| There are so many people out of work these days. I | | | | crowd if you do the same things they are doing? |
| see news reports showing job fairs swarming with | | | | 4. Considering that most of us have been spending |
| people armed with their polished resumes all | | | | the past several years learning how to do more and |
| scrambling to quickly find their next job. Most people | | | | more with less and less in an increasingly tense, |
| are dressed nicely, have professional looking resumes | | | | pressurized, and sometimes painful environment, do |
| describing and documenting their past, and have | | | | you really want to go back to a job like the one you |
| practiced their interviewing skills to try to impress the | | | | left? |
| recruiters to want to give them a job. | | | | Is there an alternative? Yes there is. What can be |
| There are four things that strike me as being wrong | | | | done instead is using this time between jobs to drop |
| with this picture: | | | | more deeply within yourself to understand how you |
| 1. There are huge changes going on in the global | | | | can serve to meet the new needs of others in this |
| economy. For the first time in a very long time there | | | | changing world. (For a good look at the process of |
| might not be enough jobs out there for people to | | | | transitions, take a look at the book, Transitions, by |
| find. This job hunting strategy assumes there are | | | | William Bridges) It involves defining your own goals, a |
| enough jobs out there to find the one you want. | | | | plan for your future, and marketing your value to |
| What if there aren’t? | | | | others as if you were your own business. It involves |
| 2. A resume is a description of someone’s past. | | | | focusing on what you can give, not looking for what |
| With the magnitude of the changes happening all | | | | you need to get. With a shift like this, you become |
| around us, how will describing your past help you find | | | | more powerful, less of a victim, and you will find the |
| a job for your future? | | | | job you want so much faster than any way I have |
| 3. With so many people out of work and following a | | | | seen or experienced. You might just find yourself |
| similar strategy, how will you stand out from the | | | | wanting a job unlike any you have had before. |