hey everyone it's Lauren McGoodwin founder and CEO of Career Contessa and
welcome back to another mentor Monday if you've never joined a mentor Monday
before let me tell you how it works really quickly
most Mondays we host mentor Monday where we answer your career questions that you
have submitted to us via DMs on Instagram or you can always email them
to us info at careercontessa.com sometimes we have a special guest
answering questions and sometimes it's just me
Lauren McGoodwin founder and CEO of Career Contessa here to answer your
questions. As usual we got some really great questions mostly centered around
some job search but there's also a wild card in there so I'm gonna go ahead and
get started if you are joining us live feel free to leave comments or career
questions in the comments and I'll be answering those live as well
if not we'll go ahead and get started with the questions that were submitted
so again welcome everybody to mentor Monday all right so the first question
that I'm sure many of you have thought about before is how to apply for a job
in a different location so the question is what's the best way to show
recruiters you are 100% serious about reclip relocating for a new opportunity
and willing to relocate excuse me at your own expense
I want to relocate for a new job but I don't want to move until I have a job
lined up any suggestions or tips I do have residential establish and can start
upon my arrival so one of the interesting things about relocating for
a job is that a lot of recruiters actually will screen for people who are
not in that location in other words if you are applying to entry-level or even
kind of like entry mid-level roles and you are a candidate that doesn't live
local oftentimes they might say ooh we don't want to either risk with that
person so even if you're a hundred percent committed and really excited
know you're the right person for this role they might say no just based off of
your location so there's a couple of things that you can do if you're
mid-level and higher usually location doesn't matter nearly as much but you
might be able to use these tips as well the first thing you want to do is focus
your job search if you are applying to jobs in
another location it's really important that you're not
scattered all over the place I would say that's true for every job search that
you do but especially that because you want to make sure that you are spending
your time with companies that are gonna be worth the extra effort because it is
going to be it is going to require an extra effort so focus your job search
make sure you love that company you love that job that's gonna be even more
important when you were applying out of state because they're gonna want to know
why them and how can they take a chance on you etc so being really passionate
about the company and the job will be great um the next thing that you can do
is explain in your cover letter how committed you are to moving to this
location if you know your desired date that you're gonna be moving if you want
to share why you're moving because of a partner or parents or family that's
always great. if you don't say anything they get to assume whatever
they want so I actually always think it's great to explaining your cover
letter or mentioned in your cover letter that you are relocating and maybe why
that is that might give you a better shot at having them reach out or think
that you really are a hundred percent serious the other thing you can do if
you're worried that they aren't going to read your cover letter when you send
your resume directly to them in an email which the reason why I say that with
kind of the assumption that you're all doing that is because you should always
make sure that you are not only applying online but you're also sending your
resume to a real person you can find email addresses through company
directories LinkedIn etc etc guessing their email address the whole thing so
you can also put your intent to relocate in your cover letter or in your email
directly to them and that might really help the other thing you can do because
this person said they do have a residential location you could designate
a specific location in your resume and even though you don't live there yet
maybe you could say something and I'm actually not fan of putting your address
on a resume because I think it's sort of irrelevant like a lot of times we used
to ask people to give us their address because we would mail them an offer
letter so we don't really need to do that anymore so you have two options
either don't put it on at all or you can say something like
moving to Tampa Florida or desired work location in Los Angeles California you
could put that on your resume as well you could also do something like that
where on LinkedIn you could pick the desired city that you want to so let's
say you want to move to Los Angeles on LinkedIn you could put your city as Los
Angeles and then in your summary you could explain like you know again
something similar to how you would send it in that email or in your cover letter
to them your intention to relocate you should be prepared to interview and be
prepared to not pay your own costs so hopefully that is helpful in terms of
relocating or looking for a job in a new city I know it's always a little bit
more challenging to do that but I hope those are some great tips and keep
us posted if you have found a job by relocating to a new city on your own and
you've job search like that we'd love to hear that. At career contessa we always love
to share real women's stories on how they're doing that um ok next question
it's also kind of a round job search she says my current positions temporary and
ends August 31st I plan to start job hunting this month for a new job that I
that I would a deal ideally start in September job hunting can sometimes feel
like a job and of itself how do i balance hunting for a job while working
my day job which I really enjoy? I'm also a part-time grad student taking evening
classes twice a week. Help! ok so this person definitely has a very very full
plate the first thing I would say is that you really seem to enjoy where
you're working right now is there any opportunity of them extending your job
or hiring you full-time right that seems like a natural place to start if that's
an absolute no ok now let's start the job search so the first thing you want
to do is make sure that your resume and your LinkedIn look amazing you know very
very polished you've got your personal pitch so when
someone says tell me about yourself yourself and who you are you've got a
great answer for that you've got a great resume great cover letter great LinkedIn
so that's the first thing that you should start with and I know that I'm
making it sound like those are really simple things and I know that they
actually take a lot of time so a great thing that you can do to help you
actually check off those items especially when you're a grad student
and part-time job all this the great stuff is set a schedule I
should work better in the morning so tell yourself that three days a week
you're gonna get up an hour early and really focus on just one of those
projects so the nice thing about your resume and your LinkedIn especially
right now until you are applying to a specific job I would actually focus a
little bit more on LinkedIn so that it attracts recruiters or attracts
opportunities your resume you will want to tailor that for the specific job or
company that you apply for so um set an alarm to get up an hour earlier
three days a week and have a set schedule and keep track of the items
that you want to check off which is your personal pitch your cover letter your
resume and your LinkedIn profile the other thing that you're gonna want to
schedule is time to actually job search so this is another thing that you can do
in the morning I always always always encourage people to not just focus on
the job but really focus on the company and I know it takes time to read about
companies and find companies so again in that one hour before work and maybe I
would say maybe you block off two hours on the weekends if you can handle it if
not an hour on Saturday an hour on Sunday that gives you five hours a week
that you can dedicate to job searching and it's gonna be totally worth it
because you're not gonna be rushed so that when your dream job does come up
you don't have to scramble to get everything ready the other thing I would
do is I would get an accountability person in your life to help you stay
accountable to the goals that you're setting so if your goal is by the end of
in two weeks you want to have an updated LinkedIn then tell someone in your life
and say please keep me accountable to this the other thing that you can do is
set rewards for yourself so when you do have that LinkedIn that's updated okay
now you're gonna go get yourself a pedicure or something like that so I
would um kind of go back to the old school rules of how to set goals when
you reach your goal reward yourself let everyone know that you're doing this
another thing about job searches is that they can be really long and it can be
really hard and so this is also a great opportunity to maybe set up a monthly
get-together with your girlfriends that can be really supportive or a monthly
get together with other people who are job searching so that you guys can share
and be supportive of each other to really help you stay motivated to stick
with it because the average job search just lasts six to nine months so I want
to set the expectation that you might be doing this for a while and you are going
to want to have a support system and people who are also job searching are
great support systems for that whoo okay hopefully that's helpful if anyone else
is job searching that's joining us live feel free to to ask any questions in the
comments I was a recruiter before I was the founder and CEO of career contessa
so job searching is something that I'm very very familiar with and I've had
many jobs are just myself so I can always be helpful with that the next
question our last question for tonight's mentor money is actually really really
interesting and I'd love to hear your guys's opinion so she said hello I wanted to
get your insight on something um I put up a desk she said I put sorry guys that
the phone was moving. I just wanted to get your insight on something. I put up a desk
nameplate I was given for my birthday that read The Future Is Female. I had it
up for about two weeks until my male boss brought it up to me and told me he
had a problem with it he said I didn't have to take it down but obviously I did
what would you have done so this is really interesting because so basically
she had in her personal space her desk a nameplate that said the future is female
that was clearly making someone uncomfortable that happened to be a male
he was uncomfortable with that and he asked her he didn't tell her to take it
down but of course when someone tells you I'm uncomfortable by that it makes
you feel like oh I don't want I don't want to be creating that feeling for you
so let me take it down I probably honestly would have done the same thing
that you did I probably would have taken the nameplate down and said okay I guess
this if that makes that person uncomfortable I don't want to be
creating that but as I've had more time to think about it I might go and say not
only um I don't know if I would take it down I've had more time to think about
it maybe I would move it to a place that's much more private and maybe only
more available to me but yes I agree with policy and fashion that's exact
what I would do is go up to him and have a private contour lap rival conversation
and and without you know feeling like you're attacking him say I would really
love to understand you know what part of that offended you because um you know
when I put it up originally there was never a part of me that thought oh this
might be offensive dis on so I'd love to learn more about why that made you
uncomfortable and that's a really nice learning opportunity and maybe an
opportunity for him to be a little bit vulnerable with you um you might not
agree with what he's saying but this is not for you to argue this is for you to
listen and learn and that's a great learning moment um again I don't as I've
had more time to think about it I probably would have done what you did in
the moment but maybe thinking about it now if something is making someone super
uncomfortable with that but it means a lot to me and as we all know you kind of
have to pick your battles I might just move it to a place that is more only
available for my eyes if that's possible in your workplace and and I think you
did the right thing and you want to be creating respectful workplaces and if
someone had something up that was making you uncomfortable you would probably
want it to be down too so we'll kind of go back to the golden rule of treat
people the way you want to be treated but I think this is a really great
learning opportunity to ask him why it made him uncomfortable um so we had
another question come in on the live chat um Christiane said I graduated a
degree completely different for what I from what I want to do now have a
part-time job in the social media realm and want to get another job how can I
get another job in that field without a lot of experience on my resume so
Christie it sounds like yours to get resume said the more experienced sorry
guys I gotta take my charger out because it kept saying that it was making the
battery died um so it's asking me like you are getting experience in social
media and so you're doing all the right things now what I would encourage you to
do if that if you want to find a new job in social media or a full-time job in
social media is start networking do everything you can update your resume
and your LinkedIn to reflect the fact that you are a social media expert and
showcasing that expertise hopefully with your LinkedIn profile somebody might
and reach out to as a recruiter if you're newer to LinkedIn and you're
looking for some help on how you can do that we have an awesome online course
called the LinkedIn lab it's on careercontessa.com under learning so go
ahead and check that out but what you can really do now I start networking
with other social media experts or go to networking events and let people know
that you're looking for a full time job and you work in social media there are
so many companies that need social media experts um the other thing I would
really encourage you to do is set up a portfolio site we also have some amazing
resources on career contesta comm on how you can set up a portfolio site we're
big fans of Squarespace that we've worked with before so I would start
setting up a portfolio site that showcases here are the results I've
gotten with my social media work here's what's happened when I worked with a
company on their Instagram account here are the tools and service or software
programs that I use to help grow a social media account so that's a great
place to start where if you are have some experience in social media but
you're trying to leverage that into a full-time job where can we see the
evidence of this and social media is such an analytical career meaning we can
we can measure it we can see the results we can understand what software is you
use to make your time more efficient you know if you can create it oh and it's
super visual so it's a really really really nice career from the standpoint
of like what what works really well for a portfolio is that you've got the crate
you've got the visuals and you've got all of the analytics that can really
tell a great story so I would encourage you to check out both of those options
another person said my current boss follows me on LinkedIn I really want to
change jobs soon should i I unfollowed her so I can let others know I am
looking for a new role so with LinkedIn you don't necessarily have to do that
they do have a hidden way for you to say that you are alert to or open to new
jobs again we cover that in the course so you could turn on that button and it
doesn't alert anyone at your company when you do that and then what I mean by
updating your LinkedIn is putting the information of your current job and your
accomplishments. Start adding that information to LinkedIn it's not going to alert your
boss that your job searching it's going to maybe alert your boss that you've
making some updates to your LinkedIn that doesn't necessarily mean that you
are job searching it could also mean that you are just updating your LinkedIn
profile so I would be less worried about that and more concerned about how can
you make sure that your LinkedIn profile has all the right keywords and
terminology and it's telling a great story so that a recruiter who is looking
for a social media person will come across your resume and/or your LinkedIn
profile and then will reach out to you directly
that's an awesome awesome place to be is when people are reaching out to you with
jobs versus you having to apply once you do have your Linkedin looking really
great you can update your resume and then of course you can have that
portfolio site and those will all be really great um Sela says my coworker
wants to follow me on Instagram I don't want her to how do i phrase that so I
think this is a really great opportunity for you to just let her know like I'm so
flattered that you know you and I get to work together and share our personal
lives together you know I have this you know general rule with how I kind of
treat my Instagram it's really for my close personal friends and family um
it's you know it's not personal but I don't want you to follow me or I won't
allow you to follow me but I just wanted you to know like that's just the policy
I have and I want to keep my eye on my Instagram like that I would love to
connect with you on LinkedIn though so my friend is a kindergarten teacher and
she actually told me once that when you're working toddlers and I know I'm
gonna sound funny um you're not supposed to just take something away from them
what you do is you say okay you can't play with this toy anymore but you can
play with this toy or this way so essentially that's what we're doing with
your coworker it's like you can't play with Instagram you can't follow me on
Instagram but you can connect with me on Facebook or LinkedIn or you can connect
with me on LinkedIn or something else so don't forget to offer her another item
to connect with you at if that's what she's looking for
um thank you styles and make you smile I love writing for cupcakes and cashmere
it's always so much fun to be on that site good so I'll try that
out let me know how it goes if she's offended you can blame it on me but
hopefully that goes pretty well okay guys that's it from mentor Monday thank
you so much for joining us um if you're new to mentor Monday we will be having
some more mentor Mondays later this month and of course starting in July
we've got some travel coming up so we won't be doing them quite as often on
the Mondays this this month but coming back soon so if you have any questions
don't forget you can always DM them to us on Instagram or info
at careercontessa.com also the replay of this mentor Monday will be available on our
Instagram for the next 24 hours or you can always go to our YouTube channel and
watch it there we upload all the replays there as well so again I'm Lauren
McGoodwin, founder and CEO of Career Contessa thank you so much for spending
your Monday night with me on mentor Monday and I look forward to talking to
you guys soon bye guys
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