to a career and life you'll truly enjoy. And today I'm gonna be talking to an

awesome Top Notch Resume student of mine her name is Cherry

she is going to talk to you about how she was able to land her dream job in

data analytics having used my course and she's going to share some tips with you

as well

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Cherry thank you so much for joining me here today

hi Linda thank you for having me so cherry can you tell everyone a little

bit about your background and your story yes of course I'm cherry I'm an

international student from China I came to the US about five years ago and

finished on my undergraduate as well as graduate degrees in the United States I

have a passion in public health and specifically health data analysis and I

really hope that I can gain more experience from working full time jobs

in this field okay great so you studied public health data analytics

undergraduate and graduate-level and since you graduated did you have any

jobs like what was going on with your job search

yeah I actually started job searching even before I graduated from my master

degree however it did not successfully go through and I started doing I guess

most of my job like applications after graduation which happens in late April

early May and this is then I searched jobs and applied for jobs and

interviewed for about two months on my own however did not really get any

successful interviews that's reason why I started taking Linda's top-notch

resume courses and this is then I kept doing my job application for about a

month and then successfully learned one of my dream job oh that's great that's

amazing so you search for your job for two months you had some interviews what

were your results before top-notch resume and what were your results after

top-notch resume yes before I to top-notch resume course I applied for

about 60 jobs on my own and was only able to get five interviews invitations

however those interviews were never where it didn't actually go through to

the lastest stages and after I took the top-notch resume course I only applied

for 15 jobs and was able to get 11 interviews invitations and was able to

lead me to the final dream job in Boston amazing so when you applied for jobs

basically you had just graduated from your undergraduate and your master's

program you had zero work experience on top of that you were an international

student so you had all these things that you know no experience and your

international student kind of working against you how did you feel when you

were applying and searching for jobs yeah definitely I was feeling

disappointed and also felt hopeless and helpless at the moment during that

period first of all I was constantly being told that someone was full-time

working experience were just more experienced in this field have been

selected to fill this position and second a lot of times during phone

interviews when after they know that I am NOT from the US I do not have the US

attention they constantly just hung up on me or off the interview short so that

was a very important s-- right and now I guess this is where I'm curious because

even after taking top-notch resume and having a much better resume it's not

like that situation changed you were still an international student or you

know not a US citizen but how did employers see you differently yes that's

a very good question I think before I took not resume I was sort of trapped in

this little circle thinking that all the interviews went nowhere because of I

don't have this internship however afterwards I realized having a strong

competitive resume can actually convince the hiring managers to hire you even

though you do not have a citizenship because you are more qualified than any

US citizens in the market so they would rather hire someone that's more equipped

in skills that they are looking for as well as people with you know good

personalities and good communication skills that they are looking for rather

than hire someone because of their citizenship okay that's great so what

you had initially thought that it was kind of an excuse maybe or what you

thought was oh it's because I'm not from here I'm not a citizen that's why

they're not hiring me but the reality was it was maybe more because of your

resume would you agree yeah I would agree with

that however I do acknowledge the difficulties that international students

are going through during the job application yes yeah I understand that

too and you know I do have experience with people who have those issues but

just like you once they change their methods their strategies on how they

were selling themselves and how they were approaching employers and

presenting themselves in front of employers there were still employers out

there that were willing to change their mind and actually take on those types of

job candidates and so you are you know one of the lucky ones I guess but then

again you did all the work you worked hard to get yourself there so I'm

curious did the company sponsor you is that what happens for you to be able to

work there actually the company's not sponsoring me right now because I'm

still on the student visa and then because of this field I study they

actually gave us about three years of visa that without any sponsorship so

it's sort of a three year extension form of the student visa yes okay that's

great that's awesome so you have three years to really build up your experience

and then once you do that you can move on and move upwards in your career so

that's fantastic so how do you feel now Jerry how how do

you feel about yourself now how do you feel about your career you know what's

going on inside emotionally mentally for you I definitely feel more relieved

after I was able to land one of my dream jobs and

so I feel more confident in myself because before that I was constantly

doubting myself you know whether coming to you that you asked to study as well

as staying here to look for a job is the right decision for me

maybe I should search in another field where maybe I should search jobs in

another country so I constantly had those doubts however right now I'm more

confident in even just talking about my past experience to people whether it's

to parent manager were just two friends I definitely came more confident and in

notice that that's a way to structure and then to present my past experience

based on Who am I talking to yeah and also I feel excited about my new jobs

which is gonna start soon that's great I'm so glad for you and I'm so excited

for you so congratulations on that you did all the hard work so yeah I think

you're gonna have a great this is a great start to your career for sure

thank you so much yes I deeply appreciate you know I was able to find

top-notch resume course online and then register for and to the course and the

other work according to the course of materia I really appreciate the material

and uh present and I think that's one of the key factors why I was able to land a

job and its are a new chapter of my life oh you're welcome cherry thank you for

taking the course and thank you for sharing your story I hope that it's

going to inspire so many others just like you to hopefully also take the

program because I think it is necessary you know when you go to school you apply

for jobs no one really teaches you the way as to how hiring managers want to

see your resume nobody really teaches you how to

showcase your experience and your skill set and so that's why I created top

notch resume to teach people that so that they can become more competitive

and get the career that they deserve so I'm glad that you are a living example

of that so again thank you for sharing your story so cherry what words of

wisdom or advice do you have for people who are just like you yes or people just

like me you know coming International background as well as

without any working experience I highly recommend you to take top-notch resume

as well as to watch I mean does videos because those are definitely gonna

change your perspective in the job search and definitely gonna help you to

rather approach to your employer and they better present yourself and I hope

everyone will have similar or different background as me can't land a dream job

just like me thank you that's great thank you so much cherry I really

appreciate that thank you so much so if you are someone who is similar to cherry

you have recently graduated you may not have enough experience or you have some

years of experience and you want to find a new job but you haven't been able to

get the interviews that you want then I highly recommend and cherry recommends

that you take top-notch resume feel free to click on the link down in the

description box below and see yourself to the resume mastery workshop which is

completely free take that workshop and from there decide

if you want to pursue the program and on top of that if you want to take it a

step further and you want to get one-on-one guidance and advice directly

from me then feel free to reach out to my website lindaraynier.com/standoutgethired

read through the page fill in the application form and from

there if it seems like we are a potential match to work together one of

my teammates will be reaching out to you directly thank you so much for watching

I will see you next time. Ready to get the job you want? Top Notch Interview is coming soon!

For more info and free training head to JOINTNI.COM