hey everybody don georgevich here with
job interview tools
and today i want to give you the three
things that i did
that made for the biggest shift in my
interviews
so when i used to interview i would go
on like 20 job interviews
and maybe maybe i would get one offer
but when i made this shift and started
doing these three
things that i'm going to tell you about
i would interview with 10 companies and
now i would get four
or five job offers it made a huge
difference for me
but but early on in my career i mean i
would go on interview
after interview after interview and i
would get nothing nothing nothing
most of the time i wouldn't even get a
second interview
if i did get a second interview i
certainly didn't get a third
and once in a while maybe an employer
would feel sorry for me you know or
whatever
and i'd get hired so i did get hired
here and there
but most of it was a struggle it was
very painful
and it was very awkward time for me i'd
get a job i'd work there for a little
bit
you know let that fire me um for
whatever reason
and you know early on in my career was
tough
and maybe maybe it's tough for you maybe
right now you're at a point where
you know you're struggling with
interviews you've been going on
interviews maybe for six months or a
year
and nobody is doing anything nobody's
hiring you
well hopefully after i share with you
these three things that i did that made
the biggest shift for me um you'll be
able to do those two
and you realize that same shift
so the first one for me is when i
realized
that employment was not my god-given
right
and that being employed was a privilege
made a huge difference that you know an
employer
practically had to hire me and it was it
was their job to hire me and i was good
i had skills um i knew how to do this
job
they owe it to me now this was early on
thinking um but that's the way i thought
and and i know that there's a lot of
people who kind of think that way today
they really feel that employers owe them
a job
and i got to tell you you know nobody
owes you a job
employment is a privilege it's not a
right and that was the first
shift for me and just being some young
punk kid
i didn't know that and
once i started seeing it from from their
side and just
realizing that you know what
having a job i mean nobody owes me a job
and
probably what helped me make this shift
is when i had a job and i noticed other
people
working at that company who really
didn't care about the job that they had
they weren't there for the company they
were there for themselves they were
there for a paycheck
and you know they were just trying to
milk the company for all it was worth
and they really they just did a
half-assed job
and i'm thinking to myself you know
why you know why why would you act that
way on your job
and the employer is
giving you a wage you know they want you
to do this work
they're giving you all the tools and
resources that you need and then and you
don't care
you know you should just go somewhere
else and and that's probably
when i started to realize that you know
what
employment is a privilege i mean it
feels good you have a job
someone believes in you they trust you
and
it's a privilege they don't owe that job
to you it's
you know it's not your right
and just making that shift alone will
make a huge difference
in the way that you approach your
interviews now i'm sure
that you know because you're one of my
subscribers and you're watching this
video that you don't really think that
way
you really believe that you know
employment
is a privilege and it's not a right but
it's sometimes good to just remind
yourself of that
and realize that you know i
am grateful to have what i have and i
respect the employer and that that's
really kind of what it boils down to
is respect i mean you're trying to
convince somebody
to hire you for a job i mean you should
have a mutual respect
between each other so let's move on to
number two
my second biggest shift in the way
i approached interviews was i started to
care
what a concept i started to care about
them
i didn't approach the interview as being
needy
or desperate but but i cared about them
and i wanted to help i genuinely
wanted to join them to help them not for
the paycheck
but for the opportunity for the
experience
and because i believed in what they were
doing i believed in where they were
going
and i cared about them i cared about
their problems i would ask them
you know so what kind of problems you
know are you guys facing you know what
kind of challenges are facing this
position
and i kind of pushed back against them a
little bit
and kind of forced them to sell me on
the job
but it showed that that i was really
interested
and it showed that i cared about the
where they were going and the challenges
that they faced
and that number two shift made a huge
difference because
it showed the employer that i just
wasn't there
looking for a job i mean i was asking
questions about you know what they were
doing
where are they going why they're going
there and i would share my own
excitement
and enthusiasm that you know hey i want
to be along with you for the ride and
i've got some things to contribute
because
i understand some of the things that you
guys are doing i've done those kinds of
things before
here's how i can do them for you in this
job
so that was my second biggest shift in
thinking and the final
shift in thinking was
i only applied for jobs where
i knew in my heart that that i
admired what they were doing i wanted to
be a part of their team
now i probably like everybody else
i'm victim of this i would go out and i
might apply to 10 20 30 40 50 jobs in a
day it's like hey here's my resume
here's my resume
everybody take my resume and after i'd
send out 500 resumes do you know how
many responses
i would get back zero i'd hear crickets
and it took so much energy
because i only have so much energy to
apply for jobs
so i basically channeled all of my
energy
into 500 jobs
that i applied for and so that's
diluting all my energy 500 times
so instead what i did was i focused and
harnessed all of that energy into one
two or three jobs a week that i would
plot apply for
and these were jobs that i really wanted
i admired the company i admired what
they were doing i
respected the challenges and it was a
job
that i could do that i could do like 90
or 100
of this job now other jobs that i would
used to
apply to i'd look through the job
description
and be like well yeah i can do that and
that and that but that then that i can't
so i could do maybe half the job
let's send him a resume or you know
here's another job i can do 60
let's send them a resume um it doesn't
work
you're diluting all of your energy and
spreading it across
all kinds of employers where most of
them just don't care about you
so it takes more work to be focused
but it allows you to channel all of that
energy
into just a few positions at a time and
and when and when i would apply to these
jobs you know i would pick one
and i would pour my heart into it i'd
write him a warm
heartfelt cover letter that expressed
what i was looking for
that i was interested in what they were
doing and i'd like to be a part of the
growing team
and here's why i just didn't
send out willy-nilly cover letters to
everybody
they were all very highly targeted and
focused
and if they said you know please send
your resume to human resources well that
wasn't good enough for me
i wanted to find out the person to send
it to so i would do some digging
and i would dig and dig and dig until i
could find a name if i couldn't find an
aim i'd call them up on the phone
and i would talk to human resources and
find out the individual who could i
address this to
and that way i get their contact
information instead of sending it to
human resources
you know now i'm sending it to david
smith of
human resources and it's going to a real
person and now i've made a connection
and now i can follow up with david in a
week or two
send them an email give them a phone
call whatever that is
and this allowed me to be more
personable
more genuine in the companies that i
targeted
because now i have a name i have a
company and it's a place that i want to
be and i'm
passionate about the role i'm passionate
about what they're doing
and all that energy being focused into
that one job
gave it so much of a better chance i
mean it would almost always
get the interview almost always when i
poured my heart
into three or four job interviews a week
and sent them a customized resume
customized cover letter almost certainly
get the interview did i always get the
job no
because i'm not right for every job and
a lot of different things happen but it
really increased the probability
that when i did get the interview i
would go farther in the process
instead of bowing out after the first or
second interview now i might get a third
i might get the fourth
and half the time maybe a little less
than half the time
i would get the offer and that's what
you want and
that's why you only want to focus on
places that really mean something to you
now if there's a job out there
and you're like yeah i can kind of do
that i really don't like this company i
don't really care for them but i'm going
to apply to it anyway
don't waste your time focus it on
companies and places and types of jobs
that you really want that mean something
to you in your heart if it doesn't get
you excited if it doesn't keep you up at
night thinking about oh my gosh
i can't wait for the interview i can't
wait to talk to them about this job
because i'm so excited about it
if a job doesn't make you feel
totally excited and enthusiastic about
it
don't waste your time pour your heart
into jobs that means something to you
and you'll go so much farther in the
process so
there you are my friend the three the
three biggest shifts
that made the biggest difference for me
when when i interviewed for jobs and i
am certain
that when you start applying these
things in your interviews
you're going to go farther now you might
say you know what i've already done that
it didn't work
well did you try again i mean how many
times did you try i mean
how many times do you need to try to be
enthusiastic how many times do you need
to try to show that you care
point your heart into it and just be
that person
be who you are let them see you let them
see the real you
how authentic you are i guarantee
you'll go farther i guarantee it now
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so that is all i have for you today now
before your next interview
think about how you can apply those
three things to make a shift
in your interviews i mean i'm assuming
that maybe your interviews aren't going
as well
as they used to so apply those three
things
and make a shift in you and see what
kind of difference that makes and don't
just try it once
let it become you and i guarantee
you will go farther all right my friend
that's all i have for you
see you in the next video take care
bye-bye now