DJD-002 THE DEFINITION OF JOB SEARCH INSANITY Hi. This is DREAM JOB DYNAMIC, where the subject of this weeks Career Boosting conversation may sound a little bit crazy. We’re calling this: HOW MOST SEEKERS FUMBLE THE JOB SEARCH PROCESS. DREAM JOB DYNAMIC is dedicated to DISCOVERING YOUR PERSONALLY PERFECT DREAM JOB in 7 SIMPLE STEPS! Whether you’re a BOOMER, a BEGINNER or a SOMEWHERE-IN-BETWEENER…, Whether you’re plan is to: RAMP UP YOUR ROUTINEEASE OFF THE GAS A BIT OR TO TAKE A SIDE ROAD IN A TOTALLY NEW DIRECTION…, With a DREAM JOB DISCOVERY as your target, you’ll learn to DEFINE IT!LOCATE IT!And LAND IT! So, welcome in or welcome back, as the case may be, to our weekly conversation and a community dedicated to your personally perfect DREAM JOB DISCOVERY. The goal here is to walk through a few simple steps to eliminate the most common JOB SEARCH CHALLENGES and MISTAKES that plague most of your fellow Seekers. We call them, fondly, YOUR FUTURE FORMER COMPETITION. This week’s topic was inspired by a quote from Albert Einstein that we know as the Definition of Insanity. Experts tell us that regardless of their experience or education, most Seekers are certain to fumble their JOB SEARCH PROCESS, simply by forgetting to remember that: “ Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results… is a little bit goofy!” The message I would share with you is very simple. If you are not happy and successful in your current position, then you would be wise to remember how you found that job in the first place. If your first instinct is to quickly brush off, tweak and re-boot your old resume, I urge you to consider a slightly different plan. No, let me be more clear. If you think that you can turn your career story into a bestseller by tacking on a new chapter and pushing print, then STOP right where you are and step away from the Job Board. OK, that may be just a little bit melodramatic. I’ll admit, if your story has been an adventure filled with success and milestone moments, then my advice would be a little different. If in fact,your past search got amazing results, then by all means ramp it up and repeat the same search routine again. If it worked in the past, DO THAT AGAIN, with gusto. If it’s not broken , don’t fix it. On the other hand, I do realize that if it had worked in the past, you and I probably wouldn’t be having this conversation. So, just on the off chance that your last job was somewhere between disappointing and disastrous, “WE NEED TO HAVE A LITTLE TALK!” In either case, it’s actually a good idea to consider your previous experience, before you engage the autopilot to simply clean up your old resume, rinse and repeat the same old process. In most cases it can be proven that YOUR PROCESS WAS & WILL BE YOUR PROBLEM. Let me just remind you of the title of our website, podcast, blog and FaceBook Group. It’s 7 SIMPLE STEPS to DREAM JOB DISCOVERY. So, before you get discouraged, I promise that we’ll get to and through those steps in short order. You will discover opportunities that have been hidden in plain sight and you will find yourself with options and opportunities that your Fellow Seekers will simply overlook. So stick with me. I can confirm that most Career Coaches would agree that rushing out the door with fingers crossed and hoping to find something better this time around, is not a great plan. Plain and simple, it may be time to change your routine, to get better results. While most future Seekers will continue launch into cyberspace without a plan or a target, they will all likely find a job. The problem remains that without a better plan, the next job will be simply that and not much more: A JOB DOING SOMETHING SOME WHERE FOR SOME ONE. Odds are that f you were to catch up to them down the road, to ask how they’d rate their new opportunity, I think we’d find that nothing much had changed. We’d find them in just another J.O.B., saying “It’s OK. It pays the rent. It’s just a job. That’s about it. It is what it is.” With all due respect, OUCH! Our goal, I can promise, is to do better than that, by preparing an individualized process that builds on your own passions and potential. The objective is to find the right DREAM JOB OPPORTUNITIES, within your area of interest. . You’ll discover organizations hidden in plain sight, where more than one DREAM JOB BOSS CANDIDATE will have openings that fit you perfectly. POLISHING THE PROCESS We hear it said that anything worth doing is worth doing well. Assuming that to be true, it’s a little surprising that most Job Seekers don’t give a little more thought to one of the most important activities in their work life, the search process. In order to find a DREAM JOB, you need to have a clearly defined target. The simple solution to avoid JOB SEARCH INSANITY, is to plan your ...
