to a career and life you'll truly enjoy. Today is another special video where I

will be talking to Jaennia, who was a recent grad, she was ready for a change

in her career she had been looking for a while and after we started working

together she ended up getting multiple interviews and just recently accepted

her dream job offer which she will explain to you so Thank You Jaennia for

joining me here today I'm so excited to have you here. Thank you so much for

having me Linda it's an honor. So I really want you to share your story can

you tell a little bit more to the audience a little bit about yourself in

terms of your background the career that you were in and and what you were

looking for and how that whole situation came about yeah I graduated from Cornell

University not too long ago it's about like two years ago and I graduated and I

started in the food and beverage industry and right after I started my

full-time job that's when I realized I don't really like this job that much I

need to get out of it and make a change right before I was working with you I

actually got laid off so everything just happened so suddenly and I was just in a

frantic to search for jobs and I was very diligent and I was like I'm gonna

apply to five jobs a day and I thought in my head okay let's just play the

numbers game right if I send my resumes out to enough people then there will be

some people it's gonna reach out to me and then I'll get my job and I only

heard back from about like two to three people wanting to do a phone interview

and I will move forward to an in-person interview with one company which

eventually rejected me you know I was just just in such a funk in my life I

was just so unhappy and just so sad all the time and just frustrated you know

like I live in the East Coast I live in Manhattan so just the stress of having

to pay rent and still be able to maintain like somewhat of a similar

lifestyle and like pay all the bills it was just stressful and then I

stumbled upon one of your videos called tell me about yourself like how to

answer that interview question and I got hooked and that's how I

shout to you we started working together oh I see awesome

so that's crazy because you had applied for over 200 jobs and you ended up only

getting two or three callbacks and then one foot one in-person interview so

that's not even that's not even like 1% of all the number of applications that

you had sent out terrible results and I mean also for me like I mentioned

earlier I write when I first started my first full-time job out of college I

realize like I did not like my job I did not enjoy it so I was also you know

trying to switch industries and what I also found was you know when you try to

switch industries people are already looking for like five to ten years of

experience for the jobs that I was targeting but then I only have two years

of experience like working full time total so there was just such a gap there

it was just extremely difficult being my situation and also having to switch

industries right yes so let's talk a little bit about that so you're trying

to switch industries you're going from food and beverage in operations and then

into the career that you're you're heading into now which is as an

executive assistant for a large global company so talk about what the feedback

was from employers when you were applying for jobs and you weren't

getting calls and things like that what were people telling you I mean a number

of things you know I think the job market in Manhattan for executive

assistant is two parts one part is a lot of the people that are will apply to the

posting for these jobs were through recruiting agencies and they would tell

me you don't have enough experience or you need to lower your salary

requirement in order for you to even be considered for the job and then the

other side is kind of like applied directly through the company and that's

also a huge feedback that I received from these companies is it doesn't seem

like I'm the right fit because I wasn't in the industry before and I would do me

something else but in my mind I knew I have done these tasks that you know in

the executive assistant would do and then I have the skill sets to be able to

perform very well as an executive assistant but I just wasn't presenting

myself the right way to recruiting agencies and potentially

let's talk a little bit about you know in terms of the results that you ended

up getting so we work together we work through the resume work through job

search strategy work through interview strategy what were the results like how

many interviews did you start getting compared to before and you know how many

offers did you get and and what what were they like yeah so like we mentioned

earlier you know I applied to about 200 something jobs and I only got like two

to three interviews and I didn't get it it didn't result in any offers and after

we started working together I would say like really all the calls started coming

in like around the second month that we were working together and I think every

week we would catch up and I'm like oh I have this interview I have this

interview I just like so much going on like every single week I had I would say

about like 10 to 12 like phone interviews you know a mixture of from

companies directly and also from recruiting agencies but I think we've

also by working together really figured out how to you know learn those lessons

from that process so I've learned for myself to target more the applications

directly through companies so more of my phone interviews with directly with the

companies and I moved through the phone interview process to in-person with all

of the interviews and I ended up with three job offers yes oh my god that's so

crazy I remember when you kept telling me oh

Linda by the way I got this interview oh and I got that interview and I got this

interview and I'm just like I couldn't even keep track I didn't even know which

jobs you were going for interviews for it was just so crazy because it happened

so quickly which is awesome so you you'd have been

applying for a while you were frustrated you're upset and then you came across me

and my youtube channel which I'm so happy you did tell us a little bit about

that experience in terms of deciding to work with me through my program stand

out get hired and what was your experience like for us working together

yeah I mean it was definitely like a huge decision for me but I also knew you

know just even when I was still in college that I thought I didn't have the

best interview skills and I have always been like a top performer in scoring all

the jobs I've held and I haven't recognized for them however I don't

always get salary increase that I was looking for

or I wasn't always considered for the jobs that I was targeting and also you

know being a recent graduate as a high performer I think you know maybe some of

the audience could relate to this even though I'm younger than a lot of the

colleagues that I work with but I perform better than them however the

opportunities when promotions and things like that come they don't come to me so

that was like a huge frustration that I had so that's kind of how I like

stumbled upon your video I decided you know what I will be like the perfect fit

for Linda to work with so that's how I reached out to you through the standout

get hired program yes so I mean this is the thing that I come across with a lot

and I'm glad you mentioned it janeyah because a lot of the people that I work

with are people who do really well in their jobs I mean technically speaking

and I knew from you you had told me you know I am a top performer I know that

I'm really strong in the work that I do but for some reason the employers aren't

seeing it and that's a common issue so it has nothing to do with your you

yourself as a as an individual as a professional as an employee it has

everything to do with how you present yourself so when I worked with you and

when we work together through the program what were the AHA's for you

maybe they are several Haas for me one is really like putting these relevant

skills and formatting your resume in a way where when a recruiter is looking at

your resume they don't have that much time but they're able to see these

things and you're highlighting these achievements in these skills that was

definitely very important and I think as a high performer I have always been you

know in a job position where I went above and beyond and did so many roles

outside of my job description and my job title and I will put all these things on

my resume so that actually did the opposite I think confuse the recruiters

and it was just like too overwhelming what they're looking at my resume that's

why they didn't see the fit and I was applying for these jobs so working with

you we've really we were able to kind of like target what we needed to showcase

them put and that really helped right after you know we really came up with a

top notch resume as I started getting you know calls from

people I have recruiters reaching out to me with you know potential job offers

and what I'm made of going to meet with them tell us about this this one job

that you decided to accept you know how do you feel about it now and and you

know what are you looking forward to and also the fact that it is in the exact

industry that you wanted to get into right yes exactly I mean I will say for

this specific and just working with you in general instead of kind of like me

being desperate to take on any job that land in my way just even in the job

search process itself because I gained so much more confidence because we were

seeing results I was also more selective with the jobs

that I was applying to meaning I was actually applying to jobs that I would

seriously consider and be interested in so I think you know I ended up with

offers you know that I would seriously consider that's how I ended up with this

dream offer so for this particular offer it's in the industry that I want and I

also think it has just so much career path of like growth opportunities

available for me after I start working it also has great benefits and also you

know they offered me the salary range above what I was even asking and really

just working with you throughout this process discuss you know really go for

your dream job really make sure that your look you're also interviewing the

company when you go to these you know interviews to make sure it's the right

fit for you so I really found that you know this company that I'm going to be

working with is the right fit for me so I'm just so excited and I feel just so

unstoppable like these skills that I learned from you I will be able to also

implement that in the future jobs that I'm going to be applying to I'm so I'm

so happy to hear you say that and you know it really does make me feel so good

like even when you told me Linda I got the offer and then it just even hearing

you right now talk about this it really does inspire me to want to be able to

help even more people and the one thing I find though is when I'm working with

clients just like you it's not about just getting any job it really is about

trying to find the right one for you the dream job that you can get and so

out of curiosity do you feel that if we hadn't worked together if we hadn't gone

through syndicate hard together that you would be in the position that you're in

now no absolutely not I think I would still be like probably I wouldn't have

made the successful career switch industry wise and I would probably still

be hating my job and I also want the audience to know like a huge part of you

know your life is your job so really it's very important to like find the job

that you're passionate about because when you're passionate about your job

you're interested in it you also have a better energy about you and your and the

personal relationships that you have in your life also become better as a result

I agree wholeheartedly even for me back in the day when I was working in

corporate and I started getting really sour and not happy about where I was at

and I knew I wanted to do something different but back then when I was stuck

in that corporate job you know everything it wasn't just my job that

was bad it was everything I was unhappy about everything in my life because I

wasn't happy at work and because you're there for at least eight hours a day

you know you carry that home with you so now that you're in a you know you're in

a good place and and you're in a happy place with your job and all of that I'm

sure that that's going to have a ripple effect with you and the rest of your

life yeah absolutely I mean I just I'm just so content with kind of like where

I am with my career and I just feel like so much hope for what's going to happen

in the future and I really recommend to you know everyone out there work with

Linda as early as you can because instead of like wasting another couple

of years like hating your job or like wine to make that change you're gonna be

able to do it now and I really feel like that was the best decision I've made

thank you thank you so much for saying that Jeanne I actually wanted to ask you

what would you say to someone because the thing is a lot of people do want to

work with me at least I get a lot of applications but then it comes to the

investment and it comes to the time that they have to put into it knowing that