Hey Ambitious Professionals! It's Linda Raynier of lindaraynier.com, guiding you
to a career and life you'll truly enjoy. And in today's video I'm going to teach
you one key strategy on how you can get a job whether you are under qualified or
overqualified
as a career strategist I've been able to help numerous professionals land job
offers that provide them with long-term growth potential and if this is
something that you're interested in working with me one on one I can give
you details about that at the end of this video. So you are looking for a job
you have updated your resume, you've applied everywhere online, you've tried
to network and you've basically done everything you could to try to increase
your chances of getting interviews and therefore a job offer.
However, throughout this whole process you've been noticing that there's been
this little voice murmuring in the back of your mind
and it's been saying things like "you don't have enough experience" or "you have
too much experience" you're overqualified. I see this all the time and I read
comments from people that say "I can't get my foot in the door because I need
to have a job to get a job" or "they don't value my years of work experience and
they're just looking for someone who's younger more energetic and cheaper than
me". Now I know it's easy to focus on the negative but what about when you focus
on the people who you know who were in similar situations as you they were
either also under qualified or overqualified but they ended up
successfully getting job offers. They clearly did something that you aren't
doing so now let's channel your energy and let's focus it in a way where we're
gonna learn and you're gonna implement my key strategy on how you can get your
next job offer regardless of whether you have a lot of experience or very little
experience. And that key strategy can easily be summed up in one word and that
word is focus focusing means when either you are writing your resume or you're
selling yourself in interviews that you are honing in on the key aspects of the
position that you have that are happen to be relevant for the role as well so
that means your key skills technical qualifications experience or knowledge
anything that is related to the role that you have that the role is asking
for you need to focus in on those key aspects this is actually
one of the concepts that I teach in my course top-notch resume which is an
online self-study course which has been super effective in helping professionals
whether they had little experience or tons of experience in not only landing
interviews but successfully getting job offers by rewriting their resume using
my approach so let's say you're someone who has very little work experience and
you consider yourself under qualified for any job that you want to apply to
but at the same time you want to be a marketing professional if you've
recently graduated and you want to be in a marketing position for your next job I
assume that in your undergrad or college program you studied some aspects of
marketing so you want to hone in on the key concepts that you learned in that
program related to marketing and make sure that you highlight them on your
resume so think of the key concepts that you might have studied that would be
relevant for this position for example maybe you studied the three P's product
pricing and place or you studied digital social media marketing or perhaps you
studied marketing concepts such as marketing mix target market and any
other relevant marketing concepts so what I'm trying to say is just because
you don't have the exact marketing experience it doesn't mean that you
can't include the knowledge that you've gained through your education on your
resume and in your interviews to help you sell yourself so that is why it is
important for you to focus on those key concepts and making sure that they are
relevant to the position the same concept applies if you happen to be
overqualified for certain positions and again this concept is in top-notch
resume which if you're curious about it you can go down to the link in the
description box after the video but if you're actually an experienced
professional with many years of experience and you're wondering and
having trouble with cutting things down to make them more concise that is
actually a great problem to have instead of having to wrack your brain trying to
remember the knowledge and the concepts that you learned back in school as
you're less experienced counterparts are having to do you merely have to pick and
choose the exact relevant experiences that are a perfect
for the position that you're applying to and the way you'll do this is by
focusing in on the keywords on the job description that are important for the
employer and making sure that they are mapped onto your resume and are
discussed in your interviews so remember the key strategy is to focus focusing
your experiences and your knowledge onto your resume and in your interviews is
what's going to attract employers to you and eventually make them want to hire
you and I thought that it would be fun to end things off with a bit of an
inspiring quote specifically on this topic and it's by Aristotle and he says
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light" now if you
like this tip and you want some more tips on how you can improve your resume
feel free to download a free copy of my 10 ultimate resume hacks which is in the
description box down below or you can also download my free resume samples if
you already have those hacks and otherwise if you have both of those
things and you are ready to dive right in and get some in-depth training on how
you can improve your resume and thus your chances of getting your next job
offer then feel free to check out top-notch resume it's my self-study
online course which will walk you through step by step on how to create a
stand out resume that will get you the job and finally if you are someone who
has been searching for several months now you've been wanting to find that
next dream job offer but you're struggling you're not sure of how to
sell yourself and you're ready to get some one-on-one help feel free to reach
out to me head on over to lindaraynier.com/standoutgethired read the
page fill out the application form and if I think that we are a potential match
then I will reach out to you and we will discuss further if you'd like this video
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thank you so much for watching and I will see you in the next video.