you get to hang around coffee shops and pretend your busy and employed
you can become a “consultant”
you can live the 4 hour work week
any time is happy hour
bail-out shmailout, sheesh
two words – unemployment check
you get to waste your and everybody else time on facebook and every other social media apps
you can challenge ashton and oprah [...]
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A better way to job-search
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What is the process-based job-search in a nutshell? The process-based job-search is simply a job-search with a plan and structure. Why does anyone need a process-based job-search? Most people don’t know how to run a highly-effective job-search – they have no plan – and without a plan they will waste a lot of time. Being in a job search sucks is no fun – and people can get really depressed. The issue is that most people view the job-search in two phases: 1) you are looking and 2) you have found a job Well, if (2) is success then the common thinking is that (1) is failure. We look at ourselves as failures because [...] If you make $52,000 a year then that comes out to about $1,000 a week. So for every week you don’t have a job, you are losing $1,000 in potential income. Lauren Sherman’s article at Forbes about the Worlds Happiest Places (from an OECD report) has a very interesting list of the top ten places where people feel most content with their lives. Unfortunately the US didn’t make it into the list. According to the survey wealth isn’t a predictor of happiness, but not having a job (no/decreasing [...] I was reminded of this post over at keboch.wordpress.com the other day… was still smiling two hours later…. The economy sucks. There are a lot of people unemployed. It is the summer. While all of the above are true the CAN NOT justify a slow/stalled search. I have spoken with hundreds of job-seekers and there is one common thread with people who say that their search has stalled. The thing that these (and most job-searchers) have [...] For those who follow my posts, will already know I’m a massive fan of the TED videos (would love to get an invite to attend in person – hint hint). I was catching up on some I’d missed and came across Tim Ferriss’ video. IF you’ve read Tim’s book 4-hour work week, there’s a self-assurance that [...] I often hear people say that “a job search should be treated as a ‘job’”. What I think that means is that you should spend the time/effort on your search as if you were at a ‘regular job’. Unfortunately, searching for a job is more work than a regular job. With a regular job often [...] Have you noticed how easy it is to accumulate job leads? You scour the job boards and aggregators, save some to review later, apply to a bunch, some you may hear from other you’re still waiting. It doesn’t take long before the whole list becomes too long to fathom. So here’s a weekly exercise you can [...] |
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