20 million people have lost their jobs, they're unemployed.
They got fired, laid off, made redundant or let go, and several other euphemistic ways of saying they have no job. The vast majority of these people don't want to be without a job and most of them can't afford to be without a job and income. If this isn't you and you've got a job that's great, please forward this article on to someone else that could use the help. So, what do you do now?
After going through some of the stages of 'grief,' and they are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance, you will think that it's time to take some action like applying for jobs. Before you apply for those jobs there are 3 things you can do that will help you be successful with your "next step."
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Albert Einstein said that, genius, brilliant man. This applies to looking for a job, and even getting a job. If you got great results the last time you looked for a job and you loved the job you had, then do what ever you did, again. If you’ve found something that works, keep using it. If you get great results again then you're in excellent shape. Once you’ve got a job, please pay it forward and help someone else.
This is advice for those people who struggled to get a job. You sent out thousands of resumes to online "job search sites," or even directly to companies, and then you never heard back from anyone. Do that again, expect any other result and you've diagnosed yourself as being insane. It's time to take a different approach, one that will get you what you want and need.
Here's what you can do that will work.
1. Write down exactly what you want. IF you call up a friend and tell them you're looking for a job (and you must do this) and they ask you what you're looking for and you say, "Oh, anything, I think I'd like to try something different." You lose, wasted conversation, wasted connection.
IF you say, "I'm looking for a bookkeeping job or an office manager job and I really like working in the dental field." Now you're going in the right direction. The more specific you are the better chance you have of getting a referral or a lead.
2. 85% of all job openings are never advertised anywhere. It's called the "Hidden Job Market." Here's how you tap into that. Tell everyone you know that you are looking and what you are looking for and let them know you will follow up with anything they give you. And then when you go some where, follow up with who ever referred you or gave you that lead, they may know of more openings.
Volunteer. When you do volunteer activities you're around more people, you can ask others how you can help them and when they ask you how they can help you, you can tell them. Join a Job Hunting Support Group. More people to be around and more people for you to help and who can help you.
3. Social Media Marketing. You can connect with thousands of people on the Social Media venues. There will be many people in the same position you're in. Email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, forums, blogs, online discussion groups are just some of the places you can connect with other people.
Again, offer to help someone else, others will offer to help you.
This is the Bonus thing you can do.
Churches and Synagogues all across the country are helping people find jobs. They are forming support groups to help with networking, resume writing, career coaching and more. You don't have to be a member of the church; you don't have to attend the church. Most of them say that they feel an obligation to help their members and anyone else who needs help. It's another place for you to connect face-to-face with other people. You can help them, they can help you.
You don't have to get another job.
You can start a local business
You can freelance
You can start an internet business
You can work at several part-time jobs
You can take some time off and think about your life
If you need income and the best way for you to do that is getting a job again then get the very best and latest "Job Hunting" information you can. You don't always have to buy this information, a lot of it is on the internet, a lot of it is at your library. Get it, read it, pay attention to it and put it into effect.
The One Thing You Should Not Do.
After you've gone through the 'grief' process, denial, anger and depression, there is one thing you should not do: never, ever give up.
Your attitude will decide how you come out of this. If you just keep moving forward, keep taking some action in the direction you want to go, put one foot in front of the other, make one more phone call, one more contact, then you will be OK.
And you will come out of this better than you were and very possibly in better financial shape than you were before.
One of the best books ever written about How to Get a Job is, "Ask the Headhunter, Reinventing the interview to win the job" by Nick A Corcodilos.
Next, you can get Ask the Headhunter at your library, you can get it at Amazon. You can get it at Nicks website: http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/ Nick also has a blog: http://corcodilos.com/blog/ You can get to Amazon and get the book at my website. Ive been reading his newsletters since I bought his book in 1997. This is some of the best advice you can get. Heres my website and there is a contact page on the site if you want to get a hold of me: News Hawk Report. hostgator coupon code
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