$100K+ Job Search Stopper You Don't Realize You're Doing

What does a broken $100K+ job search have in common with a broken relationship?

Poor communication that damages a $100K+ job search is like ruining a friend or family relationship that you really don’t want to lose. It is a self-inflicted wound that worsens over time and most often it cannot be reversed. Job opportunities and relationships are both quickly lost when a person doesn’t realize he/she is being a poor communicator.

Most Serious Job Search Damager
The most serious and lasting communication damage to a $100K+ job search unknowingly occurs before the first resume is even sent out and before the first networking contact is even made. Fortunately, like some relationship communication mistakes, poor job search communication can be prevented.

Good communication to avoid job search issues should start early in the job search process, particularly with job seekers targeting the $100K+ salary who are looking to build a relationship with a strong employer. Reversing poor communication after sending out bad resumes to desired employers is like trying to win back the trust of a friend or family member after they’ve told you, ‘no thanks, I don’t want to talk to you.” It is just hard to grab their attention again.

The Unknown Cause of Job Search Damager
Job search communication damage is caused by job seekers not being able to clearly put career history, personal skills, and unique results of past achievements into words that align with the future job target and salary target.

The unknown damage part comes into play when the job seeker has spent countless hours developing the resume message that they feel is their absolute best, but the words used and the organization of the words sells them well below the true value they are worth to others. You see, it’s almost impossible for a $100K+ job seeker to tell their own career story because they have too much information about their own career.

Too Much Informationr
Think about it. A job seeker knows more about their own career than anyone else could possibly ever know. There is so much information available to them that they don’t know how to get the right words out, and even put the words onto paper, in a way that says, “this is who I am, and this is what I can do for you.’

The rippling affect, and even more disturbing conce
of this poor communication, is that the message created up front, primarily for the resume, is used in the networking and interviewing. So, the job seeker has started out in the hole with poor communication that will follow them throughout the job search and ruin the chance for building a strong and lasting relationship with an employer.

Bottom line is that the $100K+ job seeker has too much information to start with. They have significant problems putting things into words and articulating their past as it aligns with their future. They end up either under-communicating (you’re under qualified) or over-communicating (you’re over qualified) one of the most important assets of their life – their career.