You Better Build a New Job Search Success Blueprint!
If you're disappointed in your job search success, you're not
alone. People go into the job market with a set of expectations
. . . especially about how long it should take to find a good
job. And most people seriously underestimate the time.
So they get understandably nervous. Then the pressure of being
unemployed gets intense. And job seekers start to take seriously
unhelpful actions. For example, they resort to mass resume
mailings or desperate postings on job websites like monster.com
or hot jobs.com. Or they start making useless phone calls hoping
against hope that they'll run into someone who will want them.
If this sounds like you, it's not a very pleasant position to be
in. The fact is that there are plenty of great job opportunities
out there for you. You problem is that you're going about
finding them the wrong way. You need a new blueprint!
First, some kind of random, shotgun approach is a waste of time.
In the old days (20th Century) you could count on the numbers
eventually working for you. No more. Today's savvy job hunting
blueprint has to include an alternative approach like
"targeting."
Very simply, targeting means you aim your search at a specific
company or organization that's compatible with your interests,
capabilities and skills.
Secondly, you do the research to find the right person within
the company who typically you would report to.
Finally, you plan the best kind of approach to get yourself in
front of that person without requiring him/her to see you as a
job candidate.
How hard is that?
Actually it takes a lot less time than mass mailing all those
resume and waiting for the phone to ring. With this new
blueprint you have a workable strategy that you can repeat until
you find a job that's right for you instead just trying to fit
into someone else's idea of a job.
Without a clear target or set of targets, the average
resume-pushing job seekers have condemned themselves to an
endless cycle of disappointment.
The reasons are very simple. A hiring decision-maker will have
an interest in you only if you're perceived as a candidate who's
taken the time to learn something about the organization and it
goals. And then can come forward with ideas or a proposal that
specifically shows the contribution you can make to the
bottom-line or what you can do to make their job easier.
Does your current blueprint allow you to do that? I'm afraid
you'll be stuck in resume limbo until it does!
The good news is that there's a fabulous blueprint of proven
alternative job search strategies already formulated and ready
for you to implement. Follow this blueprint and you can be
entertaining good job offers in as little as 14 days!