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Lindsey

Lindsey

I am new to the blogging space but am passionate about the topic of job search having experienced the ups and downs personally in 2007. After that experience I pulled my notes together and built a job search strategy to help my friends who were still out there as well as give back in general to all those who helped me out along the way.

I hope that my blog which started here (http://quixoting.typepad.com/spin_strategy/2008/09/job-search-2008.html) will add something new to all the great content that is out there . . .

Thanks,

Tim

I strongly agree on your tips here but using LinkedIn is something new to me. I’ll give it a try. Having a plan B, C, and D is also on its way for me.

Thank you very much for this timely advise

This is because of the Law of Attraction (“The Secret”), which states that anything you think about, especially with feeling, is going to show up in your life reflect those thoughts and feelings.

Your most powerful job-finding tool isn’t Facebook, Linkedin, your network or your resume; it’s your mind. Imagine yourself now being in a job in which you have everything you desire — lots of money, a position of responsibility, a terrific benefits package and the joy of being paid to do work you love.

Really feel yourself being in that kind of a situation and then start thinking, speaking and acting AS IF it’s already happened. That means you must live your life to the best of your current ability as if you had that new job right now, especially if you’re thinking of changing careers.

For example, let’s say you always wanted to be an advertising copywriter but now you’re writing investor relations reports. You believe you’re probably going to lose your job and start sending out resumes, answering job postings, network like crazy and contact recruiters so you can get hired as an advertising copywriter.

But you won’t get hired as a copywriter until you start thinking like a copywriter, and start acting like one by building your own portfolio of advertising copy. You’ve worked on Wall Street for a long time and know how to write for the financial markets, so there’s nothing to stop you from writing ads for financial institutions and financial products.

If you need to learn how to write copy, take some classes on copywriting at NYU, Columbia or the New School. Everything you need to learn how to be a copywriter is literally at your fingertips — either locally or on the web.

Forget networking in the hopes someone will know someone who knows someone; go join the trade organizations comprised of the professionals who are doing what you want to do. These people are your future colleagues, peers and cohorts, and there’s no better way to become one of them than to get to know them.

If you have a clear vision of what you want and embody the “being-ness” of having it, then as you move towards it, you will find you won’t have to do much of anything in terms of a traditional job search because, thanks to the Law of Attraction, you will have attracted it to you.

Just so you know — I’m a native New Yorker and worked in Midtown Manhattan during the 70s and 80s and I used this approach over and over and over to get every job I ever wanted for 35 years. In fact, I used it just last winter when I got suddenly laid off from my job a week before Christmas and got a brand new job a mere 18 hours later.

To read how I did it by using the Law of Attraction and learn how you can do it too, email me at janet@jobmarketsecrets.com and put “18 Hours” in the subject line.

Janet White, author
Secrets of the Hidden Job Market: Change Your Thinking to Get the Job of Your Dreams