hey guys II see RG here today we're gonna be talking about when should I
start looking for a job hey guys ECR g here today we're gonna be talking
about when should I start looking for a job and before we get into the video
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when should I and by I I mean you us we start looking for a job and the answer
is gonna be different for different people so first I'm gonna address the
up-and-coming college student who are who pay attention to this channel so
when should you start looking for a job and the answer is if you want to find
the perfect job that matches your skill set good rate of pay and good you know
overall good everything you know great benefits you want to find the best jobs
it starts as soon as you enter college what you see are G what are you talking
about it starts as soon as you enter college you usually takes about three
months you know to find a good job what are you talking about that's four years
well I'm you piggybacking on my medical school experience that was a four year
process getting into Medical School it starts from day one from the day you
walk onto campus from the time that the classes that you choose to take the
electives that you take you know getting a research job you know whatever it is
you do you know volunteering building your resume in
order to get a medical school because it's that difficult to get in starts
from day one from entering college or day one from when you decide you want to
go to medical school usually by second semester freshman year
you better have a good idea and that's how most successful applicants happen so
so using that same logic and aggression and tenacity to get the perfect job I
would say it starts as soon as you know what job you want to do and you need to
really build your resume and build everything around you that you're doing
in order to get that job so whether that's applying for internships of that
company and doing internships almost every year it's good to vary up your
experience a little bit so I wouldn't I mean obviously if you do it all four
years you have a better chance of getting a
job and they probably might even offer you but it's also good to vary up your
experience a little bit so but do at least two years at at that company I
would say so it starts you know pretty early if you know you want to work
someplace and that's only gonna increase your odds of getting a job there the
more you the more you work for them and work with them because they're gonna
know your work ethic and you're gonna be familiar with their systems and how they
do things which is gonna translate to speed from day one you're gonna have a
lot of speed on a brand new applicant because you already know what you need
to do and what it's gonna take to be successful there so for the the college
student I'd say it starts as early as you want well as early as early as you
can and as early as you know you want to be there so whether that's four years
out or whether that's four months out so for let's say for the person who is you
know worked a job before they have some money saved up and you know they're
looking for their second career jump one should you start looking for that job
well the answer is when you feel like you're ready you know making jumps a lot
of times people wait a long time they wait until they have the exact number of
years of experience let's say a job that has three years of experience typically
people will wait until after they have three
years well you can actually wait until you have like 2 years 6 months 2 years 7
months and apply before then because by the time you actually get a recruiter on
the phone get an interview face to face interview you're gonna have your 3 years
experience because sometimes it just takes that long and a lot of times
people you know the ideal candidate will have three years experience but most of
the times we're not hiring they're perfect exact fit like they drew up in
their mind type of candidate so you keep that in mind and just keep shooting and
applying at different jobs so when it comes when it comes to that type of
person you can apply a little bit earlier than the requirement and just
you know just keep hope alive don't don't get too bogged down if you get
rejected from places because that's gonna happen that's just how things
happen and also if if you have a little bit of money saved up in the bank you
have a great opportunity when you realize you want to change jobs to
really sit back and think about what you really want in life because you can quit
your job and go travel in Europe for you for a month you can quit your job and do
a sabbatical or something for a few months if you have money saved up so I
know we've talked before about how having cash can help accelerate your
career and that's one of the reasons we talked about in that video was the fact
that when you have money you have options and you don't have to go back to
work immediately you can quit your job you know take a month off do what you
want to do and then get back into the workforce when you need to so that's
also something to keep in mind as well when you you know you're you were in
your career and you're changing jobs you don't have to go work immediately you
can take you can take a month off or something so just keep that in mind but
you know a lot of people out here living paycheck to paycheck and I'm not talking
about the people that make like thirty thousand dollars a year or less and you
know they literally are living paycheck to paycheck because they're spending
everything they can and they're on their place of residence and you know they
don't make much money so they have to spend it on their
needs some other people that make six figures a year but only have like two
thousand dollars in their bank account living paycheck to paycheck because
they're paying for that Bend you know they're paying for that private school
tuition they're paying for stuff that you don't really need you know that two
vacations a year you know traveling for every holiday type of thing I'm talking
about those people so it definitely pays to keep money saved up in your bank
account because you have a lot of options when you have cash you have
options so that's the second thing the third thing is I guess the third
scenario is so you've got a high school student who is debating on going to
college or dropping out and getting a job what should what should they choose
and you know what kind of job when should they start looking for a job and
the answer is pretty much when you know you when you know you what decision you
want to make when you know what decision you want to make you should probably
decide to get a job immediately because you're gonna have to pay your bills
you're gonna have to you know pay for the stuff that you need your apartment
whatever whatever if you're moving out of your parents house so that's what I
would recommend so three good scenarios there three
different options you have and when it comes to you know starting to look for a
job it really comes down comes down to you and your preference you've got to
keep in mind the time it's gonna take to actually get a job you know how to keep
in mind you know your experience level if people are just gonna overlook you at
first until you get your resume into the right hands and do you get it run the
right person or you know what your situation is for people that are even
for people that are you know very qualified it can take a while depending
on your industry I know clinical research tend to go through waves
attempt to go through its ups and downs and you know sometimes even if you're
incredibly experienced you know you got ten years monitoring as a CRA it can
still take a while to get it to get a job but when the industry is hot I know
the industry is hot you people can get jobs fairly quickly
if you have a little bit of experience so it depends on the industry at the
time and depending on what industry you're applying for as well so just keep
all that in mind that's it for this topic just want to do a quick video here
on you know when people should start looking for jobs people have been asking
when they should start looking for jobs especially college students and you know
there's there's really not is really not too early to start looking for your
dream job so keep that in mind guys if any questions comment down below you can
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