Well, I’m here to report that the system does work…if you give it an enormous amount of time. Hopefully by now we are fully ensconced and involved with working the system as broken as the job-search system is. The critical factor here is to continue working it and never give up. Put those feelers out, follow-up with everyone out there and network your butt off! As long as we keep those wheels oiled and gas in the engine, eventually something will move.
This year, indeed, is starting and moving in the right direction. No guarantees that the irons will strike, but they are hotter than ever. Being it a new year, reestablish contact with those you’ve neglected since the holidays wishing them well. It has been difficult for me, but I am striving to do my best to stay in communication with everyone.
This week I received an email from a former supervisor telling me of a possible part-time opportunity; he was talking with his boss and the opening came up and he mentioned my name as a possible candidate. It’s all in the network and timing. How grateful am I to have such thoughtful and kind people thinking of me! I am registered with a multitude of job support services; many leads are now starting to come in. There is plenty of additional work to be done to continue the search, but past efforts are becoming a vision on what has been a most distant and mysterious horizon. This website is continuing to gain notice and I am in talks to combine efforts for mutual benefit.
The singular item here is hope; prospects to look forward to as your networks continue to grow and work for you. Please make sure to thank them and offer to take them to lunch as finances allow with time. As things begin to open up, you will need to make choices – what you need to do now and what can wait. Prioritizing your efforts is a practical way to use and fine-tune your skills as you approach a new venture. If all falls flat, pick yourself up and start again; as long as you stay attentive to the task and continue moving forward, life will follow forward with you. Once you stop, everything freezes up and those joints and muscles you’ve built up will tense and you will lay there motionless. Where will that leave you in the hunt for work? Eventually you’re body will get cold, your contacts will eventually dry up as your demise closes in. Fight the fear; fear is a losing game and we’re in the game to win, and win big!
Continue with all your support groups, both off-line and within LinkedIn. If you sign on to your account, do a group search for “job support” and you will find a wealth of organizations looking to help you out. Start discussion threads and share ideas and contacts…more networking. It will work. Life is on-line, so use those valuable resources as an integral ingredient to your inquiries, but remember to go further than that. Looking for a job is not isolated to any one thing but a sum of its universal parts; the more parts of the puzzle you include, the faster it will be solved.
As promised in the coming weeks, I will be able to include and offer many more tools and ideas to improve and expedite your job-search. Keep up the faith, keep at it and keep smiling. Amen For 2010!
As Always, Thanks For Surfing My Wave!
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