How to Get More Job Interviews FAST for $150,000+ Jobs

You need to land more interviews for these high-paying jobs that you actually want, but you don't have endless time and you don't want to miss out on excellent opportunities that could change the entire trajectory of your life. Don't panic. I will share key strategies to ensure you are landing more interviews for skilled roles paying $150,000, $250,000, $350,000, you know, and beyond so that you can land more offers when the stakes are high and it is highly competitive. For these roles. And stay to the end because I will share the major change my clients make to get dozens of compelling inbound job opportunities. Because at this point, I have been credited with success stories of hundreds of thousands of job seekers. I am the bestselling author of the book Reverse the Search, published by Penguin Random House. So I've literally written the book on how to make your job search work for you in a highly competitive job market. So it's time for you to be the next success story. One thing you have to realize is that there are 5 things that are currently making your job search take longer, and the fastest way to make your job search go quicker is to take the easiest possible path. And so I'll be your corporate Cheshire Cat and tell you which path that is. Okay, so if you need a job quickly Stop changing your job and instead target companies where the role you ultimately want exists at the company. Get into that organization with a similar title to your most recent one, and then pivot once you're in that company. The second thing keeping you from landing as many interviews is changing industry. Frankly, companies just want to hire employees who worked at their competitors because that's the safest bet. So you are creating more work for yourself if you are doing an industry pivot. Is it possible? Absolutely. I have clients who change industries all the time, but they have the help of me as a coach, as an unfair advantage, such as Todd, who was a band teacher and I helped him pivot to become a Scrum Master. He landed a job offer where he started making double what he was making before and working 30 hours less a week. So this is incredibly possible. I see it done every day, but you need the right strategy, which we will talk about later in this video. If you must change roles or industries, or make it especially challenging for yourself and change both, target smaller companies because they are more likely to take a chance on you because they tend to look at candidates a bit more holistically and are more interested in people who are jacks of all trades versus large companies who want a more narrow and perfect fit. Also, networking will most likely be the way you land your next job. Applying online is most effective for people who are clearly a fit for the role they're going for. The 3rd thing slowing you down in your job search is that you are targeting jobs below your level. These jobs you might be 130% qualified for, but those are not easier to get. Companies are terrified of hiring someone who is overqualified, and then within months that person is asking for a raise, they're asking for a promotion, they're unhappy because they're bored, or they just go ahead and take another better offer a few months later as soon as it comes along. Now, of course, the 4th thing slowing down your job search is aiming too high. The leap from individual contributor to manager And director to VP are the two hardest leaps to make in the job search. So especially if you're trying to make one of those leaps, it may be easier to land a job at the company at your current level and then move up. The final thing that slows your job search down is being a low volume of jobs for your profession. So if you're struggling to find good jobs that fit your criteria, then you may need to. Expand or pivot. Such as if you're targeting remote brand marketing manager roles, there isn't a large volume of those opportunities. But instead, if you shift to marketing manager roles and you're open to both in-office and remote, now a lot more opportunities open up. Put in the comments how many of these things you're dealing with in your job search. Are you targeting a new role or a new industry? Are you going for jobs above or below your level, or has there been a low volume of roles, or are none of these happening for you and you're still not getting interviews? Let me know in the comments. Okay, so now that we've gone through some of the things that are slowing you down, let's get into more things that will help you land more interviews and speed things up. The first thing you've got to do is improve your targeting and not have autobiography syndrome. That means you should not focus on sharing what is most interesting and impressive about your background, and instead position yourself as the exact fit for what they're looking for and remove the other things. I have a free class that walks you through how to do this on your resume. I've gotten so many emails of success stories just from this one class, so I will link that below. Because yes, your career is likely a beautiful, mosaic of diverse experiences, but a company does not want to hear, well, I did sales for 5 years and then I moved into operations, and I've also got some marketing experience, and I think all of this makes me a really well-rounded person to be a product manager. Instead, focus clearly and explicitly on the direct qualifications of the role. The reason my clients land offers even when they're career changing is that I position them as someone who can do exactly what the company is asking for, not as a mosaic, not with a diverse background, as the answer to the company's problem. Here's one way this can work in practice. So you read the job description, identify, say, 3 or 4 things that the company needs done, they're looking for in this role. And then you go through your experience and you pull out the moments where you did things or things very similar to that, but it could be in a completely different context. So you need to reframe your story so that every bullet on your resume and every answer in your interview points directly to this role. I once brought an accountant in for an executive assistant role that she had applied to, and I asked her, this would be a big career change for you. What What steps have you taken to make sure this is the right next step? And she said, well, this interview. I just thought this job sounded interesting and I applied. There's not a chance that a company would take a risk on a really important role when someone spoke about it that way. If she had instead said, I've spent the last 3 months studying what makes a great EA, I've taken courses on calendar management, and I've been shadowing someone in the role, and here's why I know this is the right move for me. That would be a horse of a different color. Your job as a candidate is to remove every shred of doubt that you belong in this role. And you do that by speaking their language, showing concrete proof, and making the future they're hiring for feel obvious. The next strategy to employ is for applications. Be specific and fast. When a role goes live, apply within 24 hours for the best results. And sending a quick message to the hiring manager with key information is a nice touch. And that's because most people don't even read the job description for the jobs that they're applying for. So even a smidge of effort can go a long way. The next strategy to get more interviews is a huge one for my clients. Many of my clients report over 50% of their interviews coming from inbound, from being found on LinkedIn and not having to apply for the job first. This is called getting sourced, and recruiters use LinkedIn Recruiter to search for candidates. And Glassdoor even reported that the proportion of recruiter-sourced candidates has increased 72% since 2023. So if you're not landing interviews this way, you are hugely missing out. And I'll link a free workshop below that can walk through some LinkedIn strategies to get more job interviews and offers. Now, this wouldn't be real advice if I didn't share the fastest way to land more job interviews: networking. People think of it as slow because they don't know where to start and Yes, there are some dead ends, but with the right networking strategy, you cut all the lines. You land jobs that sometimes there aren't even any other people competing for them, such as my client Kathy, who broke into the sports industry and landed a job with the FIFA World Cup through my job shopping strategies and almost exclusively focused on networking.

Talked to a couple people who did the program and they said, do what Madeline says, do it. So I said, okay. So with sports, I just went on LinkedIn and looked at a couple and just started sending messages. And yes, plenty of people did not respond, Madeline. You also said join organizations. I joined Women in Sports and Entertainment, like, you know, a great resource. So I started just poking around, but all of a sudden people started responding and would say, yeah, I'll be happy to meet. I'll be happy to talk. And so then the panic really set in. Because then you're like, oh my God, I really don't want to look like an idiot and I want to make sure. So I did that. And I remember my first big one was a great man who has planned the last like 30 Super Bowls now. Like this guy's like the GOAT of sports and entertainment. And he got right back to me. And so I had a whole agenda and the push comes to shove, Madeline, once you do just say hi and tell about yourself. They just want to talk about themselves. And it's 20 minutes later. And I didn't even really ask a question.

Thank you, Matt.

I owe you everything. I can't say enough. It changed. It changed. I'm your biggest fan. I always tell everybody, like, you have a question, ask me, call Natalie. You know, I, yeah, I love it. I love, love the program. So thank you.

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