By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter
Job search, akin to moving to a new town often is unfamiliar, disconcerting and frightening. In fact, it can turn confidence into insecurity, and polished poise into rough edges. It also can shift calmness into anger and patience into pushiness.
Ways to positively channel this anxiety and energy abound and can be used to propel your search—and attitude—forward. Five such tips follow:
1. Create a resume that is a mash of both marketing muscle and humility. Create this by teasing out a story rich, not only in the measurable results you achieved as an army of one, but also in the colorful and harmonious relationship threads you wove throughout your career. If written well, you hook the reader with a relatable, yet exhilarating theme and win them over with your likeability and problem solving finesse. You prove yourself as both a decisive leader and a collaborative partner.
2. Join the conversation on social media. When you read someone’s blog, you comment, and then personally tweet or share their content. You add value and positivity to the conversation and humbly admit that you learned something you did not know before.
You don’t permit your overwhelm with and anxiety from job search to spill over into anger, negativity, insults and/or know-it-all attitudes on blogging sites, Twitter conversations or Facebook exchanges. If you find yourself swaying toward off-putting online sharing, you seek out a healthier outlet, such as exercise or spending time with good friends who will be private sounding boards for your angst.
To read the full post, please visit: 5 Ways to Get Results During Your Job Search Through Positivity.
Bravo, Jacqui!
This is a “lighthouse” post – shining a beacon to either remind people of dangerous waters (off-putting online sharing, and steering them into safer harbours (exercise, time with friends).
Point #3 – “You don’t push people for networking referrals or job recommendations, but if an opportunity presents itself, you act upon it,” can equally apply to friendships, dating and sales. Rarely does pushing someone into something rarely brings about the desired results – eventually, the person feels used, abused and resentful. Hardly the grounds for a productive and satisfying relationship.
More than ever, in this fast-paced, gotta-get-it-done-now world, manners can often be left on the sidelines, but their absence is duly noted.
In this blog and on Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+, you serve as a model for the importance of manners. Your graciousness is present in all that you do.
Warmly,
Marianna
Flowers 💐 love ❤️