In my opinion, the most significant damage from being unemployed or underemployed doesn't affect your finances or future employability. Material things can always be accumulated again. However, I believe you take the biggest damage to your psychology, self-esteem, and self-worth. The same is true for working with toxic colleagues.

“The risk of depression is higher among the unemployed than among the employed” (Reference to Study by Robin E.McGee et al, source CDC. https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2015/14_0451.htm)

There are literally 1,000s of academic studies pointing out extreme consequences to one’s psychology during unemployment, underemployment, or periods of having to work with toxic, abusive colleagues even if these signs may not be apparent at first. This is the reason why I urge everyone to pull the trigger as quickly as possible on their decision to join LIG or not.

If you make the decision, then don’t wait. You are taking a hit on your psychology every single day, and that damage may surface one day as depression, mental health issues, extreme lack of motivation, anger, or intrusive thoughts.

You have to approach job hunting with a great sense of urgency. Every single day, a role that is just perfect for you is being filled by someone else. And who knows if the pool is filled back in with more suitable roles – especially given the recent recession indications.

For the vast majority of career professionals, without what they learn in LIG, their job hunt can last up to 6 months, and they often end up settling for a mediocre employer.

Almost none of my 7,000+ LIG members has ever spent more than 2 months unemployed. In fact, over 80% find their ideal jobs within 15 to 45 days after completing the program.

In the U.S. deductible education expenses are defined in Treasury regulations section 1.162-5. You can deduct courses you take that maintain or improve skills needed for your profession. The ability to get and perform well in job interviews is an essential skill for any profession.

For more on this; https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/college-and-education/video-what-educational-expenses-are-tax-deductible/L9u86bV8J

A direct quote from the source above

"Tip three: You may be able to deduct courses you take that maintain or improve skills needed for your work. For example: If you repair televisions, you can deduct courses you take to keep up with the latest changes in television repair."

Although we know many LIG members deduct LIG expenses, we are not tax consultants so please consult your tax professional.

In 2017, I took a big step and left my job at PwC Consulting, where I was a manager in our strategy consulting business unit. I was 36 and had already spent a decade in management consulting by then.

Working with over 200 multinational clients, helping them solve their most pressing problems was an awesome experience, but I wanted something more.

I decided to follow my heart and focus on helping ambitious professionals find their way. Besides guiding LIG members, I'm also living my childhood dream by co-owning a couple of industrial and precious metals mines.

I also have an MBA degree from Cass Business School of City University London and numerous professional certificates that are too long to list.

You can find more about my background here; linkedin.com/in/denizsasal

You don’t need connections; friends, friends of friends, or relatives to succeed in the corporate world.

If you were looking for “a job”, any job, then it might have helped but with LIG, we’re shooting for “the job”. The job you deserve.

I am carefully choosing the word “deserve” here because anyone who invests a significant amount of funds into a 4-year degree and perseveres through those 4 years to graduate deserves to have a decent living standard, be debt-free, and have a career that grows every year.

The truth is… we legally cannot guarantee you will make back your investment on your first attempt (or at all). That’s the law.

And really, there are far too many factors at play for us to make any kind of guarantee like that. There is a reason why 20% of LIG members fail in the beginning.

But that is just absolutely perfect… because it allows you to fine-tune your approach, and most often, you end up succeeding much greater than you even thought was possible.

If you start receiving offers immediately in the first week or two, it usually means you could have aimed for a better employer with much greater compensation. So, sometimes it is a good thing that it doesn’t pay off immediately. Most of the people who achieve the “impossible” with LIG are those who failed at the beginning but bounced back much stronger once they made the necessary changes in their approach.

And the great thing is once you make LIG’s formula work for you, then it won’t give you results just once, but it will continue to give for the rest of your career over and over. That’s how some of the LIG students have achieved C-level roles at billion-dollar firms, regularly receiving millions of dollars in salary and stock options. They applied LIG every 2 years and less than a decade later they found themselves in C-level roles.

The cost to join LIG back in 2017 when we first launched was $1,200. You're already getting quite a discount on your investment. 100s of people have joined the program at that cost and they were very happy with their decisions.

In 99% of the cases, it’s not a question of affordability but a question of preference. None of us want to part with our funds or a bunch of "matter" we accumulated.

We are risk-averse by default. The problem with this risk-averse mindset is that it always leads to ignoring opportunities which then leads to increasing your absolute risk as you spend more time unemployed or underemployed. This is a feedback loop with a negative outcome. LIG is that great opportunity. I know of LIG members who downgraded their cell phones to join the program and ended up tripling their salaries in less than a month.

We live in an extremely competitive period of time. Every minute you waste, another great vacancy suitable to your background is being filled. It’s not even a fair competition. The one who is taught a better strategy always wins. Strategy + Effort = A Great Job Offer; it's as simple as that. Strategy comes from me, effort comes from you. That’s how we win.

Of course! If anything, you’ll be the ones who see results the quickest. Around 30% of LIG members are between 40 to 55 years old. Your career is a 40-year journey. What difference does it make even if you recover your career a little late? You still have at least 15 to 25 years of human capital left in you. That's a very long time.

More than relevant, it’s a must. You’ve invested 10s of thousands of dollars (like me) in your higher education and you have to break into big-name employers as quickly as you can. Your diploma will not give you the interviews you think you’ll have as you get closer to graduation. You’ll find out soon. But I hope not the hard way.

There’s a reason why so many of the most reputable business schools in the World hire me and my team to come run workshops once a year for their graduating classes.

This comes as a big surprise to many. For some reason, most of you don’t believe that I can still provide answers to your questions without charging an extra fee.

My support towards LIG students goes way beyond the training provided in this course. While you are only paying a relatively small amount to buy the program, you are also automatically becoming a part of my inner circle.

I am your consultant and here to help you get to the next level in your career, whether it’s finding a job you love, passing interviews, getting that promotion, impressing your managers, transferring to a new department, helping you navigate office politics, and so on. It is as simple as that. I am not running a greedy business, trying to maximize profits – if anything, almost all the profits from not only LIG but also the entire The Career Mastery LLC which also includes our other major commercial activities are donated to raising a classroom of young girls in Africa.

In essence, if I can continue to add value to your life, I will; I don’t need to charge an extra fee each time I answer your questions…