DNP 246: How To Land Your Dream Job Offer

Here’s a snapshot of a few things we talked about…

·    Introduction [00:00:00]

·    Who is the Clark Kent, When it Comes to Austin Belcak? [00:02:09]

·    How Did He End Up Working at Microsoft?

·    How Relationships Can Help You Land Your Dream Job? [00:14:42]

·    What Makes People Afraid of Networking? [00:23:16]

·    What Does He Think About the Current Situation of the Job Market? [00:31:02]

·    One Thing He Wishes He Had Implemented Sooner to Accelerate His Journey? [00:37:10]

·    His Advice for People Looking to Take Action? [00:43:04]

·    Where to Find Austin Belcak [00:42:12]

In this episode, Casanova talks with Austin Belcak. He talks about his childhood, how he struggled to figure out what he wanted to do, how his initial attempts at entrepreneurship failed, why he decided to get a corporate job and the system that landed him a job at Microsoft, how to build relationships, why are people afraid of networking, what does he think about the creator economy and the current job market trends, and much more. Have a listen.

·    “The reason I decided to jump ship and take this risk was because I wanted to own my time on my schedule and spend more that with the people I love, doing the things that I wanted to be doing, and so that to me is what this whole thing is all about…”

·    “So I wanted to be an entrepreneur, but I didn't have an idea and I couldn't go out and ask people for money, or I couldn't support myself without an actual idea. So I resigned to go down the traditional path of, okay, let me get a corporate job…”

·    “I truly believe that the best thing you can do initially is to get into a corporate job that allows you to build the experience that you need, pays you enough money to bootstrap yourself, and gives you the flexibility to then work on whatever your dream is on the side…”

·    If we look at great relationships, they have a couple of common values. So first, value is at the core of this. Great relationships, all focus on some sort of value… the last piece, which is essentially, that relationships are built in layers…”

·    “The number one reason that I've talked to thousands and thousands of job seekers, we've done surveys. We've gotten data. Far and away, the number one reason people don't network is it's fear-based, they're afraid of exactly what you said, they don't want to be rejected…”

·    “If a job description has an easy apply button next to it, like everybody's pressing the easy apply button and the easy apply button doesn't work because it's low hanging fruit and everybody else is doing it…”

·    “So, in order to be successful, we need to one overcome our fear, but then also understand that the person on the other side probably has some fear as well, and so we need to diffuse that a little bit…”

·    “So I think what we're going to see is more people being more particular about the career that they go into…”

·    “The best thing that you can do is the acronym I heard. I think it was on a, it was on a podcast somewhere but basically FOCUS; follow one course until success…”

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·     The Dream Job System Podcast - Cultivated Culture

·     https://cultivatedculture.com/

·     https://www.linkedin.com/in/abelcak