Hey, everyone, and welcome back.
If you are new here, my name is Bill Benoist.
I'm a certified professional career coach in Silicon Valley, and I upload new career
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Would you like to increase the odds of landing that next job a lot faster?
This is what a career strategist does for you.
Let's pretend for a moment that you are making $75,000 a year.
Now, I know a lot of you make much more than $75,000 a year and some of you don't make
quite that much money, but I'm just going to use this figure as an example.
Seventy-five thousand dollars a year is about $35 an hour or roughly $1400 a week.
You work with a career strategist and you take everything that they share with you,
and you land just one week sooner, just one week sooner.
Well, you've made $1400 one week sooner than had you never worked with a career strategist
before.
And how do they do this?
Well, they're going to work with you on your resume, they're going to make sure that it's
applicant tracking system-friendly, make sure that it stands out, it makes an impact on
that recruiter during the first six seconds, because this is the average a recruiter spends
on your resume is only about six seconds.
They're going to help you with your LinkedIn profile, they're going to make sure that LinkedIn
profile works for you 24 by seven.
They're going to help you with the interview questions, those questions like, "Tell me
a little bit about yourself" or the dreaded salary question, "What are you salary expectations?,"
those behavioral type of questions, "Tell me a time when ..." or "Give me an example
of ..." or the weakness question.
And here's a hint: chocolate's not a weakness.
Working with a career strategist, they're going to help you with these things, and they're
going to help you with creating a job search strategy.
A lot of individuals, they're actually offered career services when they've been laid off
from a company.
And these career services are going to be through organizations.
They're known as career transition companies.
And I've actually worked as an independent contractor for several career transition companies
out there, worked with the oldest out there.
I'm not going to use names, but I'm going to say this.
You probably figured out by a Google search I've worked with the oldest career transition
companies out there and also the largest career transition companies out there.
And those are two different ones, so it's not the same one by the way.
There's a lot of career transition companies out there, and they hire coaches, independent
contractors, to come on board with them.
I also work as an independent contractor for about 10 technical schools across the US.
I have an online course that they go through, and they will also get career coaching services
after they complete the course.
I have an employee, someone that I feed a lot of this ... a lot of these opportunities
to, as well as I'll take them on myself.
But this is where I'm going with this video today, and that is, unbelievably to me, only
40% of individuals will ever take advantage of career coaching services, when it's offered
to them at no cost whatsoever.
Only 40%.
And maybe it has to do with pride, maybe it has to do with they simply don't see the value
in it, maybe it's because they're very bitter as to being laid off from the last company.
You've got to swallow your pride, guys.
Swallow your pride and take advantage of these services, because that career coach that's
going to be working with you, there's no ulterior agenda other than helping you land that next
job quickly, because this is what they do.
They love doing the kind of work that they do, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it.
I'll tell you that right now.
Here's the thing about career coaches.
Within ourselves, we know what it is that we want to be doing.
We better, because we're helping other people figure out what they want to do.
And we love what we do, and that's our agenda is to help you land that next job out there,
nothing else.
So again, if you're offered the services, take advantage of them.
If you're out there right now in a company and you're not real happy with it, the services
are not being offered to you, then take a look at investing in yourself, because there's
nothing better than doing a self-development investment in yourself to move you to the
next level.
And by the way, earlier I'd mentioned I had created an online course for the technical
schools.
And although that's private and not available to the general public, I do have one that
is available to the general public.
It's a three and a half hour course.
It's called Finding Work that Fuels Your Passion.
It's something where I go step by step on how to create a professional resume, and you'd
be surprised how easy it is to do this by following the guided practice that I have
out there as well as creating a LinkedIn profile that's going to work for you 24 by seven,
that's going to help you get discovered by the recruiters out there, how to answer the
most common interview questions, and even help you create a new job search strategy.
So information about that is in the note section below this video, so make sure that you check
it out.
So I hope you found this video informative and useful.
And again, I can't stress enough, if you are in career transition and you've been offered
career coaching services, please, please, please take advantage of it.
There's no downside whatsoever, and it could help you land a lot quicker.
Thanks for stopping by, and I look forward to seeing you in the next video.