#4 Austin Belcak | Landing your dream job by illustrating your value - even when new to the field

My guest in today’s episode is Austin Belcak. Today, he is a
contributing writer at Forbes & Business Insider and the
Director of Partner Development at Microsoft in New York – and he
shares his motivating story on how he got there with us today. Due
to his own experience, passion and his website
cultivatedculture.com he has helped his clients - with no
professional experience or network in the targetted field - landing
job offers at Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Twitter and
Microsoft to just name a few. All this with a new approach that
helped him years ago ending up with 2 amazing job offers to choose
from. His used strategy is being featured in Fast Company, USA
Today and Inc. Magazine. Austin shares with us his personal story,
how he has invested so much time and money in becoming a doctor and
then all suddenly slipped away. We hear how he took an upcoming job
opportunity without thinking about his future at all and ended up
with in a position that was miserable and 10k dollars of dept
shortly afterwards. He then decided to move into the tech industry
with no professional experience in this field and explains, how he
was told that he just needs to tweak his CV, his Cover Letter and
having to apply online with as many companies is the only way to
get in. Which did not work at all. He shares with us what he did
after he sent out about 300 applications in the first 3 months
without a single interview and how he came up with a new strategy
to validate your value for a company and found himself choosing
between job offers from Google, Twitter and Microsoft. Which, in
the end was hardest decision he had to make.