The six step playbook to getting a new job

Before we get into today's episode, we'd like to acknowledge and pay respects to the Gadigal people of the Oranation who are the traditional owners of this land. We pay our deepest respects to the elders past and present and to the next generation who we hope to create a different future for. This is so invested, the money conversation that is missing from your group chat. I'm Madi Gas and I'm Sophie Dicca. Well, today's the episode I think is going to be actually a freaking great one because we are going to give you a play-by-play playbook. Sure. A play-by-play of how to get a new job in 2026. So maybe we can start by I guess why we want to do this episode, which is we are both having so many conversations with our friends who are wanting to look for new jobs, wanting to change things up. But I feel like the narrative keeps being the same. I just don't know where to start. Well, I think the catalyst was on Monday night I was out for dinner with my girlfriend and she listens to every single one of our episodes and I know that we've done stuff on career and we feel like we talk about a lot and she was like I'm too overwhelmed to actually just can't start. And I'm like hold on a second. We can work this out for you. We can do this so you don't feel overwhelmed. If you're really unhappy in your job when you change that. So we thought why don't we actually literally go through six weeks what it could look like from say what is this where the beginning of November six weeks what does it look like to get up to Christmas so you're ready to apply for new jobs in January. Yeah. And I will caveat with this you could do this all in like a day or two but I also think if you're feeling really overwhelmed break it up into these six week blocks so that you don't feel overwhelmed. Yeah and I think it's a good time to start with this because look you do get to this time of year and I feel like you start getting to this mind frame of I've just got to get to Christmas. Yeah. And like I'll think about it next year and actually today's episode is really tangible steps about what you can do to set yourself up for success and actually make yourself feel better about it all too. Yeah so every week you're going to get exactly what you need to do that week. Yeah. And AI tool that's going to make it so much easier for you to actually execute on it and then real tangible examples and outcomes of what it's going to look like. And I will caveat we have gone through the process. We've done this step by step to make sure that it works. Week one. Week one. Let's go. Okay. And week one is define your direction. Okay. So and what you're going to do in this week very simply is write a summary of all your experience and we'll get into that in a second. Write a summary of all your experience, your interests and what you love about your job. And then you're going to be putting it into an AI tool that's going to help you summarize these things. If we start with the experience, we want you to be comprehensive. This is actually going to take you maybe 30 minutes to write out everything that you have done in your career thus far. So can you give me some examples of what are on experience specifically what are the kinds of things that you personally were writing down for this. Okay so for me also sorry I'll caveat at the very top. We'll provide all this information in a booklet that we're going to put in our show notes. So the booklet. I don't know what you call it. A link. I wonder if you know a notion thing. A notion something like that. We'll figure it out. We'll share it in the link. But when we're doing career like for me for example it's obviously M&A worked in M&A. We've started business so the things that I've been doing now which in that which looks like partnerships and content creation and all that type of stuff. But it even comes down to things like I used to be a netball coach and I used to work at a charity. I think the other layer to bring into this when you are writing these things down is like dot pointing the things that you enjoyed most about those roles as well at the part of your experience. And what are the things that kind of made you feel like alive or that gave you the spark or the spring and your step when you were doing those things. Think about everything comprehensively. So that's number one. Then you're going to write out your career non-negotiables. Again don't worry about writing these down so we're going to give them to you. But it's going to be things like your values, your lifestyle, your salary floor, your learning curve, like how much you want to be learning and the type of interaction you want when you're working with people. When you say values, give me some examples. So the values I have written in this template, time autonomy, my work having genuine impact on people, creative autonomy, the ability to use AI to create efficient systems. I don't want to be in a place where there's stagnant processes. And I love the specificity that is good. Yeah. When I talk about lifestyle, I'm talking about I enjoy flexibility in hours but I do still love an office environment. So there's a commitment of three days a week. I'm okay with that. If the job is out there like that, I love travel. So I'm happy to travel if the job requires and I'm also really happy if the job isn't sitting in a desk all day. Like that's like the lifestyle type piece. Salary floor, years of experience, learning curve, I said I like to be around smart people. And then the two other things that you're going to need in this section, five things about what you currently love doing or as you said have previously loved doing. And then five separate interests which don't have to be work related at all. Love it. So week one, you're going to write all of this out, put it into a doc and then what you're going to do is put it into a tool called complexity which is kind of like a. It's another chat. Chat. JBT. And the reason why I'm saying this instead of something like chat is because there's a second tool that's going to come into this called comment and you download comment through complexity. So I'm just trying to keep it as simple as possible for you and keeping it kind of all in one engine. So you're going to put this template into flexibility that's pretty much like hi, I'm sorry, and in 2026 I'm looking for a new role with a bit more wording and then all of these different things background lifestyle interests values, whatever. What it is going to spit out for you is a bunch of different roles that you may be interested in. So for me, it's a summary table and the template has a summary table that you will get. It's given me example roles of fit areas, strategy and venture, branding community, investment and impact and innovation and AI, example roles of chief of staff, strategy lead, brand partnerships, impact investor, AI operations consultant. But it gives you a summary of all the different things that you can start thinking about if you feel really stark on what you actually want to be doing. So week one summary, all you have to do is write out what you're interested in blah, blah, blah and put it into complexity and start looking at these roles and understanding what they are and what you might like. But you don't have to choose a specific one yet. Just get to know them. And I think this is a fun exercise to you. You should be excited to do this because it's like reflecting on all of the things that you love the most and that get you excited and thinking about like how you want to craft or like create your life and thinking about what you want your life to look like. I also think it'd be really fun to be with a friend because when I was when I did this I was like oh my god, I wish Matt was here to see like all these like you know what I mean. Well, I was like oh my god, she would love that part of this and she'd be like oh you'd be so good at that and like so maybe do it with a friend. I like that. Yeah keep yourselves accountable. Nice. We are moving on to week two. What is week two all about? So week two is getting a little bit more specific. Week one you've found some roles and some areas that you might be a fit in and week two is actually collecting specific job descriptions and jobs that are available to apply for at the moment in those different categories that you have been given. So I'll use tangible examples from mine so that it makes sense along the way but yours will probably look different. Okay. So say I'm like chief of staff. I'm going to choose that I really want to dive into more chief of staff and brand partnership type roles. Yeah. The next step is putting into comment which is a part of complexity. You just have to download it onto your computer or onto your phone and comment is I don't know how to explain this well. It's like a search engine. It looks like Google but instead of being like Google it's a bunch of AI agents that go out and find information for you. So why comment is really good in a sense of finding jobs is because it scans things like LinkedIn. It's like a little agent that will go and scan things like LinkedIn to find specific job descriptions for you. Find specific people find specific links. Okay. When you jump into something like comment, play around with it and you'll get to understand how it all works but it's pretty simple. It's just like a overwhelming not at all. It's like a it's like a search engine but also a chat and you just type into it. It's like you like you're typing into chat. But it just has a little bit more functionality and you know sometimes when you use chat and I think if people don't have a class and you don't actually pay for it, it's pretty crappy. It'll just be like I can't source that link for you. This will genuinely source links of jobs of people so that you can directly go and have a look at it. And so what you're going to do is I'm giving you another template and you're just going to say hi. So again, based on these four job categories because I had four up the top and you can say two of them or three of them or whichever ones. Could you please find 10 active job listings that are in this space that are in Sydney, Australia or LA, California? I'm trying to work out whether it's like or London, England. Like where you actually want to be working and then what it's going to do again, it's going to spit out a specific table with these job descriptions and one of the columns that I've got in the template is skills required that are in that job. Okay, so looking at the table that it's about out for us, it's literally like fast, fast, well, but that we can say on our screens, it's like one of the examples is like Chief of Staff for a company, it has it's in Sydney, it says that it's in the startup space. You might want to be saying like I want to go into a big corporate, I want to go into a hospital, I want to go and tell okay, so you need to be specific with those things. I have said in some of my stuff that I'd prefer to be in the startup space, it gives you the job listings, you can click it and then it gives you all the skills required. What you were going to do in week two is scan down these links, click into them, have a look at the description what the types of roles that you'll be doing. Jump back into your table, highlight, green or red. Literally as simple as that. - Yep, I like the sound of that chief of staff role. No, I hate the sound of that head of growth role. If you want, write some notes of why, yes or no. - Yeah, I actually had a really interesting conversation with a girl for the other day. And she was talking about how she had gone through a number of application processes for a few jobs that were objectively like really great jobs in a similar space to what she's already in and would be a step up. And she ended up getting a couple of offers. And she was like, when I sat with it, I just had this feeling in the pit of my stomach that this is not what I wanted to do. She's in the finance space. And she basically did a whole lot of soul searching after that to figure out what that feeling was and is now considering going into teaching. The reason I wanted to share that is because you need to, when you're scrolling through this stuff, get super honest with yourself. And think about like you should be looking through this list and feeling excitement in your body about the opportunities or the things that are coming up. And if you're not, then I think it's a job to almost go back to week one and be like, I need to figure out what it is that lights me up and it gets me excited. - Totally. And if you feel like you're not grasping the roles a lot, another thing to do is go into TikTok or YouTube and look up a day in a life of, and so like, again, sorry, I'm just using this 'cause it's tangible, but a day in a life of a chief of staff and look up what actually it is that they do day to day. Day in a life of a teacher, day in a life of a nurse, anything that you're looking at, day in a life of like a finance person, like I swear to God that TikTok is like everywhere. But get really familiar, like spend the time and be like, okay, I think this is what I really love. This is what I don't love. Alongside scanning the roles, if you think you like them or not, you're also going down the column that's the skills list. So that's gonna pull out all the skills from all the job descriptions. And I want you to go down and highlight green, what you think you have and red, what you don't think you don't have currently. So the outcome of week two is literally that you're gonna have an idea of the type of role that you want. So again, as an example, I think I want to be in a chief of staff role. You're gonna then have a skills list. So you'll copy all the green ones that you've done into like just a little dot points and that'll be everything that you think that you've got currently. And then you'll also have a skills gap list. So anything that you've highlighted, red that you think you don't have. And the reason why it's really important to build out skills list and skills gaps is because when you go to build your resume, you wanna highlight the skills that you have and you wanna be able to create a narrative for the skill gaps that you don't have or the skills that you don't have. - One of my biggest pieces of advice when people are applying for jobs and particularly interviewing is to create narratives about yourself. And so every time I go into an interview, I will have five or six stories about my experience, about things that I've done that relate to the job. And what I find is that if you have five or six stories and you get good at telling them because like so much of this stuff is actually just about storytelling, then you're able to kind of adapt it to different skills or different questions that you get asked. And it comes across really well, like you have really thought out formed answers. - Yeah. - But the thing that I would really challenge you to do, especially if you are looking at this and thinking gosh, like I have a lot of skills gaps, is I challenge you to think about what have you done that is translatable to this. Because I just think so often, yeah, okay, maybe we were talking off-mic before this and you use the example of like if you were in an investing role and maybe you don't have portfolio management skills with the example you used. And I'm like, yeah, but what does portfolio management even mean? And it's getting into the needy-grady of what does that actually mean? And what have you done in the past? It is actually the exact same skill set just applied in a different way. And so I think get to the bottom of like, do I actually have gaps here? Or like what are the stories that I can tell that are going to make people realize that actually I do have these skills? - Yeah, I think maybe we put that a part of the template. Like you list out your jobs and you write in it like what you've been good at and what you've been bad at so that you do have a narrative for both of them. Because say for example, if you're like, oh, I was really, I don't think I'm great at data analysis. It's like, okay, I have an example of, there was this one time I had to do this piece of data analysis and this is where I kind of slipped up on, but this is what I learned so that you can use it as a tangible example. - So true. - So wait, too. You're gonna know types of role that you like, your skill gaps and the skills that you do have. Week three is a week that we're stepping aside from the specific roles and instead we're looking at specific industries. - I like this way. - Yeah, this week's a fun week because I'll caveat at the top and say the reason why it's really nice to have a look at industries that you love is because when you get to the point of applying for jobs, you'll definitely apply for active listings, things that are available, but I also think there is a shit ton of value in applying to jobs that aren't available at brands that you love by just sending them your resume. - I completely agree. - So all you're gonna do this week, which is so fun, there's another template and it's like, hi, I'm back, I'm so. You were gonna say, I wanna work in an industry that I'm passionate about and I think this is really important because a lot of people that are feeling really overwhelmed and stuck in this stuff, it's often because you're not feeling passionate about what you're doing right now. And then you're gonna give it a list of all the things that interest you. - This can be five things, this can be 10 things, this can be 20 things. - Does it have to be work related? - No, it can be completely unwork related because the reason why I think it can be completely unwork related is because you might be personally really passionate about beauty but work currently in a marketing role at an agency that has nothing to do with beauty but you could find a marketing job in a beauty company. And then maybe you'd be more passionate about it. So anything that interests you. - Okay, what was on your list? - Similar, almost to the interest, but it was things like my work has to have impact on others. People connecting in real life and community building, female empowerment, obviously, financial empowerment, productivity through AI, learning about AI, become really interested in learning about companies' impacts. I also had to think some things like lifestyle brands, healthcare, specific niches in healthcare that I find quite interesting. But you can put anything on there and then pretty much all you're gonna be asking and this is either through a complexity or comment, you can do it either or, is to give you 30 companies in the location that you wanna work that have to do with these interests. And it's gonna pretty much spit out a table that's a company name, industry, location, description, website and if they're hiring or not at the moment. So your task for week three is same thing, go down, literally click the link of every single website and just have a look at them. Start browsing, start working out what industries, industries you might be interested in or specific companies that you're like, "Yeah, I would wanna apply there." - This actually reminded me of something that I've done for a long time, which is I just have a list in my phone of companies that I'm kind of obsessed with. - That's a great idea. - Yeah, it's great because you, over time, if you just see something cool or you see really cool branding that you admire or you see a company that's having a great impact, you pop it in and then it's just kind of like an evergreen list that you can build up over time. So that when you do get to these moments and you're like feeling a bit stuck, you can go in there and feel inspired and excited by it. - Well, it was a piece of advice I gave to a girlfriend who works actually in marketing and she's feeling pretty stuck at where she's at at the moment. And I was like, "What would invigorate you?" And she's like, "I don't know, there's a couple of cool brands." I'm like, "Cool, let's put a resume together and just send it to them." We had a list, we ended up with a list of 10 brands and I was like, "Let's just reach out and see if they have any marketing capacity." - It reminds me of us listening to Matthew McConaughey on Diavacero and he said this quote if we're only impressed when not involved. And it just stuck with me so much from a career perspective because I feel like so often we can see things on social media or or see cool things going on and it's like, "Oh, that's so cool." And it's like, "Don't just admire from afar." Like if you work in marketing and you see a brand that you really admire what they're doing, like send them your CV. - Which I make people that like, maybe you can go and work for them. I think it's like shifting that mindset from you don't just have to admire people from a file or companies from a file. You can get involved and be a part of it. - And it's simplest, honestly, connecting with someone on LinkedIn and sending them a compliment. There was this podcast I watched the other day and I was blown away by the production. I don't have it on hand, the name of it. But I added the guy I'm LinkedIn and I literally just said in the 200 characters. I was like, "I just watched one of your episodes for the first time. I've like started producing podcasts and I'm just blown away by what you guys have done." - Do you know why I love that? - Because that lays the seeds. Like you wouldn't even done this intentionally or trying to get anything out of it. - No, yeah. - But I think when you do that, let's say in six months time or 12 months time, they're doing something that maybe they're hiring for a job or maybe I don't know anything. If you then reach out to them again, it's a very different dynamic because maybe you've already established that first relationship where you've had that first touch point. - Yeah. - As opposed to just reaching out asking for something. - Also, if someone's sending you a compliment. - Yeah. - There's literally nothing that can go wrong. - I agree. - You know, like if someone's sending you and you'd be like, "I love your work." You're like, "Thanks." - Yeah. - I agree. - So rounding out for week three, all you need to do is spend the time chuck in an hour into your calendar on Saturday or Sunday, go raise such a bunch of companies and you have to come up with a list. List of five or 10 names that you're like, "I would want to work at that company." Week three done. - Okay. - Week number four. - Week four is the hardest I'm not gonna lie. It's where people get stumped the most and the reason is you're updating your resume and you're updating your quotes, I'm doing the bunny ears. - What are you called them? - quotation marks. - quotation marks, inverted commas. You're narrative. You're rebuilding your narrative. And so where you've gotten up to here is you've worked out your values, your lifestyle that you want. You've worked out a potential job type that you want and now you've worked out maybe the industry you wanna be in and you need to translate all of that into your story which comes across through your CV and unfortunately cover letters. If you do have to do them, and I say unfortunately, because they are hard to write, but there are AI tools to help. - Okay, I was gonna say, my heart is sinking, 'cause I'm like, oh, like this just sound painful and I don't wanna do it, and I can feel myself getting stomped. - Yeah. - What do you say to those people? - With the resume one, I'm assuming everyone has some resume that's built up. The way that I went about it is downloading my current resume, which is through Canva, and then now, the ChatchevT, which you do have to have the paid subscription for with this one, has the Canva added in. And so I re-uploaded it to Canva, and I said, can we update this to include more of these narratives? And the narratives that you include, again, this will be in the template, is all the skills that we said at the top that you have, sort of build that in, and also you're telling it the types of roles that you want as well. I'm not gonna lie, it's not amazing. It's not the greatest, it doesn't go and then input it all into the CV, which I thought it would do. But what it does do well is it re-writes your experience and stuff based on those skills, and then you just kind of have to spend the time to go and copy and paste it back in. - Okay. - If anyone has resume writing tools, let us know, and then we'll put it into the template for other people to use, because I tried a couple, I was recommended Rezzy, and it's just not great. It's just script, it doesn't add a lot of value, I don't think. Can you get more specific for me on the ChatGabeeT account by integration? How do you do it? - So now ChatGabeeT has the app store. Do you know about the, that's the latest release that they've just done? So there's a bunch of app integrations. - So where do you find, do I just go on to ChatGabeeT? - You go ChatGabeeT, I think it's in explore in the left-hand handle, and then you click that, and then a bunch of apps come up, and one of them will be Canva. - Got it. - Then you click, you literally just double click the Canva one, and then it takes you back into a screen that looks like ChatGabeeT, and you start uploading that, so I upload my resume, and then I type, I wanna update it based on this and this. It gives you back a couple of templates that you could use, and then it gives you back some script, and then you have to upload it, you have to put all the script in for yourself. So the reason why this week is kinda hard is because yeah, you have to do a bit of work, but I will say, once you've perfected your resume, once you've put in this sale three hours of work, call it, you have it done, and then you can send it to everyone. You know, there might be some tweaks here and there, but once you've got it, you've got it. It kinda sucks, but just do it. - One step that I would add that I have always done when I'm applying for jobs is go to someone that I trust, that is more senior than you, and get them to proofread your CV. - Yeah. - And so I think with this, the important context to add is here's the kind of job I'm applying for, couple of dot points. Here's the kind of skills that I need for this job, couple of dot points, because that person, depending on what they do, may or may not have that context, and then get them to proofread the CV for you. I just think having that second pair of eyes on your CV before you start sending it out is super valuable. - Yeah, I 100% agree with that, and the one other tip that I would give is, make sure you actually write out in your CV what your key responsibilities are. It's all well and good to be like, this is like the type of job that I did, like I would put together pictures, blah, blah, blah, whatever. More often than not, the person that's recruiting understands that if I was in M&A advisory, they kinda know what I did. They wanna see what I owned. They wanna see what I owned, what I led, my achievements. That's why resume writing is so hard, 'cause you do have to reflect on things. If you are in the process of thinking, okay, maybe I'll apply for a job in a year or six months or whatever, one thing I would say is, advice you gave me, Mads, which is every time you do something good at work, write it in just to a notebook that you keep on your computer. So when you come around to these periods, it's actually really easy to be like, oh yeah, I actually increased engagement by X, or I led this project, or I got this feedback, helps you build it out. - Yeah, I think I gave that a vast in the context of performance review, but also applicable to-- - A applicable year. - 100%. So the only other things in this week is highly, highly recommend updating your LinkedIn. The first thing people, employers do these days is click onto your LinkedIn, and they wanna see, I guess you don't have to be posting, but at least that you've got, you know, a description of what you do. And then the other thing is having a narrative of why you are moving roles. So if you're transitioning, say, from like corporate to start up, wait, I'm just using this example because it's me, you need to have a narrative of why you're doing that because you'll be asked. It's gonna be one of the first things that you're asked. - Okay, week five. - Week five, we're getting close to Chrissy, right? This is how I'm picturing it. If you're-- - Yeah, first week of December. - First week of December, but this is what I'm thinking, right? No one wants to do work in the first week of December. December is the off month. Everyone's like, no, no, we're pretty much at Christmas right now. What people do love doing is putting coffees in the diary because they still have to go into the office, but they're doing something a little bit more fun than just being at their desk. - I'm not like you're thinking. - First week of December is target week. Literally, all you need to do is in week five, is go to comment, which is the second tool that we introduced, and you need to say, can you please find 10 people located in Sydney that are in X-roll, the role that you want, or have previously been in X-roll, and it'll come out with a summary table for you of those five to 10 people. The second thing you ask, comment, same thing, but in all the industries, all the specific companies that you're interested in, can you please find marketing manager of go to skincare, on LinkedIn, and then you're gonna go through the process of messaging every single person to try and get out of, say, the list of 10 to 20, three to four coffees in the diary in December. - Okay, tips for reaching out to those people and actually getting a response. Number one, if you have mutual connections, people that you know, see if you can get an intro, or see if you can find something else about them that means that when you reach out to that person, of course, if you get their permission, you can say, hey, this person passed on your name, like, have some kind of way that you can create common ground with that person right off the bat. The next thing is find something that will actually resonate with the person. And so maybe it's like, you heard the monopod cast that you really enjoyed. Maybe you realized that you went to the same uni as them or studied the same course. Maybe you read a blog that you really lacked. Try and get something that is you admire about them or that you can actually connect with that person on, straight off the bat. - Yeah. - Next, you are going to share something about yourself that helps you to stand out from the average LinkedIn message that makes you see more interesting, okay? So, for me, that was always something along the lines of, hey, I'm Maddie, I work at PWC in this, and on the side, I host a podcast to helping more women learn how to invest. Okay, appreciate not everyone has a podcast. So, different things that you can think about. Maybe you have an unusual hobby angle. I don't know, something that is fun that makes you set yourself apart. I was thinking about, I will produce a session as you started taking comedy classes. - Yeah. - Something like that. And I do stand up comedy on the weekends. Like, that makes me want to catch up with that person. It could be something like a passion project. Maybe you run a book club on the side. Maybe you get people together regularly to try new restaurants or to talk about cooking. I don't know, literally anything, volunteering for a cause, something that is going to help you to stand out in that message. Really short sentence, I do this and on the side, I do this. - Yeah. - Or, and I love this. - 'Cause you're limited by 200 characters on this thing. - It's small. - It is brief, so you need to be hitting your points. - Yeah. - The last thing is that you are not going to ask them for an hour of their time. You are going to ask them to grab a 20 minute coffee. And I also maybe even challenge you and say, to not even ask that in a LinkedIn message. - Interesting, say more. - Because the reason why I say that is I have had more success actually connecting with people when I just give them a compliment. 'Cause they go, "Oh, that's nice." Ding. And then you've got all the characters in the world to ask the right thing. 'Cause sometimes I do think that when people say, "Oh, they're just connecting "because they want to get a coffee." It's a bit like, barrier. I don't think it's always the worst thing. I think people will still do it, but maybe dabble in trying with both to see what the connection could be. - I think I like that. - I think if you've got, say, a mutual and it's X is wanted to introduce me or something, or like, where's the classroom? - It's got X-pass on your name. - Yeah, X-pass on your name. Would you have 10, 15 minutes for a chat or a coffee? Maybe. But sometimes I do think when it's like someone that you have nothing in common with, it can be a bit of a barrier asking straightaway. - Yeah, the risk is that I often will not respond to those. I will see those messages that are last-room. - Congrats on this, and I'm like, cool. That's right. - That's nice, but I'm like, okay, I'll accept your connection. That's it. - Yeah. - Try both. I think is a good strategy. - Okay. So week five, all you're aiming to do is get coffees in the diary. This also doesn't have to be all on LinkedIn. This can be through number one, your current networks and jobs that you have from friends, et cetera. And then another way that you can be doing it is using something like comment and saying these industries and brands that I'm interested in. Are there any events in the next couple of weeks that they are hosting or are there any networking events in these industry spaces and then go find events that you can click attend to and go network that way. - I like that, too more. I've actually had people damning me on Instagram and TikTok. Nice. - I actually think that kind of works. - Yep. - Little bit annoying sometimes 'cause I feel like on my personal Instagram in particular, I'm like, this is my personal space. I don't wanna think about work, but good strategy to cut through. All the other one is try and figure out people's emails. So we're through this all the time and trying to get people on the podcast. You like figure out what the lack on the website, it's like contact art. You figure out what the domain is. I don't know, go to iskincare.com and then you send out a few emails, haily art, HW whatever art, like a new try and figure out what the email could be, hit them up that way. - Yeah, so many ways, so many different ways to hit people off, honestly, but like just put yourself out there, literally nothing bad happens 'cause it's over the internet. - Okay, we are officially in mid-December, we are at week six, the final week of the play-by-play book. (laughs) - Week six, it's time to relax. - You are going into Christmas. You don't have to worry about a thing anymore. I think week six is actually a really good time for reflection. Sit with everything that you have worked through. So everything that you love about your job, all the way to the industries, to the specific job descriptions, to the conversations that you probably had with people, at the coffees, maybe you're sending out a couple of resumes to those people because they're interested, but it's to sit and reflect on your year and feel really invigorated by the fact that it's gonna be the new year soon, a fresh new hiring round, and that come January maybe like 14, that you can start sending off resumes. The tool that we really are excited to tell you about here, it's called AI Apply. And so I had to play around with this just to make sure it was legit and I wasn't just giving a random graph, 'cause I actually haven't used it myself, but pretty much it just streamlines applications for you, and it will auto-apply for jobs. So I'll caveat by saying that it doesn't just apply for you for things randomly, but you'll go through the process when you log on and it'll ask for a title, years of experience, industry, salary, start date, will you relocate like all these things that we've already done all the work for up top. So you have all those answers, it'll ask you to upload your resume, and then you go through the process of, it will scan jobs that you're interested in, 'cause it also asks you for the role title of that stuff, and it'll be like, do you wanna apply? Yes. If you say yes to something, it'll upload your resume. If there's other parts that you need, like a cover letter and stuff, it'll help you then go and write it. Again, it won't just just write it for you. You'll have to check it and make sure it's everything that you're okay with, I would highly recommend that you don't just use the AI written thing that you go in and actually, make sure it's your words, but it'll go down the process and every time a job comes up, it'll go, ding, do you wanna apply? Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no, and you can apply for hundreds of jobs within a day. - So am I right? But it just kind of helps you fill out the templated response part, which is almost auto-filled from your CV. Often I think they auto-fill some of this stuff if you're applying through LinkedIn and stuff anyway. It kind of reminds me of when you're applying for rentals and it's like it saves all of your information, it can just auto-apply for you. - Yes, that, but it also suggests the jobs. So it's like, I know, so if you're looking for Chief of Staff in Sydney, so it brings up all in one portal, all the Chief of Staff, so it's like, yes, no, yes, no, if that makes sense. - Yeah, because when you initially said it, I was concerned, I was like, I don't think we should be using AI to apply for jobs. I don't think that's giving yourself the best chance, but it's more just the auto-fill repetitive parts that I've been working for you. - And I will say this, the tool is the minimum, the baseline's $12 a week, which is quite extensive to think about it for a month. But if you're like, okay, second, third week of Jan, I'm gonna go ham on applying for jobs, pay the 12 bucks for the week and apply for 100 jobs and see what happens. It means that you don't have to go through that automatic going back and trying to find things. So try the tool and let us know how you go. - Nice. I have one final tip to close out the episode. This isn't his advice that someone gave me when I was starting to look for jobs and it was around the fact that, you know, when you decide that you want a new job and all of a sudden everything in your current job just becomes incredibly painful and you become very, very, very self-checked out. It's about trying to avoid that because it's so easy to become miserable in your current work when you get into that checked out phase. And so one of the best pieces of the best I have ever received around this is carving out specific times in your day or your week. Where you are allowed to browse LinkedIn, think about jobs, figure out what's out there, work on this stuff, and keep yourself limited to that time that you allocate. Otherwise, it is so easy to get into these having some doom scrolling LinkedIn, constantly trying to look for jobs and it just becomes incredibly draining. So I think whether it be, I don't know, two hours every Saturday morning or a couple of hours, a couple of days a week, but then limit it to that so that you can actually still just keep living your life and not be exhausted and depressed by the whole situation. - I also think when you start going through the process of, I think it's a wake one of the email, what you love. You'll actually remember, oh, there's actually elements of this job that I like. I'm just exhausted. It's at the end of the year, I feel drained, like all that stuff. So it does have a positive spin on it, sometimes looking for a new job, but that's why we've broken it up into weeks. You could do this in a weekend, but if you do it one small thing a week, you're gonna start. That's actually the best piece of advice. Just start. It's so much less overwhelming once you just do your first task, you're like, wow, that was actually easy. - No excuses anymore. - And we told you exactly what to do. - I'm giving you a template to do it. So I don't wanna hear anything. - To round out today's episode, we are gonna be sharing some recommendations. So what are you so invested in this week? - This week I'm so invested in a podcast called My First Million. - Never heard of it. - So I probably discovered them maybe six months ago, and it was because of a job actually application. So one of the founders, this two of them, was looking for someone to do research for him for their podcast episodes. And I had kind of started listening to some of them and then I added him on, I followed him on LinkedIn, and then I saw the job description and I'm like, oh my god, I love that episode. So maybe this is something that I could do, didn't get the job. Hi, My First Million, Sam, if you wanna hire me. The reason why I wanna recommend it is because they break down money content, AI content, business content in such layman's terms, they do it so well. One of the episodes that I listened to last week was about five AI apps that we should all be using. And it's kind of like the episode we've just done, where we've just done like step by step, it was just so good. I was like, damn, I should be using all these apps, and I just wanna be more involved in understanding what I could be using day to day. Anyone could listen and understand. So highly recommend My First Million. - Love it. - What are you so invested in this week? - Well, so I am so invested in your podcast series. - Oh yeah. - Ripple facts. Because I was sending you messages the other day, just like quoting what you were saying back to you, because I was literally listening to it being like, damn, that is so good. So two of the quotes that I sent you that just hit me so hard and that struck out so much, where one, you said, it feels like the practical need to earn money, is it odds with the pursuit of passion or meaning? Oh my god, hello for lost love with the hell. - I will say that that's episode two, and it's about finding your purpose. - It episode two I think has been my favorite so far. Everyone has come back being like, damn. - Yeah, the other one that I loved, this is a very you coded quote, but it really hit. You said, when people don't reflect, you don't understand what your own unique purpose is in life. And so you're climbing someone else's ladder. And I was like, oh my god. Anyway, could not recommend where episode two is on purpose, episode three is on friction, which is also just something that I've been diving into a lot more recently and learning that. So if they're so good. - Oh, thank you. - Everyone, you should go and listen to a full effect. - Yeah, I'm excited that people are finally understanding what it is. And I'm also really excited that people are listening 'cause a lot of people were like, oh, it's for founders and whatever. And I'm like, no, it's for anyone. Just listen. - It's actually, there's a lot of really relevant career stuff in there. So I think if this episode in particular is resonating with you, like I think there's some good content from ripple effects, but it's also just life stuff. It's, I don't know, enjoying life more. I don't know how to say it, but highly recommend. I'm very invested. So invested, I should say. - Thank you, I appreciate it. - Okay, that's the end guys. That's all we've got for you today. But we hope this helps. 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