Hi guys today I want to talk about an easy and effective way of how you can
get a new job perhaps you are someone who has just graduated from college or
university or you're in between jobs or perhaps you want to change careers and
are looking for a new job in any case finding a new job can be a process that
can seem to take forever perhaps you've already sent out so many applications
but you haven't heard back and you're starting to get frustrated and you're
thinking whether or not there is some other way how you can get a job faster
one method that many people often oversee in their process of job hunting
is making use of their connections and their network many people feel kind of
hesitant and reluctant to ask their contacts and their networks for a job
because perhaps they feel that it feels slimy it feels like not right and I can
totally understand if you are one of the people who feel that way because I
myself used to be that way too when I was still studying in Germany at that
time and I was about to graduate I was looking for a part-time job a kind of an
internship and my goal was that I wanted to try to get a job at the software
company s ap you might be familiar with that one so I did what most people would
do I put together an application package consisting of cover letter resume work
reference letters and so on and sent it to the company and luckily I did hear
back and I managed to get a part-time job for I think several weeks or about
two months during the summer at sa P and because I had work experience there and
did a good job after graduation I also managed to get a job there but actually
at that time I had access to a connection that was very valuable but
that I didn't make use of at all by the way in case you're new to this channel I
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shape the kind of career that might not be a traditional kind of career but that
is most suitable for your life and that you really want and currently
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don't forget to hit the little alarm bell because if you don't hit the alarm
bell then YouTube will not notify you of my new videos at that time in Germany I
was renting the basement apartment in a house that was managed by an elderly
lady my landlord who was the mother-in-law of one of the founders of
sa P I won't mention his name here because that is irrelevant but the point
is that after she heard that I work at sa P she told me why didn't I tell her
because then she would have introduced me to her son-in-law and I could have
had a chance to meet him and talk about it it wouldn't have meant necessarily
that he would then offer me a job on the spot I mean I would still have to submit
my resume and I would have to qualify for the position but that was a very
valuable opportunity I mean if I at least introduce myself to him and had
the chance to talk and chat with him I would get to know a bit more about the
opportunities that exists in the company for students at that time like me but
that was simply something that at that time I didn't think of making use of
because I was someone who was used to following the process and perhaps to you
listening right now you might be one of these people who stick to the standard
process so when you're looking for a job you go online you look for the job
openings perhaps on monster.com indeed and other sites and then you go through
the normal application process you apply you submit your cover letter or your
resume and you wait and hope that someone contacts you and in many many
cases it works as for myself I got my first job in banking by applying
directly to the company myself so not through connections but I simply went to
the website I prepared all my documents and I emailed my application package to
the HR email that was listed on the website and after
only two weeks I heard back from them I went to the interview assessment center
and went through the whole process and in the end they accepted me and it
worked out well and that was also the case for many other jobs that I got but
now come to think of it there were many opportunities and many connections that
I had that I didn't make use of at all but at that time and even until recently
I felt a bit stubborn about it I had this inner kind of reluctance and
hesitancy to just go up to one of my contacts and tell them that I was
looking for a job and asked them for help
by the way in case you're liking this video so far then please give it a
thumbs up I would really appreciate it but lately my view on this has really
changed I believe that you would really be missing out on a lot if you do not
make use of your connections and your networks and the reason is this you
might think that all the jobs are neatly listed out there online and that it is
accessible by everyone but unfortunately that is not the case you might have
heard that there is something like the open general job market and then there
is something called the hidden job market that means that there are a lot
of positions out there in companies that are not listed openly of course most of
the positions will be listed online and that is because the company themselves
have an interest to put themselves out there so that they can get the best
candidate to apply but putting up all of those job advertisements is a process in
itself and sometimes it takes the company a while till they get everything
up but in the meantime there is a position that needs to be filled in the
company and it might only be known internally to the people who are working
within the company or even within that department and this means that by
talking to your connections and your network you might be able to get very
valuable information about available positions that you might be recommended
for another thing is that if you find out from your connections about an open
job position for which you qualify of course then chances are very high that
your application will get considered the thing is that HR managers managers who
are hiring in the companies they get so many applications on a daily basis and
it's quite some work to sort through all
those applications so by applying through job through your connection
chances are that your application your application package will go right on top
of the stack of applications that are going to get reviewed of course this
doesn't mean that you will get the job for sure you will still need to qualify
for it you will still need to be interviewed for the position but in any
case you have a leg up compared to other candidates so let me tell you a bit
about my personal hesitations of going through my connections to get a job or a
business opportunity I used to ask myself am I not like being a bit unfair
or cutting corners by going through my connections that's the way I used to
sing and you might be someone who deep down inside has these kinds of thoughts
and therefore you were reluctant to go through your connections
I would now say that using your connections to getting to a job or a
business opportunity is no problem as long as you are actually skilled and
qualified for that job the only way that it could be a problem or unfair is that
if you get a job for which you are actually not qualified or don't have the
skills at all and you only got that job because of your connections and your
relationship and nothing else that would be a problem because sooner or later
that will show in your work and people will find out that the only reason that
you got the job is because of that relationship but if you are actually
qualified for the job then I don't think that you should have any concerns about
it because you are not the only one who will be benefiting from this but also
the company and the person hiring you hiring is a very difficult process I
experienced it myself when I was leading a team and I was hiring people I found
it really difficult to sort through all the applications and find a suitable
candidate to me it seems that when hiring managers are hiring new employees
they are looking for different things and among those are of course your
skills and your experiences your capabilities but one thing that people
often forget is the trust factor people need to be able to trust you they have
to know that you are reliable that you are going to show up and that you are a
person that is to work with especially if you have to
collaborate with other people and work in a team that it's really important
that you are someone who is easy to work with but that trade is not something
that people can easily find out from a job application or even an interview in
an interview certainly a candidate can say that yeah I'm a team player I am
good at collaboration I'm easy to work with but but who knows who knows how
this person really is so if you find out about a job through your connections and
you apply for that job through that route you have a leg up because you will
already have this kind of stamp of approval from the person referring you
if this connection who is recommending you from the job has known you for a
long time and they've worked with you they know that you are reliable and that
you are skilled that you are easy to work with that will really be a
reassurance for the hiring manager if you're looking for any kind of job than
this method of applying through your connections and network is I would say
almost foolproof I would say that you can almost surgeon get a job fastest way
but of course if you are looking for a very specific job then this might not
always work but nevertheless I would really recommend you to try this because
what you can do is that you not only contact your first degree connections
but especially your second degree connections and this is what I mean you
approach your first degree connections meaning the people that you know
directly personally whom you work with and you let them know that you are on a
job search and that you're looking for a job with criteria ABCD knowing this with
this information if they meet their colleagues or acquaintances and they
hear about a job that they think might be suitable for you they will have you
in their mind already and then they will let you know that hey I just talked to
so-and-so and they said that this kind of job is available would you be
interested if you are then I could introduce you to this person or I could
refer you by the way are you trying or have you managed to get a job from your
first degree connection or second degree connection please let me know in the
comments below and in fact getting jobs through second
degree connections is even more of active but this topic about
second-degree connections is a topic for another day
I hope that you guys enjoyed this video and that this will be useful for your
future job hunt I wish you all the best and again I thank you so much for
watching especially to those of you who stuck with me to the very end I wish you
an awesome day all the best and I hope to see you again soon