The Job Search Survival Kit – Job Search And LinkedIn Tips. Part 30

Getting The Upper Advantage No Matter The OddsBy: Anthony Hines

A Reminder Of Who Am I & Why Am I Sharing What Helped Me?

Who Am I….I am a hardworking guy who, like many others, found himself out of work during the economic downturn in 2010. After a long battle of wrong turns, job search strategies that led to no where, and dead end leads, I decided to take a more strategic approach to my job search. Like anything else in life, I needed to treat my search like a full-time job and create a plan that would allow me to stand out above the competition.

Why Am I Sharing What Helped Me…because I quickly realized that to handle an event like that is to focus on what you can control and share the experience to help others. I believe that an experience not shared is a lost opportunity in life, and that smart people learn from their mistakes and smarter people learn from other people’s experiences.

Step By Step By Step By Step.

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING MORE.Get Your Resume Checked Email your resume to Support@Resume2employed.com and tell them I sent

you. That way you will get a free comprehensive and detailed report of how your resume looks and flows. Go for it because without a great resume, you have no chance of getting any job much less a great job. The turnaround is quick and the service is stellar.

Read My Job Search Tip Document First .These are the Free documents that tell you everything that I did to get activity & visibility in my search. Email me at Ahines1@aol.com and I will send you them.

Eliminate The Noise

The next group of slides will discuss things that I believe are some of my best ideas from previous chapters that I want to re-focus on in order to help you stay on track to get your next job. This is my PowerPoint to help you to “Eliminate The Noise” to make sure that you have taken advantage of my best ideas and not lose them in the noise of unemployment.

I will tell you the tip or idea and let you know why I like it to help you in dealing with the process.

Remember, I am by no means a professional and never claim to be. I am just giving you things as I see them to help you to see through the ‘fog’ and get ahead in your career.

I hope my ideas help you out and help me to end unemployment one person at a time.

Eliminate The Noise

Take every benefit you can get from your unemployment office. Whether it is training or networking or money to allow you to attain a certification, it is on you to use it. If your counselor is not helping you, get another counselor. Don’t sit around and wait for stuff. You are responsible for you. Get on it and take control of this aspect of the process because you can.

Eliminate The Noise.

Whatever your field is, join your local professional organization in your area and start volunteering to help that group to organize the upcoming events. It is great experience that you can discuss in your interviews and you will meet a ton of people who are working in your field and are looking for someone with a “take charge” attitude that you will show by proactively getting involved. This will really help your visibility and it will keep you focused.

Eliminate The Noise

Did you have a mentor or were you part of a mentoring program at your previous job? Well just because your situation has changed, does not mean that you have no experience to share. Be proud of those experiences and stay involved. Keep your mentor close to you as that person can advise you in this situation as well. This will help you to keep your mind clear.

Eliminate The Noise

Don’t get lost in Government unemployment statistics. Those stats are not you and really are not relevant to you because they are old news and not about the future. You are focused on the now and future and you control that. Don’t some government report that is always using different criteria affect your mindset or outlook. You are in charge of you and not the government.

Eliminate The Noise

Get out and meet people any way you can and let them know that you are looking. There is nothing to be ashamed of or worried about. You are looking because of a business course change in most cases and not because of anything that you did. If you are looking but still employed, do not quit your job until you have another one if at all possible because having a job while you are looking can be an advantage if you use it that way. That said, always be aware that if you quit a job, a perspective employer may say “hey if that person quit on that company, they may quit on me”. I am not trying to scare you butt I want you to know how companies think sometimes and not let you live in fantasyland. Sorry, but I am not trying to make friends, I am only trying to be brutally honest.

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Take an inventory of your skills and be honest. If your skills are antiquated and out of touch then that is the way it is and look into ways to get them updated. The more new skills that you have then that makes you more marketable to any employer. Now, it may be great that you know about those legacy systems or processes at your old companies and it could help you, but knowing new stuff really opens doors. Yes, it is work but if you don’t go and learn new stuff, you options will remain limited.

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Confidence is on you. If you get off your game, go read your LinkedIn profile and take a look at all you have done. I bet it is full with lots of great experience that you have probably forgot about because it is has been a while. Just because you haven’t done this recently or used this skill recently doesn’t mean you don’t have it. Remember those accomplishments to help you keep your confidence and go read my “Confidence” presentation in a preceding chapter that I created.

Eliminate The Noise

Use my stuff. Read all of my Job Search Survival Kit chapters and my videos. They all work together to help you keep your head in the game. Thousands and thousands of people have been helped by my tools but it is up to you to read them and suit the info in them to your situation. Take advantage of what I have spent much time doing and all of the free products that I tell you about because people have used them before you and have told me that it mad a difference for them. I have no idea how many but I know a lot of people have been helped. That said its up to you to get the info and see if it helps you. If you have questions, just email me at Ahines1@aol.com and I will get back to you.

Eliminate The Noise

Negativity destroys all of what I am trying to do to help you. Think of the negative aspects of your life and eliminate them or at least minimize them because your attitude is the whole key to your success. It is not on anyone else to fix and help you and don’t let anyone fake you into thinking that they can fix you. Only you can fix you so you have stay positive. Take action on this and make your life positive as you need all the energy you can find to be successful.

Eliminate The Noise

Meeting people for coffee or lunch or linking to them on LinkedIn or recommending co-workers in their LinkedIn profiles is limitless. You never know where your next job offer will come from but it probably won’t come from just blindly applying to some job online. Those are like lottery scratch tickets. Yes they can come in but the chance is small.

Eliminate The Noise

Take advantage of the LinkedIn Job Seeker option. Yes it is a few bucks a month but it tells recruiters that you are serious about your job search. I used it to help me get my job and I recommend it highly. LinkedIn is becoming a huge job seeker help tool for professionals. Why can’t they help you? Plus, they have a free trial period. Worst case, use that and see where it takes you.

Eliminate The Noise

If you can’t control something, put it out your mind. This is on you. When you watch my videos and see all my presentations , you will see that you need to focus only on what you can control like your visibility and your networking and your volunteering and your attitude. I have put hours and hours into this stuff to help you but I can only provide you the info. It is up to you to use it as it best fits your situation. By reading this, you have taken your first step to control your job search and I commend you for that. Now ramp it up and go for it. I have faith in you and believe you can you it. Now you make sure that you do and feel the same. Go for it. Life is short. Make it happen and don’t let the noise stop you.

Job Search & LinkedIn Tips To Help You Land The Job

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Thoughts For You To Ponder

I want to reiterate that I am not a professional and only providing you with things I did that helped me out during my own job search.

I do these presentations because the job search process has a lot to do with attitude and outlook. That’s on you. Excuses are for losers. Be a winner and take charge. You can do it because you have done it before I bet.

Make sure you individualize any all of the information provided on this or any of my presentations. My ideas are to guide you and help you to understand concepts.

Job Search & LinkedIn Tips To Help You Land The Job

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Job Search & LinkedIn Tips To Help You Land The Job

If you have found this presentation helpful and found some ways to gain an advantage in your job search, then my hours of work to help the unemployed one person at a time has been a success.

please email me at Ahines1@aol.com and tell me how its going. If you have read my docs and have seen my other Job Search Survival Kit presentations , I believe that you are on your way to your next group of opportunities. Embrace the challenge and do your best daily. Go for it and don’t look back. No excuses, no delays, no procrastination. Go for it.

Job Search & LinkedIn Tips To Help You Land The Job

Come join the LinkedIn group that I recently created. It is called the Anthony Hines Job Search Survival Group. It’s a unique group because the people in it really support and help each other to get their next opportunity.

Just log into LinkedIn.com, go to groups and join the above named group. People really seem to find it useful and I check in often as well. Come join today.

Job Search & LinkedIn Tips To Help You Land The Job

Go back to Slideshare.net and check out my other “Job Search Survival Kit” presentations because over the recent past, I have added a bunch of new chapters that enhances what you have just read and will also help to get you an even better edge in your job search journey.

Check out my Job Search Survival Kit on Youtube.com as well.

Just search for it and it will come right up.

Most importantly, make sure you email a copy of your resume to Support@resume2employed.com for your free resume critique because you have no chance of ever getting a great job without a great resume to get you noticed.