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Sunday, January 3, 2010
No Jobs? Create One!
With the slow economy that has extended for so long, advertised job openings are few and far between. Even when you discover a job advertisement that looks promising, the number of people competing for that job is overwhelming.
If you use the Job Finding Formula you will find yourself in a position where you actually create a job where no job existed before. Let me explain, a job is created when a business decision maker comes into contact with a person who can help solve a problem the business is experiencing. Every buisiness has problems all the time. During good times the problem may be how to continue making profits and even how to expand and grow the business. In bad times the problem may be how to survive and how to make the most of what is left through more efficient use of existing resources and new ways to deliver goods and services with less cost.
An important principle of the Job Finding Formula is that the best way to find a job is not to ask for one. You should ask for advice instead. By asking business decision makers for advice you put them at ease and give them the opportunity to feel good by helping someone else. You say that you don't know any business decision makers? Job Finding Formula shows you how to find them by using the newtwork of people that you do know.
What kind of advice should you ask for? Let me be clear, you should let the business person know that you are seeking employment; however, also make it clear that you do not expect them to have or to know of a suitable position for you at this time. Then ask them for advice about improving your resume. You will be surprised at how many people love to give advice. Sometimes people give us advice when we don't even ask for it!
Giving advice is easy and it makes us feel good. In order to give you advice about your resume, the business person must read it. If you send a resume with a request for a job, chances are it will end up in the file cabinet, the shredder or the wastebasket without really being considered. But when you ask for advice about your resume, the business person has to read it carefully and consider what changes he may want to recommend. While doing that it may occur that you can help out his business or the business of someone he knows.
The best example that I personally know of this involved a young electronic technicial that I had helped train several years before he contacted me saying that the company he worked for had gone out of business and he was without any hope for a job after 3 months of looking. I aksed if he had approached the company where we had both worked before and he said that he had sent a resume and letter to the last supervisor he worked for. It had been about 7 years since he voluntarily left that job. The supervisor had replied that he did not have any position for my young friend. I suspected that the supervisor had not really looked at the resume, he assumed that he already know this young man, and did not realize that my friend had gained tremendous experience and education since he left. I suggested that the young man resend the resume with a cover letter stating that he understood that the supervisor did not have a position or know of a position for him at this time and ask for advice about improving his resume. Within two weeks the supervisor hired my young friend into an industry that was cutting jobs at the time.
A job search is really a sales effort. You are selling yourself to prospective employers. Sometimes, the best way to make a sale is to put the prospective buyer at ease and not make it so clear that they are being "sold" something. This is why you see so many successful sales campaigns that offer something "free". That free offer puts the prospective buyer at ease and allows them to take a closer look at the offering. Asking for advice instead of asking for a job does the same thing to prospective employers.
Try asking for advice instead of a job and you will be surprised at how often it will open doors for you. After all, with so few jobs what have you got to lose by trying?
Happy job hunting,
Michael Britner
Job Finding Master
If you use the Job Finding Formula you will find yourself in a position where you actually create a job where no job existed before. Let me explain, a job is created when a business decision maker comes into contact with a person who can help solve a problem the business is experiencing. Every buisiness has problems all the time. During good times the problem may be how to continue making profits and even how to expand and grow the business. In bad times the problem may be how to survive and how to make the most of what is left through more efficient use of existing resources and new ways to deliver goods and services with less cost.
An important principle of the Job Finding Formula is that the best way to find a job is not to ask for one. You should ask for advice instead. By asking business decision makers for advice you put them at ease and give them the opportunity to feel good by helping someone else. You say that you don't know any business decision makers? Job Finding Formula shows you how to find them by using the newtwork of people that you do know.
What kind of advice should you ask for? Let me be clear, you should let the business person know that you are seeking employment; however, also make it clear that you do not expect them to have or to know of a suitable position for you at this time. Then ask them for advice about improving your resume. You will be surprised at how many people love to give advice. Sometimes people give us advice when we don't even ask for it!
Giving advice is easy and it makes us feel good. In order to give you advice about your resume, the business person must read it. If you send a resume with a request for a job, chances are it will end up in the file cabinet, the shredder or the wastebasket without really being considered. But when you ask for advice about your resume, the business person has to read it carefully and consider what changes he may want to recommend. While doing that it may occur that you can help out his business or the business of someone he knows.
The best example that I personally know of this involved a young electronic technicial that I had helped train several years before he contacted me saying that the company he worked for had gone out of business and he was without any hope for a job after 3 months of looking. I aksed if he had approached the company where we had both worked before and he said that he had sent a resume and letter to the last supervisor he worked for. It had been about 7 years since he voluntarily left that job. The supervisor had replied that he did not have any position for my young friend. I suspected that the supervisor had not really looked at the resume, he assumed that he already know this young man, and did not realize that my friend had gained tremendous experience and education since he left. I suggested that the young man resend the resume with a cover letter stating that he understood that the supervisor did not have a position or know of a position for him at this time and ask for advice about improving his resume. Within two weeks the supervisor hired my young friend into an industry that was cutting jobs at the time.
A job search is really a sales effort. You are selling yourself to prospective employers. Sometimes, the best way to make a sale is to put the prospective buyer at ease and not make it so clear that they are being "sold" something. This is why you see so many successful sales campaigns that offer something "free". That free offer puts the prospective buyer at ease and allows them to take a closer look at the offering. Asking for advice instead of asking for a job does the same thing to prospective employers.
Try asking for advice instead of a job and you will be surprised at how often it will open doors for you. After all, with so few jobs what have you got to lose by trying?
Happy job hunting,
Michael Britner
Job Finding Master
Monday, December 28, 2009
Happy New Year 2010
As we begin 2010, make a commitment to yourself that you will stay focused on your goal of finding a great job. Use the natural feelings that come with a new year to make a new start with your job finding effort.
This is a great time for each of us to realize that the only true motivation is self-motivation. It is a good time for us to remember that successful people rely on a person belief system that includes the following truths:
1. You can and must learn how to be a winner, it is not something you are born with.
2. You are what you think you are. The way you think is the most powerful force in your existence.
3. Your own reality can be created by you.
4. Every adversity brings with it an equal or greater opportunity.
5. Every one of your beliefs is chosen by you.
6. If you NEVER accept defeat as a reality, and instead keep trying, you will never be defeated.
7. What you can accomplish is limited only by obstacles that you impose on yourself.
8. The ability to excel in at least one key area of your life already exists within you.
9. Only great commitment will produce great success.
10. The support and cooperation of other people is essential to the achievement of any worthwhile goal.
Read these every day and make them a part of your self-motivation system.
Michael Britner
Job Finding Master
This is a great time for each of us to realize that the only true motivation is self-motivation. It is a good time for us to remember that successful people rely on a person belief system that includes the following truths:
1. You can and must learn how to be a winner, it is not something you are born with.
2. You are what you think you are. The way you think is the most powerful force in your existence.
3. Your own reality can be created by you.
4. Every adversity brings with it an equal or greater opportunity.
5. Every one of your beliefs is chosen by you.
6. If you NEVER accept defeat as a reality, and instead keep trying, you will never be defeated.
7. What you can accomplish is limited only by obstacles that you impose on yourself.
8. The ability to excel in at least one key area of your life already exists within you.
9. Only great commitment will produce great success.
10. The support and cooperation of other people is essential to the achievement of any worthwhile goal.
Read these every day and make them a part of your self-motivation system.
Michael Britner
Job Finding Master
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