How to find your dream job. By not doing what others do!

Hello. I want to give you a little background about me and how I look at job hunting. I grew up in a military household and we traveled all over. I too like my father joined the military to travel and have some adventure. Over the years I have lived in or traveled to 19 countries.

My career path after the Military has been varied with entrepreneurship and some interesting jobs most all heavily focused in/ on Sales and Marketing.

Not too long ago I launched my own digital marketing agency. As I grow this business I also mentor as many businesses and people as I can. It is my way of giving back and providing great value as a marketing tool to promote my business.

I am very biased to the world of self employment and creating one’s own future and security as an entrepreneur. I also understand many of you are more comfortable as an employee working for someone else. As long as what you do makes you happy and provides for you and your family that is perfect.

If you are like many people in today’s society that are living paycheck to paycheck then I recommend you start reading as many business and finance books as you can. I also recommend self help and life improvement books.

You can even go on YouTube and watch a ton of videos. Besides greats like Tony Robbins I also recommend Minority Mindset and Miles Beckler. Jeff Rose is another.

The first thing you should do is cut down as many expenses aka; LIABILITIES, as possible. Stop trying to keep up with the Jones or using material things to bring value to who you are. No longer look for the instant gratification but instead plant the seeds to a more rewarding future.

Let’s dive into the advice. You will see that I use my sales and marketing background in much of the advice I provide.

I originally wrote this to a person I am mentoring. She just moved to the States from Europe and was waiting on her work permit to come through. So I gave her some tips and things to do while waiting. I have added to it in this article going into more depth.

Whatever your industry or education foundation is you should narrow things down and come up with a plan. Here is an example of this below.

Say you are interested in international business and languages how could you narrow that down more? Are you looking to work for an import export company, translate documents, etc? Very basic response or vague idea.

Or are there other things like hobbies or interests that could be used to fine tune your job search? In this example I use Dallas and the DFW area. It can work just about anywhere.

Do you also like the arts? Dallas like many other large cities have a great art scene and some of the galleries are always looking to bring over talent from around the world to exhibit with them. Would this type of work be rewarding? Where you search for established or up and coming artists and work on getting them to exhibit at a gallery or even do a tour across the country.

Are you a “Foodie”? Do you love going out and trying different restaurants and or food from around the world? How about working as an event planner for the city or a convention center. Where you could organise international cuisine events. Or perhaps you love wine and would work for an international winery finding distributors and stores to sell their products here in the States.

Toyota just opened their headquarters recently, right outside of Dallas would working in their cultural marketing department be exciting or challenging? Think of some notable bloopers such as Chevrolet's car called Nova and how it flopped is Latin American countries because people saw it as No Va or no go. How about Coke adds life campaign the translated to Coke brings back the dead in Chinese. So international companies need people to research cultural differences and make sure things like this does not happen to them.

So my recommendation is to narrow your search down to 3 or 4 dream jobs and their titles.

Then try to find 10-20+ companies that have those positions. If DFW doesn't have that many then however many you can find or expand your search. Are you willing or able to relocate?

Use all the job boards to find the titles and companies along with Google searches.
The next step will be how to make yourself stand out of the crowd. I wrote an article on this. You should be able to see it on my LinkedIn page or on my blog posts.

While you are waiting for your permit and when you have narrowed down your industry, I highly recommend you write at least 30- 2,000+ word articles about topics related to the industry. Simple Google search can help find topics. You can even create a YouTube video of the article as well.
In fact you can break these 30 articles into 3 groups of 10.

Post them on your LinkedIn page or if you have one, your own personal branding website. Like my sample site: davidwardlow.com

I offer this service but you can do it yourself if you get quality hosting from bluehost or a2 hosting. I have the links with discounts on my home page of my www.davidwardlow.com site. I do not recommend hosting services like gator, wix, or godaddy. Wordpress based sites with reliable hosting are the internet standard now. They are also more SEO friendly.

To save you from buying my service, if you like to do it yourself go to tyler.com and his YouTube channel where he shows you how to build a wordpress website in one of his 2 hr. Videos. It will take you about a day or two to build it but you would save money doing it that way. My service is more for those who do not have the time and or the desire to do it themselves.

The types of articles you right should be 10 response type posts, 10 staple posts, and 10 pillar posts. The later being 3,000 to 5,000 words each. Again a simple Google search will explain these types of articles. Here is a rough breakdown of each type.

Response posts are you answering a question ie How will the new international tarifs mandate effect importing products from Europe? These should be between 1,500 and 2,000 words

You can write a top 10 or lists type articles as staple posts. These should be between 2,000 and 3,000 words

Pillar posts are the meat and potatoes of topics in your industry or niche. These should be between 3,000 to 5,000+ words.

What will this do for you? Why should you do this?
View David’s profile on LinkedIn here.

Well most of us know all the job boards like indeed, LinkedIn, monster, etc use resume crawlers as well as many HR departments of major companies. So if your resume does not have the right keywords or enough of them you won't make it past them for a real person to read or glance at your resume.

Don't forget that 80% of all job openings are never listed.

So you need to stand out and separate yourself from the crowd. Do what everyone else is NOT doing!

You also need to present yourself as an expert in your industry as well as a professional. Do you think that if you wrote 80,000+ words you would become an expert on an industry? I sure do.
Note: this article is: 1,777 words

In fact I would like to let you know with this much content, you have the makings of a book.
Here is some stats on word count and novels from Wikipedia.

“While the length of a novel is to a large extent up to its writer, lengths may also vary by subgenre; many chapter books for children start at a length of about 16,000 words, and a typical mystery novel might be in the 60,000 to 80,000 word range while a thriller could be well over 100,000 words.
The acceptable length of an academic dissertation varies greatly, dependent predominantly on the subject. Numerous American universities limit Ph.D. dissertations to 100,000 words, barring special permission for exceeding this limit.[11]”
Word count - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_count

If you stop and say I need to write a book on my industry to become an expert many will say that is too hard. But if you break it down to writing only 10 articles for each type of post it becomes more manageable. Don’t you agree?

I have had what many would say are dream jobs. Living and partying in Cancun for Spring and Summer breaks, Jumping out of airplanes as an Airborne Forward Observer, Living and traveling all over Europe while working for the Department of Defence just to name a few. Most I never applied for. Even for my last real job at Staples I used my network of friends and colleagues to get recommended for the inside position then worked my but off to get promoted early and transferred to the DFW area with a nice jump in salary.

I loved it because I was not trapped inside a cubicle and traveled throughout the dfw area helping mid sized companies solve problems or pain points.

I hope this makes sense.

Any questions this far? Write them down.

Or better said... Write down 5-10 questions that come to mind as you read this and after you thought about it. This can help you dive deeper into what you consider your dream job and get creative in thinking of ways to stand out from the herd.

Always shoot for what you believe to be a dream job for you. Not what others think.

Ie; Staples Outside Account Manager not considered a dream job by many. It was mine as I said because I could travel around speaking with and helping clients. The best part was it was Mon-Fri 40hrs a week.

This allowed me to pay for my daughter's private schooling, drop her off and pick her up every day while having the weekends free to enjoy with my family.

So again what are your dream jobs? Are you willing to stand out from the crowd by putting in a little extra work?

Please let me know what you think in the comments below. If you liked this be sure to follow me and let your friends know and feel free to share this post.

Thank you so much for your support and reading this.

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