Job Hunting Tips #6 Assessing Your Personal Value

Written by Virginia Bola, PsyD


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2. You have general job skills which work in any industry: negotiating, inventiveness, sensitivity, understanding, creativity,repparttar ability to write clearly, assemble things, or operate machinery and experience in computing, classifying, investigating, evaluating, or synthesizing data.

3. You have specific job skills which have been acquired in all of your previous work experience.

4. You have multiple layers of value as a significant other, a parent, a brother or sister, a child, a friend, a community worker.

List out each area as a reminder that not finding a job does not mean that you are worthless. Rereadrepparttar 101442 list several times a week, keep adding to it as you remember skills, read it before every interview or employer contact.

The world may not seem to need you right now but it is important that you know your own worth and stop buying into that sense of incompetency and despair that prolonged unemployment (caused by economic and political forces, not by you personally) can produce.

Virginia Bola operated a rehabilitation company for 20 years, developing innovative job search techniques for disabled workers, while serving as a respected Vocational Expert in Administrative, Civil and Workers' Compensation Courts. Author of an interactive and emotionally supportive workbook, The Wolf at the Door: An Unemployment Survival Manual, and a monthly ezine, The Worker's Edge, she can be reached at http://www.unemploymentblues.com


Mid-Life and Looking for a Guy? Here's Help.

Written by Susan Dunn, MA, Midlife Transitions Coach


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However, if you’re a bit rusty, take a look around you when you’re out because you want to be current. Make sure your curb appeal is up-to-date.

Watch other women when they’re flirting; there’s a style to that as well. It will help you get inrepparttar zone to watch some women in action. Brush up on your flirting skills. Smile. Catch his eye. Work up some friendly opening lines to have handy.

THE PLAN

You know how they say “multiple income streams”? Well, you’re going to need multiple outgoing streams. Your plan is to meet new people. The good thing about this is that you’ll collect friends and adventures, maybe even clients or a new job whatever else happens, so none of this is wasted.

Get out, attend, join and participate. Ifrepparttar 101441 doors are open, and people will be there, YOU be there. Assuming that you work, you haverepparttar 101442 noon hour, evenings and weekends.

Now here are some suggestions – and do them ALL:

·Join singles clubs and participate. ·Join and get active in a faith organization ·Go to any event open torepparttar 101443 public – chamber of commerce, fundraising, Fun Runs, political, galas. ·Joinrepparttar 101444 online dating services such as eharmony - http://tinyurl.com/2lyea ·Let your friends and family know that you’d like some introductions to nice single men they know ·Be open to possibilities when you’re out atrepparttar 101445 mall, grocery, and sporting goods store. Pay some visits Home Depot. Look like you’re lost, and if you see a cute guy, ask him about torque wrenches. ·Visit art museums, go torepparttar 101446 races and sports events. ·Join some sports places. Word has it workout gyms are not a good place to look (for either sex), but someone I know met a great guy when she was taking SCUBA diving lessons. ·Volunteer! And volunteer to do things that put you in a strategic location. My favorites are staffingrepparttar 101447 nametag table and serving as hostess or greeter. Everybody who enters must pass by me. ·Build a house with Habitat for Humanity. Mid-life guys love manual labor. ·Consider a goofy now-and-then job like doingrepparttar 101448 food demos inrepparttar 101449 grocery store on Saturday afternoon. Notwithstandingrepparttar 101450 silly “hat”, you’ll be in a prime position to look ‘em over and hook ‘em in. Or stock books in a bookstore one evening a week if you like guys who read. ·Take your dog walking in different parks, especially Saturday mornings. ·Set up a blog on an interesting topic. Get a free one here: www.blogger.com . ·Guys are physical. Go kayacking, camping out, hiking or bike riding; join a tennis league. ·Hang out at Starbucks on Saturday

So there’s your plan. Now approach it with enthusiasm and determination and remember to include all these things in your mix. Good luck!

©Susan Dunn, MA, Midlife Transitions Coach, http://www.susandunn.cc . Susan is the author of “Midlife Dating Survival Manual for Women,” http://www.webstrategies.cc/ebooklibrary.html and offers coaching for people in transition. Mailto:sdunn@susandunn.cc for free EQ ezine, with “ezine” for SL.


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