 Stop Searching! Start Interviewing.™ | Is Allen Right for Me? | Personal Career Center | Executive Service Options | Executive Interviewing Academy
For over 45 years, Allen And Associates has been assisting jobseekers with every aspect of their job search. Working directly with an Allen Career Manager and through our copyright protected career portal, we supply you with the comprehensive support, resources, and training you need in order to secure the best employment opportunity available. When you choose Allen, you receive:
 A dedicated, experienced and responsive Career Management Team
Best-in-class and competitive marketing materials
Targeted company research based on YOUR criteria
Verified contact information of potential employers and decision makers
The fastest turn-around in the business
A door into the unadvertised job market
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Assessment | Creative Materials | Marketing Tools | Company Research & Contacts | Coaching & Support
How Our Plans Work: Your Allen Career Manager works directly with a team of creative writers, company researchers, and administrative personnel who coordinate and handle the critical and time-sensitive work required to get you back on your career track quickly and effectively. Your dedicated team even handles all the details for you, such as word processing, document printing, letter folding, direct mailing and phone answering services.
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With any new career change, it is vital to have a clear objective and understanding of what motivates you. The first step of your career management campaign involves the personal assessment of the client. This includes an understanding of our client's:
Wants/Needs
Salary Expectations
Experience/Background
Skills
Personality
Industry Focus
Geographic Preference
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If you think your resume is your primary marketing tool...Think Again. Not only will Allen make sure your resume is professional, we will also arm you with supporting materials to market your candidacy effectively. Your creative materials consist of:
Custom Resume
Showcase your unique background and abilities with a professionally written and formatted resume. One of our Certified Professional Resume Writers (CPRW) will custom develop a competitive, attention-grabbing resume that highlights your expertise, achievements, and work history.
The Broadcast Letter™
Take a proactive approach in your job search. Allen And Associates has designed an effective and mission-critical marketing tool, known as The Broadcast Letter™, to help you gain employment through the unadvertised job market. The Broadcast Letter™ is sent out independent of the resume and establishes a foundation upon which you can begin to follow up with companies that meet your personal search criteria.
Cover Letters
Earn attention, respect, and action by focusing on how your specific experience and aptitudes can assist the company in achieving its goals. Allen And Associates will design a cover letter that presents your intentions, qualifications, and availability to a prospective employer in a succinct and appealing format.
References
Be prepared to provide references when prompted by an employer. Allen And Associates will create a professionally formatted list of personal and professional references.
Verified Credentials
Gain a competitive edge over other candidates by "proving" your background and qualifications to prospective employers. Due to the competitive job market, more and more employers are seeking candidates that have verified credentials. According to a recent survey conducted by the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), 96% of personnel officers said their companies are conducting some type of background or reference check when hiring prospective candidates.
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Complete the 360° approach to capture every opportunity available and to increase your interview potential. Allen offers 2 types of services that are designed to save you time, reach as many contacts as possible and find as many posted opportunities quickly and efficiently.
Resume Quick Send
By using our advanced online database and automated targeted email systems, you can now mass-distribute your resume "By Invitation" electronically to thousands of recruiters and employers. What this means is that our companies in our active database are requesting to receive resumes from prospective candidates. Allen has met this request by allowing hiring companies to establish keyword screening - allowing employers to receive only those resumes that they "invite".
This "By Invitation" method of distribution has proven to be one of the most effective methods to date for connecting both hiring companies and the jobseeker.
Meta Job Search
Search for thousands of jobs in less time! This tool is ideal for the serious job seeker who is looking to maximize their online job search by scanning multiple sources and wants to avoid wasting precious time searching individual job sites. Our database is real-time and our advanced search engine gives you the edge to target opportunities from across 5,000 Internet job sites.
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Allen continuously updates and verifies its database of 2.5 million contacts. To target and improve your chances of getting in the door, we ensure each business contact includes the key executive/decision maker. Based on your criteria, we will then package and send your broadcast letter independently and directly to these targeted contacts.
Verified Contacts
Allen And Associates wants to make sure who's sitting at the desk when you call and that the correct person will be contacting you. In addition to creating a custom list of key decision-makers for you to contact, Allen And Associates personally verifies each and every company contact, ensuring that they will personally receive any document we send to them on your behalf. Verified contacts are the integral core of all Allen And Associates packages.
2.5 Million Contact Database
Exclusive to Allen And Associates and initially based on Dunn and Bradstreet, we maintain a database of over 2.5 million contacts, which includes decision makers and company information for the employers you want to work for. You tell Allen And Associates the type of companies you'd like to work for, what industries they're in, what size you prefer and where you want to live. We'll have the information you need at our fingertips.
Our 2.5 million contact database is available with all Allen And Associates packages.
Custom Mailed Correspondence Direct Mailing
Allen And Associates gets you past the "Gatekeepers," both the human and electronic ones. How much regular postal mail do you still receive? If you received an envelope directly addressed to you, wouldn't you take the time to open it? So will the executives who have the power to employ you. Allen And Associates will process the custom list of contacts and mail them your broadcast letter. When you follow up with them, the chances they will remember you are greater because of what you sent them - a one-two punch to get in the door.
Custom mailed correspondence is standard with all Allen And Associates packages.
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Communicating and being able to connect with your current or prospective employer is critical. Allen will coach you to effectively communicate
in the following key areas of interviewing, salary negotiation and networking.
Salary Negotiation
Allen And Associates can help you get the salary you deserve. We can help you through the negotiation process, instruct you on what you should and should not say to maximize your income without putting the position at risk.
Allen And Associates and Salary.com have partnered, to provide you with the latest information on compensation strategy, depending on your position, industry, experience level and geographic location. Salary.com is the technology leader in providing employee compensation data, software, and services to enterprises, small businesses, and individuals.
Primary salary negotiation assistance is available to all Allen And Associates clients, and a personalized salary report is included in many Allen And Associates packages, as well as offered a la carte to existing Allen And Associates clients.
Secondary Career Coaching
Allen And Associates will partner with you every step of the way to your new position. Our junior, senior and executive career coaches are experts in their fields and nationally recognized. Many have written books on the topics they teach every day, such as:
Interviewing
Networking
Salary negotiation
Primary coaching is available to all Allen And Associates clients and secondary assistance credits are available in many Allen And Associates packages, as well as available a la carte to existing Allen And Associates clients.
Job Offer Evaluation
Allen And Associates will help you choose which job offer is right for you. Our team has helped navigate thousands of clients through the tough decision of weighing opportunities. Questions that create difficult decisions arise:
Is the smaller base salary worth the potential upside in bonuses and/or options?
Would I rather work for a start-up firm or a Fortune 500?
Is it appropriate to ask for more money, or another benefit?
Is this new opportunity worth moving my entire family to a new state or country?
Is the travel time worth the additional compensation?
Primary evaluation is available to all Allen And Associates clients and secondary assistance credits are available in many Allen And Associates packages, as well as available a la carte to existing Allen And Associates clients.
Toll-Free Answering Service
When your prospective employer calls you, Allen And Associates will be ready to take that call for you, on a 24/7 basis. Allen will provide you with an individual, toll-free number for distribution to the companies we will help you contact. When you are called in for an interview (but busy on another one), a professional assistant will answer in your name, advise the employer you are busy at the moment and will take the message for you. This message will be immediately forwarded to the telephone number of your choice, and emailed to your preferred email.
Our Toll-Free Answering Service is available in many Allen And Associates packages, as well as available a la carte to existing Allen And Associates clients.
Custom Research
Allen And Associates will go the extra mile to equip you with the information needed when you are called in for an interview.
Allen will conduct custom research, both on the prospective employer, and the executive you will be interviewing with. This information is dependent on what is provided by our sources; therefore each company may disclose more information than others. The information we garner will help you maximize your knowledge base before entering their office. You will also be able to impress the interviewer with your inside knowledge of the company, and in many cases even the biographical information of the executive who will be conducting the interview.
Custom research is available with all Allen And Associates packages.
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