Supercharge Your Job Search:

5 Things You Must Do To Get Results In Today’s MarketPresented by: Angela Loëb

#1 Create a Personal Brand

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#1 Create a Personal Brand

Talent + Passion + Value = Personal Brand

In the new world of work, cultivating your individual brand, your “saleable distinction”, is not optional. –Tom Peters

#1 Create a Personal Brand

•Pin down your priorities

•Write a do want/don’t want list

•Identify your talents, strengths & expertise

•Build value with accomplishment statements

#2 Adopt a Sales Mentality

#2 Adopt a Sales Mentality

True selling is never based on pressure, deception, trickery, or gimmicks.

True selling is nothing more, and nothing less, than a transfer of confidence.

–Roy H. Williams

#2 Adopt a Sales Mentality

•Think "business transaction”

•Always follow up

•Create contact list & manage it

•Use the needs-based/problem-solving approach

#3 Design & Execute a Plan

#3 Design & Execute a Plan

A goal without a plan is just a wish. –Larry Elder

•Get organized

•Goal-setting 101

•Manage your time

•Reward yourself & keep your momentum

#4 Network Offline

#4 Network Offline

•Where should you network?

•Be aware of how you project yourself

•Be truthful & authentic

•Have funDon’t be a resume. Be a person. With a personality. –Terri Mandell

#5 Use a Targeted Search

Strategy

#5 Use a Targeted Search Strategy

This method, faithfully followed, leads to a job for 86 out of every 100 job hunters who use it. -Dan Miller

•Newspaper ads – 8 of 100•Staffing firms – 22 of 100•Trade journal ads – 7 of 100•Internet ads – less than 1%•School career planning office – 21 of 100

-Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love

#5 Use a Targeted Job Search Strategy

#5 Use a Targeted Search Strategy

•Identify Segments/Organizations

•Research

•Network Strategically

•Make Contact - hiring manager

Bonus: Maintain a Positive

Attitude

Bonus: Maintain a Positive Attitude

•Stay enthusiastic

•Keep your momentum

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. –Zig Ziglar

September 15, 2001

2003 and beyond...

...the driving force behind everything is that enthusiasm for trying. –Alex Zanardi

Thank you!

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