How To Actually Get A Job

How I got here…

21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job.
23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym).
24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations.
26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything.
26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time.
26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked.
27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months.
28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year.
29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months.
31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal.
31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it)
32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses.

Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos).

To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story.

You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win.

Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles.

Never quit,

Alex

*FULL DISCLOSURE*
I make content to make money - just - on a longer time horizon than most. I want to build trust with business owners so we can find the best ones and help them scale. And if they’re awesome, write them a check and go all the way as partners.

[Mindset-grindset]

Always comes back to volume & repetition it increases the likely hood of success by 90% than failure

[BBoyBFit]

If you get an interview with wherever you're trying to get hired, grab the interviewer(s) business card and email them a before the end of the day. A quick, "thank you for your time" email goes a long way. This has gotten my foot in the door many times just showing appreciation. Alex, thanks for all the great advice and content. Keep it coming.

[jwm]

For anyone who has a problem with his advice, he is just teaching you to think like a salesman when applying for jobs. You are selling your employee labor services amongst thousands of other businesses (prospective employees) who are competing for the same prospective customer (employer).

[NM-xoxo]

I did all that for 7 months solid to no avail, a personal introduction from my mentor is the only thing that worked.

[YouTubeUserToo]

As a business owner and hiring manager, I agree 💯%

[diab]

Not necessarily, lots of companies rely on filtering out job applications using AI to detect keywords they’re looking for on your resume before a person sees that a cover letter was attached, and if yours don’t have specific keywords, then you’d get an automatic rejection. In some states (at least for mine), you’re supposed to have the option to opt out of AI reviews rather than a person looking at it. In order for your cover letter to make a difference in your chances of getting hired, your resume needs to first be satisfactory (or above expectations).

[RJ-Isaac-TSOML]

I did this back in 2014 to 2015. I wrote custom cover letters and tweaked the resume to match. I applied to everything from the jobs I had experience in and s degree (video production) to entry-level retail. I had almost no success.

I then wrote the resume for my wife. She had a college degree but no work experience. She got the first job she applied to. 6 months later, she applied for a different job at a different store. I wrote her cover letter and resume again, coached her on the interview, and again, she got the job. 2 resumes, 2 interviews, 2 jobs.

I don't disagree with Alex is saying but I also think he doesn't appreciate the reality of the job market, especially for straight white men.

[AudioDriver]

I did exactly this and went from a $48K salary to $90K in just over a year. It works.

[hedialaya]

Many of life's problems come down to "just do more".

[strugglesofmohammed]

Yeah I had to be honest with myself and tell myself you need to do more volume so now I do 12-14 hrs of Uber a day

[BarryDylan]

My mom took care of hiring someone for her work place as an apprentice. The amount of low effort applications is staggering. Most of those people didnt even show up for the interview nor give like a short email that they couldnt come.

[GBXS]

Applying for international companies thought me that the initial recruiters often don't understand my CV or merely skimmed it.

Perhaps this advice is more applicable for smaller companies.

[dee_zire_higher]

I fully applied to 500 places, 5 interviews, just keep trying.

[BlackenedEclipse]

This dude dropping Gems “great advice Sir”

[bobsimpson]

I just hired 10 people from India/PH and had them apply under my name to 50 jobs a day each. I was applying to 500 jobs a day online and that's how I scaled my software agency back in the day.

Getting a job is simple. Use your head.

[ayamurayama]

He’s pretty much saying “Write your resume like you care”

[spencervalitutti]

THANK YOU SO MUCH IM LIKE ON LEVEL ONE AND THESE BASIC TIPS I BET SO MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE LIKE ME NEED!! God bless you ❤

[ianeliasrivera]

Did this 2 years ago, followed it to a T, got turned down twice by the same company, got 4 incredible offers within 5 months, one of which was the company that turned me down twice.
Why? Because I kept bugging them jokingly 😅

[daveshore]

Gen X basics. Write a letter. Send it directly to actual people. Hustle. Don’t allow their screeners to stop your efforts.

[alexanderwalker]

As a recruiter this just ain’t true, I haven’t read a cover letter in 5 years