72. Dominic Imwalle - 2022 Top Job Search Expert To Follow On LinkedIn \

Published: Jan. 22, 2023, 4 p.m.

Dominic Imwalle believes you should be able to obtain your career dreams and that\u2019s what he helps professionals do.\xa0 His clients have landed roles at Oracle, Deloitte, EY, Tata Consultancy, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Eaton, Salesforce, KPMG, PWC, Dell, Higher Education or started their own venture. But, landing your dream role doesn\u2019t happen by chance, it takes hard work, patience, perseverance and working your job search plan.

Dominic has seen how treacherous the job searching process can be; automated rejections, ghosting, 14 rounds of interviews, and 250 applications a week. He does not want you to have to live in the process that every candidate believes to be normal.

We discussed many\xa0 things that will help you with your job search plan, including:

  • What are the two things that hold most people back from being successful in their job search?
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    • Being too hard on yourself, now is the time to be a bit gentler and
    • Have a bias for action, you can revise your cover letter and r\xe9sum\xe9 for hours and not be further along than if you this week, meet with five people that you want to be like and talk about how to get there.
  • Dominic shared that everyone should create a file of \u201cwinner notes\u201d about your work, to remind yourself that you are an accomplished and good person.\xa0
  • \xa0It\u2019s OK to check out job opportunities, even if you don\u2019t need a new role today.
  • When you are networking, make certain that you are strategic about who you speak with, you want to connect with those people who are going to support you and help you in meeting other people that can help in your job search.
  • Make sure you spend time around new people; they will help energize and stimulate you.
  • We also went through a role-play exercise of several of the most common interview questions and what Dominic suggested to be home run responses.

Dominic is a caring, smart, and creative executive who really understands the recruiting and job transition environment. I think you will enjoy listening to this podcast several times and remember leave me your comments and share this with friends.\xa0

Wishing you a great and employed 2023!

Music is "Le piano troix" by Torley on Piano is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.\xa0