Leave these behind and do this instead to level up!

✌🏼 Bye to: DMing/connecting with recruiters and asking them what jobs they have for you.
👋🏼 Hello to: Checking company career sites, applying for jobs, and then messaging the recruiter.
✅ How you win: Shows the recruiter you’re proactive, did the leg work, and you can spend more time in your message letting them know why you’re a good fit.

✌🏼 Bye to: Only wanting to connect with people for jobs.
👋🏼 Hello to: Building relationships, connecting, and caring about building a community.
✅ How you win: Feels real and not transactional and people will want to connect to something authentic. A job could just be the icing on top!

✌🏼 Bye to: Sh*t talking about recruiters.
👋🏼 Hello to: Focusing on bettering ourselves and the next opportunity.
✅ How you win: You control your attitude and your reputation. You’ll get better at handling rejections more gracefully.

✌🏼 Bye to: Waiting for people to give you a chance.
👋🏼 Hello to: Giving yourself the chance. Making yourself marketable and showcasing your value and worth. 
✅ How you win: You continue to elevate and control what you can control. People will naturally be attracted to your curiosity, drive, ambitiousness, tenacity, and go-getter attitude.

✌🏼 Bye to: Looking only to people to give you answers.
👋🏼 Hello to: Research! Google it. There is information out there about almost anything! Take the time to do your own research and build your own opinions. Then talk to people about it.
✅ How you win: Proactiveness is a key skill anywhere you go! Learn to be resourceful and burn through resources. Most answers to things can be Googled.

✌🏼 Bye to: The “get-rich-quick” mentality and looking for quick results.
👋🏼 Hello to: Appreciating the long game.
✅ How you win: Think about the compound effect: the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices. You’ll thank yourself in the long run.


Take what you need from this inventory and suit up. Let’s go!