How to Turn a Job Search into a Career Find

Written by Marta L. Driesslein, CECC


Ever watch a hamster running mindlessly on a wheel and think “Yeah that about sums up my job search?”

There is a better way to uncover a great career with more intensity of purpose. You need a focal point. You must have a game plan and a destination for your initiatives or likerepparttar hamster you’ll be pointlessly running in circles.

The only way to find a new career is to stop looking for a job Career success requiresrepparttar 106903 identical effort and targeting as setting a course for continuous professional development.

Job opportunities are found throughrepparttar 106904 strategic use ofrepparttar 106905 same steering mechanism that successfully sells products and services: Positioning, Exposure and Marketing.

Seek employers needing solutions to their problems Change your career search strategy from hastily blasting resumes extolling your attributes to more thoughtfully approaching an employer withrepparttar 106906 idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal. By doing so, you’ll leverage your competitive advantage. You’ll then always invest your energies where you can obtainrepparttar 106907 highest return of time and energy because your initiatives will have a target or an “intensity of purpose.”

Hot career tip: Deliberately design your career management campaign for success.

There are nine angles to engineer a successful marketing strategy in a competitive hunt and each brings focus and clarity. These benchmarks more effectively drive a career transition because they concentrate on identifying problems, differentiating solutions and maximizing exposure to career resources.

POSITIONING

Position yourself as a consultant rather than a salesperson regardless of your field. Do this first in your own mind and then inrepparttar 106908 mind of your “customer,”repparttar 106909 targeted employer.

Be a Problem Detective. Approach each employer withrepparttar 106910 idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal. Describe what you can do, not who you are.

Get On With Your LIfe

Written by Lynn Bradley


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Key Words Get on with your life, vision, time & chance race, swift, enlarge. Lost Job.

GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE

You’ve lost your job, that’s all you know, and you don’t have money to go to school. Get on with your life. You sunk allrepparttar 106902 money you have into an internet business and haven’t made a dime. Get on with your life. You say that you are broke and homeless have no education and no hope. Get on with your life.

The wise man Solomon said, “The race is not torepparttar 106903 swift orrepparttar 106904 battle torepparttar 106905 strong, nor does food come torepparttar 106906 wise or wealth torepparttar 106907 brilliant or favor torepparttar 106908 learned, but time and chance happens to them all.”

It is not alwaysrepparttar 106909 most qualified that getrepparttar 106910 prize. We have all seen people finish school with a handful of degrees. We have seen great athletes with tremendous natural ability, and yet they didn’t make it in life in spite of their knowledge and ability. Why? Solomon says, “Time and chance happen to them all.”

Time isrepparttar 106911 downfall of many people. When you are young, it seems that you have an unlimited amount, but it slips away quickly. To accomplish what you desire, you must use time wisely. Those who achieve success, set goals, write them down, and stick to them. Without goals you have no purpose and tend to drift through life.

Chance happens to us all. The executive makes a wrong judgement. The factory worker is laid off, becauserepparttar 106912 company moves to cheaper labor in a foreign country. The athlete has an unexpected injury. The great shooter goes into a slump. How do you handle these mishaps? Such occurrences are a part of life. We just have to learn to deal with them.

What if something happens in your life that is not according to your plans? It’s crucial that you don’t panic. The critical thing is notrepparttar 106913 problems, but how you react to them. Career setbacks don’t mean that you are a failure. They just revealrepparttar 106914 need to keep trying.

One thing is for certain. If you keep on doing what you have been doing, you will keep on getting what you have been getting. If you are not getting what you want, nothing is going to change until you change what you are doing. Find out what doesn’t work and stop doing it. Then try something different.

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