hey ambitious professionals it's linda
rayner of lindaraynier.com guiding you
to a career in life you'll truly enjoy
and today is a very special video
because i
have a special guest that will be
joining me his name is christopher
and he is here to share his story as to
what he did
in order to his dream job that he has
already started working in
and i can't wait for him to share his
story with me and with you
so without further ado thank you so much
for christopher for joining us here
today
no worries i'm happy to be here and
share my story so christopher can you
just
give the audience a bit of an idea as to
your
background and your work history your
career path up until this point
oh yes so i started working while i was
still in college i was working full-time
to be able to support myself to go
through college i worked in a company
and i was an analyst in the company i
was with the company for nine years
i did a lot of the sales operational
work which is uh analytics to really
support the sale team to make them
successful i did that and then what
happened was is that the company i was
laid off of after working there nine
years
so i ended up traveling for a year doing
humanitarian work
so um after doing all that i came back
and accepted a role in a company and
the role in the company that i got was
very good but unfortunately
they had to lay me off because they
weren't doing that well they're a bit of
a startup this wasn't working so then i
kind of
went around applying and i didn't really
get anywhere so i took a lesser job
that was a little bit less than what i
was making at the time because i had to
work somewhere
you know um this was before the pandemic
hit and i worked through this
company during the pandemic and i did
the best i could and then but eventually
they ran out of cash flow
during that time i wasn't really
satisfied so i brought your course but i
didn't really use it
once i got laid off i was like well now
i have a reason to use your course
and i went through the course and i
liked it very much and i learned a lot
and i what i did through the course was
i applied what i learned and i was able
to get a lot more traction that i did
in the beginning i didn't realize very
quickly i won't have to settle for my
for a job and i'll end up working on a
job now that i'm getting paid the same i
was before i left and that was something
i struggled with was to reach that level
from my last job so i'm very happy with
where i'm working now i'm very happy
with the success i had and i'm
very happy to be where i am and a lot of
it had to do with the course i believe
that's amazing thank you for sharing
that so let's talk a little bit
about the results that you got from
taking top notch resume
so you said that in the past you had
applied for jobs and you weren't really
getting interviews
and so when you started using your new
top-notch resume
what were the comments that you were
getting from interviewers what were you
hearing
what was the what were the results um
the results were very positive you know
even on
interviews back before the pandemic hit
when i was looking i
got a few interviews but i never passed
the first and they were very rare like
it took a long time a lot of applying
that interview
uh this time i was getting a good amount
of interviews i would say like you know
anywhere between three out of ten in
some cases which is very good i mean i
think that's very good and i was getting
an interview when i was making it to the
third or fourth level
a lot of times even if i didn't get it
um some of the feedback i would get from
employers was that oh you have the
skills i'm looking for even on ones i
didn't get it they still said that
though and that made me realize okay
at least i'm i am what they're looking
for and i'm targeting the right people
and everything looks right
so that was kind of direction i was
going in and and a lot of
people were very responsive they liked
my resume like the format
they're happy to like interview me and
it just seemed to be very good calls
where before it wasn't
and um i ended up accepting an offer
recently because um it was exactly what
i wanted to do when i got the offer
there was no reason not to accept it
yes congratulations on the new job too
i'm so happy for you so
you said that you know it felt like the
interviews were going a lot easier and
do you think that it was because of how
your resume looked like all of a sudden
people's impression of you changed
compared to how they looked at you
before
oh yeah when i believe that now they
were able to understand exactly what i
did and how it related to what they
wanted
where before when i used a professional
to help me which i paid i'm not going to
say how much i paid for but i paid a lot
more than i paid for the course
it definitely did not give that
impression where this time it did that's
great so
i think people are really curious like
you know you don't have to share
everything that you learned in the
course because i want people to take the
course top notches may just like you did
in order to learn how to create a great
resume but what do you think was the
biggest thing
about the course that you realized you
were doing wrong before that
it made all the difference in you
getting your job offer um i believe it
was the format
the format was very easily laid out that
anyone of
common sense could look at it and then
the other reason i would say is that it
reverse
engineered what the job title i wanted
so it was more of
working kind of what i already was
looking for and taking the job
description and going backwards
so it kind of worked that way and i feel
like that kind of stood out because i
had those skills already
but this time it was laid out the way
they want to read it and point it right
in their face and they can't deny it
yes amazing so can you tell us a little
bit christopher what
what exactly is your new job now and and
i know you just recently started it's
probably been only a couple days
so tell us a little bit about this new
job and how you feel about it
so far it's been very good i've been
doing a lot of training um it's exactly
what i wanted to do
i do a lot of this crm which is customer
relations management entry and
analytical work sales support that's
amazing okay that's great
so let's hear about what you would say
to people who are listening and watching
out there right now
who are struggling to get interviews
especially during this pandemic we all
feel that
it's supposed to be hard to get a job
during this pandemic i mean what would
you say to them
you know would you recommend that they
take top notch resume what would what
would your words of advice be
i would definitely recommend if you're
struggling and you're not getting
results you want to take top-notch
resume i'd also say take your time with
it don't just
randomly apply make sure you
specifically go for each
each job even if it's exact same job
title the description is going to be
different
and make sure it matches that
description and i would say do
everything that the course
advises and then you'll a success will
come
don't give up um you know it's this is
just a small part of your life we've all
been through things and
eventually something will come up
something will change you won't be
unemployed forever
and if you if you use the course maybe
you'll be unemployed a lot less longer
so you know what just
just take it go for it and make sure you
just stay focused
that's great and i'm curious christopher
how
has your confidence level changed you
know from when you were
working at that previous job and you got
laid off and then you started taking
top-notch resume and applying and now
you've gotten your job offer
how different do you feel about yourself
oh i feel 110
different i feel more confident when i
go into interviews i know it's not like
my
only option so i don't go in there with
like a desperate mindset i think i go in
there more like
and a mindset like okay is this gonna
work for both of us
do i have the skills is it something
that i can learn it's just having a good
conversation you know nothing's perfect
but having a good conversation i would
say
so chris back when you were looking for
a job and you weren't really getting
the interviews you weren't getting the
callbacks how was that impacting you
mentally emotionally how were you
feeling about yourself as a job
candidate and as a
professional in general oh it was not a
good feeling you know it's one of those
things where it's like if you're getting
that much rejection
you can't help but take it personally
you know i know in life we shouldn't
take things personally but it does
and you know i i wasn't very happy with
it and it definitely did a big blow
especially back then there wasn't any
economic reasons the economy was doing
well
so that made it even worse at least now
you can argue oh it's a pandemic back
then
there was no reason and um it definitely
wasn't a good feeling and
you know it's hard to because i worked
at a company for nine years and i was a
customer
working 50 plus hours some weeks just
because i wanted to grow you know i left
before i left i was a manager there
so i worked very hard to go from the
bottom to the top and to
kind of not have anything after working
so much was not a good feeling at all
right right and so you put all your
energy
into taking top-notch resume into
learning what you needed to learn
did you find that the concepts that you
learned in the course were different
from
anything that you've heard elsewhere you
know about how to write your resume how
to sell yourself did you
find that it was completely different or
how did you feel about that
i feel that it was definitely completely
different i feel like it was very
thorough it was definitely right to the
point
um it was formatted it definitely had
good formatting
i i have a friend who worked as a
recruiter and um i sent her my resume
and just said oh could you give it a
look over and she did she gave some
feedback but the first thing she wrote
back was
i love this format she's like this is
the format that every candidate should
use this is the format everyone should
use
and that made me feel much better i was
like okay that's great you know people
who
worked in industries loved looking at it
and i couldn't believe like i remember
my after my first week and in november
i ended up getting scheduled for like
three companies to interview with
and i thought that was amazing and i was
like wow that's that's that's fantastic
yeah that's great so when you got those
interviews
did you find that it was easy for you to
sell yourself in the interviews because
i have another course
called top-notch interview which helps
people with interviewing but you didn't
even need that you just had the
top-notch resume
and that was enough to carry you through
like did you find that
learning what you learned in top notch
resume was enough you know
if i could go back i probably would have
taken your top notch uh
interview course if uh you know
hopefully it doesn't happen but if
anything
goes i start looking for another job or
anything i'll probably go back and take
it i think i probably could have needed
some
some better interviewing skills uh
thinking about it but
i was able to get to like third third
rounds and other things with with uh my
resume and
a lot of it's because i had the skill
set so you can't really deny when you
have the skill set and it's organized in
the way where someone looking at your
resume goes
oh they definitely have it soon if you
don't take the course you still can't
argue with
okay this person can do the job but at
the same time i would still i'd probably
recommend that course
so christopher's saying take top notch
resume and top-notch interview if you
are thinking about it
well okay i think that we have heard an
amazing story from you christopher i am
so happy for you
congratulations on this new job you know
i'm really proud of everything that
you've done for yourself and you've been
able to find a job in the middle of this
pandemic
when lots of people are saying that it's
tough i mean at the end of the day
do you feel that the pandemic really has
any impact on your job search or
do you think that at the end of the day
it should just be about your resume and
how you sell yourself
i should just be about your resume and
how you sell yourself you know i mean
i understand the pandemic is real and
the economy being down is real and a lot
of people losing jobs and all that stuff
is real
you can't deny the fact i mean just turn
on a news station but i would say is you
know you can't control those factors
just focus on what you can control if
you control your resume and your ability
to sell yourself that's all you can do
and that's all you need to focus on
that's great well thank you so much
christopher i really appreciate you
sharing your story with us
congratulations again and i can't wait
to hear about future successes
sounds good thank you so much so if you
are currently struggling to find
your dream job and you want to be able
to have the same success that
christopher did
make sure that you go on and check out
my free resume mastery workshop the link
is in the description box down below
and if you're getting some interviews
and you want some interview help in that
area
feel free to check out my free interview
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down below
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