Advice
Virtual Job Club Day 7: What's YOUR Brand in a Sentence?
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I know, I know. All you want is a friggin job. You want to get in there, do your work, and go home. All of this story telling, branding, social media stuff — it’s exhausting.
Virtual Job Club Day 6: What's YOUR Story?
Editorial Team 59
A few weeks ago for my show, @Work on ABC News Now, I interviewed legendary filmmaker Peter Guber about his newest book, Tell to Win.
He argues that we’re all in the “emotional transportation business” and our successes are won by creating compelling stories that have the power to move our audience (in your case, prospective employers) into action (in your case, hiring you). Guber believes strongly — and has endless examples to prove it — that if you’re a great storyteller, you have the ability to win over any audience.
Virtual Job Club Day 5: The Fun Part
Editorial Team 76
First, a note about next week: Mark your calendar for Monday’s assignment, which will be delivered in the form of a 20 minute coaching call led by Gretchen Gunn who runs a recruiting firm.
She’ll tackle how to tell your story—from one sentence to the full interview. Gretchen will give you instruction, advice and an assignment.
Virtual Job Club Day 4: Tackling the Potential Obstacles
Editorial Team 48
First, thanks for calling in yesterday to hear Michelle Pippin’s five strategies for controlling the fear instead of allowing it to control you. If you missed it, here’s the link to the recording. Listen anytime.
Virtual Job Club Day 3: Congrats for Coming Clean!
Editorial Team 70Wow…the floodgates opened yesterday. If you missed the comments, you can see them here.
I’m so appreciative of your honesty and candor — it’s real and it’s raw and I get that. Fear is a huge theme running through the posts. Fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of success.
As my good friend Jess Weiner told the Spark & Hustle audience in LA, “Fear is a down payment on a debt you may not owe.” The things you fear may not warrant it.
Virtual Job Club Day 2: No more YES, BUT!
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Yesterday I asked you to embrace the beauty of a blank slate. When you’re out of work, you can truly plot a plan to do anything you want.
Many of you answered that challenge with some smart thinking — BRAVO! Very impressive — yet more than 100 participants emailed me to say they couldn’t post their response online. Why not? Because they were full of excuses: I’m too old. The economy is a killer. Nobody returns my calls. And so on.