The previous three blog entries presented the first three in a four-step process for finding a new job. The first entry challenged you to pretend that your life – and the lives of those dearest to you – depended on finding a new job. Literally. The goal was to get you into the mindset you would have if this really happened to you.
Step two showed you how to create messages that communicate your value in ways that an employer would take notice.
Step three showed you why it makes sense to think like a self-employed consultant, and how to do it.
Now you are ready for the fourth and final step...
Step Four: Reach out to every single person you know, have known, and should know – full-time – in ways that communicate your value. Now you are ready to go. Every day, 12 hours a day, you need to be reaching out to everyone you know and have known. If you have to swallow your pride to reconnect with someone with whom you haven’t spoken in 20 years, do it. Get in touch with your college roommates, high school buddies, professors, parents’ friends, cousins, nephews, aunts and uncles, people in your apartment complex, fellow church members, members of your fitness club, volunteers with whom you work, past bosses (no matter how petty or crummy), past colleagues – anyone who might know someone who can make an introduction.
Then, come up with a list of the movers and shakers in your industry and function. These are the people who make things happen, who run companies, finance companies, recruit talent for companies, sell products and services to companies, and run associations for these companies. Ask them for coffee. Then ask them who they know and what they would do if they had your talents and skills and were looking for an opportunity. Successful people want to help people succeed – especially if those people can communicate their value.
Don’t be afraid. The only risk is if you DON’T call them!
The fact of the matter is that your life really does depend on getting that next job. The advice in this series might seem contrived to fit an unlikely scenario. But if you adopt the mindset that your life depends on taking the actions required to get the next job, you increase the odds of success by a long shot. Don’t you think that the people dearest to you would expect nothing less?
Andrew Neitlich is the co-author, with Jay Conrad Levinson, of Guerrilla Marketing for a Bulletproof Career, a book that reveals the secrets to career success in perpetually gut-wrenching times. For more information, and for additional articles, visit www.bulletproofcareer.com. He also runs the Center for Career Coaching, which trains career coaches.
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The previous three blog entries presented the first three in a four-step process for finding a new job. The first entry challenged you to pretend that your life – and the lives of those dearest to you – depended on finding a new job. Literally. The goal was to get you into the mindset you would have if this really happened to you.
Step two showed you how to create messages that communicate your value in ways that an employer would take notice.
Step three showed you why it makes sense to think like a self-employed consultant, and how to do it.
Now you are ready for the fourth and final step...
Step Four: Reach out to every single person you know, have known, and should know – full-time – in ways that communicate your value. Now you are ready to go. Every day, 12 hours a day, you need to be reaching out to everyone you know and have known. If you have to swallow your pride to reconnect with someone with whom you haven’t spoken in 20 years, do it. Get in touch with your college roommates, high school buddies, professors, parents’ friends, cousins, nephews, aunts and uncles, people in your apartment complex, fellow church members, members of your fitness club, volunteers with whom you work, past bosses (no matter how petty or crummy), past colleagues – anyone who might know someone who can make an introduction.
Then, come up with a list of the movers and shakers in your industry and function. These are the people who make things happen, who run companies, finance companies, recruit talent for companies, sell products and services to companies, and run associations for these companies. Ask them for coffee. Then ask them who they know and what they would do if they had your talents and skills and were looking for an opportunity. Successful people want to help people succeed – especially if those people can communicate their value.
Don’t be afraid. The only risk is if you DON’T call them!
The fact of the matter is that your life really does depend on getting that next job. The advice in this series might seem contrived to fit an unlikely scenario. But if you adopt the mindset that your life depends on taking the actions required to get the next job, you increase the odds of success by a long shot. Don’t you think that the people dearest to you would expect nothing less?
Andrew Neitlich is the co-author, with Jay Conrad Levinson, of Guerrilla Marketing for a Bulletproof Career, a book that reveals the secrets to career success in perpetually gut-wrenching times. For more information, and for additional articles, visit www.bulletproofcareer.com. He also runs the Center for Career Coaching, which trains career coaches.
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