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The Ultimate Job Search Program for the U.S. Market
Learn Best Practices on Finding a Job and Building a Career in the U.S.
Created byRobert Park
Last updated 3/2021
English
What you'll learn
- The objective of this program is to show students how they can take control of their career by mastering the job search.
- Students will learn how to get the career they want even if they don't have direct experience in the field
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Course content
3 sections • 52 lectures • 5h 4m total length
- Introduction to the Program8:20
Thank you for enrolling in placeable’s Job Search Training Program. Job search is one of those simple to understand, but hard to do things, which often makes it a frustrating endeavor. The process of finding a job reminds me of hitting a golf ball (something I don’t do well). The ball just sits there, doesn’t move, but I still can’t hit the darn thing straight.
Our goal is to offer techniques that will improve your ability to find and secure a job. This is hard skill to master, but by taking this course, you are taking the first step at doing just that…and if you master this skill, then you will have a huge advantage in the job market as you build your career.
- Why I Hate the Resume?!4:37
In this session, we will have an honest conversation about the resume. I’ll say up front, this is perhaps the least important aspect of your job search. And this may come as a surprise to you, since most people that I have worked with over the years seem to spend a significant amount of time working on their resume. Don’t get me wrong, we need to have a resume, and it might as well be as strong as possible, but the resume can become a crutch if you are not careful.
- The Baseline Resume5:45
In this session, we will walk through how to develop a baseline resume for your job search.
What is a baseline resume? It is an acceptable version of your resume that can be used to conduct effective job search. You may revise it from time to time to reflect the job you are applying to, but it is and will remain your foundational document going forward.
- The Cover Letter6:01
Although it is not as prevalent as a resume, the cover letter continues to be requested by some employers. Especially, when hiring at the entry level. So, if you are in the market for a new job and your experience is limited, then you will likely need to write a strong cover letter. Today we will discuss this topic and how to ensure you create a compelling cover letter in case it is needed.
- Social Media - Inbound Selling5:24
Today we will begin our discussion on social media. Given the breadth and depth of this topic, it would be easy to get lost in it AND spend too much time on platforms you are already familiar with. In this program, we will focus on topics related social media that can have a direct impact on your search. In later lessons, we will discuss how social media can positively impact your ability to prospect and network, but over the next two sessions, we will focus our discussion on two topics – inbound selling and personal brand.
- Social Media - Personal Brand7:49
In this session, we will discuss Social Media and how it can help you develop a personal brand that is aligned with your Job Search Effort.
To be clear, this is not a workshop on personal branding. That is a whole course by itself. Instead, we will focus on how to use Social Media to build your brand and how NOT to use it in a way that hurts your brand.
- Building a LinkedIn Profile7:19
Welcome back. Today, we are going to spend some time on one particular social media platform before we move on to other topics. While other social media platforms are geared towards your “social life”, LinkedIn is perhaps the most important platform for your professional life. Don’t get me wrong. We need to make sure your brand is consistent across all platforms, but LinkedIn is where you will spend most of your time when it comes to your career branding.
- Internal Research - Knowing Yourself7:32
Welcome back. In this session, we will discuss how to prepare for your job search in a way that will save you time later in the process.
To be clear, this is not the last time we will discuss preparation in this course. For example, we will cover this topic again but from a different perspective when we discuss building a networking plan or the work you need to do to get ready for a job interview. Planning and preparation will always need to be done as we get ready to tackle different topics such as knowing more about a potential advocate you are about to meet or a potential employer at a career fair. However, there is one topic that we already know we have to tackle, which is you. So, why wait…let’s do the work now.
- Introduction to Conversations6:05
In this session, I’m going to introduce you to some of the basic building blocks of a conversation as well one fundamental rule that you should try to adhere to in every conversation that you engage in.
First, let’s just take a quick detour to talk about talk.
We included a discussion on conversations in our Networking and Job Search Programs, because we will be asking you to create a lot of them to be successful in your effort and thought it made sense to prepare you for them in advance. In the next three sessions, we will take a step and discuss conversations in general, and then in the final session, we will pivot to what I call career conversations to build a framework for you to use going forward.
Conversations are the building blocks of your career. However, we should not confuse the ability to speak with the ability to have a conversation. Just like any other skill, this is an area where we should seek constant improvement.
- 10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation13:00
In this session, we are going to share a Ted Talk with you from Celeste Headlee. This is a little bit longer than our typical videos, but it was well worth it.
I came across this Ted Talk the first time I had to prepare a workshop on the topic of conversation, and it had a big impact on me. Conversation is one of those simple to understand, but hard things to do, but Celeste Headlee does an excellent job breaking down the do’s and don’ts for you.
- Recap on the 10 Ways2:32
In this session, we will quickly recap the Ted Talk by Celeste Headlee and finish our intro to the fundamentals that should be adhered to regardless of whether it is a personal or professional conversation.
I hope you enjoyed the Ted Talk by Celeste Headlee. I think it provides some very practical advice on how to have better conversations. I also think it demonstrates, antidotally, that striving to be great at conversations is becoming a bit of a lost art. So why not separate yourself from the competition by improving in this critically important area.
- Career Conversations6:46
In this session, we will round out our introduction to conversations by discussing Career Conversations, which will include building a framework that you can use as a guide whenever you engage in them.
What exactly is a career conversation? I’m sure the name we used is descriptive enough to give you an idea, but let’s offer a few examples to drive it home. A career conversation can be…
Any conversation that is within the context of your career which include…
Selling
Negotiating
Networking
Interviewing
Discussing your Performance
Dealing with a Conflict resolution issue
Or Managing and leading someone
- Summing Up Lesson 14:20
In this session, we will quickly recap everything we have learned so far in Lesson 1 before moving on to Lesson 2.
The goal of this lesson was to get you ready for a job search. Just like any project, the job search project takes a lot of planning and preparation.
- Introduction to Lesson 26:37
Welcome to Lesson 2 of our Job Search Training Program. This entire lesson is dedicated to uncovering job leads and discussing several methods to convert those job leads into actual interviews. Prospecting is perhaps the biggest differentiator between those individuals who excel at job search and those who do not.
- The Networking Quandary4:20
In this session, we hope to give you a basic understanding on what networking really is, why people don’t like to do it, and how you can overcome those reasons in order to benefit from the positive impact networking can have on your career.
- Thresholds of Trust6:53
In this session, we are going to break down the science of networking to give you a better sense of how this stuff works, and then offer you a way to think about the process where you can test your network in various ways.
- The Texas Two-Step5:57
In this session, we are going to show you a method that will help you overcome the science of networking, and hopefully, put you on a path towards networking success.
- Building a Network with Purpose4:42
In this session, we will offer some basic tactical steps you can take to start building your network in an area of interest.
- Building a Network with Purpose - A Demonstration9:32
In this session, we are going to walk through the work you will need to do to build out a network with purpose.
I want to say up front there is nothing fancy going on here. You just need to put the work in. You have to come up with enough names that will lead to the right amount of volume that will create the network you want to create.
- Introduction to Informational Interviewing4:26
In this session, we will begin our discussion on what I consider to be the most powerful weapon in your career arsenal that most often goes unused – the informational interview.
- Informational Interviewing - Prep and the Beginning7:05
Welcome back. In this session, we will discuss how to prepare for the informational interview and start to tell the beginning of the story as we engage with the common contact.
- Informational Interviewing - The Middle6:19
In this session, we will shift to the middle of the informational interview as we continue to follow the framework of a conversation. The middle of the conversation is where the bulk of the story is told and it’s where all the action is.And, like great literature, the middle can often be divided into two halves.
- Informational Interviewing - The End4:08
Welcome back. Today, we will discuss the end of the story and the three critical tasks you need to accomplish before ending the conversation.
- How to Work the Live Networking Event5:43
Today we are going to discuss a very special type of networking scenario – the live event.
If networking in general has a high ick-factor, then the live event takes that unclean feeling to a whole different stratosphere. It is one of the few things we, as human beings, all seem to have in common – we all hate attending live networking events. But they keep getting scheduled by different organizations, and we all keep attending them, so they must add value or we all would have mercifully put these occasions to rest a long time ago.
- How to Work a Career Fair3:47
In this session, we will have a brief conversation on the best way to work a career fair. The one event where you can completely focus on your job search without anyone putting his or her guard up.
- A Recap on Networking5:02
Welcome back. Today we will provide a recap on our refresher on networking and close with a discussion on the 2 things that separates people that are average at this from those that excel in it.
- Converting Leads into Interviews - Method 1 - Part 15:02
Welcome back. Now that you have a better sense of how to network as well as the different techniques to build your network such as informational interviewing, live events, and career fairs, it is time to leverage all your hard work by using your productive relationships to land a job interview.
Method 1 is all about getting referred to hiring managers. To do this right, we need to rely on our productive relationships.
In this session, we will discuss the metrics we recommend as you continue building your network as well as the follow up cadence to cultivate it.
- Converting Leads into Interviews - Method 1 - Part 24:31
In this session, we will break down the best way to think about your network and how to measure the level of trust you have developed within it.
- Converting Leads into Interviews - Method 1 - Part 37:16
Welcome back. The rubber has finally met the road and in this session, we will discuss how to actually ask your network for an introduction.
- Converting Leads into Interviews - Method 2 - Part 14:31
In the last 3 sessions, we spent time on how to use your network to provide job leads, advocate for you, and, in the best scenario, introduce you to a hiring manager. In this session, we are going to pivot to Method 2, which is a much more direct approach.
- Converting Leads into Interviews - Method 2 - Part 25:19
In this session, we will break down the components of the proposal approach in order to provide a framework as you move forward.
- Converting Leads into Interviews - Method 35:01
In this session, we will discuss the last method of converting job leads into interviews and that is the application.
- Summing Up Lesson 24:54
Welcome back. Today we will sum up everything we learned in Lesson 2 before moving on to Lesson 3 and our discussion on execution.
- Introduction to Lesson 32:24
Welcome back. Today we will begin our discussion on execution which will cover all the things that will happen once you secure the job interview.
Our approach to this phase of your job search is one of risk mitigation. We want to ensure that we position you for success without increasing your risk of being eliminated on something that was completely avoidable.
- The Job Interview - An Intro5:49
In this session, we will begin our discussion on job interview with a brief introduction to the concept and the risk factors that you will need to mitigate in order to get hired.
- The Myth of Dueling Interview4:46
In this session, we will take some time to debunk a myth that continues to persist in job search discourse.
There is an idea that has been generally accepted as a true when it comes to job search and it is the concept that you are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you. This idea is accepted dogma in some of the most widely read job search books in publication. But I have news for those who continue to spread this very bad idea, they are wrong, or at least wrong in how they have described the idea.
- The Job Interview - Phase 1, Part 15:30
Welcome back. Today we will begin our discussion on Phase 1 of the Interview Process, which is often how the interview starts – the employer will ask you questions. Given the importance of this phase, we will spend the next 4 sessions covering it. Today, we will cover preparation and how to provide substantive and complete answers.
- The Job Interview - Phase 1, Part 23:57
Welcome back. In this session we will discuss the importance of maintaining a positive image as you go through the interview process.
- The Job Interview - Phase 1, Part 35:29
Welcome back. In this session, we will discuss alignment and how critical it is that you know your audience when answering certain questions.
- The Job Interview - Phase 1, Part 45:40
Welcome back. Today we will wrap up our discussion on Phase 1 of the Interview Process, by tacking one of the tougher questions you will have to answer during an interview – the money question.
- The Job Interview - Phase 2, Part 16:29
In next two sessions, we will cover Phase 2 of the Interview Process, where you will take the lead and ask the employer questions. We labeled this portion of the process as Phase 2 for form rather than substance. There are a lot of employers that actually like to start the interview by asking what questions you have for them. So, be prepared to jump in and start the dialogue, if asked.
- The Job Interview - Phase 2, Part 24:46
In this session, we will provide suggestions on how best to manage Phase 2 in order to successfully pass the hiring framework used by employers to make hiring decisions.
- The Job Interview - Phase 36:44
Welcome back. In this session, we will discuss the final phase of the interview process, which is the close.
- Recap on the Job Interview6:47
Welcome back. In this session, we will wrap our thorough discussion of the Job Interview by connecting it back two separate frameworks. The first will be the hiring framework used by employers to make a hiring decision and the second will be the career conversation framework that we should use as a guide during when engaging in conversations like job interview. This will be a good exercise to connect everything we learned together and hopefully solidify the key concepts in your mind.
- How to Manage Job Opportunities6:53
Welcome back. In this session, we will discuss how to manage your opportunities during job search, which can often feel like a juggling contest that can’t win.
- How to Work with Staffing Firms7:26
In this session, we will have a brief discussion on how to work with staffing and placement firms during your job search.
- Introduction to Offer Stage6:03
Over the next few sessions we will wrap up Lesson 3 with a thorough discussion of offer stage, the most exciting time of your job search journey.
- Preparing for the Offer6:57
In this session, we will cover how to prepare for offer stage. Although we will not get into a thorough negotiation, we will cover basic elements of it as you prepare to respond to your offer. And, the best time to prepare your response is before an offer is ever made.
- Evaluating the Offer6:45
In this session, we will learn how to properly evaluate an offer before actually responding to it.
- The Negotiation Story6:49
It’s finally time to respond to your offer. Depending on the strength of the offer, this could be a really easy conversation or a really challenging one. In either case, we will be prepared to get the most out of it.
- Recap on Offer Stage4:33
- Summing Up Lesson 34:12
In this session, I would like to offer a very quick recap on Lesson 3 before shifting to a wrap up of our Job Search Training program.
Requirements
- Anyone interested in changing careers or breaking into a new career.
Description
Job search is one of those simple to understand, but hard to do things, which often makes it a frustrating endeavor. The process of finding a job in the United States reminds me of hitting a golf ball (something I don’t do well). The ball just sits there, doesn’t move, but I still can’t hit the darn thing straight.
Our goal is to offer techniques that will improve your ability to find and secure a job in the United States. This is a hard skill to master, but by taking this course, you are taking the first step at doing just that…and if you master this skill, then you will have a huge advantage in the job market as you build your career.
Take control of your career by mastering the skills needed to be successful in your job search. Here are just a few things you will learn...
How to write a resume that can be read quickly without spending countless hours on it
Gain knowledge of the secret weapon to job search and learn how to deploy it
Expand your network at warp speed in the field of your choice
Convert leads into interviews
Learn how to work with staffing firms.
How to maximize career fairs and the live networking event
Nail the money question on an interview and set yourself up to negotiate a great offer
Who this course is for:
- This program is best suited for working professionals attempting to change careers, or recent college graduates trying to break into their career of choice.