Jobseeker Contest: Tell Your Story & Win A Free Copy of My eBook! Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

What is YOUR job hunting story?
To celebrate my reaching 4,500 followers on Twitter, I’ve decided to have a contest for everyone in our little job seeker community :^)
I’m going to GIVE AWAY a free copy of my Unspoken Rules of Getting Hired eBook package (worth about $170) – to the person who posts the MOST interesting story about his or her job hunting struggles… in the comments below.
As “Brain Food” I’ll list some questions you might want to answer in your “entry” below…
- How did you get to this point, tell me your story?
- What’s your biggest challenge or frustration right now? (ie resume, cover letter, going on job boards, interviewing, etc.)
- What have you tried so far, but it didn’t work?
- What have you tried so far, and it did work?
- Why should you be chosen?
Now, this fun little contest is going to draw quite a few entries. No question. In order to keep things INTERESTING, I’m going to set a few quick rules…
>Rules:
1) You must write something INTERESTING. No one-liners that say “the economy sucks” or “there are no jobs out there.” I’m not even going to APPROVE comment entries that aren’t thoughtful, interesting, and REAL.
[***Bonus Points: Upload a video to YouTube of 5 minutes or less where you describe how you’ve struggled in your job search and give specific examples. Be sure to tag your video with “imm contest” in quotation marks. Click here to see what it should look like when you are uploading your video. Then leave a comment on this post with a link to your video and a brief description of what hasn't been working for you (no need for more than 1-2 short paragraphs)***]
2) Do all of this no later than 10pm EST next Saturday, February 27th (in other words, start writing NOW).
3) I and a few secret judges will select our top favorites, and then you all will vote for the winner. I’ll also Tweet the name of the winner on Twitter, of course!
So get to it, and post a comment below telling your story about how you’ve struggled on your job search. You just might win $170 bucks worth of my best interview training!
[Follow me free on Twitter here: Twitter.com/Landon_Long]
How To Answer The ‘Million Dollar’ Question: “I Want To Have A Career. What Should I Do?” Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Lets face it – In today’s economy, you are up against a HUGE uphill battle when it comes to starting your career. Even if you figured out what you want your career to be, chances are you wouldn’t have a fighting chance at securing i
t because you don’t know how to promote yourself to employers.
It comes down to simply not having a lot of options to choose from in this job market. Sure there might be lots of job openings out there…but if that’s the case, why aren’t you hear anything from employers?
Well what I’m about to tell you might shock you…so put on your tough suit of armor because I’m not going to try to “save your feelings” about this. What I’m about to tell you is the TRUTH and if anyone tells you differently BITCH SLAP THEM AND RUN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION!
Ok not really, but seriously…Here’s what most they aren’t telling you…
IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO PROMOTE YOURSELF TO EMPLOYERS…
YOU WONT HAVE A CAREER. PERIOD.
(Yeah I said it…)
I mean think about it… If you want to kick off your career after college you need to know how to PROMOTE yourself to hiring managers. If you want to get a raise and move up the career ladder, you need to know how to PROMOTE yourself to your supervisors. Even the dude who got a job from one of his daddy’s golf buddies had someone “promoting him” even if he didn’t do it himself. For most of us regular peeps who don’t have all the high-level connections, we rely on our own street smarts and for some it comes easier than it does others.
So why don’t employers just hire us? Why do we have to learn how to promote ourselves to employers?
Well there’s a long list of reasons…and most of them come from the misconceived perception that college grads these days (or “Millenials” as they call us) are:
- Too entitled
- Too lazy or unmotivated
- Too social
- Hard to manage
- Not enough experience
- Not open to feedback
- Not open to self-improvement
(Just check out my Free Report, “The 10 Most Dangerous Mistakes YOU Probably Make With Employers And What To Do About It…” and I’ll break it down for you…)
And all of these reasons are rooted from the same source:
Not knowing how to promote yourself as a candidate who ISN’T one of these types of Millenials.
Are you following me?
And this is the problem that has been plaguing millions of other college grads who are struggling to find something in this crippled job market.
So here’s what I’d do if you want to have a career that others would KILL for:
Learn how to PROMOTE yourself as an A-player.
Not only that but learn how to become an A-player as well. Period.
Why? Because A-player’s have something that many of us unemployed college grads can only dream about.
They have unlimited career OPTIONS.
They are sought-after by companies in EVERY industry. And they are among the top 5% of candidates out there. They can move between industries without any problems because they know how to network, and they ARE highly networked. They know how to MARKET themselves to employers and they know how to make their PERCEIVED value higher than 95% of the population.
Bottom line, if you want a great career, learn how to become an A-Player first! Then you’ll be able to select ANY career you want from a buffet of possibilities. Choose not to become one, and you’ll be forced to “settle” for all the “scraps” that no one else wants.
Don’t let life pass you by for another second. Building yourself to be an A-player is probably one of the most important things you can do for your career and life if you want to have the freedom to experience life instead of being forced into a situation that just “pays the bills”.
If you want to learn more about how to become an A-player, I strongly recommend you check out my Free Newsletter. I’ll send you tips, tricks, and strategies to help you go from being just another “average” candidate to being a “heavily armed jobseeker” in a matter of weeks. You’ll learn about employer psychology, getting around phone interviews, building rapport with body language, negotiating salaries, and everything else that’ll help you get hired in less time.
So what are you waiting for? Go sign up for my Free Newsletter and jumpstart your job search RIGHT NOW.
Happy Hunting!


