How to Find a Job, the secret sauce
This is a tough subject to discuss. However, some of the difficult to topics need to be 
addressed.
If you are unemployed…are you looking for a job or are you on vacation? See what I mean? This is a tough one. Unfortunately we are dealt with a dramatic situation filled with negative, but real, words of depression | recession. Looking for and finding a job are more difficult today than in times past. Especially since late 2006, early 2007 when times where good…real good for people who were looking to change jobs. We are not living in the past, it is the present.
I have the pleasure of speaking with many people each day. You can tell how productive someone is and if they are an impact player to a company or if they are someone who frankly was doing just enough not to get fired. This post is not going to be the secret sauce on how to get a job or how to interview better or some of the top interview questions but there is a secret sauce. This is simply a realistic look at your efforts.
Are your weekly, daily and even hourly efforts getting you closer to finding a job? Or keeping you further away?
From my professional experience…Let’s try this simple approach and I will guarantee you progress in your quest to getting hired:
- Make your job search an 8 hour day.
- Plan your day and EXECUTE the plan. Try not to be distracted by urgent and unimportant events.
- Talk to SIX new people per day [ Hiring Authorities, network contacts, and associates that will assist you in some way] This will yield 30 actual conversations per week, 120 over the course of the month. On each phone call, the intent is to network and ask “WHO ARE 2 OR 3 PEOPLE YOU KNOW or recommend I should talk to?” Your contacts will lead you to other people and other names. Keep organized notes in one central record.
- Social Networking. Keep it positive. Keep up to date and try to respond in a timely manner. Social networking (twitter, facebook, linkedin, etc) can be a huge suction of your time. Guard it. These efforts will result in the creation or furthering of your personal brand. You must be the same person online that you project offline. You are not going land a job 100% through these means…look at social networking tools as a way to get leads and create some activity. Don’t think updating your current status for 8 hours is a productive step. That would be one of those “keeping your further away” activities.
- Know the answers to these questions… *What do you do? *Where is your passion? *What do you want to do? *What is your most significant accomplishment? *What makes you unique from the other people in your space with the same skill set?
I wish you much success. I understand that it is difficult. Keep your head up, learn to promote and sell yourself. At the end of the day…know that YOU are the secret sauce.
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