5 Sales Mantras Every Job Seeker Needs to Embrace, with Matt Youngquist

Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

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Careers, Business

4.8 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Do you see sales as something that only certain jobs require? Does the thought of selling give you less than pleasant feelings? If so, Find Your Dream Job guest Matt Youngquist says you need to change your mindset in order to find a great position. The job market isn’t always fair, so learning how to market yourself successfully is equally as important as possessing the skills for the job. Matt shares the five sales mantras you can use to sell yourself more effectively in an interview. About Our Guest: Matt Youngquist (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattyoungquist/) is a Seattle-based career coach and job hunting expert with over 25 years of experience helping professionals navigate through today's uncharted employment waters. As President of Career Horizons (http://www.career-horizons.com/), he consults with clients at all levels on how to strategically manage their careers, explore their occupational options, and market themselves successfully to new opportunities. Resources in This Episode: For more information on the career services Matt offers, visit http://www.career-horizons.com. If you wait for employers to bring up salary, you’re wasting your time and energy. My guide, How to Talk About Money in an Interview, shows you how to do salary research before meeting with a hiring manager. Learn how to be more comfortable talking about money and get the tools you need to ask for a higher salary. Go to https://salary.macslist.org/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.8	This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.
1:19.7	I'm your host, Mack Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max List. It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career.
1:29.2	Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert about the tools you need to find the work you want.
1:35.3	When you hear the word sales, you may cringe, but good salespeople know how to listen, focus on a customer's needs, and only approach the companies they can help.
1:45.9	Our guest this week says job seekers can learn a lot from following these and other practices
1:51.0	that the best salespeople use. Here today to talk about this is Matt Youngquist. He's a career
1:58.0	coach and job hunting expert with more than 25 years of experience.
2:02.8	Matt joins us today from Seattle, Washington.
2:05.2	Matt, let's jump right into it.
2:07.4	Why do you think salespeople have a lot to teach job seekers?
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