How to run an effective and efficient job seeking process-- and what most people get wrong.
Rejection and uncertainty are absolutely no match for this new formidable, brilliant, strategic version of YOU.
Finding a job has been my full-time job as many times as having a full-time job has been my full-time job. That’s a tongue twister, but I’m here to present my credentials to you: I have been very successful at landing my dream jobs without so much as an application or a resume exchanged.
There is such a scent of fear in the air these days for those who are gainfully employed and worry they’re next on the chopping block, or for those denied that promotion they’ve been promised 2 years over, or for those who hate their jobs but worry they won’t be able to find something else.
You can find something and you will find something. I promise! I will help.
I’ve hired, I’ve fired, I’ve laid off, I’ve interviewed, I’ve flopped, I’ve gotten up and dusted myself up and tried 700 more times until I’ve gotten what I wanted.
Not to sound insane, but in work and in life: I am not satisfied and I do not give up until I have gotten what I want. And neither should you.
What it's actually like to look for a job as a "failed founder"
I knew I had to get a job in October of last year. Simply put, the decision made itself: I needed money, and I had not much left after years of paying my business instead of my business paying me.
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What I would absolutely NOT do if I were either actively and desperately looking for a job OR casually job seeking or job seeking curious
What I would do immediately to stand out, improve my odds and get in front of the right people
How to cultivate and maintain the right mindset to tolerate so much rejection and uncertainty (the two emotions that are my ever-present bedfellows!)
Why now? Well I may or may not have landed a dream job recently. It felt timely to revisit the strategy and state of mind that got me there (again).
Never do these things1:
I’m sorry if you already have. We can undo some of it, not all of it.