BREAKING INTO JOBS THAT DON'T MATCH YOUR DEGREE

Your degree doesn't decide your career and over 1000 of you asked how the heck do you break into jobs that don't match your degree so I'm here to help this will be a long and detailed one but if you're sick and tired of feeling stuck, hopeless, and confused, you will lock in and follow the steps. I've got five key steps for you to follow. Let's get into it. In the last six months, I've had a psychology grad and a business grad for a user engagement role. I've hired an ex-doctor and a mechanical engineering grad for a product management role. I've hired a geography grad for a corporate communications role. The secret is transferable skills. But what does it actually mean? The biggest mistake that a lot of you are making is you're just typing a job title into LinkedIn and applying to hundreds of those. You need to go back to the drawing board and think, what problems can I actually solve with my experience, with my degree? So, stop thinking about degree titles, think about skills, think about problems. Your experience is way bigger than your degree title. So these are the five steps that you're going to follow as soon as you finish this video. Okay, listen carefully. Step one: Brain dump. Open up a notes page on your phone and brain dump all the skills that you've got from your degree, work experience, any job that you've ever had. Skills that are common might be like communication, stakeholder management, research, problem solving, data analytics, like anything like that, negotiation, anything that you can go as broad or as specific as you can, but I need you to write every single thing that you can on that notes page. Step two: We use AI. Remember, AI is not to think, it's to build on your thoughts. I either use ChatGPT or Claude, the only tools I use consistently at the moment. You can either screenshot this, I'm going to put the prompt on the screen. Screenshot this, or you can copy it from the comments. But you're going to use exactly this. Now you've got a starting point. I want you to start looking at job descriptions. And once you have that 'aha' moment of 'okay, I think I would actually love to do this,' find five job descriptions. Just five. And then you're going to extract from them the skills that they're looking for. You can also use AI for this as well. But this is what you're going to use to rewrite your CV. I've got some videos on my page if you want to learn how to rewrite your CV with skills and descriptions you now have a list of what that kind of jobs want from you. This is where getting proof comes into play. Transferable skills are key, but you need to understand that companies, for proof when they look at your CV, proof and evidence that you can do the job that you're applying to. So if they ask for SQL skills, you need to learn SQL. If they're asking for experience building products, you need to build a product. This is where the hard work comes in. But if you do want to get out of the place where you're feeling stuck, you need to learn how to take that initiative of picking up those skills, doing courses, doing personal projects, whatever it takes to get that experience you can put on your CV and confidently talk about it in interviews. Step five, the final step is where I'm going to show myself again, but you're going to learn how to storytelling. You can use this video, it breaks down exactly what you need to do. But I interview people all the time where their CV and their degree might look like a better fit for the job, but they just suck at interviews. So you're going to learn how to be the best interviewer possible using my tips and advice, my insider knowledge. This is going to set you apart from all the people that might look better on paper, but you're presenting as a better candidate in that interview process. So that's it. Your degree matters a lot less than people think. Ultimately, your ability to show that you can solve a company's problems, have proof and evidence that you can do that work, and then also are able to communicate that properly in an interview process. That's how you get interviews, that's how you get hired in the end. Okay, I can breathe now. I hope that helps everyone. Any questions, leave them below and good luck.