I want to talk about boss hunting and I actually this is a this is a this is a a clip for everyone
or a little lesson for everyone but I especially want to highlight recent college graduates right
who don't have a ton of professional if any professional experience but everybody doesn't
matter who you are you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna be able to take away a lot from
boss hunting in what I want to share and we have this new boot camper his name's venkata venkata
I don't know if you're here but if you're here buddy shout out to you for sending these messages
to me this week look going into the system and asking me a question and here's what he did
um I think this was this was this was last week so about a week ago uh he went into the
milewalk academy system and he in the system individuals can actually type their questions
to me and I give them my word I will answer your question if you type it in the system which he did
so he said in my boss hunting emails how do I write a paragraph about the years of experience
I have to offer as a recent college graduate I have accumulated one year of AI ml Python and
two years of medical research experience through my undergraduate coursework and research work okay
so here's here's the question now for those of you who do not uh are not familiar with my boss
hunting technique it's just like it sounds instead of loading up your resume into the
applicant trashing system that is the abyss of all abysses where your your resume goes to die
where you hear deafening silence and think you stink I recommend that you target bosses
or teammates or even recruiters nhr people and send them thoughtful messages and and and try to
connect with them so that you could see if there's a possibility to join their team and it's a very
direct approach and My Philosophy I I started teaching this 10 years ago and My Philosophy was
who who better than uh to shortcut the process than to go to the person who can actually give
you the job who probably is in the most pain and is willing to entertain the possibility of you
joining their team whether they have an opening or even if they don't have an opening maybe they
trade somebody out because you're just a better could be a potentially better employee and so
I have a a free technique there's a video on my YouTube channel and there's a there are a
couple of templates uh cover letter templates or email templates that you can use to to send
messages to these bosses and in one of the one of the key and Kara can drop that in the chat
uh which she has already done because she's always right as rain and one of the things
that I want you to put into the boss hunting message is one of your accomplishments or
maybe two tops that are directly in alignment with what that boss is going to need if you're
targeting a marketing person I want you to talk about your marketing accomplishments if you're
targeting a sales person I want you to talk about your sales accomplishments and those
kinds of things but now for a recent college graduate you don't really have that so when uh
when venkata had asked me about this I replied to him and I gave him some instruction about using
number one the most important thing for him was to send the email because what you're really
doing is are the possible you're hoping that the person you hit is is uh is open enough to hiring
a recent college graduate will likely recognize that you don't have a lot of or if any experience
that's okay you're trying to find the person who is open and receptive to hiring you as a recent
college graduate and then is willing to train you but at least show them what you have as it relates
to your coursework or any summer internships you had or any summer jobs or whatever else you did or
volunteer work you did but anything that you can point to don't be overly worried about hitting the
bullseye with that just State what you have and then send it he was wholly reluctant to do this
and then a couple days later he sent me this message which I want to break down for you and
what he did was he sent me this message that I would like to actually focus on
breaking down for you here and up at the top this was sent if you can see this
um recently August 7th today is August 10th so he sent me this on Monday and he said hi Andy
here's one of my boss hunting email responses as a recent University of Michigan college graduate
with a computer science and cell biology degree I really wasn't believing in the boss hunting
approach I got four to five no responses in a row but this email makes me believe in it and myself
now number one the fact that he got four to five no responses is still awesome because you can do
something with a no you can't do something with silence okay so he sends me this on August 7th
because he'd gotten this message from Carl on August 7th August 7th and it said this is at
the bottom is what he sent Carl on Friday uh late morning August 4th I'm reaching out to you because
I admire your accomplishments and wanted to see where there is an opportunity to work directly
with you this is exactly part of the free template that I give you now I was performing my job
search what this says is I was doing my homework evaluating companies I want to work for this means
I'm targeted I didn't notice a specific opening okay he didn't find one now he has absolutely no
idea whether this person who is a potential boss has an opening on his team um because and then
he goes into that aligns to my particular skills background or whatever it was as a college student
I was impressed by your experience so on and so forth intersection between technology and
biomedicine this says I am sending you this specific email it's a one-of-a-kind email and
I'm mentioning something that's specific to you there's nothing form letter-ish about this as well
as your strong background your guidance in these areas would be extremely helpful to me and so on
okay so now he's established a unique relationship via his email with this person um and then he goes
into and this is what he took from my response in the system through my college education and
then he points to what he has and what he studied and then I love this I'd love to speak with you if
you feel there's an opportunity for me to join your team as part of the letter or I'd love to
network with you and learn from you right if there isn't okay so on Monday Carl gets back to him and
says thank thank you so much for reaching out I appreciate your kind words regarding
that means that totally registered okay do not think that sincere flattery doesn't work there's
nothing obsequious about this letter of which I get many questions from people who feel it's it
that flattery makes it Hollow that's it doesn't so I I wanna I really want to drive that home
and then thanks also for including your resume can I ask where your interests lie all right there's
a buying signal right so now I'm noticing this guy is engaging and even though he goes on to
say there's no there's no openings at the moment I currently don't have any openings at Orca however
there are a few open positions so I click this to look to see he pointed them to the career portal
where there were a lot of other openings right that might be of interest then he goes on feel
free to take a look at our openings and we'll let you know if any of these let me know if any
of these roles are appealing and if so submit your application however what he said is though
I've also sent your resume to the hiring manager for some hiring managers for some of these roles
I guarantee you that shoving your resume into the applicant trashing system will never yield
a result like this even if nothing exists so now he is a personal circular relation of somebody
important in the organization that's sending his resume to other people who I guarantee you will
open it and look at it right um and then he's honest currently we're prioritizing hiring some
of the senior leadership roles so there may be delays so on and so forth okay bang this should be
a smack in the head to vent Kata to put a Tickler on his calendar for 60 days to reach back to this
boss or in three minutes to reach back to this boss and say this is great I'd love to know the
names of the people who you circulated my resume to so I can appropriately follow up with them
that's three four five who knows I don't know how many people he sent it to right kind of
thing so now you've got a built-in follow-up and something that you can reference that's strong
but I love this if you're interested in general career advice I'd be happy to set up a virtual
meeting with you at some point let me know if you'd like to and let's get connected on LinkedIn
how many awesome things happened and this looks like it didn't even won't even immediately result
in an opportunity to interview but maybe it's a great connection okay but do you do you see the
power of of being able to do some thoughtful research do you have any idea this is now he
put himself with one email in the possibility for I don't know three four five different
possibilities with hiring officials inside the organization or a number
of open positions okay that's the first thing and then he sends me another message
that says okay so this is this is like yesterday or the day before or whatever
that he was sending this to me a few days ago and then he sent me this message this morning
that said hey Andy another interview in invite through boss hunting this one okay he sends this
this um I don't I don't know Karen um he sends this to this Dr cyle right on August 8th on August
9th this person responds back right so just this is 9 13 at night this is 10 30 in the morning I
love this I love this subject line This is notable interested in joining your team and then perhaps
you put some kind of you know you know Business Development executive marketing professional
recent college graduate with networking security blah blah whatever you want right thank you for
reaching out via a well researched email this is the same format formula that I gave him in
the in the boss hunting techniques he put a little of his own Flair in there but look at
the result give me slots next week two to five in the afternoon pretty good stuff right now all all
all true to side he he you can get some of this in the free domain which Kara has dropped in the
chat or if you're watching this on some recording there's probably a card in the video or there's
a or there's a link in the description but one of the things that venkata has at his disposal which
I recommend that you do in some form or fashion I give members of my job search coaching program
what I call a boss hunting Bible and the boss hunting Bible breaks down everything related
to the approach of this of this boss hunting right how do I send it what do I send what's the
language I use should I attach it this that and the other thing what if there are multiple people
at the company how many times should I follow up and all those good things and then sample if you
know an opening exists or sample if you don't know whether an opening exists much like what vencada
typed in I give you those two um templates for free but what's going to happen is you're going
to get all kind of responses this is great let's talk just like that Karen did right or they refer
you to somebody else in the organization or they refer you to the applicant tracking system much
like that one person did in his first example but basically you need to know all these things
I've copy written this for you if you're a member of my job search coaching program you have this
boss hunting Bible and I encourage you to use it if you're are in my free domain I encourage you
to grab the free boss hunting templates one if you know there's an open position that exists I
don't want you going into the applicant trashing system I want you to try to find the boss and
take a shot because stuff like this happens like venkata showed us so anyway I really love this
I love that he he sent these to me I got back to them vent Kata if you're here let us know you're
here we'd love to give you a shout out thanks for letting me share this with the community and and
contributing to what at a minimum is inspiration but there was some education in there regarding
the steps he took how he formulated it how he's subject lined it all that good stuff especially
if you're a recent college graduate or a young professional inside your first year of experience
these are really great tips all right so I hope you enjoyed this one if you haven't already click
the like button please do if you got value out of that and uh if you're watching this on the
recording I'll see you next week otherwise I'm going to go on to another if we're here