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How to Receive Multiple Job Offers After You're Fired
The more you try to be in control, the less you really are; in
life and at work. You just got fired and you think it's the end of
the world. You're looking at the wrong end.
Waltham, MA (PRWEB)
June 28, 2005 -- Ask survivors of the most
popular reality television shows and they're
tell you if you have to eat a cockroach,
don't spend too much time thinking about
it. Keep focused on the end-game and move
on. |
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Know yourself, have a plan, make a
footprint. After you're fired, the raw power
needed to convert a job loss into a
high-voltage catalyst that gains multiple
job offers is surprisingly simple.
Consider these energizers:
-Who you are? Detangle your sense of job
from your sense of self
-Where are you going? Design a five-year
plan for career focus / direction
-What can you do? Maintain a life-long log
of your career achievements
Getting fired is a lot like getting
divorced, says Steve Johnson, Vice
President of Information Systems for R. L.
Stevens & Associates Inc., (http://www.interviewing.com) a
leading international career marketing firm
headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
All you hear is, I don't want you
anymore he says.
Own your success and your failures. When he
was fired from a multi-billion dollar
petroleum company earlier in his career,
discernment gave Johnson, a business-world
veteran, the inner strength to get up and
get on instead of rolling over and playing
dead.
Despite an impressive portfolio of
documented achievements that solidly
contributed to the bottom line through
process reengineering, he was still let go.
His stellar performance though appreciated,
was undervalued by his employers. Johnson
made sure that this unexpected event did not
end his career or dampen his spirits. The
time I was given the pink slip and told my
talents were no longer needed, I faced a
decision to either continually bemoan the
shut door or look forward and find a new
door I could open.
Possess the wisdom to know the difference
between opportunity lost and possibility
found. Johnson, an avid golfer, expertly
swung himself out of his job loss bunker and
found customers wanting his talents by
taking the same approach in his job search
as he does in his sport. Getting fired is
like an awful day on the golf course. You've
got to stay in the game, play the holes, and
adapt, improvise and overcome, he says.
Every time a bad thing happened in my
career, I always landed on my feet and good
fortune proliferated through increased
earnings, greater fulfillment and expanded
opportunity to learn new skills. Using
multiple career marketing strategies
simultaneously I made sure that failure was
never an option, he added.
Quickly create opportunities for yourself by
changing your mental and physical state.
Here's what you can do to restore order out
of your job loss chaos:
Want to deactivate your fears? Take a vacation now to clear your head and
get perspective. Don't feed your anger by calling past
colleagues and revisiting the past. Welcome your firing as an unexpected
career advancement to the next level. Limit your pity party to one business day.
(8 hours) Forgive, let go, accelerate onward.
Want to reactivate your confidence? Volunteer your time to someone who needs
you at a charitable organization. Convert your resume from a career obituary
to a marketing promo piece. Inventory your portfolio of skills and
question their relevancy / currency. Showcase your business talent by serving
on a community task force. Upgrade your self-marketing campaign to
strengthen your branding.
Change your focus from retribution to
restoration and you'll find the key to
layoff survival and increased employer
interest. Swallow your pride and take
control of your career by morphing yourself
into a consultant. You might even be able to
reverse your misfortune and sell your
talents back to the boss who fired you. Many
ingenious job searchers have done just that
and leveraged their talents by filling a
void left by their departure.
If you limit your choices only to what seems
possible or reasonable, you disconnect
yourself from what you truly want, and all
that is left is compromise.
Got any valid reason to settle for a
bad-tasting insect when a juicy steak is
just around the corner? Get on with it.
About the Author:
Marta L. Driesslein is a senior management
consultant for R.L. Stevens & Associates
Inc.
http://www.interviewing.com.
About R.L. Stevens & Associates, Inc.:
For 24 years, R.L. Stevens and Associates
Inc., has helped thousands of professionals
and executives find the best career
positions in top U.S. companies. Utilizing
the advertised and unadvertised job markets,
R.L. Stevens & Associates consistently
generates quality job leads for all RLS
clients. For more information, please visit
our website:
http://www.interviewing.com |
Republished with
permission of Vocus PRW Holdings LLC. Copyright © 1997-2006
Newspad. All rights reserved.(PRWEB)
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See Also::
 YOU'RE
FIRED!
So now what?
Many Michigan citizens are losing jobs, having hours trimmed
back and seeing increases in their cost of living. Self employment, a
business
of your own may just be the answer. |
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