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They go, "Yeah, I've got three years of experience, not four. And you know, I have a degree in Microsoft security analytics or something, but I don't have the CSS," but whatever sort of other computer certification and they go, "I'm just not even going to apply.

They're never going to hire me. They're asking for different stuff," but these aren't necessarily written in stone. In careers, this is especially true. You see people who will see this job requirement. And like you said, they might have three years, but not five years. And they do the recruiter's job for them. Guys, don't do someone else's job for them. Your job is to apply and create the best application you possibly can. Your job is not to reject yourself.

But in our network, we do. So we brought them in and one of the questions I asked him was when you write a job description, how serious are you about it? And I put all their answers in the program. And one of the managers said, "Look, it's a wishlist. I wish that someone had all 15 of these criteria, but if they can do the main part of the role, we can waive all the other stuff. But maybe you don't have the perfect certification or maybe you only have four years of experience instead of six, you should apply.

And in your cover letter and in your resume and in your interview, you should tell them point blank: "I'm a fantastic performance marketer. Last year, this is what I did. This is what I acquired. This is the cost of the ROI. That's bullet point number 14, if you can do the most important part of the role.

And we're glad that you feel qualified, but that's not really it. How do we know which ones are actually flexible in which ones are a must? So average applicants would ask exactly that question. Like, "How do I know? This is what they do. One day at work, they realize, "I'm not really happy here.

So they go to some job search website and they literally type in marketing manager, the same role that makes them unhappy, they type it in. They have no idea which one's good. So they pick randomly, they upload their resume, and then they sit back, cross their arms, and wait.

I wonder when the job search genie is going to come and give me a job. Then two weeks pass, they get discouraged and then they say, "It's the economy. This sucks. So instead of saying things like, "I want to help people.

I want to do challenging work. And we can talk about that process and how you find that they will be able to say something like this, "Ramit, I'm looking for a B-to-C technology company that's in the marketing analytics space, and I'm looking for a marketing manager or marketing coordinator role.

They can start looking at their job offers, their job descriptions. They can start networking with people who actually work at the company or used to work there. They can take them out to coffee, do Zoom informational interviews, et cetera. And they really start to dig in. They will quickly learn what matters in the role and what doesn't.

And if you're listening to this and you're saying, "Well, hey, that must be nice maybe if I went to Harvard," or, "That must be nice if you have the time to do it. To sit there and put your resume into the black hole of doom and just wait? That's a loser's game. That's how you learn what they really want. By the way, I'll ignore the fact that you alluded to the idea that I'm an average performer and we'll just let that slide. I have to ask the question then where someone goes, "Ah, you know, I'm not even going to do this because I can't even tell which requirements are a-must or which aren't," or, "I'm just going to ignore job postings that have too many requirements," or I'm going to ignore all the requirements because they're all flexible.

And here's one of the uncomfortable truths about a job search, you get approximately 10 seconds of a hiring manager's attention. So they don't get to look in your soul. And they're not going to learn about your love of knitting and how you're having an encyclopedic knowledge of Netflix document.

They don't care. You get 10 seconds. And that's why your resume needs to be completely dialed in. Nobody cares about the margins or the colors. That stuff is irrelevant. You have 10 seconds to get their attention. And if you pass that second test, maybe, just maybe, they will look at your cover letter. Is it out or is it advancing them to the next round? And if you say, "Hey, I'm just going to ignore what that guy just said because it sounds hard.

It's your career, it's your choice how you want to run it. But if you apply to a role after having looked at the job description and you do not personalize your resume and your cover letter for exactly those bullet points, you do so at your own peril and you've got 10 seconds and it's probably unlikely that you're going to get advanced to the next round. I mean, I remember, and I've told this story on the show before, the way I got my first law firm job, or one of my first law firm jobs was a friend of a friend told me that this guy that we used to know in college was helping out in one of the interview rooms, because basically the firms would fly into our campus to interview us.

We didn't have to go to them. So they had like this hotel full of rooms where people were interviewing. And the guy's like, "Hey, look, we don't have you on our list of scheduled interviews, but if you want to talk to me while I eat lunch, no problem. And he's asking me mostly irrelevant questions about just personality-based stuff and like what kind of law I want to do. And I'm giving him almost generic answers and he looks at my resume and goes, "Oh, okay. So you're cool working in New York.

You like the city? You're not going to quit after six months because it's too intense? I've been there a bunch. So we want to fly you out to round two.

Can you come out next week? And it was probably still warm from the other person holding it. You know, it was just that fast. It's just, you're so expendable when you're in a stack like that. That's the uncomfortable truth of the hiring process and you kind of saw behind.

The curtain as to how it really works. However, if you try to compete in the same way that everyone else competes, let me just toss my resume over there and hope that they see the genius. That is a very, very unlikely thing to occur. So if you're just trying to prove that you're also that, you do all this work to prove that image. And they go, "Great, so table stakes, same as everyone else.

Because we're going to be stuck in this conference room for like 15 hours. And if they're going to keep talking about all the awards they won for rowing and stuff like that, we're going to kill this person. It's going to be horrible. Management consultants call it the airport test. If we get stuck in an airport, would we want to spend time with this person? And I'll tell you a story from my own college recruiting experience. So back in the day, I loved interviews.

Same as you, companies would come to campus and I get to dress up. I'd get to go into a room and talk about myself for 45 minutes and then find out if it worked or not. I loved it. And I got a group of my friends together and we'd compare notes on different interviewing strategies and questions and answers that we'd given.

And we started to get very good at this. And I remember my sophomore year, I interviewed at a company called Sun Microsystems. It was a tech pioneer, a big company in Menlo Park. And I walked in after I did the first interview, I walked into their headquarters in Menlo Park and I was a sophomore. I didn't even have a proper suit. So I don't think I had a coat. I just had a tie and a shirt, whatever. And all these MBA students were in the lobby.

And I could tell they were MBA students because they actually looked professional. They knew how to dress correctly. So I'm sitting there, in my little sophomore outfit, waiting, and I go in and interview and I ended up getting the offer and I was a competitive intelligence analyst that summer. Finally, I got the chance to ask him the question I'd been wanting to ask. We wanted someone who actually wanted to work here and someone who we liked. That is their worldview, their mental framework.

Why are you going to the interview? If that is your mental worldview, you've already lost and you don't even know it. The much more sophisticated approach is to know that you are in an interview to share your key messages. That's just generic words. It's marketese. Or, "Tell me about yourself. You need to have your key messages dialed in and no matter what they ask, you're going to find a way to share a great story or a key thing that they should take away.

And so when you do this and when you know your key messages down cold, you actually can be free to let your personality shine through. So you're not so rigid like so many of us, when we go into an interview. You can actually tell a joke.

You can ask them a question. It becomes a conversation. You can even pull up a computer. Say, "Let me show you how I did this marketing campaign here. Pull your chair up over here. Let me show you what I did here. Luckily, I got an awesome job on Wall Street back in the day and I was lucky because I blew several interviews before that.

Because I thought, "Okay, whatever you do, don't tell them things that might sound — " In fact, this was advice from our law school, like, "Make sure you come across professional. And then they take you to lunch. That was like the standard thing, junior associates or whatever, take you to lunch. And they'd go, "So what do you like to do? It was like a stone's throw from those types of answers and they go, "Oh, where do you travel?

Do you want to drink right now? Oh, look, I got an email in my BlackBerry. I have to go. Do you have this, Tom? And they were like, "I remember you, you're the guy who reads a lot and doesn't ever drink. You know, so many of us, when we think about finding a job, we think about, "What is my passion?

Do I put 1. That means you're really close to getting the offer, okay. What that means is you need to have demonstrated that you have the skills just to get in the door and that's table stakes. By the time I talk to someone, when I'm hiring, I already know they have the skills; that's table stakes.

They've been vetted already. Now, it's other questions, more intangibles. Do they have grit? Are they going to quit when things get tough, et cetera? In other words, not using pointless jargon on your resume, not submitting your resume through a random job search website and wait.

Number two, if when you get into the interview, you recognize you're not there to answer questions, but rather to share your key messages. And number three, when you do all those things, you earned the right to share the more intangibles, the real side of you. That's how you find jobs that are remote if you decided you don't want to commute anymore. And for some people who decide, you know what, I want to completely change industries, that's how you get jobs like that.

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So it starts from how you introduce yourself. Then it goes down to you know, when you take a v I p out to lunch, why would a pipe even go out to lunch with you? Where do I get it? How do I get a job from this phrase what do we do? Literally what am I supposed to do today so I love that one what else? What other phrases we hear working on your follow your bliss very and you'll never work a day I love that. What else we got a lot of people saying that dara schubert follow your passion and susan actually says follow your passion will uh uh jennifer follow your dreams uh we have uh jennifer what did you what did you do when you were a child?

Maybe that's a weird question we're gonna answer that has nothing to do with any oh let's say like, what did you want to do when you're a child but I want to be a fireman no, I think she actually wants to know what I did as a child I woke up I went to the playground so we're just questions that would be a great job affects three find a job that pays enough to support the lifestyle you want. Okay, I actually I actually agree with that. Yeah, okay. All right, so let's, let's keep going.

So yesterday we talked about the ceo model and on the day before cut costs earned more optimized your spending a framework for thinking about money, etcetera and somewhat arguably radical notion that you don't just have to think about money in terms of cutting costs you can actually add the other side of the equation so I think it pays to ask ourselves why even go after a dream job like how many of us say I just want a job that pays the bills and I'm happy to know I have to think about it after five p m anybody ever hear that anybody ever say that it's okay to say that it's totally cool right?

Some of us don't want to have to be thinking about work all the time but I would argue this I would say that you spend an inordinate amount of time at work. Um I would also say that when we think about when we graduate uh twenty one years old twenty two years old what do we think when we graduate?

We think about our career in many ways it's like the world is our oyster right? We can do this do that take a trip by thirty we want toby. What do you think we'll be doing by thirty? Put yourself in the twenty two year old your twenty two year old. What did you think you'd be doing by thirty? How to leverage your soft skills to get high-paying jobs in finance and tech? Also, what are some smart ways to establish passive income streams? More about Ramit: He has become a personal development expert to millions of readers in their twenties, thirties, and forties.

You also get unlimited lifetime access to the course. So the next time you enter the job market, just log in and click play for a refresher. I started getting calls for interviews in just a couple of days. Ramit is big on results. If a course does not deliver results, Ramit does not sell it. In fact, he is known for scrapping entire courses if they do not meet his standards, even if he invested a lot of time, energy, and money developing them. Like I said, my work history makes no sense, yet I landed a job that doubled my salary in an industry that I love: technology.

Moreover, my boss and co-workers are brilliant, hilarious, and motivating. Also realize very dumb to ask what people are willing to pay because most will always come in at the lowest price point possible.

Additionally, the idea of following up and providing additional bonus materials after the sale is great and something I will definitely work on. Lastly, I do have an email list and I am now going to be more personable and not be so formal about things because technically I am the brand that my visitors are buying into. This was an awesome post! I really appreciate it when you can see that there has been effort put on the work — not just some quickly hashed together crap.

I think one of the biggest things this post highlights is the importance of research. Recently I have seen quite many successful people talk about doing research as a way to grow their business. And I wholeheartedly agree on that. After all, that is what all the real companies are doing. They put in a lot of effort to understand their customers so they can serve them better.

Love the bit, why need to spend hours tweaking the subject line, when you can just come up with a better offer. Is it really possible? It breaks my limits. It would be nice to know how much time Ramit took to build up the following on his blog.

Ramit has reached a snowball point, is getting a lot of press. But I am sure there is a lot of toil behind is. My pleasure. Sorry about the typo. I noticed the single m in research so not sure how it slipped through. This post in itself is a great idea about how to guest posts on external blogs that have more influence. Every single thing that Rummit said was already said before but it is us that always tend to forget.

Good reminder though. I love the part with a complaining old woman. Great post! For a moment I thought the post was from Ramit himself — such was the depth of the insights you shared. I care what works for me, what to do, how to do, and when to do. And best wishes with implementation — would love to hear from you afterwards on how it goes.

That was a ton of information to digest, what I found most valuable was the section about the money back guarantee and how you should be able to gauge the effectiveness of your product from it.

I did sign up for one of his courses I was paid to research and reserved 4 exercises pages to the anticipated practical tips. I took down exactly 7! I especially love the way he slams his competitors for lack of specificity and then does exactly the same thing. Hi Claudia. Also, did you read this interview?

For example, who in the world does not know that paying the minimum balance of credit card payment is actually pulling you into a debt trap. Is it too late to comment? You are bang on — Ramit is insanely productive, and it has a lot to do with going after big wins. I just finished writing an article on the most important things I have learned from Ramit and found this article while searching for it.

Over the years, I have really been impressed with how his site has evolved along with the book and the products that he now sells. Most importantly, I think he sells only when he genuinely believes that he is adding value and takes personal responsibility for it. This post may have been a bit long, but it was well worth the read! Some great insights from Ramit that apply to business in general — not just online.

When in reality, even a seemingly small number like 20 responses, can be good quality data. Impressive, right? Second, you can use their exact language in your copywriting to reach them at a deeper level. Use surveys to uncover the words readers use The beautiful part is that because so few people are doing this, if you do even a small amount—you completely stand out.

Ask open-ended essay-style questions. Ask five questions. Keep them short and specific. Include examples of the kinds of answers you want: really long, detailed responses, not one-liners. If I told you I had an eight-week course that was guaranteed to make you 1k a month on the side, would that interest you? Have you ever tried earning money on the side? What happened? But if your readers like you, you are set. Collect words from your email subscribers You can also use email to better understand your readers.

He writes a big, detailed email with a story about something that happened to himself or to a friend. Please email me back, I read every one. Because audiences on different sites are so profoundly different. Collect all the testimonials you will ever need Another part of your research and development should involve collecting testimonials. Target your customers closely We saw earlier that Ramit targets his customers closely.

Naming your product Naming your product is some of the most important language on your sales page. Answer objections before customers even have them Remember all those testimonials you collected? Understand the taxonomy of pricing There is a taxonomy of pricing that is well understood in the information product world. Then you want to start thinking about your guarantee.

What to do right after the customer buys When they buy, think through their experience. Using ethical persuasion Life is not just about more conversions. Rational requires that the potential buyer is in a sound state of mind and able to make their decision. Someone in desperate financial circumstances might not be.

And motivation means it is something they want. Inspired by this? About Guest Blogger This post was written by a guest contributor.