Work is like that, too. We often bring too much baggage. It may not look like baggage, but it weighs us down just same. It's disguised as past relationships with bosses; previous work experiences; mind-talk about whether we can or can't do something; how we've been treated in work (and life), or how we think we have. And usually there's at least one duffle bag stuffed with our expectations.

I've found in twenty years of management most people bring suitcases full of self-doubt, old patterning from old relationships and self-fulfilling prophesies to work every day, and it stifles them. Most people let past work experiences dictate their future ones. So if they've worked in three different jobs or companies, those three job experiences are packed into suitcases they're lugging. Some people end up lugging dozens and dozens of them.

Let’s face it. Searching for employment is a royal pain in butt. Want to know best way to get exposure to key company leaders and unpublicized opportunity with least amount of stumbling?

Gain an audience by recognizing opportunity There’s a sexier method to salsa into a great career with less tripping and more flair. Look for problems to solve and create a personalized solution. Find those challenges by spotting company movement of any kind, whether change is good, bad or ugly. If you do this, you’ll capitalize on an opportunity to be heard and get that coveted invitation to dance in king’s court.

Hot career tip: If you want to infiltrate an intended employer fortress, a feat that other job seekers assume impossible, remember that it’s much easier if inhabitants on other side open door for you.

Here are three things that you need to know to increase your chances of obtaining an insider’s invite:

Resume blasting is as productive as sailing paper airplanes aimlessly into wind

Traditional networking causes most job candidates to feel like hookers standing on a dimly-lit street corner soliciting interest from passersby. Online job searching, a passive mind-numbing activity, done without a target will suck creative energy right out of you

You won’t find that best job through traditional networking What happened to prevailing idea that networking is best career resource to find a new job? “Networking is still one of better methods to find employment but today it’s used in a different way,” says Randy Stevens, President and CEO of R. L. Stevens & Associates Inc., a national career marketing firm based in Waltham, Massachusetts. “In fifth year of a negative economy, actually by second year, networks get choked. Over last few years these networks have been overused by people who had good networks.”