the fastest way to get a job you see

with this one small shift in your focus

you're gonna get a clear idea whether or

not you're really on the fast track to

getting a job or just treading water in

your own job search

Hi my name is Ian Jenkins founder of

job hunting secrets dot-com where we equip

jobseekers to find new opportunities in

less time searching through job boards

surfing company websites polishing your

resume filling in online applications

they're all typical activities that we

associate with making progress in a job

search right well if you spend time the

past weeks and months doing these exact

same activities have you seen any real

progress in your job hunt

chances are you're not where you want to

be in your job search right now is I was

in the exact same position myself after

spending endless days online looking for

a job

63 resume revisions in nearly one year

of unemployment

I knew I was not on the fast track to a

job and that's when I started

researching different approaches to job

hunting now that was a question that

made me rethink my entire approach and

that was what's the tipping point in my

own job hunt in other words what's the

simple activity that most important

activity in my job search and am I

spending enough time doing it

I started looking at my entire job

hunting process and all the things that

I was doing to fill my day i was

searching through chalkboards day in and

day out i was reading through emails

filled with career alerts i was surfing

company websites everyday and polishing

my resume until its Sparkle and then if

i was lucky as filling in applications

as well I did all of these things in the

hopes of landing in interview now when

you look at all of these activities

which one has the most value to you

and your job on in other words if you

only had 30 minutes to spend on job

money today which of these would be the

most valuable use of your time and the

answer is interviewing why when you meet

a hiring manager that's when you become

more than just a resume

it's an opportunity to demonstrate your

skills and the value that you can bring

to an organization so if you want to

know if you're on the fast track to

finding a job

ask yourself how much time have you

spent face-to-face with hiring managers

this week you see the more time you

spend talking discussing and meeting

with managers in the industry of the

companies that you want to work in the

faster you'll find a job in the book

headhunter hiring secrets author skip

Freeman says that there's sort of an

unwritten rule amongst headhunters in

the US and that is it takes six first

time face-to-face meetings to land a

single placement what this means is that

in companies where they are actively

looking to hire on average you have to

have six first time face-to-face

meetings in order to land a job offer

so how does this put you on the fast

track to finding a job well if you

change your focus from how many jobs

have I applied for this week to how many

face-to-face meetings have I had this

week would you start to think

differently about how you use your time

when day-to-day activities would you

change to get more face-to-face time

with managers he hasn't mentioned before

I won't struggle to find a job once i

started measuring the progress of my own

job search but with time spent in front

of managers instead of the number of

applications and I feel them i got on

the fast track to finding a job because

that's when I discovered a method that

consistently got me into six interviews

a week with managers in the industry

that I wanted to work in now getting out

and meeting with industry insiders is so

much more rewarding than sitting behind

a computer and feeling helpless in your

job search

so to get on the fast track to your next

job change how you met

your progress by monitoring how much

time you spend face-to-face with

managers you see this small change in

how you measure your own progress will

get you to rethink your daily activities

as well I hope you found this video

valuable if you'd like to know how i

teach jobseekers to get up to six

interviews a week

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