Careers: How to Receive Multiple Job Offers After You’re Fired

How to Receive Multiple Job Offers After You’re Fired

Written by Marta L. Driesslein, CECC

The more you try to be in control, less you really are…in life and at work. You just got fired and you think it’s end of world. You’re looking at repparttar 145426

wrong end. Ask survivors of repparttar 145427

most popular reality television shows and they’ll tell you “If you have to eat a cockroach, don’t spend too much time thinking about it.” Keep focused on repparttar 145428

end-game and move on.

Know yourself, have a plan, make a footprint. After you’re fired, repparttar 145429 raw power needed to convert a job loss into a high-voltage catalyst that gains multiple job offers is surprisingly simple. Consider these energizers:

Who you are? Detangle your sense of job from your sense of self

Where are you going? Design a five-year plan for career focus / direction

What can you do? Maintain a life-long log of your career achievements

“Getting fired is a lot like getting divorced,” says Steve Johnson, Vice President of Information Systems for R. L. Stevens & Associates Inc., http://interviewing.com/ a leading international career marketing firm headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. “All you hear is ‘I don’t want you anymore’,” he says.

Own your success and your failures. When he was fired from a multi-billion dollar petroleum company earlier in his career, discernment gave Johnson, a business-world veteran, repparttar 145430 inner strength to get up and get on instead of rolling over and playing dead.

Despite an impressive portfolio of documented achievements that solidly contributed to repparttar 145431 bottom line through process reengineering, he was still let go. His stellar performance though appreciated, was undervalued by his employers. Johnson made sure that this unexpected event did not end his career or dampen his spirits. “The time I was given pink slip and told my talents were no longer needed, I faced a decision to either continually bemoan shut door or look forward and find a new door I could open.”

Possess wisdom to know difference between opportunity lost and possibility found. Johnson, an avid golfer, expertly swung himself out of his job loss bunker and found customers wanting his talents by taking repparttar 145436 same approach in his job search as he does in his sport. “Getting fired is like an awful day on repparttar 145437 golf course. You’ve got to stay in repparttar 145438 game, play repparttar 145439 holes, and adapt, improvise and overcome,” he says.

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Written by Which one of these 5 common mistakes are you making right now?

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most common "dumbest mistakes" you're probably making when applying for job after job.

Mistake 1

Employers get so many resumes and letters saying repparttar 145273 same worn-out things and using repparttar 145274 same tired old phrases, that it's hard to see repparttar 145275 difference between repparttar 145276 applicants. Phrases like: "I'm good with people," "I'm a good learner" and "I love a challenge" appear on nearly every application that's ever been written, and simply makes you part of repparttar 145277 crowd. Weed these cliched phrases from your application and instead replace them with powerful reasons to hire you.

As you know, repparttar 145278 job doesn't always go to repparttar 145279 person with repparttar 145280 best skills � it usually goes to repparttar 145281 person that sells themselves repparttar 145282 best. It's repparttar 145283 difference between tunnel-vision and funnel-vision. A person with tunnel-vision writes short-sighted letters telling repparttar 145284 employer what a good X they are, and how much experience they have.

To apply funnel vision, start at repparttar 145285 small picture � "they need an X" and work toward repparttar 145286 bigger picture � "they need an X to help make/save them money either directly or indirectly and to satisfy their customers' needs."

You be repparttar 145287 judge. Imagine you're an employer looking for a secretary for example. Would you employ someone who says they can type 90 words a minute, or someone who says they will:

"Be repparttar 145288 perfect ambassador for repparttar 145289 business, always smiling and cheerful both face-to-face and over repparttar 145290 phone. Able to do multiple things at once and can take care of repparttar 145291 mundane tasks to free repparttar 145292 other staff to spend more time doing what they do best. A salesperson should be selling � not photocopying...

A secretary with funnel vision will show an employer what THEY can do for THEM. A person with tunnel-vision will keep looking for work, or stay where they are.

Mistake #2

Employers hate trying to decipher information in resumes to see if you can be matched to a position they're trying to fill. An employer needs to see repparttar 145293 benefits and results to them from repparttar 145294 skills listed in your resume. This can be hard to do without sounding like an egotist, but some of our readers who've gotten it right have received phone calls within hours of repparttar 145295 employer receiving repparttar 145296 application.

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