How to get a good job as you build confidence, learn new skills, and create relationships to last a lifetime
⤷ Stop submitting endless applications.
⤷ Secure interviews now.
⤷ Interview confidently.
⤷ Get hired, not ignored.
Break out of your rut and find the confidence to get the job you truly deserve.
People are unhappy at work and they don’t know how to break the cycle.
🤫 Psst! Here's the secret to get a good job!
The secret to getting a good job is no secret, they just don’t teach it well in most schools and now with the internet and AI, there are more tools to use, and more things we have to get right than just a resume and job application.
Three simple steps are not always easy
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The Career Acceleration Roadmap
Five Skills for Your Best Job Ever
1. Know Yourself
ASSESS YOUR PURPOSE 🎯
Expand your self-awareness by inventorying your successes, failures, strengths, weaknesses, goals, ambitions, fears, and priorities so you can choose an optimal career for you.
ASSESS YOUR TRIBE 👥
See how the people and institutions in your life impact your personal and professional satisfaction, success, and opportunities.
ASSESS YOUR MINDSET 🧠
See how your mindset affects your success, failure, and willingness to take decisive actions to enable you to achieve your goals and greatest aspirations.
2. Express Yourself
BE YOURSELF 🕵🏼♀️
Establish a mindset and commitment to be accountable to yourself that enables you to have the courage to stand up and say what you want to do and hold the boundary.
CLARIFY YOUR BRAND 🔍
Express who you are and your fitness for the job you want, in your role-focused resume, on social media, and in career profiles.
SPREAD THE WORD 📣
Deliver your message relentlessly everywhere a likely employer or advocate may be, using automation and targeted outreach to find the “hidden job market.”
3. Grow Your Network
MEET PEOPLE 🤝
Develop confidence as you create new relationships and get positive feedback.
INTERVIEW YOUR INTERVIEWERS 👨💼
Interview people and create relationships with clarity about your priorities so you can assess roles and opportunities based on your goals and interests rather than “get the job.”
CHOOSE YOUR ROLE ✔️
Establish awareness of how a role fits the broader organization and avoid undesirable organizational cultures.
4. Interview Confidently
INFORMATIONAL INTERVIEWS 🤝
Meet new people and old friends to understand their current situation, goals and interests, and share your own.
FORMAL INTERVIEWS 🎯
Relax, be the person they want to hire, get past the gatekeepers, and get the offer.
GET OFFERS 💰
Your goal is to get multiple offers so you can negotiate confidently for the best job for you.
5. Take Your Pick
NEGOTIATE CONFIDENTLY 💪
Be confident that you have good pricing information, and be in a strong negotiation position.
BE PATIENT 😌
The bigger your hurry, the weaker your negotiation position.
CELEBRATE 🎉
Knowing you got the best offer and the best job available!
You don’t have to be an expert in the process.
You just need to follow instructions.
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About Your Guide, Dylan Cornelius
Despite being a former recruiter, I wasn’t always good at finding a good job.
Every time I needed work, I took the first job that came along, then clung to it desperately, no matter how bad my boss or the situation became.
As I found myself passed over for promotions four times in three years and struggling in my marriage, I began looking for the root cause of my dissatisfaction and lack of fulfillment.
I saw counselors, therapists, coaches, sponsors, doctors, nutritionists, and attorneys. I participated in programs including AA, Al-Anon, Toastmasters, WeightWatchers, Landmark Worldwide, and Right Management.
Despite a Psychology degree, being a former recruiter, and having a Masters Degree in Business, I saw that I’d just been going through the motions when screening my prospective bosses, companies, and partners. I hadn’t been applying what I knew about people, relationships, leadership, the job market, and how companies operate when I chose bosses, teams, companies, and partners.
**I was operating from scarcity instead of leading the process and owning the outcome**
The more I applied fundamentals of psychology, working relationships, leadership, management, networking, marketing, and sales principles to my job searches, the more I enjoyed the process and the more successful I became in my job searches.
**Now I’ve received as many as seven offers in a single hiring cycle, and as much as a 40% raise through the offer cycle**
As a result of my own experience and my commitment to serve others, now I help others find an approach that works better for them too.
Nobody should have to spend years struggling, when the answers are there, but nobody’s yelling them on a street corner.
But don’t take my word for it, here’s what my clients say.
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Still not sure?
Here are the keys to getting a good job, and a little more about each one:
Step 1: Know yourself
1. Assess your purpose
Expand your self-awareness by inventorying your successes, failures, strengths, weaknesses, goals, ambitions, and fears so you can choose an optimal career for you.
2. Assess your tribe
See how the people and institutions in your life impact your personal and professional satisfaction, success, and opportunities.
3. Assess your mindset
See how your mindset affects your success, failure, and willingness to take decisive actions that can enable you to achieve your goals and greatest aspirations.
Step 2: Express yourself
1. Be yourself
Establish self-awareness and understand your fitness for specific roles, rather than taking the first job available.
2/3 of people are unhappy or disengaged at work –Gallup
In the final analysis, it’s because of a mismatch between them and their role or company.
The first problems we face when we’re trying to get a good job are:
We “go to school and get a good job”, without consideration for what we like or what we want.
Frequently, nobody asks us what we want or what makes us happy.
Even if they ask, early in our career we’re in no position to choose wisely.
Even if we choose with the best available information, “the real world” often differs materially from the information we used to choose.
People “find a job” rather than find a job that works for them.
2/3 of people are unhappy or disengaged at work.
The solutions are:
Put some time and thought into what you want and why
Trace your dissatisfaction to its root causes
When you get these right and truly know yourself, what happens is:
You’ll confidently embark on your work search with clarity about the role you want and a certainty that it’s the right thing for you.
2. Choose your role
Be an expert in the role and write a resume that makes them want to hire you before they meet you.
From industry to industry and even company to company, job titles may be the same, but the actual requirements of the role can differ greatly.
For example, a project manager in advertising has a very different job than a project manager in Information Technology, both of whom may lack a foundation in Engineering training that may be required for a Project Manager in Software or Construction.
The problem is that different industries and companies use the same words to describe different jobs. People don’t understand the nature of their roles relative to the overall enterprise. The job you’re trained for often differs from what you’re required to do. Job descriptions frequently don’t align with your actual tasks.
With all the mismatch between what you think should be and the actual case, you enter a state of cognitive dissonance that leaves you unsettled, unhappy, and permanently disengaged.
The solutions are:
- Be an expert in the job you want.
Articulate how you are the best candidate for the role.
Understand the discrepancies between your job descriptions and your actual role, and understand the reasons for them.
Be an expert in the contribution you make and its relevance in the modern enterprise.
3. Choose your boss
Interview to choose the business, your team, and your role in the company rather than to “get the job.”
“80% of people who left their roles between 2021 and 2022 regretted the decision” — Paychex
Generally, the manager magnifies the culture and expectations of the company. Even if the manager is a jerk, remember that two levels of management above her are responsible for placing her in the position and retaining her there. While people quit the manager, the manager is the face of the company, with all its policies, expectations, culture, and ambiguity.
The problem is that often, you don’t know why you’re unhappy at work because you attribute your unhappiness to the wrong root causes. You think your boss is the problem, but often, s/he’s just a symptom of the problem.
We rarely search for work and select bosses; we lack the skills and criteria for choosing wisely.
The solutions are:
Establish explicit criteria for what you want in a job, manager, and company so you can set the right expectations and hold your boss and company accountable.
Understand the nature of the modern enterprise and your role so you can have the right expectations and commit to do your part.
Learn to interview your interviewers as much as they’re interviewing you.
This will elevate your interview experience and leave a positive impression, and increase your call-back rate. This can create a good relationship with your boss and team from the very first interview. You’ll become a model employee and have fun and influence at work.
Step 3: Grow your network
1. Express Your Brand
Express yourself and your fitness for the job you want.
Every company and every person needs a clear, compelling brand.
We spend too much of our lives ordering off “the menu” of life: someone else’s idea about what is a good job, a good career, and a good life.
While your resume needs to follow the conventions, it also must reflect your personal story and commitments, or you’ll be stuck in a box you can’t escape.
The problem is, many resumes fail to fulfill their purpose because they don’t meet the necessary standards, but most people stop before they’re done:
People write resumes like companies write job descriptions: formulaic boilerplate.
People get stuck in boxes on org charts because they’re too busy trying to follow other people’s rules.
The solution is:
Write a resume that speaks of you and the job you want.
Personalize your resume with insight about you and what you want to do.
Clarify the contribution you intend to make, commit to make it, and write a resume from that commitment.
When you write a resume that speaks of you, you’ll have confidence in expressing who you are and your fitness for the job you want.
Have a resume and LinkedIn profile that speaks to your personal uniqueness as well as the job description.
You may come to realize that there are interviewers who are your fans even before they meet you.
2. Ubiquitize your brand
Deliver your message everywhere a likely employer or advocate may be.
There’s a saying about many failing companies that they’re the “best kept secret” in their industry. Whether their products are good or their operation is efficient, if too few potential clients know about them, they’ll never have a high enough deal flow to keep them in business.
Once you have clarity of purpose and direction, and a resume that clearly defines your fitness for the role you want, you must spread the word and share your resume, advertising, and brand message in places where your ideal audience will be.
The problem is that platforms like LinkedIn or dozens of other job boards, sites, and services, plus AI, have introduced overwhelming noise into the marketplace and will waste your time if you’re note well-targeted.
When you begin your job search:
You want multiple offers (3-5), in the same week or two, and you always start with none.
You want multiple advocates (9-20) who will refer you for the role you want, and you have few
When everything’s working, on average you can expect a 25-30% success rate as you move from one stage of the process to the next:
1-in-3 or 1-in-4 conversations will lead to another conversation
1-in-3 or 1-in-4 “final interviews” will lead to a job offer
1-in-3 or 1-in-4 job offers will be a job you really want (e.g. Gallup stat that 1-in-3 or 1-in-4 people are truly satisfied or happy at work)
The solution here is to:
Create a “job-hunting machine” that delivers your resume and message everywhere, everyday, even when you’re sleeping.
Spread your message far and wide, leveraging automation, other people’s time and attention, and your own confident, carefully crafted and polished messaging.
Leverage your experience, expertise, and preparation to have productive, enjoyable conversations about your goals, cabilities, former contribution, and capability to contribute.
After creating a strategic job hunting machine you’ll become a magnet for exciting opportunities. Imagine your inbox overflowing with exciting job offers.
Lead and guide the process of going from unemployed and scared to:
Answering phones, texts, and emails.
Having meaningful conversations.
Scheduling calls and interviews.
Receiving multiple job offers from people who are enthusiastic about having you on their team.
3. Meet people
Confidently create new relationships, become an expert in the market for your skills, and get positive feedback and referrals.
Experts say that most people get new jobs through people they know. A job hunt is the perfect opportunity to expand the network of people you know.
This “hidden job market” is your secret weapon to more relationships, more job offers, and higher salaries.
Modern communications technology and social media makes it easier than ever to find and meet people who are in your target role, work with people in your target role, or hire people in your target role.
The problem is:
Good people don’t leave good jobs, so the best jobs in the best companies with the best bosses aren’t open as often as the others.
The worst companies and the worst roles have high turnover and they hire frequently, so a meaningful percentage of all job openings at any time are bad jobs and/or undesirable employers. This may correlate to the ⅔ of people who are unhappy with their current job.
Most people put more time and thought into planning their vacations than they do into planning their careers. As a result, most professional networks are poorly developed and underutilized because we only consider developing our networks when we’re between jobs, and we search for work infrequently.
Before you start doing anything specific, think about beginning with:
Clarify your goals and career direction. Develop a simple career strategy and career plan.
Learn the basics of professional networking, establish and develop relationships that will grow with you and serve you over time.
Be mindful in your relationships and have an offer you can make to other people, so you have a reason to think of you as useful, and you make a place in their mind and memory for you.
Step 4: Interview Confidently
1. Informational Interviews
Meet people, make new friends, and get referred to more new friends.
2. Formal Interviews
Be yourself and prove you're the person they want to hire.
3. Get Offers
Your goal is to get multiple offers so you can negotiate confidently for the best job for you.
Step 5: Take Your Pick
1. Negotiate Confidently
Be confident that you have good pricing information, and be in a strong negotiation position.
Labor in the United States has not had a chance to meaningfully negotiate salaries for decades. A small number of compensation consulting firms perform annual surveys of the salary ranges paid by the largest companies for a standard assortment of job titles and roles. After the survey, the consultants share the results with the companies who participate. The companies readily standardize on the averages.
Today, if you work for a big company in a common role, there is very low probability that you’re receiving a salary much different than everyone else in a similar role, adjusted for geography, anywhere in the country.
If you are underpaid, it’s because you were low-balled or you were honest when they asked you how much you earned in your last job, and they offered you that much or a small raise, even though they know the average pay across the market for your role is higher.
The problem is that companies and their consulting companies have near omniscience about the current state of the labor market because they work full-time in the business of interviewing, hiring, and assessing that market.
Employees have a low level of insight, information, and expertise in compensation standards and the employment market for their skills because they only look for jobs occasionally, and rarely often enough to become well-informed.
Employees often are looking for work while they’re unemployed, so they may be doing so in a state of scarcity and fear, which can lead them to perceive they’re in a weak negotiation position. In this frame of mind, people become willing to make concessions that may not be necessary.
For that you’ll have to learn how to negotiate in a way that respects the fact that you’re in a rigged labor market.
Negotiate so the employer is forced to tell you their budget for the role.
Do sufficient research that you have at least three different samples of reliable data for the market average compensation for your role.
Begin your series of lower-than-inflation-rate raises from the highest foundation possible.
That’ll allow you to choose your best company and job ever.
2. Be patient
The bigger your hurry, the weaker your negotiation position.
As a recruiter for seven years, I saw over and over again that companies either paid what they were able, inside the budget for the role, or they actively worked to minimize the amount they paid to the people who worked for them. Then they gave minimum or no raises to people after they came to work for them.
The probability is that you are either paid fairly for your job or you are underpaid, and the longer you’ve been in your role at the same company, the more likely you’re underpaid. You will want to do everything you can to maximize your initial offer, so you can go in with the best positioning for your tenure in a role.
The problem here is that companies have better information and generally have a better bargaining position that employees feel they have through the hiring cycle.
You may feel a sense of urgency and a sense of fear that you may lose a position if you’re not 100% enthusiastic and accommodating when an offer is made.
In such cases apply some patience and a simple negotiation practice. Do a test to see if you’ve got the best offer available.
3. Finally, Celebrate!
Know that you got the best offer and the best job!
The "Get Your Best Job Ever Formula"
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I guarantee if you follow the “Get Your Best Job Ever Formula”, you’ll have greater clarity about the job that’s right for you, you’ll get more interviews, and you’ll be happier in your next job.
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I guarantee that if you are working the program and demonstrating progress, my team and I will work with you until you have offers and confidently accept your next position.
I guarantee that companies, recruiters, managers, the ATS, and AI are not the reasons why you're not getting interviews. Your success is entirely within your own control.
I guarantee, if you don’t get help, you’ll stay in your current, unsatisfying job or industry due to low confidence, and you'll continue to be unable to break out of your rut.
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