What’s the best way to highlight your experience, skills, or talents and compel the hiring manager to offer you the job?
Use a 30 60 90 Day Action Plan to answer the 4 most important questions on every hiring manager’s mind:
- Do you understand the job?
- Can you do the job?
- WILL you do the job?
- Will you pose a risk to my own continued employment?
One of a manager’s most critical tasks is to choose good employees. Their own job success depends on choosing the right people to be on their team. When you create a 30 60 90 day Action Plan, you answer all 4 of those critical questions and take the risk out of hiring you.
The 30 60 90 Day Action Plan is possibly THE most valuable tool for you as a job seeker. I would never, ever go to an interview without it.
How does a 30 60 90 Day Action Plan tell the hiring manager what they want to hear?
A 30/60/90-day plan outlines what you will do as a new employee during your first 3 months on the job. It outlines your action steps and strategy for success. It covers how you’ll get your training, how you’ll begin to incorporate yourself in to the flow of the company, and how you’ll begin contributing to the team. It makes a big impact because it shows your initiative as well as your strategic thinking skills, and it also demonstrates to the hiring manager that you are prepared for the job (even if you are new to the field). I have never heard of any hiring manager fail to be impressed by this document and the candidate who created it.
It shows that:
- You understand the job—or you would not have been able to create the plan. This is particularly important for job seekers who are new to the career.
- You can do the job—you already have a plan that shows, step-by-step, what you intend to do to get up to speed and take off as a self-sufficient, successful employee.
- You will do the job—anyone who would take the time to create a plan like this proves they have a good work ethic and commitment to the job.
- You won’t pose a risk to the manager’s employment—it’s obvious that either you know what it takes to be successful, or you will absolutely find out and do it.
What’s in a 30-60-90-day plan?
A 30-60-90-day plan is a written outline of your goals in the first 3 months on the job. It’s broken into 3 parts each detailing what you will do in:
- the first 30 days (training, getting to know your way around)
- the next 30 days (the 60-day part…getting deeper into the details, preparing longer-term goals, etc.)
- the next 30 days (the 90-day part…launching off on your own, taking initiative, implementing plans, significantly contributing to the company in your role)
BEFORE your first job interview with a company, you research the job and the company, create one of these plans for the position, and bring it to the interview to discuss with the hiring manager (your potential new boss).
*** Learn more about 30-60-90-Day Plans, or get a 30-60-90-Day Action Plan I created that you can customize for a perfect, job-winning plan => 30 60 90 Day Action Plan.