Making A Career Change By Starting A Business

Making a Career Change By Starting A Business
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What Are Other Career Change Options?

What Are Other Career Change Opportunities?
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Are You Willing To Do Your Homework Before A Career Change?

Doing Your Homework
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Are You Interested In A Career Change?

Are You Interested In A Career Change?
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Are You Willing To Move To Get A Job?

Are You Willing To Move To Get A Job?
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Why Should I Hire You?

Why Should I Hire You?
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Jobpreneurship™ 101 – What the right steps to take to get a job?

I encourage you to re-read last week’s blog. It discusses the wrong steps to take; which don’t work in today’s market.

Let’s review the housing market, which is a downward valuation and hard to sell marketplace. Does that sound like jobs today?

When your house value is declining, you want to move fast before the value goes down further. When you are out of work, you feel pressure to get a job before your savings runs out or your value in the marketplace goes down further. That is why so many immediately put out their For Sale Sign (resume) and are willing to take a lower price. They are either scared, just don’t know better, or are not willing to do what any insider would do regardless of the economy.

So, what are the right steps to take?

1. Learn the Roadmap that successful people always use.
2. Identify what you really want to do, what you are passionate about, and where in this economy those jobs exist – by company name.
3. Find out what the hiring managers in those companies need and want.
4. Identify any red lights (gaps that may cause them to reject you) and proactively develop yourself as a product to meet and exceed what the hiring managers want.
5. Develop yourself and your message to show off your value in easy to remember simple language that others can understand.
6. Learn to network with those who know others who can help you.
7. Get referred into influencers, trusted advisors, and decision makers to have the opportunity to demonstrate your value, message, and passion to be the perfect job candidate.

Will that guarantee you a job? Of course not! There are too many other factors, such as a company hiring from within, that you cannot control. But this process will give you the greatest chance for success in the shortest time for the highest salary. Done right, this process will help you win over other candidates who may be more qualified but did not follow the Roadmap. Skip a step and you may wind up at square one.

Will you still need a resume, need to network, and need to put in the time to make this work? Of course! The difference is when and how you take each step on the path to success.

Why does this process work best?

Simple. You are selling yourself into a buyers market with declining values and a sea of competition. If you don’t distinguish yourself, you may not even be seen. If you are seen, your true value may not be recognized. Whose fault will that be? You. You are the one trying to be hired; not them.

Second, the Roadmap is the process that businesses use to develop their products, market their products, and sell their products. The only difference is that, in this case, you are the product.

That is why these are the steps we teach to everyone looking for a job.

Boomerang Kids – College Grads Moving Home

Boomerang kids: 85% of college grads move home

As reported today by Jessica Dickler on CNNMoney.com, there is a continuing alarming trend of more and more college graduates not being able to find a job after graduation. Increasingly, college is becoming an incredibly expensive vacation.

This represents more than lost years. Since companies look for current skills and education, a prolonged unemployment will result in these grads becoming “damaged goods.” When companies do start hiring again, they will more likely start with the current year crop of graduates. For many, that will mean they will have an increasingly difficult time finding a job – not because they are any worse or better than prior generations or graduation years. They are just caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, perhaps with the wrong major and wrong career interests for this years top company demand.

So, what are their options? They can respond the traditional way which does not appear to be working. They can do what everyone else is doing and hope that, like the lottery, their number will come up. Or they can respond just as they did when they learned their educational training. They can decide to major on how to get a job and how to compete in the marketplace for what jobs do exist.

The is why I wrote Jobpreneurship™ 101 – From College to Dream Jobs. It is a curriculum that can be learned, practiced, and implemented to win the race to the front of the line. It is the curriculum business decision makers agree works. It is how businesses do business in their world. I encourage you to check out the book on this website.

The jobs are out there. They are just not seen very often. Think of fishing for a sport fish. You have to have the right tools. You have to know where to fish. You have to learn how to fish: read the signs, when to fish, what bait to use, how to hook the fish, how to reel in the fish, etc. The good jobs, the dream jobs, are waiting for the right person to learn how to catch them. Many are still out there unfilled; still swimming around.

If you know of someone who needs to hear this message, please pass this blog on to them. Let’s try to help each other.

Jobpreneurship™ 101 – Why Can’t I Get A Job?

How long of a list do you need? Let’s first examine a few of the reasons.

• The economy is not what it used to be. The recession, debt levels, value of the US dollar, and future trends are scaring companies into hiring less.
• The geo-political and rapid pace of new US laws and regulations are scaring companies into freezing hiring decisions until they can feel more confident about the future.
• A tight economy threatens company survival. When you are in survival mode, you do not expand (hire or invest in the business).
• Even when the economy recovers, companies will likely outsource more and automate more, and hire less than in years past.

So, the first set of reasons is that there are fewer jobs! No one can predict when those factors will change. This is a long term trend.

The second reason is that there are a lot more people competing for fewer jobs. That trend will also continue for at least the next few years.

The third reason may be that you may not be a fit for the job. As bills pile up, it is not unusual to apply for any job that walks! Many are willing to take a lower level and lower paying job than they had before. Here are some reasons you may be frustrated:

• You are over qualified. The company is fearful that you will leave when the economy turns around.
• You are not currently working, so you must be damaged goods.
• Your education or certification may not meet job requirements.
• Your experience does not match the job requirements.
• You blast out generic resumes that don’t fit the job description
• Your appearance, attitude, or ability to speak “their language” does not match what they define as their “cultural fit.”

The fourth reason may be that you are assuming that the process for getting a job is the same as before. In my opinion, this is the biggest reason. Old ways used to work when companies were competing for employees to hire. New ways are required in today’s reality. Now unemployed, underemployed, career changers, industry changers, college graduates, immigrants, formerly retired, and high school graduates are competing to be “seen, wanted, and bought” by a company from a sea of applicants.

The market has changed from a seller’s market (you wanting a job) to a severe buyer’s market.

The real question is, “Am I willing to learn and do what it takes to sell myself in a severe buyer’s market?”

There are jobs created every day. You will either choose to hope that a job falls down your chimney into your lap or you will choose to compete in today’s real world.

In my opinion, almost anyone can learn and be successful. The challenge will be if you want to learn and do what it takes to be successful. My new book, Jobpreneurship™ 101 is a great way to get started.

Jobpreneurship™ 101 – Insider Secrets to Getting a Job

Have you wondered how some people seem to find getting a job to be a lot easier than everyone else? Do you suspect that they are more privileged? More connected? More educated? More blessed? Perhaps all of the above are true!  Wouldn’t you like to:

• Learn the secrets that insiders tell their friends and family?
• Learn how you can develop relationships to become connected?
• Learn the process, i.e. curriculum, on how to get a job – the insider way?
• Learn to follow the same path as insiders’ follow, which makes it easier for others to bless them?

Even if you know people; if you are not qualified, presentable, passionate, or able to sell and market yourself, then you are likely to become very frustrated. On the other hand, you will be a member of a very large club!

You may prefer to move into a more exclusive club by learning and doing what insiders and successful people have learned and do.

Principle: The path Insiders take includes personal development, learning, and practice doing what Successful people do. You too can learn to walk in this path.

It does not matter if you are a garbage collector, a waitress, a store clerk, a union member, a college graduate, an actress, a dancer, a nurse, a professor, an engineer, a programmer, or in any job or profession. It does not matter if you are too young or too old, too experienced or not experienced enough, the roadmap to success is the same. How you apply the lessons must be tailored to your profession.

Think of learning these lessons just as you would another course, major, hobby, or life skill.

You may have wondered why less qualified people seem to get the job, why less accomplished people may get promoted ahead of you, or how you can be the one to succeed regardless of the changing economic or job environment.

I will be discussing these topics in future blogs. If you want a jump-start, you may want to take a look at my new book, Jobpreneurship™ 101 – From College to Dream Jobs

This is the Insider’s Guide of Secrets to Competing for Jobs. It includes the Roadmap to getting your Dream Job in the Real World. Rave endorsements are from Colleges to Executives. The content applies to anyone. You can find out more by clicking here.

Why has this been declared a must read by executives, associations, colleges, and companies? Because it is written from the perspective of the hiring manager, reviewed by executives, and applies to real world experience. It is my effort to let everyone know what successful insiders do. This is your opportunity, perhaps for the first time, to have a level playing field to compete for jobs against anyone else.

In the meantime, please let us know what questions you may have. We will try to respond with answers in future blogs.

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