Now, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode, a Couple O' Nukes. As always, I'm your host, Mr. Whiskey, and today I am here with Mr. Josef Stetter. He is an award-winning and international bestselling author of several books.
He's been featured on several podcasts and as well as television features. So today he's gonna help us out with job transitioning. Uh, his specialty is helping people land their dream jobs, so. Without further ado, Mr. Eder, please tell us a little bit more about yourself. Thank you very much. First of all, Mr.
Risky for having me. It's an honor and a pleasure. So I'll start that. My journey began with, I had no idea what I wanted to do when I grew up. So I personally switched careers nine times and jobs 18 times or over 18 times. And in the process of switching careers and jobs, not only did I have to prove that I have transferable skills, and you know, since a lot of your audiences, uh, veterans, uh, this applies to them.
But throughout my career, I had to get re-certified. Uh, with that, I got into recruiting. Uh, I worked for a recruiting agency where in my first year I generated for them $760,000 in revenue and to reward me for my great effort the owner gave me as a Christmas bonus, cheese and crackers. And when I looked at her, I said, what's this?
She said, well, the cheese is from a very high end kind of grocery store where the cow is massaged for a month. Month. Sadly, the crackers were from Dollar Tree, and I looked at her, I was like, why don't you buy me a cd? Back then, I would still put that to you as do I look like I'm 65 years old, that I need cheese and crackers as a bonus, when I generated three quarters of a million for you, where my supervisor who'd been there for 11 years generated 140,000 bucks for the year.
So I was like, you know what? I'm the one that brought in new business. I'm the one that built relationship. I'm gonna go out on my own. Um, and I've been a generalist recruiting for nearly 20 years. Uh, I've worked with companies like Deloitte Touch APA Tech Pharmaceuticals, which is the largest manufacturer of generic drugs in the world.
Uh, Tata Consulting Services, which owns a third of India, and, uh, you know, very high tech projects. And as a generalist in recruiting, I've worked in pretty much most white collar professions or engineers, accountants, finance, banking, data science, uh, you know, game design creation, quality control, pharmaceutical, medical, uh, just to name a few of the industries.
Uh, so I have a very complete and holistic picture of what's going on in the market right now. And along the process of trying to figure out what I wanna do when I grow up and realizing just how bad most of the information is, because most resources that help people find a job regurgitate stuff that was very valid 40 years ago.
You know, for example, putting on your resume that you're hardworking, dedicated, committed team player with excellent communication skills. In nearly 20 years of recruiting, I've met very few people that say, listen, I'm lazy. I'll show up late. None of my work will be any good and I really hate people.
Please hire me. Uh, the only time that might work is if you're related to somebody in the company or you're having an affair with them, right? So it's redundant because all those words are subjective because how do you measure hardworking? Is it the amount of hours that you work versus how efficient you are?
Um, so I teach people kind of real. Matter of fact things. Uh, so in that, when I kind of realized this and along my career path, uh, I was working for a company that owns multiple colleges across Canada and realized that their career services was somebody that had basic business and was just following the manuals of things that were regurgitated in government resumes and so forth.
So I wrote a manual of here's all the resources you need to find a job correctly. My VP was very intimidated that I could think for myself and threw me under the boss. And I ended up without a job. But I took the book and kind of published an American version and the Canadian version. Uh, and then I've had the honor and the pleasure of not only writing 11 books and being featured in, uh, magazines like Disrupt and Bazinga and Newswire, but, but, um.
I've also had the owner of now helping close to 12,000 people land their dream job in as little as two days. So that's me in a nutshell, right? Definitely a lot to unpack there. And I just want to let everyone know that most of the information we're discussing can be found on joseph seder.com. I have to say to you, Mr.
Eder, one of the largest and most thorough websites I've ever been on. I mean, this is an amazing resource in itself. So ladies and gentlemen, you can find that website link in the description for the podcast below, and you can just go through and find pretty much everything you need. There's a couple different resources, uh, such as I know you have a whole program just for finding your dream job, as well as master classes that are available.
So I. Mr. Sta, let's start with, let's say I'm someone who either just got outta the military, or I just got fired from my job, or I just got outta high school, college, whatever is the case. Mm-hmm. And I want to use you and your contacts to help me land my dream job anywhere between two days and three months.
How would I go about that? What would the process be if I wanted to use you as a resume whisperer? So here's where I'm gonna start. So obviously you can either hire me directly or go through my online course, but my courses focuses on the mistakes that most people make. So let's start with the job search itself.
Most people default to apply through Indeed and other job boards, right? Which is probably the worst place to look for a job because one job posting on Indeed gets between 350 and 5,000 applications. Most companies look at the first hundred. So if you don't know the tricks and you're, let's say a hundred first on the list, guess what?
You're out of black. So let's kind of share a few ideas, uh, on how to beat the job boards. Number one, most of the big job boards refresh their database between 11:45 PM and 2:45 AM Eastern Standard Time. So depending on when you go to bed, go into your resume, press space bar. Save it. The moment that you press Space bar, you're automatically in the new resume refresh because people that posted their resume, like right now on December 2nd, if somebody posted their resume, for example, in August or September and did not touch it on Indeed, they're now on page 7,000 of the database.
Nobody will see them. So by going in and making any minor change, including press, space, bar and save, you go into the refresh of the database to be seen. Okay? Now, similarly, most jobs in North America say, don't call us. We'll call you, and the majority of the population will go, okay, I'll wait. And then they get frustrated.
They send hundreds if not thousands of resumes with no response. So. Be a little bit proactive, but also act a little bit ignorant. So call HR and say, uh, my battery just died just as I was submitting my application. Can you please verify that it went through? Or, my internet's been wonky all day and it disconnected when I press submit.
Can you check that it went through, or I did get a confirmation even if you did. Can you check that my application went through when HR checks? If your application went through, if you were a hundred first on the list, congratulations. You're now first on the list. Now because you're already on the phone.
You have two minutes to sell. Who you are and what you bring to the table that is of value and of relevance to the employer. And you also have permission to ask when are they starting to interview for the role. And if, let's say they say in a week and you don't hear back from them, you can ask permission to follow up, to get feedback on your resume as to what you can do to better improve your chances next time.
So not only are you planting a seed of here's some how great I am and why you need to hire me, but you're also planting a seed that if they start looking through the a hundred resumes and they're not impressed with them because you're gonna call back to get, uh, feedback, you will in essence be reconsidered for the role.
Right? So this is a concept that has been taught throughout history most famously by Napoleon Hill in his book, think and Grow Rich. Right where he says, don't wait for things to happen. Make things happen. Go talk to people, go this. So people using Indeed just kind of send hundreds of resume and go, oh, there's no jobs out there.
No, I'm sorry. There's tons of jobs. You're just not doing it correctly. In addition, most people have been taught to fill their resume with, I use the word in quotations, action words, manage, direct, liaise, coordinated, and so forth. But that's not what the applicant tracking systems or job boards. Measure the job.
Measure the technical words that are associated with your job. So if you are an accountant. The job boards measure the word accountant, accounting, financial statements, general ledger reconciliation, balance sheet, income statement, cashflow statement. They don't measure hardworking, dedicated, committed team player managed directly as, because those are not technical skills on the job.
So stop filling your resume with fluff. Okay. On your resume. And I'm gonna transition to that with permission, unless you have a question for me, Mr. Whiskey? No, you actually must have read my mind because what I was about to ask you was, you know, you're talking about talking to people in, in real life. And I was gonna say actually, when I was in high school and we had a little course on, on resume writing, just a little, a little bit, you know, they just have us fill out this template and one of the things they said was keywords.
And so I was actually just about to ask you, you know, what, how do these systems work with these keywords? I really like what you said, that there's a lot of fluffing going on and they actually want to listen to the job. So no questions. I mean, you're going over everything really thorough, so I, I appreciate it.
Here's the thing. In high school to say that you're hardworking, dedicated, committed is great because usually kids don't have experience. Right? As you start building your career, you do have experience. So here's the thing, and I'm gonna use Hardworking as an example because most people don't think about it like this.
If I compare an accountant that I just spoke to them during tax season, most accountant, it is mandatory for them to work 80 hours a week. So what's hardworking? A hundred? If I compare that to, for example, a nurse that was working at the height of the pandemic that had to do four hours of overtime because there was a shortage of staff, does that mean that the nurse was less hardworking than the accountant because she worked less hours?
No, because there's a different level of stress and different standards for each profession. So unless you're giving example of what you do that's so hardworking. So in your case, Mr. Whiskey, if you're doing a midnight shift, not too many people can do a midnight shift. So that demonstrates hardworking 'cause you're willing to do it or you're doing something that somebody else is not doing.
But every company, every industry, every individual has a different standard of hardworking. Same thing with excellent communication skills. I've met a ton of people that have horrible communication skills, yet are gainfully employed. How is that possible? Because there's no standard for excellent communication skills.
If I compare myself to somebody like Les Brown, uh, you know, one of the most famous motivational speakers of all time compared to him, I don't have excellent communication skills because I haven't achieved his level of success yet. I haven't made the kind of money he's made yet. Now I've gone through Toastmasters that teaches me the art of public speaking and avoid filler words like, um, and or like, you know, but, and so I can gauge when I speak to people how often they say those filler words versus someone who's done toast Master's and does not.
So in high school, it's okay to say that because you don't have experience, but if you have experience, and here's the key thing, and I'm gonna transition directly into why most resumes fail, because what you learned in your career scores in high school. Is bloody useless, especially as you mature and you have more experience because I'm just gonna, again, I, I usually help a lot of white collar professionals, so I, I will reference them when I speak, but, and I'm gonna give you two examples.
Let's say you're applying to be a receptionist in an office, and you come and say, I know how to answer the phone. I hope the employer looks at you in shock and goes, really, A receptionist that knows how to answer the phone. We did not know that. Because unless you live in a cave, an igloo, or choose to practice the face of Mennonite where you don't believe in technology at all, it is safe to say that every person in North America knows how to press the green button and go, hello.
Now if you take that and say, in my last job. I answered 60 calls a day with 12 different lines. I can measure 60 calls a day with 12 different lines. I cannot measure, I know how to answer the phone. So I'm gonna give you a direct example for my own career. So I can say I've, I'm an excellent salesperson.
I know how to do B2B and B2C, and account management and relationship building and lead generation. And I've worked retail and I've done door-to-door sales and I've done car sales, and I've worked in private education, and I've worked in recruiting. I'm a great salesperson. Now you need those words on your resume for the algorithm of the job boards, 'cause those are the technical words associated with sales, for example.
However, just because I told you that I've had a lot of sales, does not prove that I know how to sell. But if I were to tell you, and again, this is a real example. I worked for a private college that before I came in, generated $530,000 in sales for the entire year. In one month, I was able to generate $860,000 in sales for them.
Which one would convince you more that I know how to sell or all of the words or the results?
Right, exactly. You know, it is actually funny that you bring up the answering a phone because. Essentially, if you look at my own personal resume from the military, one of the things is answering the phone, but it's not written that way because I know that, you know, an employer's not gonna be like, well, he can answer the phone.
That's useful. What I have is, was in charge of managing all communications between the engine room, maneuvering top side on several different lines while performing operations simultaneously. You know, but it can be summed up as I talked on the phone. Right. But your sentence is great if you, uh, is very good.
If you want to make your sentence great, if to say how many calls or how many communications were handled daily, how many, you know, because what happens is, and I have a lot of respect for the fact that you served, and I thank you and I thank you for your service. Right. I don't know the level of work that you had, right?
Right. 'cause you could have been on a site where like. It's kind of in-house and it's more relaxed, and you're dealing with 10 calls a day. I, I'm purposely undervaluing what you've done, Mr. Whiskey, because right in, in the world of recruiting, you have to understand, I don't know, you and I don't know, like even if you've served, you know, there's a difference between be communication, let's say if you're out in battle and communication if you're local kind of thing.
Right? Right. There's a different level of urgency, there's different levels of that. So I don't know what you do. And so most hr, most employers, they will guess, and most of the time they'll guess the lowest common denominator of what Pippa people typically do. So I used to be a stockbroker and I answered 150 calls a day versus working in, uh, let's say.
A call center for cell phones where I was doing 40, 50 calls a day, right? So there's a very big difference between 150 and 40 because the 40 tend to be longer calls because somebody's screaming. Whereas in stock trading could be a two minute call because the person just calls in and goes, I want this trade, boom, boom, and it's done, kind of thing.
So there's also different levels of stresses because as a stock trader, people are losing money left, right and center if they're waiting on the phone to make an, to execute a trade. Whereas in a call center, it's usually reactive, like my bill is wrong, versus I'm about to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars if you don't do this right away, kind of thing.
But it's the quantification, that's the biggest mistake. So, uh. Generally speaking, these are the five cardinal sins on a resume. Number one, most people, because they took careers or they went to a government agency, use times New Roman Aerial or Collibra as their font because those are the default fonts on Microsoft Word Number two, they use the black dots, uh, as their bullet points because that's what you've been told.
Sometimes hyphens, um, and black squares kind of thing. Number three, at the top of their resume, they have a section called career history or skills where they write, I have 10 years of experience. I'm hardworking, dedicated, committed team player with excellent communication skills, which is all useless and fluffy and does not score anything on the applicant tracking systems.
Okay, number four, and this is the biggest one, uh, is. More often than not the re or not the biggest one, second biggest one. But more often than not, resumes are chronological or functional. So if you transitioned from military service and you had a retail job, or you had like a corporate job and life happened and you're now doing a retail job, and that's the first thing you put on the resume, I'm not considering you for a corporate job because the first thing I see is retail.
So it's actually hurting you to put your most recent job if it's not related to the job you're applying to. So put the relevant jobs first and then the current job because it is the employer's job to read your resume properly. Realistically, today, most employers. Read a resume between eight and 30 seconds so they don't actually read the details.
It if something in the resume catches their attention, they put you in the US file. So if you remember the movie Legally Blonde, when Reese Witherspoon, a KL Woods applies not only to Harvard, uh, because she's trying to get her boyfriend back or to the internship, she submits a pink scented resume and everyone looks at it goes, it's pink and it's scented, but they remember it.
So you can add a tiny bit of color to your resume. You can change the font, you can change your bullets. If you go to bullets in Microsoft Word, you can do a diamond, you can do an arrow instead of the boring circle that everybody else does. You can then go to, you can go to insert text box in Microsoft Office and.
Slightly format your resume to stand out. Right? And the biggest mistake of them all, which I mentioned a little bit earlier, is the fact that people say, I have experience with this, or I have knowledge of that, but they don't actually give me the significance or the results that they produced. So if you're a systems engineer, for example, and you increased efficiency by 30% because you implemented new technologies or new ways of protecting that technology or doing things, I need you to tell me that story.
I don't need you to tell me, I know how to do systems engineering because everybody in your profession knows how to do it. I want to know why you are better than everybody else. So I. The way I usually describe it to people is if you're lucky enough to be in a relationship when you come home from work and you tell your partner about your job, yeah, there are days where you'll say, Ugh, I did my job.
But those days when you got a kid, you'll never guess, oh my God, I had the most complicated problem to solve at work, and I sat on it the whole day and I came up with the most brilliant solution. It's gonna take me whatever a month to implement it, but once I implement this solution, it's gonna save the company hundreds of thousands of dollars.
That's a story that needs to be on your resume. So in your to the phone, you used great verbiage, but if you can quantify the verbiage, you'll stand out that much more than everybody else. Right? So you're talking about, you know how to make your resume pop these common mistakes. Now, I assume with your field of work, you review a lot of resumes, probably a, a.
How do you know how many review a day? I lost 12,000 people. Uh, so you could call that a lot. Yes. Right. And so going through all these resumes made by people of all skill levels, all walks of life, what are some of the worst ones you've seen? Kind of just blew your mind? Anything strange or wacky that's ever like, and Wow, I can't believe they even tried submitting this To me.
It's an, it's an insult almost. Uh, so I'm, I actually have a massive file of resumes that amuse me, uh, nice. Right. And some of them, like, for example, cultural names. Right. I, I appreciate that. You know, we need to be aware and sensitive to cultural names, but when, for example, I, I have someone who's, uh, of Sri Lankan background and Sri Lankan names tend to be very long.
So the first name could be, you know. 30 characters plus, and the second name could be 30 characters. Wow. This individual shortened their name to Sam Kaka. I'm like, I'm holding some Kakas resume. Right, right. So these are things that um, you know, it's there, you know, people that when you're a teenager or or younger and you wanna have like a silly email by all means.
Right. But you're applying for a especially white collar professional job. You know, your email should not be big booty [email protected]. Right? Right. Of course. Which apply for a job. Right. Um, there is a level where I. People give themselves very creative titles. So for example, I, because I've worked in the college industry, uh, instead of receptionist, they call receptionist director, uh, of first impressions.
Wow. So it makes a sense. Oh my God, I'm a director. You know, I had someone who was a cashier at a grocery store, but instead of a cashier, she was a financial transaction specialist. Right, right. And when you read the content, it's like you need did complex reporting. Like no, you counted your till every day, but more power for you to use those words.
You know, there is, you know, mistakes in terms of major grammatical errors, like they spelled excellent communication skills wrong. But man, they have excellent communication skills. Um. You know, so that, and again, I have resumes where like, so for example, I was recruiting right now for, um, compliance and regulatory affairs in the banking world.
And I went through profiles on LinkedIn where people wrote their title, like VP of Compliance, the date that they worked and the name of the bank that they worked with, no information on what they actually do. So if you think that as a recruiter, I have time to figure out if they have the right skill sets, no.
So they're getting dismissed for opportunities because they're in compliance where they're supposed to be extremely detail oriented and their LinkedIn profile has no detail. Right? Right. So there's a combination of that where again, I. Bad resumes is cookie cutter formatting, no information at all, or minimal information.
Uh, using, and again, I, I appreciate cultural differences and I'm trying to be sensitive to that, but you know, it's important to also know that people might react to a particular name because of the name or because of the way, you know, like, I have a resume. First name is Asa, a SA, last name is FOK, right?
Right. So I'm looking at a resume of asa fuck. I'm like, Hmm. Like, make it Albert so that it's something that Western society is not gonna go, okay. This is hilarious. Right? I said, usually it's the emails, usually it's, you know. I have no information whatsoever. That's where the biggest gaps occur. Um, again, there is specific, um,
sometimes people waste too much time giving me information that nobody cares about. Like, I love drawing. Unless you're applying for a graphic design job, nobody cares kinda thing. It has nothing to do with the job. Or you're applying for a company that involves creativity. Right. It doesn't really help.
Now, again, in high school when you list your hobbies, you have no work experience. So it's a conversation starter. The moment you start having experience, it's less and less relevant kind of thing, so. Right. And would you recommend that once you've had one, two, or three jobs that you go back in your resume and you remove?
I know, like I. Mine still. I had just kept it because it was already in there, but I have every class I took in high school, all the clubs I was a part of and all of that. You would say after a point, you know, that's kind of just a first second job kind of material. And yes, I should get rid of that because now it's just taking up space and like you said, exactly.
They're only gonna read, they're gonna skim over it and that's gonna take away, you're gonna read the're gonna to the first, they're gonna read the top third to the top half of the first page. Like I can tell you after nine 11, I was downsized from a mutual fund company. I went to another mutual fund company, HR looked at me, went, uh, it's great that you worked in the back office.
You understand how to correct all the transactions, you understand the industry, you all the lingo, uh, but have you ever worked in a call center? And I looked at the HR person and said, if you flip to page two of my resume, I worked in your call center for six months. Right. Not to mention the four years of call center experience that I had.
Right. And she was like, oh yeah, there it is. So they don't read page two. Like if you've put your education first, this is another thing when you're in high school, you put your education first. When your got experience, your education should be at the bottom of the resume because your education should not be the reason you're hired unless you've just finished designation specific to the industry that you're working in.
Right, right. That makes sense. I'm, I'm actually gonna go after this episode, I'm gonna go ahead and, uh, flip my resume around because like I said, I just had it, have it structured. This is a template that I was given in high school that I've just been using all these years because obviously I didn't need it for the military.
And then when I got out, I just went ahead and grabbed it and it has education starting from. Furthest back to newest and then job experience furthest back to newest again. You also on education, uh, you don't need to go back to elementary school or middle school, just like you can say graduate from high school.
But if you have a college degree, you don't even need to write high school anymore because you have a college degree. Um, it's redundant if you have experience. It's redundant to tell me that you did all this stuff in high school because it doesn't matter. Like if you're still involved in the community, you're giving back to the community.
By all means. You can include that, especially if it's you're doing volunteer work that's relevant to the type of work you're looking for, right? But if you're like volunteering at your church and it's like, okay, I help out with this one event, but that event has nothing to do with what you're trying to get as a career.
It. It's a waste of space on the on the page kind of thing right now. Mr. Stead, just something I wanna touch on since you mentioned it. I was gonna mention it at some point if you didn't bring it up first, but you mentioned LinkedIn. Now that's, I would say, relatively new still and it's definitely something that everyone's checking out and using.
I know you had bashed on Indeed a little bit and given us some advice on that. So you know how to properly use that and how to use it better. Since a lot of us, you know, just throw a resume into the void and leave it be. So when it comes to LinkedIn, what advice would you have for that? Do you recommend it and how to best use that?
So I love LinkedIn and you have to understand as a recruiter, that is the first place I go to, especially in kind of professionals because. If you've had people in your career that loved working with you or that can recommend you, uh, that is worth, its waving gold on your profile on LinkedIn, but again, your LinkedIn cannot be generic and cookie like, here's my title.
Here's kind of a few things that I do, because it has to excite. So there's a level where on LinkedIn you can see sometimes who's posted the job, uh, so you can try to reach them directly as opposed to just emailing the company website and hoping for the best kind of thing. Um, you can be proactive and look at who's working in the company and see if you can kind of maybe message them.
LinkedIn has a function called InMail, which I believe costs approximately $45 a month. Uh, but it allows you to communicate with people that are not in your network. And so it creates a way of you getting into a company by starting to speak to people that work there and building a little bit rapport.
If you've done a good job of building rapport, they might be able to give you some insights as to what kind of things the company likes to see on the resume. Uh, perhaps the formatting of the resume or kind of the most important things, especially if you're reaching out to somebody in the department that you are potentially wanting to work in, that is part of being part of the team there.
And if they're willing to recommend you for the job, it's in their advantage because most companies have a policy that if you recommend somebody that you know and they pass their probation, the company will pay that person. Like if recommend to you, like let's say Mr. Whiskey, if you recommend me to your employer.
I pass probation, you would get between $302,000 for referring me, right? So those are usually the best hires because there's a level of, uh, a built in or innate trust because somebody recommended you. Uh, LinkedIn is a phenomenal tool if it's used correctly. Um, more and more of the, I'll use the white collar professional, predominantly rely on LinkedIn because part of the problem, and I'll use myself as an example, especially in my recruiting world.
The last job posting I posted was probably five, six years ago. Five years ago. I needed a senior Python React developer. The first sentence of the job description, I made the font size 36. I put in red, I highlighted I bolded. Must have five years of experience in Python and React. I got 150 resumes of people saying I'm graduating in 2022 or 2023.
Can my first job be $140,000? I have one month of Python. Wow. Um, if you've missed that, I've bolded, I've highlighted, I've put it in red. I've made it, you know, significantly larger than the rest of the job description and put it as the first sentence in the job description that it must have five years for this particular role.
You know, I love people that are proactive, but not when you're wasting my time kind of thing. Right now, if you've been. Even if you haven't been employed, but you've been doing projects on your own and you've built a few kind of applications using Python and React, and you can show me or explain what they do and how they do it, I'm happy to consider you for the job because it's not necessarily the, the most technical person that will always get hired because, right.
With a few exceptions, you know, if you're a brain surgeon, you could be the most arrogant person in the world. If you're a great surgeon, nobody cares about your personality. But the majority of jobs in the workforce today, it's more about personality fit than it is about knowing every technical skill that could possibly exist for the job.
Right. Especially in the world of software development, because it seems that every three months there's a new acronym of a tool that can do this or can do that. It's almost impossible to keep up with all of them. Right, right. But, but. There are levels of, again, like it's a model, like I just had somebody where the company ended up hiring the, one of the least technical people I sent because their personality was such a great fit to their organizational culture, for example.
So again, in a, as a recruiter, my mindset is this, if Mr. Whiskey sent me a resume and you have 60% of what's required on the job description, you're a great candidate because most of the time, if you're missing technical skills, a great company will pay for you to learn those technical skills,
but right. If you have the, you know, adaptability, personality skills, you know, communication skills, um, particular experience in this field, or that, uh, companies will pay good money for that. Right. Now we've talked about, indeed, we've talked about LinkedIn. What are some other resources that you highly recommend or as far as resources, websites, uh, books, all that, o obviously your own content of course, but outside of that, yeah, outside of LinkedIn.
And indeed, what are some great things to help us making connections and looking for jobs that you recommend, if any? So I'm gonna answer that in two ways. So, 10%, uh, of your job search should be job boards. Okay. Um, so what you do with the job boards, like I said, upload the resume. Before you go to sleep, press space bar, save it, that will help you.
But select multiple job boards. So select Indeed, select, um, like, you know, there's Career Builder. There is, um, um, there is Monster still around. There's Glassdoor, there is, you know, government websites. There's multitude of job boards that I, I have a list of about 300 job boards, uh, in the US alone. Um, depending on the field and depending on that, because sometimes companies will go, everybody knows Indeed.
Um, so we're not necessarily gonna look first at people from the right. Uh, but if you're applying, let's say from All Star jobs, very few people know about that. Uh, they'll kind of go, okay, this person had to do a little bit of research. We'll speak to somebody on those sites first because they did something somebody else didn't.
That should be 10%. So once you do a search, let's say on Indeed for a particular role, you save it and you have Indeed email you daily, what are the new job postings in that there? So again, similar to the resume, you'll have job postings that might be four months old. Chances are if there's a job posting on Indeed for four or five, six months, they've already failed it.
They're just collecting resumes right now. No one's calling you. If they recently refreshed it, it means they probably fired the person or the person who quit, and now they need to replace the person, for example. So those are little hints for you, but 10% of your job search should be, uh, job boards and there's a slew of them.
Um, again, depending on what state you're in, depending on which profession you're in, you can type in whatever, like. Let's say marketing job board Kansas, and you'll get specific ones. Uh, 25% of your job search should be employment agencies, recruiters, because they already have relationships with companies.
So there's your big boys of industries like your Randstads, your Robert Halfs, um, you know, your Hayes. Those are the, probably the three biggest in the world, uh, in terms of employment agencies. But again, you can Google search, uh, employment agencies in your field, in your state or city. Get specific ones because you wanna register with multiple ones, because I assume that a few of them are not gonna like you.
They're not gonna like your age, they're not gonna like your background, they're not gonna like something about you. It doesn't really matter, right? But we're very polite, so we're not gonna tell you we don't like you, but we'll just ignore you kind of thing, or ghost you, which is sad that ghosting exists in the corporate world as well, right?
So, register with a few agencies, a few big ones, a few local ones, because most of the time companies use multiple employment agencies to find the people. So if you have two or three agencies that like you and they're recommending you, chances are they're all recommending you to the same companies, which means the company's going go, wow, three different agencies said this.
Mr. Whiskey's amazing. I should really interview this person. Uh, and it increases your chances. Then 25% of your job search should be linked in other social media. Uh, so most companies today have fan pages. They have Instagram accounts, they have TikTok accounts, they have Facebook join the conversations, say intelligent comments, make interesting observation.
They'll start following you. They'll start checking you out. And if you, you know, as long as you're not saying anything controversial or offensive, if you're good and your insights are useful, they'll reach out to you. They'll call you for a job. Uh, 25% of your job search should be networking and asking for referrals.
So there's specific places like off the bat. One that I recommend to everybody is, uh, chamber of Commerce or Board of Trade. Every city has one right? Usually executives go there. The project management institute, usually decision makers go to those two. So come in and talk to them, right? And introduce yourself.
Build relationship with them, uh, kind of thing because you'll get jobs faster because that's the hidden job market, quote unquote, where 80% of people never look at, never touch and never know about. And then the last 15% is pick, let's say 20 companies that you wanna work for and start communicating with them in a way of like, so I'm gonna use what you have that you will open doors for you is to say, you know what?
I would like to interview you on my podcast, right? Would you be willing to be a guest? I'd like to learn about your expertise and. Ask them about them and their success and their career. So a great question that you want to ask is, what made you so successful? What are your three biggest achievements? Get them to brag about how amazing they are because the moment they brag about how amazing they are, and you acknowledge what they've said, you've built instant rapport with them.
Then transition to, if you were mentoring somebody who's relatively new in the industry, what would you focus on or what would you teach them? And let them say whatever they say. And after they say that, if you actually are interested in working for them, say, listen, I'm in the industry as well. Would you mind giving me some feedback on my resume?
Now, here's what happens when you do that. That executive is gonna write a. The perfect resume they want to see to hire, which means they just wrote your resume so that you can get hired for them. And after they do that, again, acknowledge them for their time and their expertise and their knowledge and say, you know what?
I would love to work for you, uh, because you're brilliant and I would love to learn from you. I'd love to produce results for you. And you know, they already know what your resume is 'cause they just wrote it, right? And they just told you, this is the resume I wanna hire. So it creates, listen. Uh, the, again, I have lots of stories.
I have a friend that finished mechanical engineering, uh, applied to like a hundred jobs on Indeed. Got nowhere, decided this is, uh, 20 companies I want to work for. Printed 20 copies of his resume Monday morning, went to the first one at 9:00 AM. Said, can I speak to the director? The receptionist looked at him and said, do you have an appointment?
He said, Nope. The reception looks at him and said, well, he's very busy. He's got meetings all day. He goes, okay, I'll wait. And he sat there till two 15 in the afternoon. Wow. At two 15 in the afternoon. The director finally came out and said, I understand you really wanna talk to me. How can I help you? My friend was like, listen, I know you like, here's my resume.
I know that you don't have any current openings. Right. But I wanted to introduce myself and kind of tell you, these are the projects I did at school. This is my background. Um, just in case something opens so that you would consider me, the director was so impressed that he was willing to pretty much wait the whole day for him, talk to him for five minutes and offered him a job.
Wow. And it was that simple. Right. So. Understand that, again, it boils down to are you doing every, what everybody else is doing or are you doing something a little bit extra? You know, people that I've helped find a job in two days, again, it's, you know, one of my success stories of two days, I have, uh, I'm an ave avid, uh, salsa dancer and I've been dancing and performing and competing for about 15 years.
And now that I'm married with kids, stopped a little bit. But right when I first started dancing, uh, when I first started dancing, my salsa partner was still in college and she was studying graphic design and she called me up and she's like, oh, there's this internship at this telecom company and I really, really, really want it.
I made fun of her a little bit. I was like, you really, really want it? She's like, yeah, I'll do anything. Wait, wait. I'm gonna be your Mr. Miyagi, whatever. I tell you, you do exactly as I tell you, right? 'cause I'm gonna show you what happens. She's like, okay. I said, you're applying for a graphic design role.
You are not allowed to have a black and white resume. So we made her resume green instead of the regular dots that everybody uses. She had a little like, almost like animated dancing guy as her signature for her digital art. Okay. We put, we put that as her bullet point. At the time when she was speaking to me, she was working as a barista and a coffee shop.
We made that graphic design because she was drawing the lattes kind of thing. Right? Right. Sent her resume in two weeks go by, she calls me like, they didn't even call me. You suck. An hour later they called her. Right. The director called her personally and said, listen. I wanna apologize that it's taken us so long to contact you, but we received 7,400 applications for 20 unpaid internships.
Wow. Your resume was one of our favorites. Now, because we received so many resumes, we're gonna do three interviews for you. Right? The first one is gonna be in two days in order for us to make the right decision. So she calls me God, oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. They called me, they call me. What do I do?
I'm like, first of all, apologize to me. Right? And then once we kind of got that, here's kind of my seven rules to a perfect interview. Right here. I want you to go to Kinko's or Staples or Grand to or wherever, close to you, and print your 10 best digital pieces of work that you've done on the highest quality glossy paper so that you really wow them.
Okay? I want you to take all of your graphic design stuff and put it in an easy access folder that you don't need 17 passwords to look at, for example, right? Like just easy access. She came in two days later with my kind of, here's how to wow the interview formula. 15 minutes into the interview, the director looked at the door, put his pen down and said, listen, I've been running this program for 10 years.
I have never been so impressed with a candidate as I am with you. Congratulations. You're my first hire. I'm not even bothering with a second and third interview. Wow. Right. So, and I've done that at least 30 different times with different professions and different backgrounds simply because again, the, the wording and the way that things presented was, um,
a wow factor for people. Right, right. And at the end of the day, look, I can't control how quickly companies make decision, but the reason I can guarantee a 90% success rate with my system is because I tested it and I tested it regularly. So now that I've reached the level of experience and knowledge I've tested, like for example.
When my brother was, uh, my, my brother studied mechanical engineering when he, uh, was finishing his third year, applied for an internship. By the time one of the companies responded to him, he already registered for his fourth year classes, and he asked me to cancel the interview. I decided to go in as my brother.
I studied economics and business. The only thing I know about mechanical engineering is what I wrote on his resume, right? My first interview, there was four. There was a hundred students from four major universities in Toronto, Ontario. Within 45 minutes, human resource called me back, said, we love you, we need to come back for a second interview.
I was like, all right. Let's see how far I can take this now. My second interview was with the manager of the department that I potentially work with. Now, I spoke the truth about my brother's resume. My brother was in a team that designed a wheelchair for third World Nations that uses a tank chain so it can go on any terrain.
Wow. Came second in Ontario for the best mechanical engineering project of the year. Won $500 from a major back. Told the manager that I studied thermal dynamics and quantum physics. To this day, I have no idea what those are. Right? Didn't even leave the parking lot. Manager called me back, said, I adore you.
I need to come back for a third and final interview Out of a hundred candidates, I made it to the final three. I was the first one in at eight 30 in the morning. Manager walked over to me and goes, here's your offer letter. The job is yours. All you have to do is pass this mechanical engineering test. Oh man.
I looked at him. I looked at the test, I looked at him. I looked at the test. I'm like, I can't do this test. Magar looked at me and goes, I know you're nervous. Let me help you. He solved the first two questions for me. I looked at him and I said, listen, I am so sorry for wasting your time. I guess I'm a lot more comfortable with the design than I am with the calculations.
I am not the right candidate for this job. Thank you for the opportunity Manager followed me to the car and begged me to take the job because I'd interviewed that much better than every other mechanical engineer. Okay, so this is where I said earlier in the podcast, it's not who's the most technical, it's how you sell yourself.
So. I've done this for law jobs, for accounting jobs, none of which are my background or profession. Um, just to make sure that my systems work. And that's why I can very confidently say that I can help anybody find employment in any field in under three months right Now, again, understand that my system also gives you homework.
So if I tell you to register with employment agencies, you register with one, you're like, oh, they wasted three hours of my life. They didn't do anything. I'm not gonna register there. You're losing opportunities. Uh, I had, uh, you know, and this is kind of the flip side of it, where you know, people sometimes, and especially in my profession, because everybody's done a careers course or everybody's gone to a government agency that helps them find a job.
Okay. Most people know or think that they know how to find a job. If it's taking you six months to a year to get an interview and you haven't had an offer, your resume sucks and you don't know how to interview. Right. And you don't know how to apply a job. Okay. Right. Because it shouldn't take that long, ever.
Okay. Now, uh, I had a guy that, again, most of my clients have come through referrals. Right. And this gentleman was a product manager in social media. And even though I was referred by somebody else that used me very successfully to him before hiring me, he sent me 35 different documents that explains what a product manager in social media does.
Right. And I looked at him, I said, listen, I've invested. 30,000 hours to master everything there is to know about job finding to be an authority on it, right? I've helped, you know, tens of 10,000 people I, this, I know the systems, I know the tools, I know the tricks. I know the tips, I know techniques, which is all in my course called Land Your Dream job now, um, that people can find through joseph steador.com.
Um, and I've gifted it to people so that I've done the homework for you. Here's all the employment agents. Here's all the recruiters here that I said I know. Like I don't need you to tell me every detail of what a social media matter does. I know the lingo. He agreed to hire me right off the bat. He resisted my suggestions when I tried to coach him on an interview because he was like, oh, no, no, I know what I'm doing.
I'm great. Okay. Now, before he hired me, he was self-employed for nearly 10 years. He ran his own business to the ground because he forgot to invoice his clients and got to the position where he could barely afford rent anymore. Right. Okay. And in seven months of applying on his own, he had one to two interviews that never went past the first interview.
In two weeks of after I, like, after I wrote his resume and I optimized his LinkedIn profile, four of the largest social media companies in the world. And when I say largest, I'm talking like Google, Facebook. Largest social media. Interviewed him or called him for an interview within two weeks. Right.
Google asked him, how would you improve one of the email servers? His answer was, I wouldn't. They're all great, which is the wrong answer for that, right? When he called me and told me that, I said, here's what you should have said. So Hotmail used to be one of the best email servers on the market. For some reason, their filters send most emails to junk mail, and they haven't upgraded the email's ability to handle large files.
So if I was a product manager, I would first of all fix the filters so that emails don't go to junk, and I would upgrade the to compete with WeTransfer or Dropbox. Um, and bring Hotmail back to life. He looked at me and went, oh my God. That's genius. That's what I should have said, right? Like, yes, that's why you hired me as your coach, but you also need to be coachable and listen right to, to the advice.
So clearly he did get that interview. Then two of the other social media companies asked him to send proof of his technical knowledge and experience. He was busy, so he waited about two and a half weeks to send it to them. Ridiculous. Exactly. And their response was, do you know who we are when we ask you for something at the latest, it should be within an hour of the interview being done.
Right? Not so, so he didn't get that job, those jobs either. And then he screwed up the. Last interview because again, his ego got in the way as opposed to listening to the system. And then he had the audacity to tell me that he's not paying me for my services because I didn't do my job. Said, lemme see if I understand this correctly.
You were looking for a job for seven months and got nowhere. I wrote your resume and did your LinkedIn profile, and four of the largest social media companies in the world called you for an interview. You refuse to listen to my coaching and I didn't do my job Right. And as a vet, you understand taking responsibility.
Right? Very, very well. And that's something I give credit to those that have served right. They're not afraid to say, you know what, okay, my bad. I should have taken better response, ownership of this and so forth. Sadly, that's something that's lacking in this, in our society a lot these days for sure. But, but the point is that this is how good.
What I do is, is I get you from zero interviews to multiple interviews. Now, again, I can't control you getting a job offer because I have no idea what you say in an interview. And the fact of the matter is that I've dealt with some really, really like examples that make you go, what is wrong with people in the interview, right?
Like I had a graphic designer that was asked, tell me about, let's say this job. Nice, easy, simple question. Her answer was, yeah, I don't really know why I got paid. I don't think my work was that good because she wanted to be honest. Right. Needless to say, interview was done after one question. Right? Of course.
Right. Like there's one thing to say, look, I have very high standard of the work that I do and I'm always challenging myself to do better. Um, and therefore I'm my own hardest critic. Right? That sounds great. That sounds perfect, right? But not to say, I don't know why I got paid, for example. So those are things that, again, they're nuances in the conversation, but you know, if you do something like that, I can, and trust me, those, that's not even close to being on the radar of some of the stupid things that people have said in interviews.
Right? So, um, like I can guarantee that you'll get interviews. But if you don't wanna apply my coaching, and I build a system where I give you the skeleton, I give you the formula. It's up to you to put the meat and the spices on it. But understand that if you're going to use slang, if you're going to use swear words, if you're going to present yourself in a manner that's unbecoming, you can't really blame me for not getting a job.
If I tell you you need to register with employment agency, or you need to register on these job boards and you don't because you know better than me, you, then your process is gonna be harder, right? I, I make it very clear to people when they're working with me, you are responsible for communicating with me.
You are responsible to tell me what's going on so that we can adjust, we can improve. So that I can give you feedback on, let's say, how you can answer interview questions so that you're avoiding mistakes, right? One of the most, in my opinion, common interview questions. That is to me, a complete waste of time.
It's a fully loaded question is, Mr. Whiskey, tell me about yourself. Most people start rambling about the fact that they love to travel or love to read, or that they have a beautiful family, or that they love music, which has nothing to do with a job. If you're ever asked that question, look the interviewer in the eye or right above the eyebrows if you're shy and it's against your caller to look into the eyes, 'cause it gives you peripheral vision and gives the person the respect they deserve.
Smile and say, where would you like me to begin? Whatever they tell you to begin, ding, ding, ding. They've just told you this is important. This is probably what you're gonna be doing on the job.
So that's a hint for you what to focus on in the interview. Right? Of course. You know, like it can't be helped. A lot of people, especially the younger generation nowadays, they don't wanna put the work in. They want everything to be handed to them. They Oh yeah, don't wanna be held accountable. And the truth is, Mr.
Stutterer, if they knew better than you, if they know what they're doing, they wouldn't have even had to hire you in the first place. But, you know, a lot of people don't wanna admit that they need help. Look, it's the same thing that everybody on earth knows how to be healthier. It's not that complicated of a formula.
Eat healthier and exercise. Yet sadly, close to 70% of the US population is considered obese, right? Right. So if you're gonna go work out at the gym and then go eat pizza and then have cake, and then have wings, and you're wondering why your body is not really changing or why you still feel unhealthy, you know, the gym can only do so much.
And yes, you can bench press till your're blue in the moon and bicep curl till you're boot in the moon. Most, let's say teenagers that work out, that's the first two exercise they do. They don't understand that if you want big arms, your tricep muscle is actually bigger than your bicep muscle. So work your triceps first, for example, because they want that curve on the bicep to look like it's a bigger, stronger arm.
But if you're, all you're doing is chest press and you're doing bicep and tricep, let's say, and you're not working your back muscles, you're not working your legs, eventually you're gonna be disproportionate and eventually you're gonna cause injuries to yourself. Right. By no means am I a personal trainer, nor am I qualified to like to, to say that.
But I've had enough injuries in my life and I've hired personal trainers that were good enough to explain this to me and to explain why I need to do this and this together so that the muscles work, for example. So, you know, it's the same mentality. Everybody knows how to be healthier, but you know, if we don't want to give up our donuts and we don't want to give up our wings and we don't want to give up our fries and we don't want to give up this, the likelihood that you're gonna be as healthy is less.
Right? You know, I have mentors in my life that teach me and coach me on things that I haven't achieved yet because I wanna avoid some of their learning pains so that I can expedite my businesses faster and better. I've spent 30,000 hours mastering everything to do with job finding. So I've earned the right to say, stop doing this because that's where most people fail right now.
Mr. Eder, you've spoken just recently about helping people write their resume and form their LinkedIn profile. Let's say I am person looking for a job. I come across his podcast or one of the other countless podcasts you've been on, and I say, Hey, I wanna reach out to Mr. Eder via his website or whatever means, and, and hire him for a service.
How would I go about doing that? And can you talk about the pricing for that at all? Or where can I find that information? Yeah, so here's the thing. Um. You can do my course. The course is, uh, $700 US and it is a kind of do it yourself. So I have 15 templates of resumes that have produced results right away.
I have 15 cover letters. I have 300 job boards that you can look at. 350 employment agencies that you can use, uh, salary negotiations, how to optimize your LinkedIn profile, how to, uh, you know, and again, there's videos and resources on what to do and how to do it and explain it in full. So that's one way.
It's, uh, if you go to joseph steador.com at the top of the website, there's a, like, click here and you can go into the, the course itself and see, um, if you reach to me through, uh, various social medias, email, whatever the case may be, um, my prices will range between 1030 $500 depending on the level of services that you want with me.
And depending on, you know, how much involvement you want me, like, do you want me to hold your hand or do you want me to kind of one conversation, you took what you needed and you do it on your own type of thing. Right. Perfect. Um, like, I guarantee results, meaning I guarantee you'll have interviews. Uh, in fact, I, I just, uh.
I have somebody that's actually international that I did their LinkedIn profile a week ago today, or no, a week ago. Yeah, about a week ago. But midweek, I did it. Um, and while I was fixing their LinkedIn, I started messaging some potential employers and in under five minutes, which is a new personal best for me, one of the employers responded already.
Wow. So again, it's things where I can say there's nuances, right? So even on LinkedIn, when I send messages to potential employers, I don't send a message saying, Hey, I'm looking for a job. I use, you know, copy or messaging because I'm a recruiter that hones in on here's the value I bring. Right, and, and as much as people that are listening to it, and I hope people can do it on their own, and you know, uh, sadly the situation right now is this.
And, um, I'd love to help everybody, but I'm also realistic about it because I'm not for everybody currently. Right? In East America, uh, meaning United States and Canada, there are over 55 million people that are unemployed. There are 50, 55 million people that are severely underemployed, meaning have a university or college degree, but work at McDonald's, right?
And there is approximately 30 million people, maybe more going through some sort of education and retraining. And unfortunately, especially in the US it is expected that another roughly 20 million people will lose their job in the near future. Okay, so that's 180 million people that need my help. Uh, you know, I would love to help 180 million people, but I'm also realistic that, you know what, I'm male.
I might, people might prefer to work with the woman because, or they are, uh, women, for example, and prefer that, you know, people might prefer to work with someone who is, uh, culturally or ethnically the same as them. And that's fine. I, I, by no means I might be, am I the only expert out there in North America?
Um, and it's a matter of the way that I communicate. If it resonates with you, great. And if it doesn't resonate with you, please do there. And I've tried to focus this podcast to kind of go, here's things that you should be aware of and here's things that you should do right away. Like, you know, when you shared with me.
One of your statements on your resume. It's a great statement, but you want to make it stand out, quantify it. Right, right. And I say that to people, but just because I say to people, it's quantify it. For a lot of people, it's very hard to think about how do you quantify your job? I, because if you're a part of a team, if you're, you know, there, you know, you can't say I did this.
Or some people are very uncomfortable with saying, I did this. But at the end of the day, you know, you can say approximately, if you don't want to say exactly, you can assume or you, you can know that this is faster, better, more efficient. So, you know, even in retail, like I, when I first started my career retail, I, I sold computers in a retail store.
Um. And my personal best, I sold, uh, I think it was 24 computers in one Saturday. You can quantify that, right? In accounting, you can quantify the fact that you made the file better, or as an admitted assistant, you organized the filing system. There was 10,000 files. You organized it in a couple days. You know, as a coder, you design platform or dashboards.
You, you solved an issue that was happening, like it wasn't working on cell phones. You, you know, there's always something that has value insignificance. Understand that, you know, and I, I will say this both jokingly and in seriously. Bill Gates, you know, as founder of Microsoft, has a few charitable organizations that.
From what I've read, have in them around a hundred billion dollars, but he still fundraises regularly to make sure that his legacy continues well beyond his years because his, uh, non-for-profits will have resources even after he's gone kind of thing, right? So every, every business exists for one reason and one reason only to make money, right?
Three ways to make money. You make it, you save it, or you increase efficiency. So your resume should address that. Depending on what you do, if you are working more behind the scenes, you're saving money, you're increasing, if you're working in a warehouse, you can organize things a little bit better. You can make suggestions for better software.
You can, you know, figure out, you know, ways to grab things that, or like these are the most common things to have them more accessible, for example, as opposed to on at the top of the shelf. There's always things that can be done. There's always ideas that can improve. You know, one of my favorite shows is Undercover Boss.
I'm always amused be a show where the executives go, oh my God, I should talk to the people that work here. I might get some insights you think kind of thing, right? But because somebody who is in, as most of the business world, calls at the ivory tower, looking at an Excel spreadsheet, making a decision, more often than not, they forget the human factor.
People need a washroom break. People need that, that water cooler conversation to refresh, to rejuvenate, to just be human. Um, and you know, if you treat people with dignity and respect, it is amazing what results can be produced as opposed to micromanagement and yelling and screaming. Right, right. When you spend so much time at work, I mean, some of us, you know, depending on your job, spend half our lives at our job.
And so you really want that to be a second family, a second home more than anything. Exactly. And you know, that's where my other business comes into effect because I help companies understand that turnover, like one open position, especially in an office environment, um, like I said, the white collar costs most companies between a hundred to $180,000 per month.
To have an open position. Right. And even now when I have recruiting clients, they're like, yeah, but we have to pay you a fee. I'm like, so you would rather lose half a million dollars to have this position open for five months than to pay me, let's say $10,000 to find you somebody. Amazing. Okay. Okay. And then they wonder why they're struggling.
Right, right. Again, I'm not the only recruiter. I'm not this, they're, if they already have relationship with others, more power to them, I'm simply saying, look, I don't give myself a haircut because that's not where my brain's at hairdresser to do what they do. Right. I'm not a lawyer. I hire lawyers to check my documents and verify everything is good.
Because they're educated in it there, that's their subject matter expertise. I hire great accountants to do my accounting because I wanna do Excel spreadsheets and, you know, figure out where my expense should go. And this, here's the receipts, here's what you need to know. You give me the report that tells me where, what's going on because you're the expert.
You know, uh, uh, right? Like I record videos to put on my social media of content for people. I'm not a video editor. I hire people that know what they're doing, that I, that can give me insights because they're looking at it as an outsider and they know camera angles, they know lighting, they know energy in the video that I don't, that's not what I think about.
Right? So, you know, one of my clients said this, and I apply this in many areas of my life. Let's say the CEO of a company, I should never be the smartest man in the room. So I surround myself with people that know a lot more than me in whatever it is that their expertise is in, because I leverage their genius, I leverage their experience to make better decisions for my business, to make better decisions for this.
So in helping people write resumes, I can give you a template. That's great, but even if I give you a template, you might not know the nuances of making the template work for you. Right? And it's a level of, I've invested the time and the energy to do that. I've been in recruiting for nearly 20 years. I've helped a, you know, close to 12,000 people.
Now I've earned the right to say I do things in a way that produces results. And before we get closing off here, there were just a few more things I want to address. So it's on your website, it said you are obviously, you know, an award-winning speaker and it said that you were involved with a, a Guinness record participant.
Can you tell us a little bit about that experience? So I am on record for being one of a hundred and I think it was 40 or 50 authors that signed the exact same book at the exact under Guinness Supervision. So we all signed the exact same book at the exact same time. It was all of us were authors, or our authors.
Uh, so it was organized by my publisher and um, was a great experience and can say, I have a certificate from Guinness World Record that says I participated in a Guinness World Record. Wow. That's, that's definitely something to add to your, uh, wall of fame, which seems to be pretty, pretty big wall of fame.
So, the only other thing I wanna add today, it's actually pretty small because I don't think I've done enough yet. My, my, my personal mission is to try and help 1.8 million people. Right. And you, you're a fraction of the way there. I mean, you've, you've gotten 12,000 down, so you have, you have a little bit more to go.
There's a little bit more, but a little bit. But again, I'm not looking to do this overnight. This is a, this is part of my legacy. This is part of me, you know, people remembering me for making a difference in their lives. You know, taking, you know, helping them. Like right now, I'm very focused on helping people get a 30 to a hundred thousand dollars raise in what they do.
Right. And part of your mission, part of the way you're helping people. Establishing your legacy is, I know prior to recording you and I discussed, you now have your own podcast. Could you tell us a little bit about that? What it's about, where we can find it and why we should listen to it by all means? So the podcast is hosted or featured through USA Global TV and radio, uh, with Dr.
Jalyn Kerbeck. It's called The Resume Whisperer. And, um, I've started, uh, about a month and a half ago. So it's a weekly episode every Thursday around eight 15. It goes live on LinkedIn, it goes live on YouTube, uh, and Facebook. And, uh, I address things that most job seekers are looking at. So right now it's, I don't know when the episode will air, but uh, like right now it's December 2nd.
Next week I'm doing an episode where I'm inviting five, six people to the show. I'm gonna give them feedback on their resume and give them tips that they can implement right away to get a 20, $30,000 raise with ease kind of thing. But the show is focused both from the job seeker. Uh, I address, you know, different things on interviewing, the resume, networking, salary negotiations, job boards, employment agencies, uh, trick questions, mistakes people make, uh, you know, a lot of stories, a lot of anecdotes, a lot of, you know, very specific do this similar to the show.
Uh, and then I also, because the other hat that I wear is, I've been saying that I'm a recruiter, but in essence, I'm an, actually, I'm a corporate urist, so I help companies create cultures and hire. The best people and keep them. And so I speak about corporate culture, good culture, bad culture, little things that companies can do.
You know, you don't need Google and Facebook budget to implement great culture. And so I talk about a lot of things that companies don't think about, but should, you know, like mental health and wellbeing, it, it's everywhere. And there's a lot of little things that companies can do that can make such a huge impact.
Uh, so again, the program right now is the host and myself just providing information and having conversation just like you and I, Mr. Whiskey. Uh, and as the show progresses, there will be live. You know, here you go. Let's analyze your resume, let's do the resume together, uh, type of environment, let's. Do mock interviews on Li Live.
Let's do this where people can see the nuances. Like I said, there's common mainstream things that pretty much applies to everybody. Uh, and then there's specific situational things like I am an engineer, how do I say this? So you take some of the technical and make it day-to-day language, for example. So there's, you know, part of it is I make fun of the fact that job finding and dating are exactly the same.
Uh, and here's why. Um, and again, it's based on, you know, what people are saying, Hey, can you talk about this? Or can you address this? So, you know, I wanna work from home. Is that okay? Can I ask for that? You know. Can I ask for a gym membership? Can I, it's amazing what's available to you if you have presented the right value and therefore companies will be okay with offering.
You know, my experience is very broad. I share stories of my recruiting, you know, both good and bad. Um, I share, you know, my own personal experiences. Uh, my father, God rest his soul passed away almost 11 years ago. Um, I was working for an employer where my father was rushed to the emergency room because he just had chemo for his cancer and got pneumonia.
And when I went into the owner's office, 'cause I was the director of operations and said, my father nearly died, I need to go to the hospital. She looked at me and said, no, I think you're lying. I said, let me see if I understand this correctly. I work here 80 hours a week, six days a week. You think that my excuse to leave early from work is my dad is about to die, is a lie.
She's like, yeah. I looked at her, I said, I have one father. I can find another bleep job. And I walked out. Right? But I had an employer that tell me, you know, my father dying is a fake story, right? Um, so I share, you know, successes, I share failures. I share some of why I became an expert because I've experienced things that, you know, because of switched careers so many times, I kind of understood how different industries work firsthand.
I kind of saw some of the gaps. I saw some of the there, and it's a level of just raising awareness and educating people and changing this, you know, cookie cutter, um, autoresponder both on the resume, both on the interview and the whole experience of landing your dream job and companies appreciating who they have working for them.
Right? And I think that, honestly, I think that's a perfect closing right there. You kind of summarized, you know, what you're doing, why you're doing it, how you're doing it. So I wanna thank you very much Mr. Eder, for coming on the show today. It was a pleasure talking to you. Like I said, ladies and gentlemen, the links to his website, LinkedIn, e, everything you could possibly need to.
Either contact Mr. Seder or get some more information if you enjoyed what he said and, and you wanna work on your resume or send this to anyone who's looking for a job and struggling all in the description below. And Mr. Seder, did you have anything else you wanted to close with? I just want to thank you for the opportunity to share some of my wisdom and experience and I hope that some of the tools and tips that I've given helps those that are, you know, want to do it on their own to better themselves and the opportunities that they get.
Right. Perfect. Thank you so much for coming on Mr. Stutter. You enjoy
