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All of us want to land that dream opportunity or dream job. You know, the one that makes you feel like a rock star when you answer that question “what do you do?” But if you don’t have the right connections or exactly the right experience, sometimes it can feel nearly impossible to get where you want to go.
In today’s episode, Austin Belcak shares his unorthodox approach for how you can stand out from the pack and land your dream job. Austin and I discuss why the deck is stacked against the traditional job applicant, how you can create opportunities for yourself even if a company isn’t hiring, the art and science of cold outreach, and much more.
Austin Belcak
Austin is the founder of Cultivated Culture, where he teaches people how to use unconventional strategies to land jobs they love in today’s market—without connections, without traditional “experience,” and without applying online.
Austin’s strategies have been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Fast Company, Inc, and more. He’s grown his community to over 10,000 job seekers who have leveraged his advice to land job offers at Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft , Twitter, Goldman Sachs, ESPN, and more.
Go out and find people who have already done what you want to do and find out how they did it.”
Episode Highlights
- Why the job search (and hiring) process is broken
- Take advice from people who already have what you want
- How to track down connections that could be potential referrals
- The magic of the “Quick question” subject line
- How to warm up a referral when you connect with them
- What to ask a new connection
- Why you should play the long game with your relationships
- How to set yourself apart from the competition and get an edge even before your interview
- How to demonstrate your value even before you have the job
- Why cold outreach can be such a powerful tool
Don’t be afraid to step outside of the box that everyone else is living in…find creative ways to demonstrate your value.”
Resources Mentioned
- “How to Get a Job Anywhere With No Connections” (blog post)
- Hunter.io
- Voilanorbert.com
- Yesware
- Hubspot Email Tracker
- 5 Most Effective Job Hunting Strategies (Cultivated Culture)
Connect With Austin
I know people struggling to get work where they were told they would have got the job and it was given to someone else or the job you wanted. The person never called you back. These days it is very hard to land your dream job. especially if you have trouble doing things. Maybe you are not good with numbers.
So that is something that will limit you in finding work or if you are not fast at doing things or if you are working with machining tools and you can’t fix them that helps make something. It limits you even if you tried to learn how to figure out how to do it. You may need to figure out mathematically how to do something.
Most job places will turn you down. I went to a place showed up and dressed nice and showed persistence and nothing still happened. I was trying to do a job transfer and No one was willing to higher. The boss I had said there were No openings at the time but they might have an opening at some point. Sometimes it takes someone to come in with you to help get you a job which may work depending on what it is.
But I don’t want someone helping me. I need to learn how to find the job myself. But it’s especially hard if you don’t own a car and your job is far away. They say to find work near you where you live. But around where I live there is nothing that makes and pays you good money. I need a nice house that pays money that helps you earn that kind of income. I know people struggling that have three jobs barely making it.
I want something that is a cool and a fun job which is very hard to find and the way the economy No one has the money to pay you or give you fulltime work. I want to work somehow in the music industry where it will pay you well and you can afford to live a life you deserve. You get paid the money you want based on the skill level you have.
Jobs are not easy to come by. If there is a job I want it’s either too far or out of my reach. I’m a creative artist in music and it would be nice to have someone take the time getting to know me and to work closely with me and get me signed we could make something happen.
But I know the artist that would go into a place many times being turned down and told them No, many times. Some got lucky and became none. Even if it was not your dream job it’s still hard to find work.
I think people need to give more people a chance and listen to them speak. We need to throw out that machine that picks people by what is on their resume. We are relying on that which makes it worse because what if that person is not very good. Then you hired the wrong person.
It is so much better to communicate with a person because you can learn so much more about a person. We need to find much better ways too hiring people. My problem is I’m limited on what I know how to do. There is one thing I can do but it requires some things on my part but because of some issues, I am unable to do the work.
Plus cleaning cars you have to clean a lot of cars and it’s much harder when you are by yourself. My thing is I don’t work fast. Not because I don’t want to but because some people work slow or process things slowly. Thanks for the video it was interesting.