video and I'm going to be talking to Shavar, Top Notch Resume success student

of mine he was looking for a job for about six months and was unsuccessful

until he took the Top Notch Resume course and now has finally landed his

dream job offer which he's gonna tell you all about

so Shavar thank you so much for joining me here today

thank you so much for inviting me I'm actually happy to be here I'm excited to

chat with you and I'm excited for you to share your story what was your situation

before you took the Top Notch Resume course when you were searching for a job

what was the whole deal with that I say throughout my career I've had a hard

time selling myself in a resume I think a lot of us we learn in college in even

high school how to create like a basic resume just like the bullet points like

the very thin bullet planes in a one line career objective and we hold on to

that because that's all we know but for me that we didn't take me many

places if I'm being quite candid you know it's been a period of time after

graduate school being unemployed and not being able to get a job at all so any

job opportunity like that came for me I kind of took it and ran with it looking

for another job everybody came up about six to eight months ago

I'm currently a manager and I knew I did not want to stay on this course of being

a manager for the rest of my career I already want to get into a training

opportunity and eventually accept my own business so when I discovered your

resume writing course I was actually really excited because I was able to

learn how to sew myself everything you you said in your course was really just

spot-on my looking at the keywords and looking at you know those those action

items we're really helped me to learn how to sell myself a lot better so I'm

very thankful for your guidance throughout the course cuz I was able to

come up with a much better resume and now I'm able to not only help myself

also help others too a year ago I was like okay I know I want to move forward

now I want to move to California and have a new career how can I get

there what can I do and I was kind of feeling stuck like you know where do I

go what what can happen but thankfully I came across your YouTube channel and and

the rest is history what was the statistics in terms of when

you were looking for a job with your old resume how many interviews would land

you know with your new resume what was the success like what was sort of the

statistics my success rate back then my waiting to get a phone call I will send

resumes left and right to different agency he's looking to get there's a

callback for an interview and nothing will happen we're asked with your with

this new resume that I have to your program I got a job phone calls for

interviews from agencies in Washington DC and California so it really does work

I mean if you just have a strong resume and you know how to sell yourself based

on based on that resume you can you can go many places in your career so come

across your program and learning about looking for a good job posts and good

job descriptions and looking for those keywords and what that actually means

and the formula that really helped me out a lot so I know that you you have a

job offer now tell us a little bit about what that process was like just and how

you feel about it I am super excited so I'll be a trainer I'll be working with

health departments across the country they really saw that I have a lot of

experience based on how I saw myself in my resume so it really worked like

clockwork I knew what to expect it was very straightforward after my first

interview they call me in for a second and the second interview was again very

straightforward and and being a couple days afterwards I was give me a phone

call from an HR about you know the possibility of moving to the Bay Area

and I didn't want to get my hopes up too high cuz I'm gonna you know if they

could choose another candidate so who knows but early last week I got the

phone call with the offer so you know because of my resume and because of how

I sold myself in the interview they offer me the higher end

their salary range for this position which that never happened to me at all

in my career I've always been a person who would get the lower in other salary

range because I did not have enough experience so the fact that this

organization is not only offered me an opportunity in a field that I want to

get into you know my dream job but they also offered me to hire in the salary is

something that you know I'm just totally blown away by and totally grateful for

100% that is amazing and congratulations Savard I love this story so I want to

take it back because you said before you were seen as someone who would always

get the lower end of the salary because they thought that you didn't have enough

experience because of the way that you sold yourself on your resume and in your

interviews I mean how do you feel now about yourself personally and

professionally knowing now the approach on how to really sell yourself on your

resume and your prospects for your career moving forward I now see that

offer a lot more value than I did before I think oftentimes for professionals if

you are in a work environment where you're being told either by each our or

your supervisor or some kind of upper management that you don't have enough

experience to get this certain paid pay increase or or salary you oftentimes

will kind of internalize that and personalize that to where it's Harvey to

feel like you have any value to offer another organization or company to get

the salary that you feel like you deserve and that's how I felt throughout

my career after doing your your course and seeing what I had on paper and

talking to other other colleagues that I was not working with people with this

resume like you know I'm looking to move to California and I say you know I don't

happen a lot of experience but I'm looking to learn and grow as I know you

have a ton of experience and and that helped me out as well so I was like well

maybe I do have more to offer maybe I should kind of reframe how I'm thinking

and not necessarily take heed or personalize some of the comments that

were made to me in the past about not having experience to give the kind of

salary day I feel like I deserve so when I got the call for this interview I just

said you know let me just going there sell myself based on the things I know

so I think I'm just really helped me to go into him

you feelin a lot more calm bring a lot more self-assured feeling a lot more

competent and and I think that really you know what's coming from me to to the

interviewing team what would you say to someone who right now is in a situation

that you were in let's say a year ago and who is now looking for a new job but

who's struggling to land interviews or struggling to get the job offers and

they're considering taking top-notch resume what what would advice or what

recommendation would you give to them I just say this take the step in in take

the course if you just take the step by taking the course then you can come out

with it with a stronger resume and you can come out feeling a lot more

confident professional and you said it's a funnel the profile is the top of the

funnel and everything kinda trickles down so I'll be able to do that in my

time our resume and you will come out feeling a lot more confident at the

current moment you don't feel confident because it's been theirs take the first

step by taking the course awesome and what if they were thinking oh you know I

don't have a job right now so I can't invest in myself I mean what would you

tell them in that case I will say I understand I got my graduate degree in

2012 and the same week that I got my degree I got a notice of eviction from

my apartment and I got a hard times I found from house to house for a year and

a half I did not have a job for you to have I went back on food stamps and and

it was it was it was horrible I can really relate to a person who says I

can't take care of myself right now I mean I don't have a job your course

teaches people things that no one else is teaching right now I'm a strong

believer in this is that there are resume writing programs out there

through like you know the Department of Labor that really doesn't give us a

quality resumes that we need to get the jobs that we're looking for the jobs

that we deserve the jobs that will help us sustain our own economy personally in

an often times we get tired the basic format on how to create a resume

in high score in college and their videos and service very well but if you

just take this course you will learn how to come up with the quality resume and

you'll learn that you do have a lot more experience saying than you actually

thought so you'll be able to take care of yourself you'll be able to find ways

to cure yourself and and if you have a dream in your heart you have a goal you

have you know something that is keeping you going in some kind of way didn't

really just believe in that and take the steps that you need for yourself

it's your life for a reason he's gotta live your life for you beautiful and you

know this ties in with the work that I do too and I'm glad you mentioned that

shavar because the reason why I do what I do I teach people how to land jobs and

how to move forward in their careers is because at the end of the day it's your

life your career plays a big role in your life right I mean it brings you a

lot of meaning and if you're not going after it the right way you don't have

the right strategy or the right tactics you might be missing out on

opportunities that could easily be yours but it's just because you didn't know

how to go after them so thank you for sharing one other thing I want to

mention is some people when they're comparing oh I have to take a course I

have to figure this all out myself I have to write the resume myself why

don't I just pay someone to write my resume for me what would you say to them

about that I know someone right now who has fall onto hard times and is actually

you know working with a corporate headhunter to write their resume and

send it out to different company it didn't help them get a job and

unfortunately you know she just hasn't found any opportunities whatsoever and

my heart goes out to her I say you know this program is amazing that Aranea is

amazing I mean I learned so much from her please do this course but she was

really this leaning into the idea of these headhunters give me giving her an

opportunity and it this has somebody worked out so you know sometimes when

you put all your eggs into that particular basket of someone you know

writing your resume for you or finding your opportunity for you it may work

based on them being a quality professional and give you a quality

product or it may not work and I think that's

that's a gamble you take with that so you know I say I say learner skills

learning steps and pay it forward to those who need it most beautiful

beautiful thank you so much so far I you know I I really appreciate you sharing

your story with me and with everyone that's watching I mean it's amazing and

I'm so happy for you that you've you know finally landed your dream job and

you you're getting paid what you deserve as well and you're moving to your dream

location all these wonderful things yeah yes yeah I'm really excited about

because I live in Ohio right now and oh my god I got the seasonal back to this

order where I get really depressed or no weather and I'm like I told myself

last winter I said I cannot do this again I have to buy an opportunity out

west and and I'm so thankful like I said you announced your course like I was

driving home and I pulled over I'm like I'm getting of course now like I'm going

to Scranton so I just want to say thank you to you because I this program really

helped me to take the necessary steps to to get myself out of this tundra and