Four Secrets to Liking Your Work: You May Not Need to Quit to Get the Job You Want

Four Secrets to Liking Your Work: You May Not Need to Quit to Get the Job You Want by Edward G. Muzio - Deborah J. Fisher, PhD - Erv Thomas, PE Financial.
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Here is what those mean:. A person with Associate in their title is usually one notch below a person with the original title. People with Senior in their title are usually one notch above the original title. That should be all the info you need to make an educated decision around where people stand within the company you are researching.

Since we are looking for an Account Manager role, the next step up would be Senior Account Manager so your LinkedIn search would look like this:. Once it spits out their email you can confirm it using MailTester. The easiest way to get a hold of a company email address is to reach out to someone in sales or media because both of these departments usually have inbound lead forms and people on the other end ready to pounce on those leads.

We can also use our LinkedIn method here and target salespeople. Once you have the format, you can use MailTester to confirm your target email address. The more you get to know this person beforehand, the better your chances of landing a referral from them. However, this information is critical for quickly building a strong relationship and getting that referral. My general rule of thumb is this: If you found it somewhere else Twitter, Facebook, etc. For example, if I see that my influencer is a skiing fanatic, I may bring up that I went on a ski trip a few weeks beforehand.


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Not only is this one of the scarier parts of this process, it is also the most pivotal. My name is Austin and I currently work at Cultivated Culture. I would love to have the opportunity to run some questions by you, as well as tap into any advice you may have given your knowledge of the industry. If you do have 5 minutes to chat, I would really appreciate it. There are a few key points to the email above:. I saw similar results. All of that said, this script is just a framework. You will most likely need to tweak your emails to fit the situation.

The goal of your meeting is to position your influencer as an expert, make them feel special, and build a relationship. You should not and will not mention anything about the opening at their company.

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People innately enjoy helping others and if you follow the steps above, they will bring this up naturally. You will want to prepare a list of questions that gets them to open up about themselves and the company. I like to ask them several softballs to get things warmed up and then hit them with a few questions they are guaranteed to remember. Regardless of the questions you choose, there is one that you must always be sure to ask:.

Really dig in here, get them to be specific. This information is going to be critical in helping you land a referral from this person, as well as getting the offer farther down the road.

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Okay, so you met with your influencer, things went great, and you identified a major pain point that the team is having. Then you are going to come up with a solution and draft up a proposal for how you would solve it. Your proposal should include:. Truthfully, this process deserves a post of its own but this should give you a good idea of what you need to do. Once you have all of this information, consolidate it into a Word document, head over to Upwork , and hire a graphic designer to make your proposal look amazing.

Thanks again for taking the time out to chat last week.

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In fact, I created a short framework that should help you solve it. Please find that attached. If you have some time, I would love to chat about it in more detail. Be patient and wait for their response. Kindly accept and play it cool. A note to developers: However, the advice below will help create more time to prepare for technical interviews by minimizing the amount of preparation needed for other parts of the interview process. Interviews can be daunting, especially at companies like Google, Amazon, or Uber. The truth is, most of these companies have done away with those questions.

These companies have since reverted back to the standard style of interviews, which is great for us because it makes it much easier to identify patterns. Here is the process I used to prepare for each one. According to renowned career guru Penelope Trunk , one of the easiest ways to be a better interviewer is to prepare for the most obvious questions. The Universal Job Interview Format: This is your first impression.

Four Secrets to Liking Your Work: You May Not Need to Quit to Get the Job You Want

Do NOT rattle off your resume like a grocery list. You want it to be concise around 2—3 minutes and you need to think about what you want to convey. To help get you started, here is what my story looked like. To give you some context, I was a biology major who was interested in landing a job in digital marketing:.

Growing up, like most people, I wanted to be a doctor. I went to [college] where I majored in biology and planned my course to medical school. I wanted to get into digital marketing, and I wanted to be in New York. I set my sights on this goal and created a plan that would get me there. In , I graduated with my biology degree and took a job in medical device sales where I worked from 5: Then, every day, I would come home and study digital marketing until 8: Armed with my new credentials, I began to look for positions in New York.

Eventually, I was offered a position at my current company a promotional analytics company in New York.

However, the company has restructured several times since I was brought on. You are telling a story. Next up is the dreaded set of behavioral questions. You are going to be asked a variation of one, if not all, of these questions in every single interview you go to:. If you can answer these 6 questions, you can handle 9 out of 10 interviews with no other preparation and be totally fine. Head over to GlassDoor. This will pull up a list of reviews from everyone who interviewed and received an offer for that position. The general comments are really helpful, but we want to focus on a section called Interview Questions towards the bottom.

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