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Week 5: Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Folks
Target Where You Want To Work
Why You Should Target Where You Want to Work
Video Time: 8 Minutes Action Time: Around 10 Minutes
Video Time: 8 Minutes
Action Time: Around 10 Minutes
Accountability Sidekick!
Have you made a list of and ranked your core values? If so, be sure to head over to the our LinkedIn community and brag about it! Share what you did, accomplished, and your ideas with the community. By sharing, you’ll inspire others to do the same.
However, if you haven’t done last weeks topics, then go back to last week’s lesson. Since we’re building every week on top of the week prior, it’s important you finish each action step. No “buts”!
So let’s proceed, shall we?
Online applications are frustrating, so quit filling them out, would ya? We cannot say this enough! Online job applications are like Crest white strips and putting up with sexual harassment: no longer necessary to get a job. Unlike your competition, Simone, you won’t waste time filling out online job applications.
Simone filed an online application for her dream job and received the automated message she’d been waiting for: “We’ll be in touch.” Waiting by her computer all day and all night, Simone didn’t sleep for days. She started having fits of insanity, hearing ghostly bings of email notifications that never existed… Soon, Simone fell into despair, left the job market, and was never seen again…. but hey, shiitake happens, am I right?
Puppy Lover or Puppy Hater? You Decide
Imagine that your friend had a job offer.
Wouldn’t it be easier to simply call them up for an interview? You wouldn’t fill out an online application when your future employer is only one phone call away.
All the best jobs are found through personal relationships and HR recruiters are more likely to hire a referral. Bullet points may be useful for talking points but it doesn’t allow you to show an employer what your skills are. And, job boards and online applications only give access to 20% of the jobs available. The rest are held back by the company, and most of the time, that 20% are entry level jobs.
Imagine that your friend had a job offer.
Wouldn’t it be easier to simply call them up for an interview? You wouldn’t fill out an online application when your future employer is only one phone call away.
All the best jobs are found through personal relationships and HR recruiters are more likely to hire a referral. Bullet points may be useful for talking points but it doesn’t allow you to show an employer what your skills are. And, job boards and online applications only give access to 20% of the jobs available. The rest are held back by the company, and most of the time, that 20% are entry level jobs.
Why You Need to Target Your Top 3 Companies
It is important to target your top 3 companies. In doing so you are creating opportunities for yourself instead of relying on an online job application and job boards. Establishing a personal relationship with an employer is an excellent way for you to stand out from the crowd. By watching this seminar, you’ve already proven to be different (or saw our ad on
Groupon* – either way, yay!). Therefore, continue to be a unicorn by taking what you learn here and apply it (like that coupon!). Find your top 3 companies you want to work for. Then, through LinkedIn, reach out and establish a personal relationship with your connections.
Where is the Love?
We want you to go to a place that honors diversity and inclusion, so let’s find a company that’s LGBT friendly and make yourself stand out. This will change your life! Putting yourself in new environments that love and appreciate you will make the job better and a lot less stressful. Working in your top three
companies will help you gain skills and experience. So work with people you want to work for! Working in a company that doesn’t align with your morals, or doesn’t accept you as you are, is not worth your time and is a wasted opportunity! (like not using that Groupon! Okay, we promise, we’ll stop.
*We are not affiliated with Groupon, nor do we have a Groupon offer. It was merely mentioned for laughs.