When it comes to applying a job, the first thing that you need to have is now that I've given you the truth behind it now that you understand the process before, during and after, you need to have a headhunters mindset, what is it that you're looking for? Because whenever that you are a when you're working for somebody else, I want you to live in this reality. Now that you know the truth. The reality is a wage is nothing more than a prison paycheck an employer gifts to an employee, so that employee works works on the employers dream, as opposed to the employee working on their dreams. So with that mentality, whether you're working for a fortune 500 company or midsize company or small business, where do you want to take your career? Are you getting a job so you can get experience?

Or are you already starting a new professional career opportunity that will allow you to thrive for your goals? And that's the first question. So in a notepad ask yourself, what are your goals As of this moment, where do you want to take yourself, because in some cases, everybody has been taught that if I get a job, I get money that is true, you will get money, you will get a quote unquote secured salary. Because in an essence, that employers pretty much giving you the security that hey, if you work for me at this rate at this time, from here to here, I'm going to give you the salary, that's perfectly fine. But that is a an income and most people end up pretty much they end up increasing their expenses as their income increases. There's also another opportunity where you can get paid, hourly based, salary based, or even project base.

So let's say I do a project and I create a resume for somebody for $250. That is project based. Now, it doesn't matter how many hours I put in, it just matters so much how when I deliver this project, I'm giving you my best work. If you want revisions, we come back and we go go from there. And that is a service based project. So if you're doing resume writing, you're doing service space.

If you want to get a job opportunity, that salaried, you're doing a salary base where you can work literally 80 hours a week, and they're gonna pay you this set salary. So you kind of want to have that headhunters mindset. Where are you trying to take your career? And can you create an additional income with whatever it is that you're doing? Because when it comes to headhunters, a recruiter is looking, a recruiter is trying to fill in an open position for one of their clients and employer a business owner. Well, they most of the time, they only get paid on contingency fees.

So let's say somebody recruiter reaches out to you, they say, hey, I want to hire you for this position, and they start negotiating salaries. Well, what you need to know is what you need to know is that person wants to get you at the lowest rate because that contingency fee that the employer pays the recruiter, well, to be quite honest is that's their commission, that's their bonus. That's how employment agencies get paid is I need to, I need to give this person the lowest rate possible so I can increase my commission. This is how I eat. And that is a headhunters mindset. And I do want you to think like, well, if I was an employer, what am I looking for, but also know that when an employer is looking for somebody, it's because there's a particular problem within their business, that it's not running as efficient as it should be.

So they're losing money, the more time that they have that position open. So that's the whole purpose of getting that position filled as quickly as possible with the right person. And lastly, just note that you're not going to get every opportunity, every career opportunity. That's the unfortunate truth. So make sure that when you fail, try to extract any life lessons or nuggets that maybe how can I have done this better? Maybe what were they looking for and this is all before you Like once you submit your resume and once you get that rejection or whatever, how can you be better than you were before always forward forward, always ensure you understand that, that it all it is is just how do I keep moving forward?

How do I keep trucking through the adversity. And once you do that, then you'll be able to see the correlating pattern because your failures leave clues and so will your success. Let's go ahead and get into the next chapter.