I LOVE to get notes like this…
This actually happens a lot–I recommend to a job seeker that he or she take some action, and they balk, because it’s maybe a little different than what they’re used to, or more aggressive than what they’re comfortable with.
Garrett was paying consultants who were giving him conflicting advice, and still not getting a job (for 7 months). He came to one of my free online workshops and thought my advice was ‘nuts.’ Then he decided what he had been doing for months wasn’t working, so it was time to take a chance with me.
With my advice and tools, he got an ‘amazing’ job with a $20,000 salary increase. Congratulations Garrett!!
He estimates that if he’d contacted me when he was first unemployed, he would have an EXTRA $40,000 in his bank account right now (with his savings still intact).
The takeaway here? Don’t wait to get the job search or interview help you need, and make sure you’re getting that help from someone who is proven. (To date, Career Confidential has helped more than 22,000 people in 90 countries get hired–see some of our success stories.)
Hi Peggy,
I wanted to send you a little note to thank you for all of your help and assistance on my job search.
After six months of sending out resumes and basically harassing my network of contacts I decided to use your services after watching one of your webcasts. I had spoken with multiple “career consultants” before seeing your webcast and all of them would make recommendations that went against what the others said. I was very skeptical of your services as I believed it would be a similar experience and after watching and participating on a few webcasts I thought you were just interested in selling your services but decided I needed to try something new so I was not doing the same thing over and over and over month after month after month.
I thought you were out of your mind with the recommendation to make the email the actual cover letter. I thought you were completely nuts when you recommended I change formatting on my resume to a bullet format. However, I followed your recommendations and what a difference it has made for me.
I received an amazing public relations job offer for a great company and best of all . . . I negotiated a salary increase of $20,000 a year to the top of the range the hiring manager was comfortable with. Had I reached out to you when I first lost my job, I would have made more than $40,000 over the last seven months instead of spending all of my savings and depleting most of my financial assets.
Thank you very much for your help, valuable advice and insights into the hiring process. Your systems and services truly work and are absolutely worth the investment. I start my new job this Thursday – X/X/2016 and can’t wait to get back into the workforce.
Best regards,
Garrett
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