hey ambitious professionals it's Linda
Rainer of Linda Rainer calm guiding you
to a career and life you'll truly enjoy
now if you are someone who has been
hunting for a job for the last little
while and you haven't been getting much
traction aside from the current climate
and situation that we're in there are
likely other key reasons why this is not
working out for you so today I want to
walk you through six things that you
need to stop doing if you want to get
hired so let's get into it
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now as a career strategist I have had
the honor of being able to help numerous
ambitious corporate professionals to
land their dream job offers and so if
this is something that you're interested
in working with me one on one I can give
you details about that at the end of
this video so if you've been watching my
videos for a while now you've probably
become very familiar with the things
that I teach in terms of what you should
be doing when it comes to looking for a
job and how to successfully land that
job offer but there are things that you
shouldn't be doing as well that I may
not have mentioned in the past and that
others may not have told you so today
I'm gonna share with you six things that
you need to stop doing if you want to
get hired soon the first thing that you
should stop doing is to stop skimming
job descriptions this is the thing that
I've seen happen time and time again
where a lot of job candidates will go
online you click on a job posting and
then you skim through it within 30
seconds you're like oh yeah that job
kind of sounds like a job that I could
do and you submit your resume that is
not what you want to do if you want to
be seen as a candidate that is aligned
to that position because there's a good
chance that if all you do is skim the
Job Description
you've missed out on some key aspects of
the role that they really want you to
have and you've missed out on being able
to portray that either on your resume or
later on if you do get an interview in
the interview so what you want to do
instead is to study the job descriptions
before you submit your application
before you go in for the interviews you
want to study these job descriptions and
make sure that you truly understand what
the role is asking for what the hiring
managers are asking for so that you can
relate to them in the application and in
the interview so as a repeat stop
skimming the job descriptions from now
on you are going to comb through the job
descriptions you're going to read them
through line by line word-for-word and
fully understand what it is the hiring
managers are looking for the second
thing that you should stop doing is to
stop sending the same resume to every
job
posting this is one of the most common
mistakes that I have seen done time and
time again by job candidates where you
take your one resume that you've created
not knowing for sure if it's an exact
match for the job that you want to apply
for and you just blast it out to dozens
if not hundreds of job postings you do
not want to send the same resume to
every posting why is that because every
posting is slightly different every
company is different what they're
looking for is slightly different so how
can you assume that your one resume is
going to match what they're really
looking for you can't and that is why it
is so important to be able to customize
your resume for every posting now a lot
of people will go and panic when I tell
them that they need to customize their
resume because they're worried that they
have to rewrite their entire resume that
is not the case if you learn the right
approach the right strategy on how to
create a strong attractive compelling
resume all you're gonna have to do is
make tweaks to it you're just going to
have to customize it a little bit here
and there and if you know the right
strategies you'll know exactly where you
need to tweak so if you need help in
this area I have a free workshop that
teaches you exactly how to do this so
feel free to check that out the link is
in the description box down below it's
also down here on this page as well feel
free to check it out after this video
and learn how you can write a really
compelling attractive resume so that
when you have to apply for jobs you
simply have to tweak it a little bit so
that it is aligned to that particular
company that particular job posting that
particular hiring manager the third
thing that you should stop doing when it
comes to looking for a job if you want
to get hired is to stop going to
interviews unprepared
this may sound so obvious but it is also
another very very common mistake that I
see job candidates make they get called
for interviews and they're completely
unprepared for them because they assume
and maybe you make this mistake as well
you assume that it
just a few questions you just have to
answer the questions and that's it but
an interview is much more than that an
interview is if you really want to think
of it it's almost as though it's a sales
presentation and you are the one making
the sales pitch so if you're not
prepared to make a sales pitch in front
of the hiring manager of why you are fit
for them and you're not prepared for any
of the questions that they have to ask
you it looks terrible
on your part because you clearly are
unprepared so for example if a hiring
manager asks you why do you want this
job or if they ask you what do you know
about us and you stumble through your
answers you're likely not going to get
called for the next round so you really
want to stop going into interviews
unprepared and if you again if you need
help in this area I also have a resource
for you I have my free interview
strategy workshop which the link is also
the description box down below it's also
here on this page feel free to check out
my resources because if you really want
to improve your job search you need to
learn the right strategies and the right
approaches so feel free to check that
out to improve your interview skills so
that you can be that much more prepared
for that next interview now the fourth
thing to stop doing is to stop applying
to jobs that you're not interested in or
you don't want now there are a multitude
of reasons why you should stop doing
this one of the reasons is because if
you really don't actually want that
position but you just want to apply just
to see what happens what can happen is
that if you do well for example you may
continue to progress in the interview
stages and then you end up getting the
job offer and you might end up taking it
and being miserable after now that's a
good case scenario in a sense but also
bad on your part because you're probably
going to end up leaving after a couple
months if you really don't enjoy the job
so that's one reason but another reason
is also you're just wasting your time if
you're applying for positions that you
don't have any knowledge in you are not
skilled or experienced in so this is the
more likely scenario rather than the
first scenario I just mentioned you're
going to feel very defeated because
you're not
get called back for any interviews and
that's going to lessen your confidence
with this whole job search and then once
you do get called for interviews for
other positions you're going to just
simply feel that you're not a fit and
you're not going to do well so that's
why it's so important to be strategic
with your job search apply to the roles
that you know you can likely potentially
get and then also look for the positions
that you have the right qualifications
experience and skills for things that
you know you've done before or that
you've learned in school that you can
apply to this position so you really
want to avoid just blasting your resume
to every job posting and seeing what
happens because again that's a lot of
work if you're going to end up
customizing your resume which hopefully
you will be doing now that I've
mentioned it you're going to be
customizing your resume for every
position so why send it out to positions
that you're not actually interested in
okay so you really want to focus on the
roles that you want the fifth thing that
you should stop doing is to stop
focusing on the company and instead
focus on the job or position itself this
is another classic mistake that I see
people do they apply to all the big
brand name shiny companies and they
apply to roles that they're either not
interested in or not totally a fit for
or not really going to be a match for so
you end up applying to these roles with
these great companies but then you end
up getting typecasted into that position
and if you don't enjoy the job that you
applied for and that you took on in that
company it doesn't matter if it's the
most amazing company in the world if it
was Google or Facebook or whatever
amazing brand name company if you don't
like your job you're gonna be miserable
and then what's going to happen is
you're not going to perform all that
well potentially because you're
miserable and then the next job that you
want to apply for you're going to be
typecasted into that particular role
people aren't necessarily going to look
at just the company they're going to
look at the title of the job that you
held before the skills and experiences
that you
and they're going to fit you into a
certain role that matches that ideally
so if you want to get out of that type
of job it's going to be difficult you're
gonna end up feeling stuck in that
particular role and you're gonna want to
pivot and make a move and it likely will
be difficult if it's a very specialized
or very specific position so what I'm
trying to say here is if you can focus
on the job and make sure that this is
the type of job that I know I want and I
want to do rather than the company
that's going to set you up for success
in the long term because then growth and
promotions and opportunities to move up
in that particular field that type of
position is going to be available to you
so again focus on the role not so much
the company even if you start off with a
smaller lesser known named company it's
fine because if you have the right
skills and experiences you can move into
those better organizations in the right
job and so you'll be a fit all around
the last thing that you should stop
doing is to stop beating yourself down
and feeling as though you'll never find
a job I know how easy it is to blame the
situation that we're currently in with
coronavirus with unemployment rates with
the way the economy is going to say that
it just feels impossible that you'll
ever find a job anytime soon but to be
honest if you buy into that belief and
if you really drag yourself down your
energy is going to be impacted and the
way that you conduct your job search and
the way you handle interviews the way
that you apply for jobs all of that is
going to be impacted in my personal
experience working with many many
ambitious corporate professionals one on
one what I have seen is that those
students who are most motivated who stay
positive stay optimistic that's the key
word optimistic they stay optimistic and
they believe that there will be a role
out there for them they end up getting
the jobs the quickest they end up
getting the best jobs that they could
possibly get in that time frame and they
end up being the happiest with their
results because they stayed optimistic
they believed that it was going to
happen and they did everything they
needed to do to make that happen
if you want to sit in your own misery
and not feel good about where you're at
and then not believe that anything good
is possible for you that's completely
entirely up to you you can totally do
that but just know that that's going to
impact what happens to you that's going
to impact the results that you get you
are likely going to stay unemployed
longer because you're not pushing
yourself and bringing yourself up enough
to be able to meet what's necessary to
get that job you have to rise yourself
up to meet the world's expectations when
it comes to that job offer for example
your energy is so key so that is the
last thing that I would say to stop
doing stop whining complaining because
it is hurting you it's not helping you
so there you go those are the six things
that I recommend you stop doing if you
want to get hired hopefully soon so
hopefully that helps if you are someone
who's currently on the market and you've
been struggling with your job search and
you realize you've been doing these
things or not doing the things that I've
mentioned and yet it's still not working
and you're interested in working with me
one-on-one then feel free to head on
over to my website Linda Raynor comm
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and from there if it seems as though we
are a potential match then one of my
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