A short YouTube advisory monologue (speaker: Kyle Norton) encouraging job-seekers to be proactive: treat your skills as a product, identify companies that fit your preferred market and sales cycles (e.g., mid-market, point solutions, restaurant tech), and do outbound outreach to those organizations rather than waiting to be recruited.
It starts by being proactive instead of reactive. So instead of the roles you're considering being whatever recruiter happened to reach out to you, you take control of the situation. You think like a salesperson. All right what are my skills, what's my product? Who does that map well to and what are the things that I want to do next? And you go hunting. Don't let yourself be hunted. You go do the hunting and it's a lot more challenging for sure but this is a great way to to approach a search. So I do okay I'm let's take a hypothetical. I have a bunch of experience in restaura technology and I like these sales cycles and not these sales cycles so I want to be sort of mid market. I want a point solution. Okay what are all the best companies in this space who are growing fast, have great teams and then and then going outbound to those organizations to initiate conversations versus the opposite.
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