Tips For Getting StartedOptimizing Your Job Search (Part I)

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On a 3x5 not card answer the following questions.  

• I’m looking for a new career how do I feel about the situation?

• What disruptions has my current career situation caused in my life? How am I

being affected?

• What are the worst possible outcomes of confronting my career situation?

 

 Being Honest About Your Job Search—Developing Positive

Strategies

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Be Bold… Be Antifragile

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much. --Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Think about Taleb’s “barbell” strategy. When applying for a job just: put 80% of your efforts to careers that are safe targets. Then put the remaining 20% of your efforts into risky or long shot career (Dream Jobs). Having a “blended” strategy can break up the mundane exercise of applying for the same type of job over and over again and expose you to opportunities that you may have otherwise considered out of reach. You never know.

 

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Change

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Rapid Change/Flexibility

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On reverse side of the 3x5 note card answer the following questions.  

• What will the best possible outcomes for changing/finding a new job have on

you family/life/career? 

• What beliefs and behaviors will enable you to achieve your best possible

outcomes?

• What resulting strategies and actions will foster your best possible outcomes? 

• What will your future look like?

 Being Honest About Your Job Search—Developing Positive

Strategies

© 2013-2014 Richard Bradbury

RATIONAL THOUGHT requires LOGICAL DETACHMENT.

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/06/16/how-to-by-pass-your-reptilian-brain-and-restore-your-creative-power/#sthash.VTArLMKC.dpuf

Rationality is the state of being OBJECTIVE. In order for the reality of being unemployed or unhappiness in a unfulfilling job to sink-in you have to have transition out of the unemployed malaise and begin to proactively construct a new future. It is easy to get trapped in a “reptilian brain response” when searching for a new career, it is hard on the ego and the stress can be hard to channel productively.

The “reptilian brain” can occasionally obstruct all job hunters. This is why honestly answering the 3x5 notecard questions can be helpful. The cards act to jolt the “reptilian brain” helping the transition to the ration brain. It’s your rational mind that is going to enable you to think creatively and devise the best career search strategy.

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Plan

Resume

Apply

Contact

Monitor

Re-plan

Job Search Flow Back Loop

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Understanding The Job Search Flow Back Loop

• In preparing for battle I have always found that

plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. --

Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Use the feed back loop until you successful land a

job, planning is a continuous process.

• Monitor, we learn valuable information through

failure.

• Incorporate learned positive feed back into future

planning.

• Learn from mistakes and rejections—REPLAN—

Improve.

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Resume’s: Are For Professions

• Ensure that you resume is formatted in such a way that they transfer easily into on-line job sites.

• Odds of getting a Interview increase from 1/25 to 1/3 when a resume is professionally written.

• Some services will rewrite your resume until you land a job.

• Keywords !!!• Adds professional feel to your

LinkedIn profile.

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Leveraging LinkedIn

• Get the most out of the Profile

page.

• Contribute to Groups

• Use InMail More next week…Thank you.