5 steps to the job search process | Wonsulting

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the One Salting YouTube channel. My name is Jerry and I'm the co-founder and COO of One Salting. And today we will talk about how you can get a job immediately. And if you haven't already, make sure you click the subscribe button and the notification bell to make sure you don't miss the other videos. So if you're looking for a job, you have to remember that the job search process is a five step process. Let's break it down. One, finding the right jobs to go for. Two, building your resume. Three, crafting your LinkedIn. Four, networking to get the interview. And five, interviewing. So finding the right job comes down to two things. What are the skills that you like doing and what are the skills that you have? Once you start listing those skills, you'll sort of start seeing what are the skills that you need to build, or maybe you might have all the right skills and you can go tackle those jobs. So let's say you want to get into sales and let's say you're a college student. On one hand, you might have a list of skills that you've needed for the job. So for sales, it might be familiarity with talking with clients, familiarity with business strategy, familiarity with product knowledge and familiarity with the industry. Whereas on the other side, you might have the following skills. You might already know what industries you like, and you might already have experience working with people because you've done so many group projects in college. You may not have direct sales skills, but the skills that you learned working with people can then directly translate over to working with clients. So the biggest thing that you might be missing is business strategy, but you might have taken a business strategy class where you did a project. You looked at a business strategy of a company and you're able to translate that on your resume. Once you have all those skills now, you're going to start seeing that there's a pattern. And once you start seeing those patterns, you're going to be able to identify those one or two target jobs that you want to go for. But if you're like me and you had no idea what you wanted to do, or if you have so many interests and you don't know which one to choose, write them all down, choose one career path, and just go for it. Go until it no longer becomes interesting. Then we want to the next one. Now that we have your target job, now we need to then create a resume. First up that you want to do is get a template. We have a free ATS friendly resume in the description box below. So let's walk through the resume template. When you first look at the resume, you might be thinking, or you might be thinking, you're sort of right in both cases, but remember you want to make the recruiter's life as easy as possible. Recruiters on average take about six seconds to review your resume. So you want to make sure your resume is structured, has good content and is something that's predictable. So let's dive right in. On the header section, you'll have the space for you to put your name and basic information about yourself and you don't need to put your full address. Just put city and state. Next is the education section. Input all the information on there, like university name, location, major, expected graduation date. On the third line with that bullet point, you should add your GPA only if it's above a 3.0 or 3.5. The reason why I say or is because it's dependent on the type of industry you want to get into. For example, if you want to go into investment banking, chances are you need to have at least a 3.5. If you want to go into industries that don't care as much about GPA like sales and marketing, you're probably going to be okay. After that is the work experience. You can put your retail jobs, your internships, your entrepreneurial ventures, all those experiences count. But if you were like me and you had no experiences, then you want to replace a section and instead of calling it work experience, call it project experience or course experience under the project or course experience. You want to start writing down the projects that you've done in your classes. A lot of the skills that you're going to be using in your role, they're the exact same skills that you're going to be using in group projects. So recruiters love seeing that. Just make sure that almost in every bullet point that you have numbers, take something like created a fictional marketing campaign and make it more juicy. Like launched a fictional Google ads branding campaign with $150,000 budget, which generated 10 million views. And if you don't have numbers, always estimate them. The next section, leadership experience. If you're part of any student organizations or if you started any student organizations, this is going to be key. Companies want to hire students to have leadership potential. And one of the ways to show that is with leadership experience. Have your organization name, your title and make sure your bullet point is impact driven. For example, did you host an event or did you host an event where you invited three professionals and there were over 50 attendees? The last section there is a small section for your technical skills as well as your interests. Play around with the font size, play around with the margin. Just make sure that your resume is one page. Boom. Now we got a resume. Step three, your LinkedIn profile. Now, if you've been following along so far, this part's going to be the easiest. If you don't have a LinkedIn profile, create one. It should take you less than five minutes. After you created one, make sure you look up Wendy Javier, the link to the profiles in the description box below, because once you have this profile, this is all you need. When you look through her profile, all you need to do is copy and paste and replace it with your own information. But to give you a quick rundown of what you need to know, make sure you have a cover photo. This cover photo could be a city skyline. It could be your name, whatever it is. Just make sure it's clean and that you have one. Next is your profile photo. Just make sure it's a clear headshot. Underneath your name, you'll see a headline. If you're a current student, make sure you write that you're a current student. For example, fourth year marketing student at Babson college line, and then you can write aspiring X aspiring marketer. Aspiring product manager. The reason why is because you want university recruiters to know that you are a student and that you have a focus for the career that you want to go into. Next is the about section. Just make sure it's short, crisp, no more than two or three lines per section, and you're good to go. In your featured section, you don't need a resume. The goal of your LinkedIn profile is you want the recruiter to message you in your experience section. This is where you can write all your previous work experience, your organization experience, your school experience. Just make sure in each description is relatively short. No more than five to seven lines. Then you have a quick education section. And that's it because next you're going to be using that LinkedIn profile to start networking. Now that you have a beautiful resume and LinkedIn profile, now we're ready to go and network. Okay? So go onto the LinkedIn search, type in your college. For example, we're going to use Babson college, my alma mater. Once you search Babson college, you're going to come onto a school page. You want to click the alumni tab. Once you click the alumni tab, you're going to now see where all your college alumni work at. For example, when you look at Babson colleges, you see that people work at PWC, EY, IBM, Amazon, Accenture, Google. Let's say that we want to work at Amazon. You want to click Amazon. And once you do, you're now going to see all the alumni of your school who work at Amazon. You want to go onto their profile, click the connect button and you want to send a template and message like this and rinse and repeat. The hope here is that you hop on a call with an alumni. They give you insights about the role. And if you vibe, they're going to get you that referral. So the way to ask for a referral is you want to say, thank you so much for your time. What's the best way for me to get my foot in the door? And if they tell you, Hey, send me your resume. Perfect. You did the best job. And if they say, Hey, listen, just apply online. Still, you did a great job. And you might be thinking, well, Jerry, I already tried reaching out to two people. They didn't reach back out to me. Got to do more. Got to get in those repetitions, reach out to more people because you never know who's going to be on the opposite end. And always remember you only need that one. Yes. Now that we know how to get an interview. Now we're going to be talking about interviewing. In most interviews, you're going to have three types of interviews, behavioral interviews, situational interviews, or technical interviews. Behavioral interviews are questions like, tell me about yourself. Why do you want to work at this company? Why do you want to work at this role? I always guarantee you, you will get asked at least one of those three questions, if not all three. So make sure you're prepared for those questions. The other behavioral questions that you want to be expecting are, tell me about a time when, and you want to prepare for those by looking at the job description, getting those responsibilities and thinking to yourself, tell me about a time when you had to work across functions and if you can, and if you can think of an answer, perfecto, and if you can't, that's your homework. The second kind of questions that you'll get are situational kind of questions. And this is very popular in big tech companies and they're designed to test to make sure you know your stuff. A question might be like, imagine you're in this marketing role today and you were tasked with helping launch this new product feature. How would you go about it? These questions are designed to make you think there is no wrong answers. So the best way I always like to structure these is to always ask questions first to make sure I have enough information. A first question I'm going to ask is what's the goal of this product launch and what's the goal of this marketing campaign? How does a product work? What are the competitors? What have we done in the past? These questions will help you get more information from the interviewer so you can use that information to craft your recommendation. And the last kind of interview are technical interviews across industries. Technical interviews are classified differently. Software engineering, you're going to have coding interviews in analytics roles. You're going to have a SQL or Excel test in product manager roles. You're going to have product interviews. Just make sure you prepare for them. We've gone through all five steps to quickly recap. The first step is to narrow down one or two target jobs that you want to go for. This is going to influence everything else that you're going to do in the latter four steps. The second step is to create a resume. You want to create a resume that's designed for the target jobs that you want to go for. Third, you want to create a LinkedIn profile. In that LinkedIn profile, you want to show the recruiters how excited you are and how your experiences directly relate to the job you want to go to. Fourth is networking. Start with alumni. Alumni are going to be the people who are most willing to help because they've been through it. And last but not least, make sure you practice your interviews. Interviewing is just like any other skill. You need to get in the repetitions because once you do, you're going to get that job and you're going to thank yourself for investing this time. Thank you so much for tuning in. If you found this helpful, make sure you click the subscribe button. Make sure you click the notification bell and until next time.