how to avoid job search-killing frustration
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Frustration is anger plus disappointment that results from a perceived lack of control. If you’re frustrated in your executive job search, it means that you think hiring executives hold all the cards–and you have nothing but a list of open positions and an executive resume.TRANSCRIPT
How to Avoid JobSearch-Killing Frustration
Amy L. Adler
CEO
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Evaluate Your Job-Search Frustration
• Do you think hiring executives hold all the cards--and you have nothing but a list of open positions and an executive resume?
• Armed with only these two tools you feel jaded, cynical, angry, or frustrated about your executive job search.
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Avoid Sisyphean Job-Search Frustration
• Stop all job search activity.
• Cut out practices that result in anger and disappointment and replace them with high-impact strategies.
• Identify your unique brand.
• Identify what you want the world to know about you.
• Promote your message clearly, confidently, and consistently. Image courtesy of Stuart Miles / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
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Stop Looking On Job Boards
• How much time do you spend looking on the Internet for job postings?
• How many job postings were right for you in all of that searching?
• How many of those resulted in interviews?
• Was your result enough to justify your effort?
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Rewrite Your LinkedIn Profile
• LinkedIn is not working if you’re not getting profile views or new connections.
• Re-craft your LinkedIn profile according to your brand.
• Include searchable, long-tail phrases that will attract the right audience.
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Revise Your Resume
• Eliminate all versions of your resume but one, and focus it on your unique brand and proven expertise.
• Don’t confuse your audience with multiple flavors of your experience.
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Apply Only for Positions thatAre Right for You
• Experience a greater return on your effort by focusing on the very few positions that are right for you.
• Don’t waste time spreading your resume around for positions in companies that don’t meet your discerning criteria.
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Start Getting Interviews
• Hone your branded message.
• Eliminate the noise.• Be recognized by your
specific audience for the one or two things for which you need to be recognized.
• Frustration with your executive job search is likely to diminish because you’ll start seeing more reward for the powerful effort.
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Do You Have Trouble FocusingYour Job Search?
• Call Five Strengths for a free evaluation of your unique executive job search situation.
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Amy L. Adler, CEO(801) 810-5627
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