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    Wow Your Way into the Job of Your Dreams
    Wow Your Way into the Job of Your Dreams
    Wow Your Way into the Job of Your Dreams
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    Wow Your Way into the Job of Your Dreams

    By Frances C. Jones

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    You’re smart. You’re self-aware. You have a lot to offer. So why do you need this book? Because you’re savvy enough to know it’s what you don’t yet know that can make all the difference in whether you land or lose that coveted job. Distilled from The Wow Factor, Wow Your Way into the Job of Your Dreams takes all your skills, smarts, and willingness to learn and transforms your vision into a reality. By the time you finish reading this book, you will have the edge you need to set yourself apart from even the toughest competitors.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 13, 2014
    ISBN9781497649453
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      Wow Your Way into the Job of Your Dreams - Frances C. Jones

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      Job Search Secret: Do It, Delegate It, or Delete It

      Most of us begin our job search methodically, and with purpose. Over time, however, as multiple leads come in, multiple resumes get written, and multiple phone calls are made—both our desk and our email inbox become filled with leads and questions whose neglect paralyzes our thinking and keeps us from moving forward with efficiency. At this point, I recommend instituting the Marine Corps maxim, Do it, delegate it, or delete it, in order to follow up, and follow through, with greater efficiency.

      It’s the idea behind touching each piece of paper only once.

      Why is this important? Well, not only does it instill confidence in those around you, but it also helps you maintain confidence in yourself. The lurking knowledge that you’re procrastinating is a confidence-killer. And in the same way it’s hard to feel at the top of your game when you know you’ve left behind piles of laundry, an unmade bed, and a sink full of dirty dishes, it’s hard to go present your best self to the world knowing you have an inbox that’s overflowing with requests, complaints, and exhortations.

      For example, Do items include following through on all leads, from all sources—checking every company’s or connection’s background. While you may not end up posting resumes or picking up the phone to make a connection on every one, you need to keep the mindset that right now, your job search is your job. Don’t allow yourself to be sidetracked. What, specifically, are you looking for? Any information on the company’s mission/bestselling product/competition, which can then help you position yourself as being able to contribute to furthering their goals, enhancing their status, or plugging the hole in their offerings via skill sets and ideas that are unique to you.

      You might think doing this research is something you can delegate, but I’ve found this isn’t the best use of delegation—a highly underrated skill set, by the way. It’s far better to delegate those tasks that many of us use doing our job search as a form of creative procrastination designed as necessary work: reformatting our resume, updating our website, even getting our interview wardrobe ready—all of which give you a seemingly morally unimpeachable response to the question What are you doing to further your search? when, in fact, they are avoidance behavior. Truly. Unless you are a designer or web developer, these tasks are generally best handed off to those trained in these skill sets. Not only will you give yourself the time you need to focus on what you alone can do, you’ll likely end up with a far better looking document or site.

      I recommend deleting from your to-do list items along the lines of multiple postings of your resume—and the consequent follow-up—on job search postings websites with credentials along the lines of Lose 9 pounds of belly fat in one day. Focused follow-through on personal recommendations and with accredited sites (say, for example Monster.com or TheLadders.com) is far more likely to yield the results you seek. I also suggest deleting those leads you find via what I call internet daydreaming. This generally looks like a job that was something you considered doing during your summers off in high school and which just happens to be available in Hawaii.

      I do not, however, recommend deleting following up on any personal leads you are offered. While it may be tempting to delete from your to-do list following through on the suggestion you got from your child’s camp counselor to get in touch with their cousin because it seems like you have so much in common, following through could reveal their cousin is the vice president of the firm you’ve been angling for a connection to for the last six months. (But regardless of whether they result in the outcome you want, you need to remember that personal leads are just that—personal. Thanking the person who offered them is mandatory to building the kind of effective, comprehensive network you will always need.)

      As you can see, while it may seem either strident or simplistic, adopting a Do it, delegate it, or delete it policy gives you a framework for following up and following through in such a way that your mind is free to give 100% of its focus to your day’s priorities.

      Now You’re Speaking My Language

      As you begin researching job postings in your area of expertise, it’s important to reassure future employers that you are already speaking their language, as this makes it easier for them to imagine you fitting smoothly into their culture.

      If you are a first-time job seeker—or seeking to switch from one industry to another—a great way to do this is to go on a few informational interviews. These are meetings with higher-ups in your area of interest who can check your resume to ensure you are describing your objective and experience in the language spoken in your desired field. During your interview, they can tell you about trends within the industry that might not be apparent to someone outside the field.

      For example, when I first wanted to break into publishing, I went on a few informational interviews, during which I learned that 90% of the people trying to break into that field want to edit fiction—but that a far larger portion of the money made in publishing is made in non-fiction. This enabled me to tweak my resume to highlight the journalistic experience I had had, and to, when I went in for interviews, talk about how I longed to do nothing more than edit books on popular psychology, parenting, how-to.…

      Once I was speaking the language publishing executives wanted to hear, I was hired to my dream job within a month.

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