The best way to get a job.

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Oct 142009

How do you find and land a great job?

A great job is one that  suits you, rewards you, lets you offer your best to the world…and pays the bills!

There are many paths to landing a great job.  The one I’ve outlined works well and is more likely to get you a great job.

Slow down, avoid blasting out resumes.

Pause for moment.  Take a deep breath–or three.  If you are anxious to get started, worried about begin out of work or about making a transition to a new job, you’re going to want to jump in and get going.  I’m all for that.  Where you need caution is in the type of activity you choose to do.

Just like your Thanksgiving meal is 90% preparation and 10% eating, just as a good contractor wouldn’t start slapping together some 2x4s when someone asks for an addition to their house, your job search will be most successful when you spend the proper time up front and prepare.

Avoid the well-trod path

In general, this means not “sending out resumes.”  Though it seems like the most basic thing you can do to get into action and get a job, it’s actually not that productive.  Reason: it puts you in the position of a commodity and has you playing the wrong side of a numbers game. Continue reading »

Posted by mike at 7:09 pm Tagged with:

Life mission: example

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Jan 092006

Here’s a quote from William Henry Channing who lived in the heart of the 19th century. Funny how some things still resonate decades–even more than a century–later.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconsicous, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

And that is not a bad manifesto, I’d say.

Posted by mike at 5:29 pm
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