Hey Ambitious Professionals! It's Linda Raynier of lindaraynier.com guiding you
to a career and life you'll truly enjoy. And in today's video I wanted to do
something fun and share with you what I would do if I was unemployed
specifically when it comes to looking for a new job so stay tuned
as a career strategist I have had the ability to help numerous corporate
ambitious professionals just like you to land their dream job offers and if this
is something that you're more interested in learning about I can share details
about that as well as my free resources available to you at the end of this
video now you may or may not know this but in the past I used to be a corporate
recruiter and I worked with hundreds probably even thousands of individuals
who were looking for jobs now many of them were employed but there were also a
good number of them who were unemployed and so I got to see firsthand what that
experience was like for them and so today I want to share with you what I
would do if I was in a position like that where I was unemployed looking for
a job a corporate position and how I would go about it and hopefully this
will help you if you're in the same position right now now the very first
thing that I would do this is something that I feel is extremely important
before even taking on any practical action steps is I would start to believe
in myself now I know this may sound weird and cheesy as a first step but it
is so important without knowing how to eliminate your negative thoughts which
by the way I have a video on how to do so feel free to check it out you will
struggle in your job search and I know this because I've seen it I've seen the
people who stay positive who believe in themselves who trust that the right
opportunity is out there and do all the things that they need to do to keep
themselves positive and in an optimistic mindset and I've also seen people who
are negative from the beginning who don't believe in themselves who think
that it's going to be a struggle I see the differences in how quickly they're
able to land their job offers and in how little or how much of a struggle they
end up going through so this is extremely important so what I would do
is I would journal I would meditate I would exercise I would do all the things
that I need to do to maintain my mental spiritual and emotional well-being so
that the next days weeks and months to come are not
going to be a struggle so if you're looking for a job stop creating it into
a struggle for yourself if you are dealing with negative
thoughts you need to rewind you need to do some deep digging and eliminate these
negative thoughts and like I said I have a video on exactly how to do that now
step number two is to create a compelling well-written
attractive resume that speaks to the recruiter why does they have to speak to
the recruiter specifically because the recruiter generally is the first set of
eyes that will be looking at your resume or CV and so if you don't know how to
craft your resume in a way that it is simple and clear and concise enough for
the recruiter to understand then you're not going to get to the level where a
hiring manager is looking at your resume recruiters are always usually the first
ones to screen your resume they identify if you're a fit for the job and then
they'll pass that on to the hiring manager who will then call you in for a
second-round interview but the recruiters are the gatekeepers so you
need to understand the strategy on how to write a clear concise simple enough
resume that demonstrates your skills knowledge and experience and speaks in
the language of the recruiter and of course the hiring manager some people
don't put enough work into their resume and I can't stress this enough on as to
how important this is the resume is your ticket the ticket to get you in the door
for an interview and then of course in the interview you have to sell yourself
and do all the right things to get the job but if you can't get in the door
with your resume then you're not going to even get a shot at being considered
for the job so if you need help with writing your
resume and figuring out the strategy then I have a resource available to you
feel free to check out my free resume mastery workshop the link is in the
description box down below or I've included the link here as well feel free
to sign up for it it's completely free and you'll learn some key strategies and
techniques on how to write an attractive compelling
su-mei that speaks the language of the recruiters and hiring managers now once
you have your resume in place the third thing that I would do is I would reach
out to employers directly on LinkedIn to apply for jobs this is something that a
lot of people don't know about if you are someone who is applying for jobs day
in and day out and you're only applying online meaning you're only submitting
through their online job boards then you are likely not getting enough interviews
from that because think about it when you're applying online through the job
boards it's you plus maybe a hundred other people applying on that same job
board and what's happening is the recruiters aren't able to filter through
all hundreds of resumes and sometimes they only look at the top two three four
five that initially came in so if you're a little bit late then you might not
even be looked at at all your resume will just drown in the sea of other
resumes so instead to counteract this to stand out one technique and strategy
that I would do if I were you is to reach out to the hiring manager and the
recruiter via LinkedIn and send them a message and send them your resume as
well and let them know that you're interested in the opportunity that
they're currently hiring for and see what happens
you're going to do that plus you're going to apply through the online job
board this has helped my one-on-one private coaching clients land job offers
simply easily and quickly because guess what they're setting themselves apart
they're putting themselves forward so of course you need to have a great LinkedIn
profile to go along with it and of course your great amazing resume but as
soon as you have those two things you can reach out and hopefully you'll get a
higher response rate and last but not the least thing that I would do step
number four is to practice interview answers every day even if you don't have
any interviews lined up yet that's what I would do the thing about getting
invited to interviews is that they can happen at any time sometimes within one
day's notice so if you're not prepared and you
haven't done any work meaning you haven't prepared your compelling stories
and examples you don't know the answer - the most common interview questions
and how you're going to explain them what's going to happen in the interviews
is that you're more likely than not you're going to make up your answers on
the spot you're going to ramble on and on you're going to stutter you're gonna
trip over your words and overall you're just not going to be able to sell
yourself well some of the basic questions that can be asked could be why
are you interested in this opportunity why should we hire you what do you know
about our company if you don't even have the basic answers to these you are going
to fail those interviews my friend now I do have a resource to help you with this
if you're struggling with your interviews I have my free interview
strategy workshop which is available to you right now it's a brand new workshop
that I've created recently if you want to get access to it feel free to follow
the link down below in the description box or you can see the link right here
and just sign up you'll learn some key strategies and techniques on how to
impress hiring managers in the interviews and I also give you a free
sample answer to one of the most common interview questions so there you have it
those are the four things that I would do if I was unemployed and looking for a
job I would do these on a daily basis now be sure to check out the resources
the workshops that I mentioned in this video so that you can get your free
training and learn the strategies and the steps that you need in order to land
your next job offer now if you are someone who is currently looking for a
new position you've been struggling in interviews you haven't been getting many
interview calls in the first place and you realize that you need one-on-one
professional help from me feel free to reach out head on over to my website
lindaraynier.com/standoutgethired read through the page fill in the
application form and if it feels as though we are a potential match then one
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much for watching and I will see you in the next video