If you’re looking to be employed in a startup, you should forget about optimizing your resume or getting recommendation letters. A startup environment requires a different kind of approach. In this introductory guide, you will receive 3 key elements you can implement RIGHT NOW to reach that goal

1. Will the team players please stand up?

One of the ways to get hired is predicated on how well you manage to become acquainted with the culture and your compatibility with the company’s DNA. How you can blend in the whole on a professional level but also on an inter-personal level. In a lot of big enterprises, their so-called values are often a pro-forma concealment of an elusively obvious purpose: profit-driven business. This premise doesn’t hold to be true in a starter. There’s often times a big vision involved, a dream that is fueled by childish enthusiasm. By bringing in your particular talent that fits in the larger puzzle and you’re already one step ahead.

2. Inner drive

Intrinsic motivation is indispensable. If you’re an independent thinker, someone who can operate autonomously, congratulations! Those who rely on job descriptions, step-by-step instructions, won’t do well in a start-up environment. There’s a lot of chaos and ambiguity involved which requires on the spot thinking, rapid learning, and decision-making. If you have a vision of how you can help the company, work out a digital marketing strategy for example, or implementing customer relation management processes ,or anything else that can help the business grow, you will prevail.

3. Tremendous added value

This is the trickiest part. An SME is very cautions when hiring because of the obvious employment costs. There’s a very real and basic tenet of accounting: cash going out < cash coming in. A talent web developer, a sales person, a designer: these are positions for which the value can easily be determined and quantified. But what if you’re good at community management or CRM? The R.O.I. is far more intangible and doesn’t show immediate results (driving sales). The solution is simple but not easy: work your ass off to bring in new customers by using your own network, attending events, learning to master LinkedIn, bringing new ideas. Hard work and motivation is one part of the equation, the second is results. Prove yourself through your actions. Don’t tell, show.