“Every time a bad thing happened in my career, I always landed on my feet and good fortune proliferated through increased earnings, greater fulfillment and expanded opportunity to learn new skills. Using multiple career marketing strategies simultaneously I made sure that failure was never an option,” he added.

Quickly create opportunities for yourself by changing your mental and physical state. Here’s what you can do to restore order out of your job loss chaos:

Want to deactivate your fears?

•Take a vacation now to clear your head and get perspective •Don’t feed your anger by calling past colleagues and revisiting past •Welcome your firing as an unexpected career advancement to next level •Limit your pity party to one business day (8 hours) •Forgive, let go, accelerate onward

Want to reactivate your confidence?

•Volunteer your time to someone who needs you – a charitable organization •Convert your resume from a career obituary to a marketing promo piece •Inventory your portfolio of skills and question their relevancy / currency •Showcase your business talent by serving on a community task force •Upgrade your self-marketing campaign to strengthen your branding

Change your focus from retribution to restoration and you’ll find key to layoff survival and increased employer interest. Swallow your pride and take control of your career by morphing yourself into a consultant. You might even be able to reverse your misfortune and sell your talents back to boss who fired you. Many ingenious job searchers have done just that and leveraged their talents by filling a void left by their departure.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

Got any valid reason to settle for a bad-tasting insect when a juicy steak is just around corner? Get on with it.

Here are two examples:

* So you're just a lawyer? Does that mean you have knowledge and insights into areas that will save me in legal complications later on and that you and your negotiation skills can actually prevent me from having to take people to court which will cost me thousands whether I win or lose?

* So you're just a helpdesk operator? Does that mean you can create information packs and training materials for me to make my products easiest to use and understand on market, and add even more value to each sale? Or that you can take over technical training for any of your staff who are frightened of computers, thereby boosting productivity, profits and satisfaction levels of my staff?

Mistake #3

Long-winded resumes. The faster you get your message across more they will like you. About two minutes is maximum they spend reading an application - UNLESS you interest them. Learn secrets of good copywriting and your application and resume will be as compelling as a John Grisham page-turner.

Mistake #4

Employers always see applications that only talk about APPLICANT and their skills, not how they will be of benefit to company. Your application needs to talk employer's language. If application simply talks about YOU, you've got it wrong.

The way to make sure you've got it RIGHT is to use words "you" and "your" in your application more than words "I" and "my". How much more? Five times more. (Hint: People like reading about themselves � so give your employer what he/she wants!)

Mistake #5

Employers are sick of applicants that have little knowledge of company they're applying to. The more you know about a company, easier it is to get job. In fact, more you know about company, more you sound like someone who is there to help, rather than someone who's simply looking for a job.