Setting Up Your Trello Board

Video Duration: 3:22

There are just a few things to prepare to make full use of your Search Mgmt Trello Board, and I have spread them out into small, easy-to-digest modules so you can attack one simple update at a time.

If you have questions, or if you have seen a new feature from Trello that would be useful for job seekers that I haven’t included here yet, please let me know so I can add it in. My goal is to make this the best tool possible for you.

NOTE: Some of these modules have screen recordings of an older version of my process board (e.g. a different background pic on the boards), but the functionality taught in these modules is the same. When you get to the Daily Search Plan & Process modules you will see those are all current to your exact board.

Video Transcript:

Hi. This is Paul Cameron. And first, I wanna say thank you for joining speed up my job search dot com. The goal of this whole website, speed up my job search dot com and this board in particular, is to help you to simplify your search.

Right? Because that way you can focus on actually doing the right things in your search rather than trying to spend all your time figuring out what the right things to do are because it just makes everything so much more inefficient and stressful, and it takes longer. And this is really gonna help you. So if you’re looking at this, this is my search management board, by the way.

You’re looking at this saying, this is way different from anything I’ve ever seen before. I don’t know if I could do this. Please don’t freak out. Hang with me for just a minute because I promise you already know how to do this.

If you’re looking at these columns here, this is where you put job leads, and you gotta do a little research on them. This is just the full life cycle of a lead that goes all the way through and in process. This is all the companies you’re currently in contact with and you’re pursuing and some reference material over here. You already know how to do all this stuff.

It’s kinda like if you’re a if you’re a chess player and your friend that you like to play against all the time has moved to another state and you can’t play with them anymore, well, now you gotta learn how to play chess online. Right? You don’t have to relearn the game from scratch. You already know how to play chess.

Now you just need to learn how to play it in a different format. That’s all. I promise you already know how to do all this stuff. And in fact, I’ll bet you already know how to do this at a much more advanced level because if you’re tracking your search in Excel and on pieces of paper and you’re doing it in your inbox and and you’re keeping track of all this stuff that’s going on just just in your head, and that’s how you’re keeping track of all this, this is gonna make everything so much better for you.

Now technical skills. There are some technical skills you are gonna need in order to use this board. So I’m gonna go over those quickly here. You’re gonna need to know how to turn a computer on.

You’re gonna need to know how to click buttons on a mouse, type words into a keyboard.

That’s that’s really about it. If you can send an email, you don’t have to be a a programmer in order to use this. It’s gonna be very, very simple to use. But I do understand there are some people who do really like their paper, so I’ve actually created this exact same course on paper.

If you want, you could just print this thing out, and these are all those checklists. Each one of these stages has its own checklist of things that you can do as you go through. And once you get used to using the checklists, you’ll see how much easier it is to use them inside the board. And like in this in process section, some of the checklists that I’ve got in there, they actually have interview training and, you know, links that’ll get you over to videos that can help you prepare for those interviews.

There’s just there’s a lot you can do with this that you can’t do on paper. If you’re more of an Excel person, I understand that. I’ve got an Excel sheet. I will tell you all the stuff you can do in this board, it that’s very, very easy.

When you do it in Excel, it gets kind of intimidating.

This goes way off to the right. I think it gets into the double a’s off to the right there on the screen with all the stuff that you can track and do in Trello. And and even with that, you go all the way off to the right, you still don’t have all the functionality that you have in Trello. So I do hope you’ll give this, you know, an honest try.

If you’re a planner, which if you’re tracking your search through all these other mediums, you are a planner. This is gonna make it easier for you. If you don’t consider yourself to be a planner, this is gonna help you learn that skill. So let’s get started by setting up your board.

Video Transcript:

Hi. This is Paul Cameron. And first, I wanna say thank you for joining speed up my job search dot com. The goal of this whole website, speed up my job search dot com and this board in particular, is to help you to simplify your search.

Right? Because that way you can focus on actually doing the right things in your search rather than trying to spend all your time figuring out what the right things to do are because it just makes everything so much more inefficient and stressful, and it takes longer. And this is really gonna help you. So if you’re looking at this, this is my search management board, by the way.

You’re looking at this saying, this is way different from anything I’ve ever seen before. I don’t know if I could do this. Please don’t freak out. Hang with me for just a minute because I promise you already know how to do this.

If you’re looking at these columns here, this is where you put job leads, and you gotta do a little research on them. This is just the full life cycle of a lead that goes all the way through and in process. This is all the companies you’re currently in contact with and you’re pursuing and some reference material over here. You already know how to do all this stuff.

It’s kinda like if you’re a if you’re a chess player and your friend that you like to play against all the time has moved to another state and you can’t play with them anymore, well, now you gotta learn how to play chess online. Right? You don’t have to relearn the game from scratch. You already know how to play chess.

Now you just need to learn how to play it in a different format. That’s all. I promise you already know how to do all this stuff. And in fact, I’ll bet you already know how to do this at a much more advanced level because if you’re tracking your search in Excel and on pieces of paper and you’re doing it in your inbox and and you’re keeping track of all this stuff that’s going on just just in your head, and that’s how you’re keeping track of all this, this is gonna make everything so much better for you.

Now technical skills. There are some technical skills you are gonna need in order to use this board. So I’m gonna go over those quickly here. You’re gonna need to know how to turn a computer on.

You’re gonna need to know how to click buttons on a mouse, type words into a keyboard.

That’s that’s really about it. If you can send an email, you don’t have to be a a programmer in order to use this. It’s gonna be very, very simple to use. But I do understand there are some people who do really like their paper, so I’ve actually created this exact same course on paper.

If you want, you could just print this thing out, and these are all those checklists. Each one of these stages has its own checklist of things that you can do as you go through. And once you get used to using the checklists, you’ll see how much easier it is to use them inside the board. And like in this in process section, some of the checklists that I’ve got in there, they actually have interview training and, you know, links that’ll get you over to videos that can help you prepare for those interviews.

There’s just there’s a lot you can do with this that you can’t do on paper. If you’re more of an Excel person, I understand that. I’ve got an Excel sheet. I will tell you all the stuff you can do in this board, it that’s very, very easy.

When you do it in Excel, it gets kind of intimidating.

This goes way off to the right. I think it gets into the double a’s off to the right there on the screen with all the stuff that you can track and do in Trello. And and even with that, you go all the way off to the right, you still don’t have all the functionality that you have in Trello. So I do hope you’ll give this, you know, an honest try.

If you’re a planner, which if you’re tracking your search through all these other mediums, you are a planner. This is gonna make it easier for you. If you don’t consider yourself to be a planner, this is gonna help you learn that skill. So let’s get started by setting up your board.