Hey Ambitious Professionals! It's Linda Raynier of lindaraynier.com guiding you
to a career and life you'll truly enjoy. And today I'm gonna be talking to an
awesome Top Notch Resume student of mine her name is Cherry
she is going to talk to you about how she was able to land her dream job in
data analytics having used my course and she's going to share some tips with you
as well
Ready to get the job you want? Top Notch Interview is coming soon! For more info
and free training head to JOINTNI.COM
Cherry thank you so much for joining me here today
hi Linda thank you for having me so cherry can you tell everyone a little
bit about your background and your story yes of course I'm cherry I'm an
international student from China I came to the US about five years ago and
finished on my undergraduate as well as graduate degrees in the United States I
have a passion in public health and specifically health data analysis and I
really hope that I can gain more experience from working full time jobs
in this field okay great so you studied public health data analytics
undergraduate and graduate-level and since you graduated did you have any
jobs like what was going on with your job search
yeah I actually started job searching even before I graduated from my master
degree however it did not successfully go through and I started doing I guess
most of my job like applications after graduation which happens in late April
early May and this is then I searched jobs and applied for jobs and
interviewed for about two months on my own however did not really get any
successful interviews that's reason why I started taking Linda's top-notch
resume courses and this is then I kept doing my job application for about a
month and then successfully learned one of my dream job oh that's great that's
amazing so you search for your job for two months you had some interviews what
were your results before top-notch resume and what were your results after
top-notch resume yes before I to top-notch resume course I applied for
about 60 jobs on my own and was only able to get five interviews invitations
however those interviews were never where it didn't actually go through to
the lastest stages and after I took the top-notch resume course I only applied
for 15 jobs and was able to get 11 interviews invitations and was able to
lead me to the final dream job in Boston amazing so when you applied for jobs
basically you had just graduated from your undergraduate and your master's
program you had zero work experience on top of that you were an international
student so you had all these things that you know no experience and your
international student kind of working against you how did you feel when you
were applying and searching for jobs yeah definitely I was feeling
disappointed and also felt hopeless and helpless at the moment during that
period first of all I was constantly being told that someone was full-time
working experience were just more experienced in this field have been
selected to fill this position and second a lot of times during phone
interviews when after they know that I am NOT from the US I do not have the US
attention they constantly just hung up on me or off the interview short so that
was a very important s-- right and now I guess this is where I'm curious because
even after taking top-notch resume and having a much better resume it's not
like that situation changed you were still an international student or you
know not a US citizen but how did employers see you differently yes that's
a very good question I think before I took not resume I was sort of trapped in
this little circle thinking that all the interviews went nowhere because of I
don't have this internship however afterwards I realized having a strong
competitive resume can actually convince the hiring managers to hire you even
though you do not have a citizenship because you are more qualified than any
US citizens in the market so they would rather hire someone that's more equipped
in skills that they are looking for as well as people with you know good
personalities and good communication skills that they are looking for rather
than hire someone because of their citizenship okay that's great so what
you had initially thought that it was kind of an excuse maybe or what you
thought was oh it's because I'm not from here I'm not a citizen that's why
they're not hiring me but the reality was it was maybe more because of your
resume would you agree yeah I would agree with
that however I do acknowledge the difficulties that international students
are going through during the job application yes yeah I understand that
too and you know I do have experience with people who have those issues but
just like you once they change their methods their strategies on how they
were selling themselves and how they were approaching employers and
presenting themselves in front of employers there were still employers out
there that were willing to change their mind and actually take on those types of
job candidates and so you are you know one of the lucky ones I guess but then
again you did all the work you worked hard to get yourself there so I'm
curious did the company sponsor you is that what happens for you to be able to
work there actually the company's not sponsoring me right now because I'm
still on the student visa and then because of this field I study they
actually gave us about three years of visa that without any sponsorship so
it's sort of a three year extension form of the student visa yes okay that's
great that's awesome so you have three years to really build up your experience
and then once you do that you can move on and move upwards in your career so
that's fantastic so how do you feel now Jerry how how do
you feel about yourself now how do you feel about your career you know what's
going on inside emotionally mentally for you I definitely feel more relieved
after I was able to land one of my dream jobs and
so I feel more confident in myself because before that I was constantly
doubting myself you know whether coming to you that you asked to study as well
as staying here to look for a job is the right decision for me
maybe I should search in another field where maybe I should search jobs in
another country so I constantly had those doubts however right now I'm more
confident in even just talking about my past experience to people whether it's
to parent manager were just two friends I definitely came more confident and in
notice that that's a way to structure and then to present my past experience
based on Who am I talking to yeah and also I feel excited about my new jobs
which is gonna start soon that's great I'm so glad for you and I'm so excited
for you so congratulations on that you did all the hard work so yeah I think
you're gonna have a great this is a great start to your career for sure
thank you so much yes I deeply appreciate you know I was able to find
top-notch resume course online and then register for and to the course and the
other work according to the course of materia I really appreciate the material
and uh present and I think that's one of the key factors why I was able to land a
job and its are a new chapter of my life oh you're welcome cherry thank you for
taking the course and thank you for sharing your story I hope that it's
going to inspire so many others just like you to hopefully also take the
program because I think it is necessary you know when you go to school you apply
for jobs no one really teaches you the way as to how hiring managers want to
see your resume nobody really teaches you how to
showcase your experience and your skill set and so that's why I created top
notch resume to teach people that so that they can become more competitive
and get the career that they deserve so I'm glad that you are a living example
of that so again thank you for sharing your story so cherry what words of
wisdom or advice do you have for people who are just like you yes or people just
like me you know coming International background as well as
without any working experience I highly recommend you to take top-notch resume
as well as to watch I mean does videos because those are definitely gonna
change your perspective in the job search and definitely gonna help you to
rather approach to your employer and they better present yourself and I hope
everyone will have similar or different background as me can't land a dream job
just like me thank you that's great thank you so much cherry I really
appreciate that thank you so much so if you are someone who is similar to cherry
you have recently graduated you may not have enough experience or you have some
years of experience and you want to find a new job but you haven't been able to
get the interviews that you want then I highly recommend and cherry recommends
that you take top-notch resume feel free to click on the link down in the
description box below and see yourself to the resume mastery workshop which is
completely free take that workshop and from there decide
if you want to pursue the program and on top of that if you want to take it a
step further and you want to get one-on-one guidance and advice directly
from me then feel free to reach out to my website lindaraynier.com/standoutgethired
read through the page fill in the application form and from
there if it seems like we are a potential match to work together one of
my teammates will be reaching out to you directly thank you so much for watching
I will see you next time. Ready to get the job you want? Top Notch Interview is coming soon!
For more info and free training head to JOINTNI.COM