Ivanna, I love this one! Question! Can I contact the hiring
manager before applying for a job not only can you i recommend that you do
100%! No exceptions i would go at the hiring official
before i ever applied i applying so i i
i want to share this with you guys uh ish i did not think i was gonna tell
you these stories but i i i'm gonna i'm gonna give you this
one so i know your pain i know the ats pain
you know how i know i'm gonna give you one example and only because this is up
top i mean this is real recent actually it's been going on for a long
time you know linkedin they have live video okay they they do
some people can go live that's right some people can go live
and there's no method to the madness of who they select
and has nothing to do with your credentials and the reason that i know
that is because i apply online i've applied
twice and every time i go i fill out a form
just like you guys fill out your applicant tracking systems
and i would say not to brag but i'm pretty damn qualified to go live on
linkedin to talk to those people and give them free career and job search
advice if anybody's if anybody's got the street
cred i think i do you would agree i know you would agree
because the 200 and some of you that are still here believe it
right and you're my people so i i i get that you get that and i
fill it out and i send them to my youtube channel
and i show them live streams that just like this that we're doing together
and all that good stuff and guess what i get every time i get an automated
message that says thank you for your application then one hour later within
the time slot i get an email from what looks like a
person that says thank you for your inquiry
uh we review the applications but we will only respond to you via email if we
have selected you okay and then and then they immediately
close the case okay that's like an auto bong i get that
so we we deal with companies like this where i
have no control over that that's okay life's not fair
right so i'll just go live where i can and when they finally open it up to
everybody then i'll do that but we've been having some email issues
and we have proper routes that we need to go through
from the big company that whose email system that we use it's like
work it's like worse than dealing with the ats
and we submit our tickets and they go into the abyss
and we don't get the help that we need and we try the chat
and we try the email we try these routes we still don't get the responses at the
speed that we're looking for if at all and we need something fixed
because we need to support you so yesterday i sent an email directly to
the ceo i went out with using the tools i teach you how to
use i found his email address i sent him an email
i immediately got a email back that says i'm i'm really busy you should contact
this woman who i'm assuming is mrs i sent her the email
and i'm gonna tell you the language i used but within the hour
not only was our stuff being handled but stuff that cara tickets that she was
submitting like a month or longer ago were all of a sudden being responded to
with apologies about not getting back to us
the world is one big ats if we let it be okay it is and and that's basically what
we're going to we're going to have to live with bong
letter after bong letter or we can take command and control of where
we send our messages and not take no for an answer and that's
what i want you to do on your ivana and everybody else i want
you to contact those hiring managers because they're the ones that need you
they're the ones that are likely going to be open to talking to you
you are not going to beat the bot it doesn't happen very often
and the higher up you go the less chance you have now
yes i'm sure some of you will get your jobs by applying
but most of you will not most of you will get them through your network i
have the statistics that proof this you're in and you're out market in and
mark it out doesn't matter i need you to take control of what
you're doing that job search challenge that i showed you
that's what that's all about is taking command and control
of what it is that you're doing who it is you're sending it to and we give you
the tools and show you how to do that so i don't know why i went off on that
but you know what it's a little peek into my life
it's been happening to me that was like the last 24 hours of my life
that i'm dealing with that so among many other things
so anyway i uh ivana and everybody else i want you to go out there and get them
you