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Throw Yourself A Job Shower…..

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Well, you’ve heard of baby, engagement and bridal showers.  Why not do something nice for yourself and have a Job Shower!  Forget Pink Slip Parties which help you network with equally desperate and unemployed folks all vying for the same job. What if you tried a different approach-desperate times, create desperate measures or something like that.  Be kind to yourself and allow others to help you and throw yourself a Job Shower!

You might ask, “How would that work exactly if I’m unemployed with no prospects on the way? That’s just the point, it’s easy and it’s about helping those who can help you – a win-win for everyone!  So instead of party favors, floral arrangements, and receiving meaningless gifts to mark the occasion, create a “Job Registry” listing all of the jobs, companies, positions you are interested in working for in your quest for your next job.

You can make this a virtual party or a real one, depending on your desire for an actual martini and how much you really like hanging out with your guests. Unlike the obligatory bridal shower where you have to invite Aunt Millie and your high school girl friend turned serial bridesmaid, here you can invite only those folks who will help fulfill your wish of finding your dream job and or working for your dream company.  Even if your idea is to start your own business, invite guests who will help you find resources like funding, business plans, office space and list your needs on your Job Registry and invite those who can help you build your dream.

Ok, here’s how you get started.  Start by inviting 10-15-20 of your friends, colleagues, contacts from your network and each of them has to bring you a “gift” from your Job Registry.  Each guest will be instructed to provide you with any one of the following: 1) a job lead that you have heard about but don’t have a contact at the company, 2) an interview with one of your target companies, 3) a barter service to help you with your headshot, resume, or portfolio, 4) a list of legitimate prospects and or contacts you don’t already have on your list, and best of all, 5) a potential for a job offer, project or consulting assignment!

Forget about getting drunk at another networking event and meeting people you don’t know or who really don’t want to know you. With a job shower, you are throwing the party and are in complete control of the invites, the gifts and the potential for a job offer from one of your guests!  This is a way for your friends or contacts to not only help you, but you in return can provide your own “party favor” and offer to barter your services to those who come bearing gifts and help them in some special way as well.  You can personalize your party favor too by offering your guests services like pet sitting, house cleaning, gardening, or whatever else that person needs assistance with in their lives.

You can keep it small to start.  No need to rent a hall, hire a band or a professional photographer.  All you need to start is provide  your guests with your “Job Registry” and hope they will come bearing some meaningful and entertaining leads and offer you a gift you won’t be looking to return.

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Riding Out The Wave of Fear….

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We all have days when all you want is to sail along on calm waters.  The need to rush, think, act and move become overwhelming when all you want to do is float for awhile. There is nothing wrong with floating, drifting and letting the calm tides pull you gently in a new direction. Trusting and letting go is the fastest and easiest way and often, the safest way to get where you want to go. It’s the trusting part that sometimes makes riding out the wave of fear next to impossible.

Trusting in yourself and what you want from your life and your career can be a scary concept.  For one, there is no one to blame if things go wrong.  You have to own your decisions and the consequences that come along with those decisions because you have no one else to blame if things go wrong.  You are solely responsible for your actions and that can be scary.  The choices around your career are not separate events outside your control.  You decide how to dress for an interview, how to carefully craft your resume, which network you should tap  and who to add to your professional reference list. It’s all in your hands.

There is freedom when you gain control over your career and your life. It’s no doubt a scary feeling but it can be filled with personal satisfaction when all goes according to plan. Freedom offers you the ability to call the shots, choose the course and back off when you feel it’s not the right path. The trust you place in yourself is what will help you overcome the fear of the unknown and guide you on your way towards a successful life.

Rejection is another barrier to entry on the path to true liberation from fear. Will they call me for a second interview?  Will I pass the test?  Will they like me?  These are the questions that are confidence crushers in the face of fear. Being crippled in doubt and second-guessing how others will like us is not the way to make friends and influence people.  Understanding and trusting in the process of what it takes to get what you want will. Thinking about polite ways to turn down the job offer before you actually get one is the dangerous game we play of living in our head and not in reality.  It’s your fear of rejection before being offered the job that keeps us out of the game and stuck where we don’t want to be most of the time.  Finding away around this obstacle and remaining focused on your goal, trusting in yourself and listening to what you want are ways to combat the fear before it overcomes you.

It’s easy to get caught in the tide, to drown yourself in fear of rejection, lack of trust and self-doubt but riding out the wave of fear although scary, will lead you to the sweet and salty taste of success on your lips and an exhilarating ride of your life.

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Ready for a Job Revolution?

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… and not the fire and brimstone kind!  A Job Revolution that is caused by the chaos we have all been dealing with whether you have a job now or not, it’s the kind of revolution that causes change. Are you ready to take action, make a change and engage in a Job Revolution?

In order to embrace a Job Revolution, we must be ready and willing to change. Sometimes it’s ok to stir things up and become a “Career Rebel” as one woman put it. The process begins and ends with you.  It’s your choice how you’d like to create the drama in your own life and reach success by harnessing a revolutionary change.  When all things align to create the balance you need, and you are ready to tap your job network, garner support from friends and co-workers and most of all be ready to embrace whatever comes your way, you are ready for a Job Revolution.

Your revolution will begin when you are ready to fill a personal need to change. Whether that need is driven by your ability to support yourself or your family, your unnerving drive and ambition to make millions or your desire to create and be part of something greater than yourself, then you are ready to revolt and change the course of your career.  How strong your conviction and desire for change will dictate the urgency with which you are willing to move to make things happen.  Think of the job you are in now, whether you are a senior talent agent at CAA or a production assistant trying to move up the ranks in a studio, or you have some creative or technical ability and you’ve been looking for the right outlet to explore your talents-now is the time to revolt!  With so many people vying for your job or applying for your job, you’ve got to stir things up and take a stand so you are noticed, desired and the one leading the charge.

This battle cry in a time of chaos is a good thing. It’s ok to get riled up if you are not where you want to be, have exhausted your career options only to wonder, what’s next? All great change in history was derived through chaos and revolt.  A revolution, if directed and focused, has a way to radically change the way you present yourself and your talents to the rest of the world. Revolution is a way to renew your energy and foster the courage it will take to keep pushing through whatever barriers of resistance exist.

Create your own “job revolution” by unleashing a new power  for change that comes from within.   Break the rules in this job market and discover your potential for success. You have to be bold. It’s not enough to stand on ceremony and “office etiquette” when looking to get ahead. You have to discover ways to stand out!   Summoning your strength to be unconventional, daring, unexpected and creative in your approach is the way you grab hold of your career and succeed.  As I read recently, “Even in periods of drought, a wild storm is preferred to yet another sunny day!”  Go out and make your storm and ride your revolutionary wave to success!

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Discovering Your True Potential…

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How often have you wondered whether you were on the right path professionally? Whether the job as a finance analyst or a creative designer is the one you were destined to become?  When do we know it’s time to unlock the doors and set out on our journey to discover our true potential?

The value we place on ourselves is based in part from the perceptions we remember from our past. Whether we were competitive, shy, nurturing, independent or withdrawn, we define our perception of ourselves based on how we interacted and reacted to the way others viewed us.  This perception may not have been entirely accurate, but whether good or bad it had a hand in shaping us into who and what we are today.

Discovering what we are truly capable of achieving, depends on our ability to step away from the past perceptions that haunt us and to boldly move towards the ideal vision we hold of ourselves. Whether that vision includes being an actress, writer, painter, engineer, astronaut or production assistant, how we choose to “invent” ourselves will help guide the choices we make in realizing our true potential.

We were born with the ability to choose our path no matter how great or small our beginning. We learned to be confident, we were not born with it.  Each action, choice and decision we made helped create a confident or insecure perception of who we are today.   When we allow the perception of others to render us powerless, we give into the fear, hopelessness, rejection and insecurity that ultimately holds us back.

In your search for the perfect job, find ways to recall the choices, decisions and actions that proved successful. Was it the great job interview you had with Disney and they offered you a job on the spot?  Was it the way you jumped in and solved the crises of the moment to be recognized by your boss and given a promotion?  Was it the time you helped someone else find a job and they thanked you with tickets to a Lakers game and dinner?  Whatever moments from your past you can recall and keep recalling when you need to, will only help to reinforce the worth and value you have for yourself.

Our potential is grounded in our ability to remain secure and confident. No matter how good we prove to be at something, we can truly reach our potential if we hold on to our perfect image of ourself and to learn to take necessary risks towards achieving our goals.  When we challenge ourselves towards achieving a “personal best” in everything we do, we not only retain our confidence but we move that much closer to discovering our true potential.  So the next time you feel, “not up to par” or you lose out to another “more qualified” candidate, think about all successes you have achieved be they big or small and remember that each road takes you towards your true potential one small obstacle at at time.

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You Get What You Deserve…

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Ever wonder why certain people get whatever they want?  Or how some people always have money and seem to travel and say “What recession!”  Does it bother you to think some people might be smarter, quicker, more successful while you continue to struggle, fail and struggle again only to find yourself in the same place?  Well, you know what they say, you get what you deserve.  

If you are thinking well does that mean if I’m not successful I somehow deserve it? Well, I guess the correct answer is “yes”.  If you are not successful, in whatever you deem as successful, you are clearly doing something to hold yourself back.  If you’ve been on 100 interviews and have not gotten a job offer you have to wonder why?  Yes, the economy is tough, but you also need to figure out what responsibility you hold in the process.  If no one is taking your calls, responding to your emails, your networking is just not working, or you are still unemployed after a year on the street, you are right it’s not fair and someone needs to help and the only person that can is you.

You get what you deserve when you think you are putting all of your effort into something but still falling short. There is no possible way in life that if you truly are focused on achieving your goal you won’t achieve it.  Now if your goal includes being Madonna or Kobe Bryant and you can’t hold a tune or a basketball, then yes, you will get what you deserve-no offers to sing at your cousin’s wedding or to even join an amateur basketball game.

We all stumble upon hard times, obstacles and the like, but what makes one person “successful” over another’s constant efforts to succeed, is in the ability to be self-aware and recognize what makes us good from what does not.  We can try to be Madonna or Kobe but wasting our time in areas we might never succeed leads us down the road of “It’s not fair,” “No one helps me,” and “I’m just not good enough.”

The feeling sorry for yourself blues is one tune we have all sung one or more times in our life.  Sometimes it helps to get it out of our system and sometimes it just helps continue to keep us down.  You get what you deserve when you try really hard, stay the course, remain focused and diligent and act with integrity, confidence and come from a secure place in all that you do.  You get what you deserve when you lead by example and stop comparing yourself to what everyone else has and what you lack.  What you get when you focus on what you don’t have is more of what you don’t have.

So, the next time you try out for that creative executive job at Sony and wonder why they are not calling you back after the 10th interview, think about all you could have done and how well you showcased your talents and if you still have no job offer the very least you can say is, “Well, they clearly don’t deserve me.”

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