Be the cause, not the effect, meaning you must act instead of react. Value means attraction but it's sub-communicated, if you vibrate confidence you don't need to say your resume for attention. Think about the verbal, visual, and social environment cues you send: speak your mind, don't try to impress, say things only someone who is '"in" would know, wear clothing that stands out and own it as well as the social pressure. Act off frequency by holding your own instead of blending in, but adapt instantly. Create no downside meaning that on top of bringing value, you don't take value, which means you're not needy so there is nothing to loose. Be cool instead of leashy.
Julien BlancDon't be at the bottom of the Gaussian productivity distribution and help others to avoid getting fired. If the culture is very bad, look for a job elsewhere. Your stories about past experiences tell your level at behavioral interviews. Always consume new information about your craft. Don't be shy to always ask for more. To be promoted, create tangible evidence of next-level work on top of recommendations (be a bad criminal that leaves his fingerprints everywhere with well-written documents and treated tickets). To negotiate well, see the relationship with your employer as an alliance where both sides benefits from it. You can ask for more money once you've provided value (expectations vs outcomes table) first to show that you can provide more value, the good manager will then defend your case. Only HR and your manager know that you ask for more, no one else. It's about finding the right level, not being too high nor low. Both sides must be thinking about the other's BATNA (Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement) as one must not fall into the scarcity trap, the company can maybe find another employee, but you can also find another company. Don't be afraid to say no, bet on yourself. Your work doesn't speak for itself that much, you need to make yourself visible by asking for feedback about your work then develop the lacking skills and over communicating (try the "state of me" mail including accomplishments, blockers, priorities). People must understand your impact on the team and the company, hold a list a achievements then filter it to match managers' expectations. Interviewing is a numbers game, the more you apply the luckier you'll be to find a very good position and in a position to negotiate. Don't get to emotionally involved as you can't control everything (the recruiter can be new or having a bad day, a super applicant just passed the interview). Practice on lower tier companies to reduce stress for higher ones. Companies aim for false positive, don't take it personally when rejected. Don't just focus on the technical side, train the behavioral too (story about past experiences and personality).
Steve HuynhNiche down is a terrible advice, be an infinite niche. Learning isn't enough, you must understand through experimenting by playing the game with people at higher level than you. Like anything in life, business evolves and so does the paradigms as new things arrive. Mindset comes first. As a personal brand, you don't have to reach people nor build trust meaning you waste less time. Prescriptions need to be followed at the beginning in order the get the first level of experience. People don't only follow people in one niche but hundreds of others for their different interests, everybody has more than one interest so make yours interesting to others instead of staying in one niche. Go broad publicly, especially health, wealth, relationships, and happiness that are liked to human nature. Your buildings are your community and every niche in it will have its own building you can sell a product/service too. Everything goes through development phases, even your brand and yourself. The creator economy teaches creating, college teaches working. Don't aim for the most profitable niche, do whatever the fuck you want. Some will get you out of the matrix just to put you in a new one. Don't regurgitate everything you learn without questioning or understanding it. Avoid the cycle of getting bitter and complaining all the time. About your self-business: your brand vision is your vision for the future and the one you're leading your followers toward, your brand identity is your story with where you come from and how you transformed, your content illustrates it by educating on the skills and interests you learned to get where you are now, your thoughts and opinions and worldviews are how you position your content in a unique way, your products are the systems you've created to help those behind you. The universe is complex and so are you. As you increase in complexity, you can solve deeper and more meaningful problems in your life and the lives of others. You'll evolve with your brand by reaching goals after goals, by solving real worlds problems thus helping people at scale. With every level of development your reach, you will build a tangible product to reflect that and this is how you educate your followers and build authority. People are scared to publish online thus they stick to private 1-on-1 consulting but they don't realize that long-form content, products, and services are the backbone of their entire brand. Create deep content that people need to consume to solve their problems and have your brand so that they know the philosophy behind it. Go broad and build niche products over time. A beginners guide would be to determine the 3 topics (with 3 subtopics per topics) that lead to your unique vision for the future or upcoming goals, write about them to build your tribes on social networks instead of relying on the algorithms (read best-selling books, follow other creators, pay attention to the ideas and structures that perform best), build a newsletter to develop depth behind your ideas and provide value off platforms (even for free at first), create some lead magnet contents for newcomers to refer to per subtopics (checklists, templates, fundamental books, video tutorials). Content then Lead Magnet then Service/Product then New Topic. De-niche, evolve, transcend, include. If you see that audience doesn't have the proper level of understanding, it's another reason to produce lead magnet content and learn persuasion.
Dan Koe