The Career You’ll Love

Here’s a useful concept that might come in handy at some point:  A MasterMind group can help you to achieve your goals through support, ideas, and motivation.  So what is it?

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As the year and the decade draw to a close, I just wanted to express my gratitude for all the help I’ve received this year.   It’s been tumultuous, the future is uncertain, and depression and fear still reign over the economy.

Despite all that, I’ve been blessed with a great number of friends and supporters, a wonderful number of opportunities, and the love of my family.  If you’re going to lose your job and head off into a new career, it’s hard to ask for more.

Thank you.

Now let’s get to work on making 2010 a much better place!

There’s been a lot of chatter in recent years about “your personal brand.” Even though the idea can be sometimes used in a rather cynical fashion, I’ve found it to be pretty valuable for myself.

Here’s the idea:  People will formulate ideas about who you are and why you might be valuable to know (or employ).  What happens if you drive that intentionally, rather than just have it happen at random?

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My thoughts today are about my lack of experience in marketing and selling my company’s services.  The problem is how to get started, because I don’t know how deep I’ll have to dig before I’m done.

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As I talked about last week, job hunting is an emotional rollercoaster.  Well, after a slow start this week, I’ve been steadily building toward a training class in Toronto next week.

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I had a strange occurrence happen this week, and it brought to mind something I’ve pondered for several years:  You can never tell where that next job might come from.  I don’t mean who the employer might be, I mean how you connect up with it.

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I happened to run into a friend in the cafeteria today. I had worked with him some years ago, and both he and I have moved into much different jobs. I was startled when he made reference to a question I had asked him way back then. Although I have absolutely no memory of the context or the conversation, this is something which has stuck with him for years and continues to be a point which led him to a personal epiphany.

Wow.

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When I work with individuals on career coaching, we often have a discussion about networking.  Here’s the concept:  To expand the possibilities of taking your career where you want it, it’s good to network with people who are working where you want to be in the future.  You want to be a manager?  Develop relationships with people who are doing that job.  You want to move into that other organization over there?  Go find out who they are, how they think, and what they need.

But I know that this all seems so random and frustrating.  I’m supposed to go hang out with those guys over there, and … do what?  (more…)