In today's job search you need to shed the stiff expectations, the obvious search methods, and the conventional choices that lead to frustration, rather than reward. Work to discover and access your own unique skill set, your passion, and differentiate yourself from the millions of other recent college graduates on the job market hunt.
You need a change up!
Quit chasing titles, status, the big money-- as too often the external world and outward marketing ploys tend to focus our thinking and options on the material gain -- Quit chasing the text book job! Bust Out of the Boxed In cubicle chaos.
Something inside of us let's us know when we are not at our best.
Pay Attention!
Listen!
Or
You will lose your way!
You will lose your principles!
You will lose your genuine drive and passion!
Take some time to...
Be quiet
Reflect
Dream
Get Creative
Scheme
Get Busy
Take Action
What can you begin today that is a ....
A smart idea?
Innovative?
A new development?
A new solution to an old problem?
A quality investment of time, creativity, and your own resources?
Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind advocates that right brainers are now primed to rule this next business and career decade .... as we move from the Information-Technology Age, to what he has termed the Conceptual Age... Pink feels that the keys to success in this next decade will rely on two broad skill sets: Design and Empathy. Adding aesthetic, creativity, color, and immagination to the automated, sterile, big box products coming out of the Tech era is going to be a skill set that is valued and lucrative in the next career market. As well, possessing the emotional EQ to demonstrate empathy, tolerance, understanding and acceptance are going to be essential, required "people skills" as we work to build a more interactive global community.
Are you a business guy? Start a company. Become an entrepreneur.
An educator? Find a job or internship in a high-need neighborhood. Volunteer at your public library, Boys or Girls Club, local elementary school.
Do you think like an engineer? Jump into the Green Revolution. Design, retrofit, invent, train environmentally-sound operations and people.
Trained in health care or nursing? Care for our aging population. Tap their energy, their wisdom, their creative reservoirs-- make their final life chapter one worth celebrating. Outward Bound for Seniors!
Do small things.
Scheme
Get Busy
Take Action
What can you begin today that is a ....
A smart idea?
Innovative?
A new development?
A new solution to an old problem?
A quality investment of time, creativity, and your own resources?
Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind advocates that right brainers are now primed to rule this next business and career decade .... as we move from the Information-Technology Age, to what he has termed the Conceptual Age... Pink feels that the keys to success in this next decade will rely on two broad skill sets: Design and Empathy. Adding aesthetic, creativity, color, and immagination to the automated, sterile, big box products coming out of the Tech era is going to be a skill set that is valued and lucrative in the next career market. As well, possessing the emotional EQ to demonstrate empathy, tolerance, understanding and acceptance are going to be essential, required "people skills" as we work to build a more interactive global community.
Pink gives credence to the value that six sensibilities will bring to the future workplace: design, story, symphony, empathy, play, and meaning. He believes these traits will be necessary to keep people passionate, motivated, innovative, and productive in this next generation.
(For a faster read, try Pink's adult comic book: The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You Will Ever Need. He highlights the "6 Career Secrets No One Ever Told You."
With these ideas in mind, how can you radically change the direction in your job search today?
With these ideas in mind, how can you radically change the direction in your job search today?
Remember you choose where you go from here. You can change direction, change your strategy, change your own location, change your focus any time you want. And you can do this as many times as you want!
What is meaningful to you right now?
What is meaningful to you right now?
What can make a positive difference in this world?
Are you a business guy? Start a company. Become an entrepreneur.
An educator? Find a job or internship in a high-need neighborhood. Volunteer at your public library, Boys or Girls Club, local elementary school.
Do you think like an engineer? Jump into the Green Revolution. Design, retrofit, invent, train environmentally-sound operations and people.
Trained in health care or nursing? Care for our aging population. Tap their energy, their wisdom, their creative reservoirs-- make their final life chapter one worth celebrating. Outward Bound for Seniors!
Do small things.
Do big things.
Find somebody or something to be successful for....
Ahh! Now that's the way to put personal passion and your unique skill set to work in the world!
love the work you are doing, sue. and the energy you bring to it!
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