guiding you to a career and life you'll truly enjoy. And in today's video,

I'm going to teach you one key strategy on how you can get a job

whether you are under qualified or overqualified.

As a career strategist I've been able to help numerous professionals land job

offers that provide them with long-term growth potential and if this is

something that you're interested in working with me one on one I can give

you details about that at the end of this video. So you are looking for a job

you have updated your resume, you've applied everywhere online, you've tried

to network and you've basically done everything you could to try to increase

your chances of getting interviews and therefore a job offer.

However, throughout this whole process you've been noticing that there's been

this little voice murmuring in the back of your mind

and it's been saying things like "you don't have enough experience" or "you have

too much experience" you're overqualified. I see this all the time and I read

comments from people that say "I can't get my foot in the door because I need

to have a job to get a job" or "they don't value my years of work experience and

they're just looking for someone who's younger more energetic and cheaper than

me". Now I know it's easy to focus on the negative but what about when you focus

on the people who you know who were in similar situations as you they were

either also under qualified or overqualified but they ended up

successfully getting job offers. They clearly did something that you aren't

doing so now let's channel your energy and let's focus it in a way where we're

gonna learn and you're gonna implement my key strategy on how you can get your

next job offer regardless of whether you have a lot of experience or very little

experience. And that key strategy can easily be summed up in one word and that

word is focus focusing means when either you are writing your resume or you're

selling yourself in interviews that you are honing in on the key aspects of the

position that you have that are happen to be relevant for the role as well so

that means your key skills technical qualifications experience or knowledge

anything that is related to the role that you have that the role is asking

for you need to focus in on those key aspects this is actually

one of the concepts that I teach in my course top-notch resume which is an

online self-study course which has been super effective in helping professionals

whether they had little experience or tons of experience in not only landing

interviews but successfully getting job offers by rewriting their resume using

my approach so let's say you're someone who has very little work experience and

you consider yourself under qualified for any job that you want to apply to

but at the same time you want to be a marketing professional if you've

recently graduated and you want to be in a marketing position for your next job I

assume that in your undergrad or college program you studied some aspects of

marketing so you want to hone in on the key concepts that you learned in that

program related to marketing and make sure that you highlight them on your

resume so think of the key concepts that you might have studied that would be

relevant for this position for example maybe you studied the three P's product

pricing and place or you studied digital social media marketing or perhaps you

studied marketing concepts such as marketing mix target market and any

other relevant marketing concepts so what I'm trying to say is just because

you don't have the exact marketing experience it doesn't mean that you

can't include the knowledge that you've gained through your education on your

resume and in your interviews to help you sell yourself so that is why it is

important for you to focus on those key concepts and making sure that they are

relevant to the position the same concept applies if you happen to be

overqualified for certain positions and again this concept is in top-notch

resume which if you're curious about it you can go down to the link in the

description box after the video but if you're actually an experienced

professional with many years of experience and you're wondering and

having trouble with cutting things down to make them more concise that is

actually a great problem to have instead of having to wrack your brain trying to

remember the knowledge and the concepts that you learned back in school as

you're less experienced counterparts are having to do you merely have to pick and

choose the exact relevant experiences that are a perfect

for the position that you're applying to and the way you'll do this is by

focusing in on the keywords on the job description that are important for the

employer and making sure that they are mapped onto your resume and are

discussed in your interviews so remember the key strategy is to focus focusing

your experiences and your knowledge onto your resume and in your interviews is

what's going to attract employers to you and eventually make them want to hire

you and I thought that it would be fun to end things off with a bit of an

inspiring quote specifically on this topic and it's by Aristotle and he says

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light" now if you

like this tip and you want some more tips on how you can improve your resume

feel free to download a free copy of my 10 ultimate resume hacks which is in the

description box down below or you can also download my free resume samples if

you already have those hacks and otherwise if you have both of those

things and you are ready to dive right in and get some in-depth training on how

you can improve your resume and thus your chances of getting your next job

offer then feel free to check out top-notch resume it's my self-study

online course which will walk you through step by step on how to create a

stand out resume that will get you the job and finally if you are someone who

has been searching for several months now you've been wanting to find that

next dream job offer but you're struggling you're not sure of how to

sell yourself and you're ready to get some one-on-one help feel free to reach

out to me head on over to lindaraynier.com/standoutgethired read the

page fill out the application form and if I think that we are a potential match

then I will reach out to you and we will discuss further if you'd like this video

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thank you so much for watching and I will see you in the next video.