Hey my friend! Andy LaCivita coming to you here on a Sunday helping you build a career you love
that's right i'm shooting this on a Sunday i'm slinging it out to you on a Sunday
i got a special little message here because i want to talk about how important it is
to get yourself ready to job search right now it is the best time of year to be looking
for a job it is and here i am it's the end of october where november is just a few days away
and as we get into november and december and january the very best the very best times of
year to look i want to make sure you're ready so i've got a couple things i want you to do for your
resume and with your resume and before we get to those there are two things that i want to cover
because i want to make sure that you understand what's actually happening in the employment market
right now i know you're confused i know job searching is difficult and i know it's especially
difficult right now considering everything that you're dealing with and i know how confused and
difficult this is because i see you every week at 3 on thursdays at my live office hour shows and i
get your questions so i understand what's going through your head so first thing that i want to
tell you is and by the way it being a sunday i agree i took the opportunity to graduate from
note cards today and i stole mrs lacivita's battles so i got a couple of paddles for you
this first one holidays is this even a good time to be searching don't people mail it in during the
holidays thanksgiving christmas all the other celebrations the new year's that that we have
don't organizations slow down the answer to that is absolutely not and let me tell you why i know
that to be the case i'm an executive recruiter a long time executive recruiter for the last 16
years i've helped more than 200 companies hire people just like you and one thing i can tell
you is the end of the year is when they go into a hiring frenzy why most organizations not all most
of them operate on a calendar year their fiscal year coincides with the calendar year not all of
them some go april to april some go june or july to june or july but all of them are hiring toward
the end of the year it's it's just simply the way things are because most of them spend october
planning they look to how to finish the year strong but then they're also setting their budgets
their pro they're identifying the projects that they want for the new year so for us 2021 what's
that going to look like it's not like they magically start recruiting on january 1st
so that they can hire somebody on january 1st no they need to make sure that they're well ahead of
that so that the people that they need to start the new projects and start them quickly and start
them strong are in place so they've only got about eight weeks and some of which they're actually out
celebrating and are out on the holidays so they need to be very efficient in recruiting
but that takes time so for you it's it's also not as if you are always just ready to go you need to
make sure your requirements are in order you need to get your resume and your cover letters in order
and all that good stuff that takes a little bit of time too so my message to you is make sure you are
amping up your your your efforts while a lot of other job seekers are slowing down you should be
spending more time on your job search during november and december that's the first thing
second thing is well andy is now a good time being that we're in the midst of a health scare
okay we've got you know covet is still hanging around the pandemic is still here is this even
a good time is anybody hiring and to that i can tell you a resounding yes now back in march i
spent a lot of time with you recorded videos live shows where i talked about what's happening with
the pandemic it was becoming very prevalent in the united states where i live and i i was predicting
what was going to be happening with the different industries and markets and different company types
and i spoke with you about how to target the right organizations which we're going to thrive
which we're going to adjust quickly which we're going to be struggle for a period of
time i'll put that video up in the card but there are basically four different company
types if you understand what those are you will know how where to look and how to approach them
to to improve your results now i get that a number of you have been hit hard uh your industries have
been hit hard but you have valuable skills and if you know how to how to package them in your
resume and market them appropriately know where to look and how to approach those organizations
you can make those changes and as a matter of fact i want to share a very quick story really as a
jolt of inspiration here we had a woman named jamie she's 74 years old got in my boot camp
about five or six weeks ago and within three weeks lives in florida wanted a remote job wasn't
employed and she sent me this nice email that i'm about to share with you here where she she
wrote me this this message about how she was just got her new job was getting ready actually just
started a few days ago and if you take a look at this she says i was talking with one of the senior
talent acquisition managers today and i found out that 35 000 people nationwide applied for the
remote customer service job with wireless and she goes on to say i couldn't have done it without you
you bolstered my confidence and there was a whole bunch of other goodies that they gave her
so i want you to know yes there are a lot of people out of work yes there are a lot
of people putting their resumes and and cover letters into the applicant tracking systems and
the corporate websites and portals and all the hotjobs and indeed.coms and monster.com
yes it's crowded out there but to that i would say who cares we are not going to go that route
so let's get on to what i wanted to tell you about the resume and what to do with it the first thing
is i know how important it is so just like jamie she got this this instruction i'm about to offer
you it's important that you understand how to put your resume together as a marketing document not a
work history document how is it going to stand on top of the pile now applicant tracking systems in
general are never a good route to go they never are a good route to go they are especially not a
good route to go now because of our current the health scare all the people out of work
right all the people putting their resume into these into these systems recruiters
hiring officials uh hr reps they simply cannot farm those they cannot go through those systems
so one of the things that i want you to do is i want you to put a killer resume together in
order to do that twice a year i have a resume workshop mega sale my normally 300 product
i'm offering it to you now to get the same level of instruction jamie got with her resume for 49
that's available until friday october 30th where i'm also offering you a free uh to those members
of the 49 program a private coaching group coaching session with those folks so i'm going
to give you all the insight to how to write the resume i'm going to give you my insider's view
straight talk from a recruiter of how somebody looks at your resume how to lay it out i'll
give you all the templates all the tools to write the best bullets we'll give you sample sentences
i will write the structure for you you'll have all that at your disposal you'll know exactly what to
include in each of the different sections and then i've got additional videos for you that answer
200 of the commonly asked resume questions it's absolutely fantastic all for 49 i would grab that
it's available till friday and then you can come and join me at the session it's 11 a.m central
time where i am in the u.s but if you can't make that we'll still give you the recording
that's what i would do for your resume then what i would do is a couple of weeks later
starting november 16th i have a free five day job search challenge where i will be with you
for 90 minutes a day monday through friday it's completely free there's no catch i'm showing up
you can come or not and if you can't make it i'll leave the recordings up for that week
but i'm going to teach you how to actually job search i'm going to teach you what i taught jamie
to do so that you can bypass those 35 000 people or tens of thousands or hundreds or whatever it is
those others that are stuffing those resumes into those applicant tracking systems don't
try to compete with them i'm going to show you exactly how to job search how to bypass all that
so on monday i'm going to give you the blueprint on tuesday i'm going to show you how to identify
the target companies on wednesday i'm going to show you how to identify people to reach out to
on thursday i'm going to tell you exactly what to say to those people and then on friday i'm
going to tell you all the problems you're going to have and then i'm going to walk you through
how to troubleshoot that that's november 16th through november 20th so what i would do is just
remember this is a great time to job search it's a great time to get yourself in order organizations
are hiring they are i get emails like that one from jamie many dozens of them every single
day from people in my programs and who follow me on my youtube channel who are getting jobs
grab the resume writing workshop for 49 it's a special eye run twice a year i would highly
recommend you getting it getting all the assets and all the tools you need and then stop by on
friday october 30th for that coaching make sure you're also signing up for my free job search
challenge monday through friday november 16th through 20th it'll really help you position that
resume and getting in front of the right people to have better results just like jamie did all right
i hope you can join me on this but if nothing else please remember now is a great time for you
to be searching but i hope you give me a chance to support you through this effort i really i'm
very confident that i can help you improve those results all right hope to see you on friday at the
show if not around the youtube channel and nothing else have a great sunday take care