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“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

Hubbard’s words ring true for your job search too.  Be careful that you don’t take your job search to seriously or not seriously enough.  Either end of the scale can be fatal to your career.

I have worked with thousands of people engaged in a job search.  Some are not serious enough about the “job search” and others are so serious about the job search it consumes each minute of the day.

Both of these paths will impact your success.  If you are not serious enough you may lose focus, miss opportunities and often extend a search so long that the prolonged search causes damage to your finances, your career and earnings potential.  Being too serious about a job search can also result in lack of focus, damage to your relationships, lack of balance and tons of effort in the wrong direction.

Do you have the right balance in your job search?

What are you taking too seriously in your job search?

What in your job search should be more serious?

Is the job search you are conducting effective?

Are you missing in piles of paper?

Did you see the Wal-Mart ad, where the two guys are looking through the trash and Christmas wrapping paper on the curb for the doll hair brush?

The feeling and looks on their faces were classic. Is your resume, your experience, what you can do for an employer lost in a sea of papers, or files on the World Wide Web? Are the odds of finding the doll hair brush better than finding you?

Are you ready to tap into your purpose, focus on your brand and have employers call you in 2010?

Would you like get out of your slump and move on to a new job?

Are you willing to do something different?

Here is your action step.

Write down what motivates you. What pulls you forward and ensures you achieve at the highest level? Read your resume. Circle your 3 top skills. Now write a brief statement of how you use these top 3 skills and how they connect to what motivates you?

What, your top three skills and what motivates you are not connected? Why not?

How can you stand out, be found and have employers call you if what you do and what motivates you are not connected?

If you need help to connect the dots, find your focus and move ahead in 2010 join us for the Q & A calls, get your questions answered and move your career and your search forward.

Happy New Year!

“Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.”~ Earl Nightingale

Have you ever had one of those phone calls that when you heard the voice on the other end of the line speak and you felt danger or distress? I had one of those calls this week, the call began, “Hi, I need some help…”

At first, my thoughts raced as I listened, after a few seconds I knew there was no physical danger and no one was injured. The distress in the voice on the call was intense.

After the call, I was reflecting on the situation and the Earl Nightingale quote above popped to my thoughts. It is a reminder that the line between danger and opportunity can be very thin.

I know that awareness, experience, knowledge and preparation build confidence and create the best responses in all situations. In business and in our careers, we so often turn those “thin” points in time into unique situations with better than envisioned outcomes and profitable opportunities because of our preparation and awareness.

In life, business, and my career, I know that experience is often the thing I get just after I needed it most. I also know thousands of people who agree with me, that preparation and awareness are the keys that allow each of us to apply our knowledge and similar experience to create focus and successful outcomes that others view as luck!

In case you are wondering the call that began, “Hi, I need some help…” was from someone who had been working to create focus and successful outcomes. The caller was so prepared he built into his search what he called a “lifeline” call. That call helped him deal with an unexpected question about relocation and turn it into a second interview and continue conversation in a few minutes.

What preparation are you building into your job search?

Are you using a portion of your time each week to create focus, tap into your experience and knowledge?

Are you prepared to create the most successful outcomes in your job search and career?

What opportunity lurks if you are prepared?

Are you creating your own luck or are just hoping for the best?

Are you too busy doing things to make time to prepare?

To Your Accelerated Search and Continued Success,
Cindy