A short motivational talk advising job seekers to stop treating job hunting as applying for posted openings and instead focus on locating and solving high-value (multimillion-dollar) business problems. The speaker recommends networking to reach decision makers before roles are posted and reframing outreach as offering expertise to solve concrete business needs; they also briefly mention a program that teaches this reverse-engineering approach.
What is the one thing that you're doing wrong in your job search today? I'm going to tell you what it is. You're focusing on landing a job and you're not focusing on solving a multimillion dollar problem. So let me unpack that for you. Most organizations release jobs when there is a need to add a new team member. They usually try to find the person themselves and when they can't, they go to HR and they release a job in a form of a requirement and HR will post it on the job boards. The idea is to get to the decision maker, the hiring manager, before they create the job, before anyone else gets to it. And how do you do that? You do that by building your network and by reaching out to people, people you know, people you don't know, people you should know, and offering your expertise, as I like to say, to help them solve a business problem. So if they create a job, they will create a job for you. Versus many of you are focusing on landing a job. You walk around every day asking people, is your company hiring? Can you take a look at your company website? Are there any job openings you're submitting your resume for jobs on job boards, on websites. You're talking to recruiters about jobs. By the time it becomes a job, it's too late. So what does my program do? It helps you reverse engineer all of your efforts to be able to solve a multimillion dollar problem, talk to the decision makers and get to the career opportunity before it becomes a.