Jesse Brady! I do want to answer this all right this is a phenomenal question what
is more important the organization you're targeting or the seniority level
of the position would you advise setting a lower seniority position if the
organization is highly desirable yes so you join a company you do not join a job
and while a lot of you think that it's important that your title be a certain
way and you have to have a certain role I assure you from decades of working as
a practitioner just like you as a recruiter for half of those three
decades and now as a career coach for five years I am Telling You the company
you work for matters so much more than what it is you specifically do now I
know some of you are gonna argue at that point you say well I didn't get a job
because I didn't have this and that experience I'm telling you you get in
with a great company you are well better positioned in on a much better
trajectory than if you got a great role with a crappy company if you've got a
mediocre role with a great company great companies what do they do number one
there's and by the way great does not necessarily mean a household name like
you don't have to work for coca-cola you don't have to work for IBM a great
company could be a 10 person company so don't misunderstand that either it are
they an ace in their space if they are if they're well known in the space if
they are the go-to player or in the top couple or three if they know how to grow
their employees if they know how to provide opportunities if you have a
lower role but you're gonna get to wear multiple hats I would take that any
single day number one that's a personal opinion I have experience in both large
companies and small companies to me smaller companies are a lot more fun
because they get to do a lot more things and I got to learn a lot more about
running a business you get to learn about the other departments or units or
processes or whatever I would trade a senior role for a lower role with a
better come that treated its employees better gave
you more opportunities there are other things that go along with what I call
the value package of your of your offer from an organization value does value
means value to you not dollars and cents like compensation that's a part of the
value package but the value package as I assess them as I wrote about in
interview intervention it's what I get to do who I get to do it with training
opportunities vacation all that other stuff that goes along with compensation
what am I gonna get to learn and and and what are the growth opportunities and
all that other good stuff so Jessie it's far but in my opinion it
is far better to go with a great company and I don't know if you have seen my
webinar 3 secrets to get your resume noticed where I described how to go how
I go through a resume and how 90% of reviewers even if they're not trained to
go through a resume this is how they go through it and I look at your name I
look at the whole entire top portion of the first page and then I look down the
left column to see where you worked where you worked okay believe me if I'm
a recruiter or I'm somebody who's evaluating people to hire I'm gonna know
MySpace I'm likely gonna know MySpace now if I don't know those organizations
then what I'm hoping is there's a description of what the organization
does just because you live in Europe and you've migrated to the US and you've
been here 10 years but you've got 10 years in Europe and 10 years in the US
and you work for some European companies that I might not be familiar with and
I'm looking to hire somebody if you can neutralize that disadvantage by sharing
with me what that company does leader in manufacturing semiconductors in European
blah blah blah that will help me understand okay
now I understand who that company is I might look that company up okay so so
that's just another thing so not only is it more important but I know what some
of you're gonna ask me well if I if I sacrifice my level when I go to apply
for my next job and let me cap off this talk with that that
thinking you in your entire life in anything that you do in any goal that
you undertake in any project that you work on in any relationship that you're
in will be far better served focusing on your happiness on that on that day in
that minute okay I'm not worried about five years from now if I ever want to
fold up my mile walk-in mile walk Academy tent right now I'm focused on
getting the most enjoyment out of what I'm doing with you if I do that now
that's literally at 11:18 this minute it's also at this hour of this day it's
also this day it's also this week it's this month and so on and my job as a
career coach if you are focused on what you're doing and ringing every possible
joy out of it you will not only do it better but you will progress faster you
will appreciate it more you will be happier all of that will in turn has a
way of making great things happen for you just based on your attitude your
experience your enjoyment if you're worried about how this is gonna look
three years from now when you might or might not change your mind when your
company might be acquired when you might get fired when you who knows you might
get married and she's from a different city and you might want to move my point
is focus on the moment and don't get me wrong I want you to have some foresight
into the future and have a plan but I want I want your daily enjoyment to
supersede your long-term wishes it should it should you you should be on a
trajectory that is working toward the goals and the places you want to go but
getting in with a great company at a lower level could be a critical stepping
stone in doing that and enjoying yourself more would it would you rather
be in a more senior role that you didn't like at a company that you didn't love
that right might not be a leader in its space might not have a great reputation
might not give its employees a lot of opportunity or would you rather have a
lower level and work in a great environment and then worry of
what that looks like at some point when you do want to go and find a new job
believe me the story the story will work itself out if you're focused on the
right stuff if if you I have we have recruited people who have made major
mistakes and not taken jobs to get with better companies because they were
worried about how it was gonna look three or four years down the road when I
couldn't tell you how many times I can count people that didn't take jobs that
six months later they got fired their company folded they were out of work now
they're in a position where they don't have any leverage and it looks even
worse you just don't know what the future holds so why not be happy today
that's that's my point there Jesse and and everybody else focus on what you
love even if it's for less money if you get an opportunity to work with a great
mentor you should do that if you get an opportunity to work in a great
organization and let me let me actually cap it off with this I wrote an article
a while back you know when we didn't do as much video as we do now called seven
opportunities to take a pay cut it's on my blog maybe Kara can drop it in the
chat and I would take a look at that those are the seven reasons why I would
consider doing that but it's not saying that you have to take a pay cut but that
this is the way I think where these seven opportunities are going to pay off
dividends in the long run right the longer term you think the better your
short-term decisions are so if I'm happy today and I'm taking a step back to get
ahead or I'm taking a step back to work with a great company or I may be taking
a less less title level to get with a great company that's a smart move
because you're thinking long term even though I'm telling you to focus on today
I hope that makes I hope that makes sense that's best great question man I
probably just went I don't know how long that answer was but that was worth every
minute of what I told you because it's really really important and I know a lot
of you were confused about that so I hope it I hope that helps but Jesse
that's a great one thank you
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