The 8 Best Ways for Extroverts to Find a High-Paying Job: The Strategies for Success in Your Career
Discover 8 proven strategies tailored for extroverts to land high-paying jobs! From networking events to video resumes, supercharge your career potential now.
Congratulations, you’re an extrovert…
You’ve got a clear advantage in the job market, so it’s important to understand the qualities you have and use them to your advantage.
If you’ve been stuck in the same low-paying dead end job for years and want to et out of your rut, you’re in the right place.
You deserve a high-paying job that makes you happy. But how can you find one?
Before you start your search though, if you’re still trying to figure out your career path, you can check out the article 11 Career Paths for Extroverts to help guide you.
Now that you’re ready for that high-paying job, let’s find out how to get it.
What is considered a high-paying job?
For the sake of this article, we are going to consider anything near the $100,000 area as high-paying. This is important to note because the strategies you’ll learn can certainly help you get lower-paying jobs, but they should also be used at the executive level.
5 High-Paying jobs for extroverts
Before we get into the strategies, if you’re an extrovert in the job market trying to find a high-paying job, here’s a list from SOFI:
1. Physician and Surgeon
· Median Pay: $229,300 per year
2. Human Resources Manager
· Median Pay: $130,000 per year
3. Political Scientist
· Median Pay: $128,020 per year
4. Advertising, Promotions, and Marketing Manager
· Median Pay: $138,730 per year
5. Lawyer
· Median Pay: $135,740 per year
*An important note on the jobs; just because you are an extrovert, it does not mean you are qualified for any of these types of careers. You’ll need to have plenty of schooling especially if you want to become a surgeon. Being a people person doesn’t qualify you to perform brain surgery.
Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s learn how to get these jobs.
8 Career strategies for extroverts to find a high-paying job
#1 Attend networking events
Networking is so important in today’s world, that I was tempted to just list this as the only strategy and end the article. Which probably would have left a bunch of people annoyed, including Google and I wouldn’t want to annoy the Google Search team.
Anyway, networking is extremely important, and as an extrovert, you enjoy talking with people so this first step should be an easy one.
How do you find networking events?
1. Check on social media: LinkedIn is a great resource for finding networking events. You can simply search “Networking events” in the search bar and go from there.
2. Check out your local library: Believe it or not libraries still exist, and many times, they host networking events.
3. Alumni services: Even if you’ve been out of college for a while, colleges usually have events for alumni who want to network.
#2: Informational Interviews
This strategy is a game changer, and not many people know what it is.
An informational interview is an informal interview you can have with someone in the industry or role you’re looking to get into.
Want to know a secret?
These types of interviews are way easier to get than formal job interviews after you apply for a job. Why? Because the strategy behind the interview is to get the other person to talk about themselves first, and people love talking about themselves.
These interviews can help a hiring manager create a job for you if you play your cards right.
Here’s how to get an informational interview
Use this template in either an email or a LinkedIn message when trying to land one of these interviews:
Hi (Person’s Name) – I’m reaching out because I was interested in learning more about your experience at (Company Name). I was impressed by your background and would love to speak if you have time on your schedule.
Thanks, and look forward to speaking soon.
Regards,
(Your Name)
It’s that simple. You may need to follow up once or twice, but a message like these usually gets responses.
**Bonus Tip***
Sending this message to higher level people at the company will make sure you’re getting face time with decision makers and not just lower level employees with no influence.
#3: Use social media for your job search
Whether you like it or not, social media is a vital part of the job search process so it’s important to have it as a resource.
Social Media platforms where you’ll find success
1. LinkedIn: With a few billion users on the platform, LinkedIn is the go to place for your job search. For everything you need to know about LinkedIn for your job search, read this article before you do anything on the site.
2. X (Formerly known as Twitter): You may be thinking X is full of trolls, bots, politics and annoying people, how in the world can I use this to get a job? It’s a fair thought, but what X allows you to do is to post your thoughts on any topic you want.
So, if you’re looking to get hired as an Advertising Executive, you should be commenting on as many articles, posts, and groups about Advertising as you can.
3. Facebook: Facebook has the same perks as X in terms of posting your thoughts on the industry you’re looking to get hired in, with less of the weird stuff. Although, at one point I was friends with an account named Sana Claus, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the real Santa.
Even though only three social media platforms were highlighted, it’s important to know your industry and where thought leaders hang out. If you’re a photographer, Instagram is probably a more useful place to make connections than LinkedIn, so it really depends on your field.
Make sure you do your research before dumping your time and energy into the wrong social media platform.
#4: Attend Job Fairs and Career Expos
As an extrovert, a Job Fair should be right up your alley. It’s an opportunity to talk to as many people as you can, even if they aren’t part of the company’s you’re targeting.
When I was in college, I always found Career Fairs to be intimidating. Too many lines of people waiting to talk to an employee representative of a company. After I graduated, I realized how few opportunities you have to do that in the real world.
Tips when attending networking events for job seekers
1. Be Prepared: Know what jobs and companies you are targeting. One of the times I went to a Job Fair, I got there and realized I left my list and notes at home. I felt overwhelmed, anxious and completely thrown off my game. Don’t be like me. Be prepared.
2. Have an Elevator Pitch Ready: You are going to have to be short and to the point, so knowing exactly what you’re going to say when it’s your turn to talk is important and it will save you from rambling.
3. Have Plenty of Resumes: Yes, it’s important to still have these printed out and ready to go when you are speaking with people believe it or not.
#5: Volunteer for career development
For some reason, volunteering gets overlooked when it comes to the job search process. They hear the term and immediately think it means working at a soup kitchen or the Red Cross. (although those are great things to do).
In this case it means doing work for free.
Many people may see it as a waste of time, but it’s a great way to build up some skills you may be lacking while also building up your resume.
You don’t have to spend 40 hours a week volunteering either. You should spend a few hours a week on volunteer/free work. You’ll be able to meet people, show them who you are and get a foot in the door wherever you’re volunteering.
How to get a volunteer job
1. Make phone calls to companies directly.
2. If you aren’t getting responses, get in your car and visit these places and talk to a receptionist.
3. Offer to work for free for a certain number of hours.
#6: Cold Calling and Cold Emailing
No one likes to be annoying people by cold calling or cold emailing, but in the job search process, everything is fair game.
It’s important to note that doing a handful of cold calls and cold emails every couple of weeks won’t work. This is a sheer numbers game, so if you’re going to try this strategy, you need to jump in head first.
Do some finger exercises before you start dialing and typing, because you’re going to need to put out hundreds of these to finally see results.
A job seeker recently told me that in the two months they’ve been searching for a job after being laid off, they’ve sent out 150 cold emails on top of the 250 applications they filled out.
Like I was saying, this is a numbers game.
Cold Calling and Emailing Strategy for Success
You only should be focusing on one thing when you’re doing this. The informational interview strategy. Most other strategies will fail.
Don’t Do These Things:
1. Ask upfront for a job
2. Give a sob story
3. Beg
#7: Participate in team-based activities
Team activities and intermural sports for adults are a great way to make connections that can land you a job.
People usually have their guards down when it’s after work hours and they’re doing an activity they like to do. You’ll find they’ll be much more willing to share information than if you were cold calling them.
It’s important to realize this is a longer term strategy. If you’re desperate for a job, joining a men’s softball league may not land you immediate results.
You need patience with this strategy.
#8: Create Video Resumes or Personal Branding Videos
Making your resume, cover letter or LinkedIn page come alive is exactly what potential employers are looking for.
Having a short video introduction to yourself quickly summarizing who you are, what you’re good at and what you’re looking to do will definitely make you stand out above the crowd.
YouTube and TikTok are insanely popular and one of the reasons why are because people love watching video content. You can leverage this to your advantage with a simple video that you can shoot from your phone.
What to do after understanding the strategies
Now that you’ve gotten idea of the best strategies to use in the job search process, focus on one or two of these and get really good at them.
Once you’ve perfected the strategies, start using them on your search and stay focused until you et where you want to be.
If you feel like you need more help, you can book an absolutely FREE call with a Career Coach at Your Career Strategy and they will act as your Career Strategist to help you plan out your search and strategies that will help you the most.
Now get out there and start winning. Let us know which strategy worked best for you.