Watch This If You Feel Stuck in Your Career

If you're feeling stuck in your career, not landing job offers, but also the jobs you're going for you don't even want, and you're not sure what you want to do next. You're unhappy, but you dread the idea of potentially starting over or making less money. There is a clear solution to this that doesn't involve a big expensive degree or a decreased salary or years of reskilling. And it's what I call following the unpaved path, which takes several steps that I will walk you through. Because right now the only advice you get from friends and family is to follow the paved path they already know. And those paved paths are super expensive, highly competitive, and will probably make you miserable. I'm looking at you auntie who says, "Why don't you get a law degree? " I will teach you five lessons that will get you unstuck. So you know that this stuff works big time. I have helped thousands of clients pivot their careers, such as Gail who changed her career at age 59 and started making 30% more money. Or Todd, who went from being a high school band teacher to a scrum master in a matter of months and doubled his salary. Or Yana Lee, who more than doubled her salary and then got promoted within four months with her switch to being a project manager. I could go on and on. Stay till the end and I will share what I call my rule break strategy that helps you land in a new career so much faster. Well, lesson one, explore unpaved paths. If you don't like your current career, I want you to find job titles that you haven't heard of. If you can match your strengths with lesser known job titles that have good market demand, that means you'll have less competition for jobs and likely better pay and lifestyle. We often go into careers we have heard of, but those are often the most saturated and have low satisfaction. We think of teacher, lawyer, nurse, accountant. Your family pushes you in those directions because they understand them, but maybe your next move is to a job that you didn't really understand until recently. Such as many people have never heard of a job called knowledge management. They organize and enable access to a company's information. This job involves skills that a lot of people have in other jobs, like organizational skills, content management, database management. My point is that there are thousands of cushy jobs like this where you can work remote, pick your kids up from school, and pull in a six-figure check. I built an AI tool that suggests these types of jobs to you based on your unique set of skills, your lifestyle needs, and salary targets. It also helps identify your strengths for you, if you'd be a good fit for jobs, and helps you to get in contact with people in those careers for further advice. Tools like this can help a lot, and another thing to do is to follow the step-by-step of the wealth formula. Go to the section of the wealth formula in Reverse The Search and you can grab this from your library. Lesson number two, quitting is underrated. Look, I went full send into journalism as my career path and then realized that I had made a grave mistake. The number of job openings was small, the pay was bad, and I'd have to live deadline to deadline until I was dead line. I had built lots of journalism skills, relationships, work experience, and it felt like a waste to start over. But when you realize that the career you're in is difficult to get a job in, is low paying, and it doesn't fit your lifestyle, you need to look elsewhere. Quitting feels like you're moving backwards, but think of it like a slingshot. You quit and you start spending all this time uncovering your next move, building relationships, growing your skills, and that's all pulling back the slingshot until you land your next job and your career starts to fly faster and further than it ever has. Sometimes you have to pause and stop halftime to move forward. Your direction is more important than your speed. I am curious, what job are you looking to leave? Share that in the comments. I think it'd be helpful for all of us to see. Lesson number three, get scrappy with building experience. We are stuck in this mindset where we think you either need to get a degree to be taken seriously or you have to get paid for it in order for it to be considered experience. Well, unpaid experience is still job experience. For example, many years ago a woman who was trying to get started in social media management offered to help me with my Instagram for free. She ended up using that experience to get more clients, including me. I became a paid client and it snowballed from there. And my clients do this all the time. My client Brian was going for VP of product roles, but had a gap in his AI skills, so I worked with him on a personal project. And then my client Maria, who was overqualified with a PhD from Harvard, but couldn't land a corporate research job because all of her experience is more academic, so I helped connect her to companies to do

some pro bono work that could build her portfolio. These options are endless, but it does take a bit of creativity. And if you'd like to get hands-on help with your job search so that you can finally get an expert view of what to change so you can land more offers, I will link a link for coaching below. And you need to kick I just syndrome to the curb in the job search because often you already have a lot of great experience, but you don't value it. You say, "I just helped on that project. I didn't lead it. " Or "I just did that for a school fundraiser. It's not real corporate experience. " Stop saying that. Value is value. Claim it, humble bee. Lesson four, start before you're ready. Here's one of my secrets as to why my career advanced very quickly. For context, I was leading my first HR department at age of 23, built my own seven-figure business by the time I was 28, became a LinkedIn Learning and Spotify instructor by 29, and got a six-figure book deal at a top five publisher at age 30. And one of my secrets is that I do things before I'm ready. You can't learn to drive in a parked car. You've got to hop in the front seat and not be afraid to look like an idiot on the road. I love the quote from Charles Miller that says, "You become qualified for a job six months after you get hired, not before applying. You become qualified as a freelancer after getting a few clients, not before getting your first. You become qualified to run a business a year after founding it, not before you start. " The only way to become qualified is to take action when you're unqualified. One thing that stops people from starting is the fear of choosing because they are cutting off other opportunities. Well, here's a clip from the show Job Shopper where one professional had been stagnant and miserable in his career for over a decade because he was too afraid to choose a career path. — I know as a friend said, "I'm good at taking a piece of cheese and put putting holes in it. " What job is that? A critic, a consultant. Potentially. Consultant is the most broad term you could ever say. I could consult on anything. I'm consulting right now. — Yeah. Where does this fear of picking a direction come from? I'm not sure where it comes from, but if I pick one direction, I'm leaving out all the other directions I can go. But you're not going any direction. And in my career, I remember being offered a head of HR job that I felt so underqualified for. I was truly terrified. I thought, "I'm going to screw this company up big time. " But once I got in the job, sure, there was a lot to learn. It was hard work, but I learned really fast and I was really good at it. And I ended up getting recognized as one of the company's top performers in my first year there. You can do this, too. You've proven to yourself before that you can learn new things and take on tough challenges. Everything you're great at now, you once knew nothing about. So go on, go do it again. I'll link a free workshop on how to be a job shopper to get yourself into a place where you're attracting these opportunities before you're ready. I'll link that below. Lesson number five, break the rules. I ordered a pizza the other day and I sat and I waited for it to come out and they were calling people's names and it was taking a really long time to get my one pizza. So I finally walked up to ask them about it and they said, "Oh yeah, your pizza's right here. " And it was sitting there ready to go for I don't know how long and I wasted a good amount of time waiting for it. And that's how landing jobs and promotions feel. You are told the rules, sit and wait, we will call your name. But the truth is, they have a lot of other stuff going on. They have other orders and they may not call your name even though your pizza is ready. So you need to be prepared to walk up and make it happen yourself. This involves knowing which rules to break because there's a lot of rules that companies actually want you to break. Such as the pizza place was glad I walked up. That actually helped them get the food to me. They would not have appreciated if I had walked into their kitchen and started looking for my pizza. That's about knowing which rules to break. Now, I wrote down so many shortcuts and rule breaks in my book Reverse The Search if you need help with this, but I'll also give you some real world examples of how to break the rules in the job search. Such as one thing I coach my clients on is to get a company to create a job for you where you fill a clear need and then there's no other competition for the role. Two of my corporate jobs I've landed this way. Another rule to break is how to land a job at a company that has already rejected you. Such as my client Britney landed a massive salary increase at a company who to originally told her to take a hike, but I worked with her to get the company interested in her and speed up their timeline and hire again. Or even the clearest example is in Job Shopper when the contestants were asked to make an intro video and none of them

did anything above the bare minimum. We gave you access to the recruiter and gave you the first impression. I mean, how do you feel like you took advantage of that opportunity? It took me a number of takes. A lot of takes. Uh before I felt comfortable with it. — Hello Rory. My name is Steve Lake from Omaha, Nebraska. My goal is to work as a director of facilities for a tech company in the Omaha area. I saw the videos. Pretty much you just said, "Hi. This is me. This is the job I'm going for. " We have to do more than that, right? This was a moment where all three of you did that. One of you could have boo pounded right in the face. If you three did research on Rory, why didn't that show up in the video? I was trying to keep it to what we were asked to do. This is a really important point that I think so many job seekers hit is that I did exactly what they told me to do. Why didn't I get the job? You all followed the directions to a T, but you missed out on an opportunity. It really doesn't take much effort to stand out and nearly all of your competition won't even try.