number of approaches you can take to ensure that you are going to get it just right. For instance, you might want to think about only having one goal in mind for the business at a time. You might aim for a particular result from each financial quarter, for instance, or you might want to think about ensuring that you know what you want to get out of each year alone. If you focus your energies in this way, your business will be much more directed towards the one thing, and you will find that you can much more efficiently run it without too much stress and hassle. This simple change in how you do things is so easy to take on board, and yet it will make such a profound difference to how your company is run so it’s worth thinking about it if you want things to be as simple as possible for everyone in your company.

Get Better, Faster Replies to Business Emails

Get Better, Faster Replies to Business Emails 5 Tricks to Get Better, Faster Replies to Business Emails Inboxes are crowded places. With the constant flow of email marketing vying for our attention, it’s more important than ever to get strategic about business email. Emailing eats up a quarter of the working day. That means that on average, we spend 2 hours a day clearing out the inbox. No surprise that so many of us fall into the category of “stress emailers.” We react quickly, skim emails, and respond either right away or not at all. (A USC study found that 50% of email replies are sent in fewer than 60 minutes.) I spoke to Tarzan Kay, a copywriter specializing in email marketing, who shared some simple tricks for highly effective emailing. “There’s so much great science to help us understand inbox behaviors, and how to get better, faster responses,” says Kay. “I limit emails to 1 subject, and keep them to a Grade 7 reading level. Not because I don’t think my reader is smart, but because she’s incredibly busyâ€"if she can’t digest it in 20 seconds or less, there’s a good chance it’s going into the ‘save for later’ pile. Later rarely comes.” Language is a powerful motivator, and an equally powerful demotivator. Even a subtle turn of phrase can change the mind frame in which the remainder of an email gets read. “I sprinkle my emails with lots of feel good ‘trigger phrases’ to warm up my reader and put them in the mood to reply. Starting an email with a simple phrase like ‘I like the way you’ve [insert admirable thing]’ can be the difference between a glowing reply, and getting sent to trash.” Here are Tarzan Kay’s top 5 tips for getting faster replies to business emails: 1 Write a straight-to-the-point subject line. Subject lines don’t need to be stylish or pique curiosity. Save that for email marketing, or cold prospects that need to be courted. Subject lines are most effective when they’re crystal clear and affirm the body of the email. For example: “Speakers for Job Convention” is better than “Convention Ideas” “Sat Aug. 4 Meeting @ 10am” is better than “Meeting Time” 2 Get to the point fast and reaffirm the main idea. Don’t assume the recipient remembers the subject to which you’re referring. Inboxes are chaotic, and it’s inconvenient to have to search through previous emails to pick up the thread. For example: “Very generous of you to offer me the corner office. I accept.” is better than “Wonderful. I accept.” “Glad you liked my presentation at last week’s job convention.” is better than “Glad you liked it.” 3 Play copycat to the recipient’s email style. Some busy execs love to send zero-frills emailsâ€"one-liners with no greetings or small talk. Is that’s the case, you can dispense with the foreplay as well. Say what you need to in as few words as possible. On the other hand, if you’re just getting to know someone, and his emails regale you with tales of last Saturday’s golf game, feel free to reciprocate. Bonus points if you can relate back with a tale of the famous hole-in-one you hit in the summer of ‘92. 4 If you need action on multiple items, number them. If there are multiple questions that need answering, and they’re scattered throughout the email, it’s a lot of work for the recipient to comb through and answer each question. It’s quite likely at least 1 will slip through the cracks. Don’t make the recipient work too hard. Number your questions, and add bullets to action items, if you’ve included those as well. That way she can reply back in the body of your email, using it as a template. 5 Add formatting. Most of us scan emails the same way we scan articles. This is especially true for group emails, where tasks are delegated to a few different people. Use bold text. Underline it. Write it in red. Highlight names. Your point will come off quicker. Anything in caps draws the reader in immediately. THIS WORKS great for highlighting the main call-to-action. Finally, shorter is almost always better. Say what you can in the fewest number of words possible. Comb through it before sending, and eliminate any extraneous words. You won’t win any literary awards, but you’ll most certainly get more helpful replies, quicker. Consider that your gold star. Join Dana Manciagli’s Job Search Master Class ® now and get the most comprehensive job search system available!