News Flash: The worse thing Senior Professionals and Executives can do is to apply for every job they can find on job boards. Our clients go from being frustrated with the entire job search process; to reaching hiring managers, land a career they love. As professionals and executives, we are told to attend all the network events, make connections, get our LinkedIn profiles updated but we are left feeling like we are begging for a job and no one wants us. Our clients define their value proposition and engage hiring managers differently, get the focus on relevant skills, accomplishments, and demonstrate value to turn silence into job offers.

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David McKnight
“The Science of Getting Hired”
Discovery Session

2. Discovery Session on:
5 Steps to Getting Hired in
Todays Dreadful Job Market.
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3. Who This is For
Senior Professionals and Executives
struggling in a job search who want
to GET HIRED in a job they love.
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4. In The Next 45 Minutes…
How to get the focus and clarity of the role you love
and have employers convinced you are the perfect fit.
How to leverage Employment Assessments to work
for you, not against you.
How to create your branding and effectively use
Resumes and Cover Letters so that Hiring Managers
want you on their team.
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5. In The Next 45 Minutes…
How to create and maintain a LinkedIn Profile that
attracts Recruiters, HR Professionals, and Hiring
Managers.
How to Interview with CONFIDENCE – on the phone,
video, and face-to-face.
Discover the HIDDEN Job Market and a more
effective way to compete.
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6. My Promise to You
To Provide the exact Steps
to help you GET HIRED.
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7. Does This Sound Like You
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8. Does This Sound Like You
1. Do you feel stuck in your current role?
2. Have you had years of success but now it
seems no one wants to hire you?
3. Are you trapped in Job Board HELL?
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9. Does This Sound Like You
4. Are you struggling to create the “Perfect”
Resume and Cover letter?
5. Are you OVERWHELMED by Networking?
6. Are you getting Interviews but told you are
over qualified, not qualified or worse, hear
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10. Is this is impacting –
your finances, health,
and wellbeing?
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11. If any of these things sound like you
then I have great news
NONE of these things are the real problem.
They are all SYMPTOMS; the outcome of a broken
system and you not knowing there is a different
approach.
You are not alone….but you can be different and
change your situation!
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12. The “real problem” is you
haven’t made what I call…
the 5 Shifts.
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13. With the 5 Shifts You will:
Have complete control over what roles you
want or need and who you work with.
Attract the right people.
Clearly communicate your value.
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14. With the 5 Shifts You will:
Make the job search process work for you.
Gain skills that will serve you well into the
future and build a career you love.
Take the right action to get control and
value back in your life.
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15. Discovering the 5 Shifts
There are 5 Shifts you must make to
separate yourself from the
competition and GET HIRED.
I’m going to walk you through all 5
Shifts on this session.
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16. David McKnight
I have had the pleasure to serve a handful of
companies and over 1,000 of people as a CEO,
COO, CFO, founder, and business owner.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidjmcknight/
The last eight years I have been focused on
BUILDING TEAMS – serving employers and
mentoring professionals and executives.
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• C-Level Executive
• Directors/VP’s
• Sales Professionals
• IT Professionals
• Accountants
• Architects, Engineers, Construction
• Healthcare Providers
• Project Managers
• Administration
• Production Supervisors
• Estimators
• HR Professionals
www.NotionPath.com
David@Notionpath.com
40 Years as a
Hiring Mentor

17. 1st Shift
Get Crystal Clarity
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18. Get Crystal Clarity
Clarity may be the most critical of the 5 Shifts for many.
Results from your Career Search will benefit significantly by
getting clarity.
Employers can not and will not help you with this.
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19. Assessments
Assessments “Suck”. Confusing, filled with silly questions, and seem to
be used against you in the Screening Process and Performance Reviews
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20. A Look from the Other Side
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Flip the Process to give you an inside look from the perspective of the
employer
Good assessments address interviewing and professional
development…information you can use immediate to prepare for your
interviews and leverage the results for YOUR long term BENEFIT.

21. How Assessments Can Work for You
Identify where you can be swimming upstream or
down- stream in your career.
Powerful communication strategies you can use in the
Interviews.
Overcome possible objections, concerns or reasons to
not hiring you.
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22. Assessments Employers Wish they Could Use
We’ll leverage the “Science of Life” – holistic wellness
and life coaching techniques.
Foundation to long term Professional and Personal
Success.
Specifically identified key factors designed to have
immediate impact for your Career Search.
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23. “Science of Life” Assessment Results
1) Mindset and Mindfulness
2) Learn to be your own most valuable asset
 Speak with confidence and carry yourself with ease.
 You will look relaxed.
 People will want to be around you.
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24. 2nd Shift
Demystify Your Branding - Resumes,
Cover Letters, LinkedIn Profiles
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25. You should be aware of
Many Recruiters spend 6 seconds on your resume. *
Most Cover letters are a waste of time and the vast majorly HURT
your ability to get hired.
LINKEDIN PROFILES – do they matter?
• 95% of Recruiters use Social Media to Find Candidates – 48% ONLY use
LinkedIn
• Number of Companies that use LinkedIn to Search for Candidates =
20,000+
• Current LinkedIn Profiles are 18 times more likely to be found by
Recruiters and Employers
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* Source: Ladders – Keeping an eye on recruiter behavior

26. News Flash: Resumes, CV, and LinkedIn
will not GET you the job, but could lose it
THEY ARE SIMPLY TOOLS. But used wrong they may
prevent you from getting noticed and interviewed.
Here is the good news – EVERYONE IS DOING THIS
WRONG – when someone uses them well – they
stand out.
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27. The Path to an Employer
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Clarity and
Focus
DETAILED
Personal
Inventory
Resumes
That get
attention
Cover
Letters
That set
you apart
LinkedIn
Profiles
Compelling -
Discoverable
EMPLOYERS

28. 3rd Shift
Job Search Processes That
Get Results
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29. The Job Search Processes Are BROKEN
Not working for anyone
…including Employers
What do the numbers say…
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31. The Job Board ”Black” Hole
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Job Board
Applicants
No Response Applicants Receive a Response
Less than 3% of applicants get any kind of Human response from applying to
a job board

32. Hidden Job Market
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Job Market
Job Boards Hidden Job Market
70% of all Jobs Never Get Posted

33. How Long Is A Search
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The average search takes one month
For every $10,000 of salary.
$60,000 Salary = 6 months
$120,000 Salary = 1 year

34. What’s Driving This
Challenge with Job Boards
 Large Volume of Resumes are not Qualified
 Resumes Fail ATS Scanning of Resumes
Challenge with the Hidden Job Market
 No easy way to find and connect with hiring managers
 Networking Processes undefined and not working
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35. The Science of a Job Search –
Four Key Actions
1. Build on Clarity and Focus to cut down on time wasted on your job
search.
2. Effective ways to use Job Boards by avoiding key mistakes.
3. Strategies to reach Hiring Managers.
• Help to get HR to pull your resume out of the job board pile
• Tap into the Hidden Job Market
4. Networking with research engage connections more effectively.
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37. REVIEW
1st Shift: Get Crystal Clarity
2nd Shift: Demystify Your Branding
3rd Shift: The Job Search Process That Work
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4th Shift
The Reverse Interview
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The most critical phase of Getting Hired.
All your hard work and effort is to get to this
point - one hour of time or less – often
decided in the first 10 minutes.
Congrats – You Got An Interview
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40. It’s Not About You
Conditioned to think of the Interview –
• It’s all about the Candidate
• Your chance to shine and talk about you
BIG SURPRISE
• It’s not about you
• They don’t care about you
• It’s about what you can do for them
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41. The Reverse Interview Process
1. Prepare (practice & research)
2. Build Rapport With Interviewer(s)
3. Focus Your Answers
4. Show Curiosity
5. The Close
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42. 5th Shift
Investing in Mentoring
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43. Benefits of Mentors…
• Can see where we need to improve, where we often cannot.
• Find ways to stimulate our personal and professional growth.
• Offer encouragement and help keep us going.
• Are sounding boards so we can bounce ideas off them for an
unfiltered opinion.
• Are trusted advisors.
• Hold us accountable.
• Can be connectors.
• Have the experience you can learn from to prevent making the
same mistakes.
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44. Don’t Go It Alone
It’s a fundamental difference, for many successful
people.
Invest and be responsible.
Be Resourceful.
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45. Today I Promised
How to get the focus and clarity of the role you love and
have employers convinced you are the perfect fit.
How to leverage Employment Assessments to work for
you, not against you.
How to create your branding and effectively use Resumes
and Cover Letters so that Hiring Managers will want you
on their team.
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46. Today I Promised
How to create and maintain a LinkedIn Profile that attracts
Recruiters, HR Professionals, and Hiring Managers.
How to Interview with CONFIDENCE – on the phone, video,
and face-to-face.
Discover the HIDDEN Job Market and a more effective way
to search for jobs in this competitive job market.
These 5 Shifts are all you need to GET HIRED.
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47. What You Need to Win 5 Shifts
1st Shift: Get Crystal Clarity
2nd Shift: Demystify Your Branding
3rd Shift: The Job Search Process That Work
4th Shift: Reverse Interview
5th Shift: Investing in Mentoring
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48. Now You Have A Choice
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49. How I Can Help
My team and I have set aside some time in the
next 48 hours to speak to you personally about
how you can apply these ideas today.
Whatever your most significant challenges are,
we have seen it.
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50. How I Can Help
On this individual session, we will craft a step-
by-step game plan for the role you want at the
income you deserve…AND to attract employers
to you to GET HIRED.
And the cost is free.
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51. Why We Are Doing This
This is a big challenge and committed to giving
back.
Employers Need Talent.
Plus, we know you might want help to transform
your search. If so we can discuss it and see if it’s
a good fit for both of us. If not, that’s fine too.
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