Dana's asking
company outside of my geography that i'd love to work for
regardless of position open or not i can boss hunt and send a resume
but what's the process convo look like if i don't want to move
so i would uh this is by the way this is a great question
because and a lot of people are applying for jobs that are in
different locations and they don't want to move i always
stress and for those of you who have taken my job search challenge
we will i'll get into that a little later but i have a job search challenge
and the job search challenge is about conditioning
you to reach out to organizations and what i love about dana's
example here is that it goes to the spirit of everything
that i want to preach to you guys and teach you is
i want you to control your outflow your output and i want you to target
individuals and no one can stop you okay that is much more effective than
putting your resume into the ats which i love to call the
application trashing system i mean that's what it is so as you are
putting your resume into those things you are limited by
whatever uh jobs are being publicized and you're
also limited by the bot and and and it letting you
through its system so in dana's example she's reaching out to somebody
and the ultimate purpose of the initial reach out
while i understand the long-term purpose or or even in the short term this is
still the long term is that you want to get a job your
immediate goal when you reach out to somebody
especially for a high value target company
is to get them to respond that's goal number one
if they respond you can do something with that you can see where it goes
if they are not interested you might be able to network with them
but you gotta get engaged good things happen when you do
so in dana's case when she's reaching out to somebody who gets back to her
but she doesn't necessarily want to to to move
she also has to understand and dana for you
you're open to possibilities right you you you don't know
what any kind of opportunity with this company is going to entail so the first
goal is get them on the phone if they start
getting into well hey i noticed you live in new york
and this job is in san francisco then you can get into okay well you know
what are the possibilities i'm open to things depending on and you want
to see how far you can take it because the more and more they love you
you never know there might be a position that opens
and you can work remotely or they might make accommodations true story
there was this woman her name was laura actually spells her name l-o-r-a
and she's in the job search boot camp she wasn't a job search boot camp
she had gotten into the program she was just turned 60 years old she was 59 just
about to turn 60 had just gotten let go uh
and she had spent her entire career in media
it's media is a rough industry for a variety of reasons it's especially rough
if you're a woman and it's especially rough
if you were an older worker and a woman and she was a little bit uh
panicked but we we she got it in the boot camp she went through the process
we actually had a coaching session as well and she was doing
basically dana the same thing that you are doing where she was
reaching into anybody anywhere where it looked
promising great company she gets a company interestingly enough
she's from chicago they uh they were located in new york
initially she was interviewing for a position that
she thought she needed to be in new york then
it got to they got into the interview process they said well we we just
assumed the position was would be here but but let's let's
discuss and if we're a really great match maybe
we can figure that out she goes through the process
not only did did midway through they decide hey
you can do this remotely as long as you can get to new york a couple of times a
month then it turned into not only could she
work from chicago but she she was also going to take on
the entire us so the scope of the role got bigger
so she was unemployed 60 years old going after a position in a different
city not only got the job a huge pay increase
a bigger scope than she intended for all because she was open to the
possibilities of reaching out to companies
just like you are so i mean i hope that story motivates
dana not just you but everybody here that
you're not going to get that shoving your resume into an applicant tracking
system you're just simply not so you're gonna
have to you're gonna have to put yourself in place so to speak
so i hope that helps i would i would i would take the conversation as far as as
you can uh before you start getting into hey you
know i'm not really willing to move you just never know and
we live in a very very virtual world now we really do
we really do so i hope that helps
you