How To Use Generative AI to Land Your Next Job, Part 5

This is part five in our series on using generative AI to boost your career, get that new job, and so on and so forth. In the first four parts, we covered building all the necessary knowledge blocks about you and your profile, your needs and your pain points, and building an understanding of who the employer is. In part two, we looked at building a scoring rubric to help understand whether a job is a good fit for you or not, and building a SWOT analysis to better understand a company that if you really want to work for that company, uh that analysis is going to be critical. In part three, we looked at how do you tailor a resume and customer letter, a cover letter uh to best fit uh a job while remaining honest and truthful. And in part four, we did interview prep how to get ready to get beaten up and walk into any interview with confidence that you have uh you're ready to answer the questions, the toughest questions, maybe even questions that that the hiring person manager or the hiring committee didn't even know to ask.

You're ready to go. And this final part is more of a putting a bow on things. You've done the process, you follow the steps, you've maybe been through the interview, and you don't get the job. It happens, it happens a lot. What do you do next?

First, a couple things. Number one, if you've done these steps and you've dug deep into a company, guess what? You have a lot of knowledge about that particular company at space. Now, just pivot, leverage your knowledge about other things about the rest of that industry. So, for example, let's go back.

I'm just gonna reuse the chat from our last uh our last um um session, which was on the interview questions because there's a lot of good knowledge in here. Uh, but I'm gonna ask Chat GPT, and again, this works in Google Gemini, it works in Anthropic Claude to some degree. Um, it works best in AIs that have web access. Make a list of top competitors to advisor 360 based on the information you know about this company. Cite your sources, and I might even want to turn this on make this into a web search.

And let's take a look now and see. It says advisor360 operates in the wealth management technology sector, providing integrated platforms, InvestNet, Orion Advisor Technology, and so on and so forth. So let's take InvestNet, which is uh quite a name. Click on the first result there, and let's go look at go away, careers. Now we were applying for the CMO position, uh, but let's see if they've got uh category.

Uh, do they have anything in marketing open? Yeah, they actually don't, but they do have some sales stuff open, so we might want to go and and using our all the information we have gathered. Orion Advisor Tech, see who else is in this space. Wealth Manager who we serve, resources, here's hiring our vision, our brands. Oh, oh, careers.

Duh. I was not even looking at it. That it's right on the top. See open positions. Who you're hiring, who you're hiring for?

Ah, they use workday. 16 jobs found, subject matter expert, trader, senior relationship manager, senior executive assistants, facilities coordinator, head of wealth management products, cloud data engineer. Okay, so they're not necessarily hiring for a CMO position either, but you could go through each of the uh companies that was in this particular space and maybe apply. Uh, even if they're not necessarily hiring for a CMO, you have a lot of knowledge now about this space, and you could be building out uh here's here's what I bring to the table. Uh and you can reuse all the chats that we've had so far about in this case our example of advisor 360 with any of these other companies.

Just say, okay, well, now I'm applying for this job, and here's the information, and you re-reperform the process again. It's a great way to uh reuse the knowledge you've already created. You can build stuff that would attract people from that industry. So, for example, if you were to look at marketing jobs in this wealth advisement technology industry space, and do the job analysis, say, okay, well, what are all these these companies they're all hiring for for these particular types of jobs? Why?

What are the challenges that this industry faces? And then assemble thought leadership content on things like LinkedIn or maybe even uh start a Substack newsletter about the industry, if this is an industry that you have special expertise in. And in doing so, attract the attention and build a network for your career. Because here's the reality. When it comes to your career, at the very beginning of your career path, yeah, you're just applying to whatever jobs are open.

Um, and you're just looking to get your foot in the door anywhere, and you don't particularly care a whole lot other than maybe certain sectors you don't want to work for. As your career advances, it your job search should be less and less just applying it to forms online and more about leveraging your professional network to connect you to opportunities as they happen until you get to a point where you don't even have to do that. People come to you and say, Oh, you are the expert in wealth advisement technology marketing. Hey, Orion, whatever needs Orion Advisement Technologies is about to launch a search for a CMO. Can I put your name in the hat?

Um, or you might want to talk to the CEO in advance. The higher you go up in a company or in a in your career, if you stay in that same track, generally the fewer publicly open jobs there are, and the more there are jobs that are passed around within a network of trusted advisors. If you can position yourself as that trusted advisor, as someone who has a newsletter, social media presence, or whatever, in that space, people come to you. They come to you, they seek you out. Hey, we need your advice on this.

And generative AI is a great way to do that by allowing you to take this just the job search data that we've already performed for a few different companies in the industry and assemble hey, here's what's going on in this industry. Maybe it's quarterly report. Here's you know, here's what advisor360 is hiring for now. This is sort of what it hints at for their corporate strategy. Here's what Orion's hiring for now, and what it means for their corporate strategy, and what's going on in the wealth management space.

That's how you specialize. That's how you build a personal brand. A personal brand is like any other brand, right? It is a recognizable thing that somebody wants to buy specifically because of the brand name itself. So whoever you are, you have that space.

My friend Theo Lau is uh known. She is known as the person in FinTech when it comes to marketing technology, IT and AI. If you have a question about fintech's usage of AI technologies, choose the person you go to, period. That's just who you hire. And whatever she charges for her rates, be thankful that there's not an extra zero on the end.

When it comes to generative AN marketing, I try to be that to my community. Um, I try to create stuff so that when a need comes up, people don't have to think very hard. My friend Mitch Joel says this the best. He says, it's not who you know, it's who knows you. It's not who you know, it's who knows you.

If you use these generative AI techniques to not just find a job and apply for it, but to start building your personal brand, you will be much more successful in the long term because you'll become known as the resource for whatever the thing is that you're good at. And that in turn means more open doors that maybe are just open to you. When I left my um, well, more accurately, when the company left me uh in 2010, I didn't have to pull out my resume. I didn't have to pull up my C V. I was approached by an email marketing company, Blue Sky Factory, Greg Cangelosi's shop, and said, Hey, we know you're we know you're about to be on the market.

We want a shot first. We'll make a job for you. I don't care what you call it, VP of strategy and innovation, which is I think what we settled on. And then every job after that was not me applying for things. It was people coming to me because I was known for a thing, I was known for email marketing or analytics or what have you.

And today at Trust Insights, people seek out Trust Insights because they know that we are a company good at AI, not just the technology, but the implementation, the change management, the organizational behavior, all the things that Katie is outstanding at. That's where you want to get to, and you can use and you should use generative AI technologies to get you there as quickly as possible. And your first step is to build a trusted publication. Again, using all the techniques that we've shown in this series to create that industry roundup of here's what's happening, here's what I see, and all the techniques that we used, particularly in the job application the job interview section, all those questions that that CEO is asking for a job interview. Guess what?

That CEO has those questions, period. He's not at in this case, he's not asking you just hiring a CMO. He is asking because he wants to know the answer to those questions in general. That's the kind of secret unlock of this entire series. It's not just about getting another job.

It is absolutely about getting your next job. But it is also about helping you build your platform. And I've shown you the techniques to understand what is on the mind of stakeholders based on job description, based on their LinkedIn profiles, based on the SWOT analysis that we did, so that you can help them succeed. So take everything we've done so far. Definitely get that next job, but also use these techniques to build your platform and become known for something.

Right? Like Mitch said, it's not who you know, it's who knows you. This is how you get people to know you for a thing. I hope this series was helpful. I hope that you got a lot of value out of it.

I hope you got that next job that you've been after out of it. I would love for you to tell me your success stories. Feel free to pop into uh the Analytics for Marketers Slack group from Trust Insights. Uh, feel free to drop me an email or a message on LinkedIn. But if you if you follow these steps and you and you land the job and you're and you're thrilled, please tell me about it.

I would love to know uh about your success stories. Because here's the reality. This is something that Katie and I were talking about when I was putting this together. Us or me in particular, putting together a series like this doesn't make a whole lot of business sense. People who don't have jobs are not good prospects in the short term.

Right. So I do this as a labor of love because I want to see you succeed. I want to see you get that job. It is a very tough market. It's going to get tougher as AI advances.

And so I want to see you succeed. And if you do, then hopefully as time goes on and you succeed in your new role. If needs arise eventually for which I or my company can can help, you'll remember us, right? It's not who you know, it's who knows you. But that's why this exists.

So thank you for enjoying this series. Um if you've taken the course version, the prompts for everything are in the LMS. If you've not taken the course version, sign up for the course version so you can get the copy and paste prompts. With the morning you can't copy and paste them exactly as is. Follow the process instead because it's all it was all keyed to the specific examples that I showed.

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