how to avoid job search-killing frustration

How to Avoid JobSearch-Killing Frustration

Amy L. Adler

CEO

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Evaluate Your Job-Search Frustration

• Do you think hiring executives hold all the cards--and you have nothing but a list of open positions and an executive resume?

• Armed with only these two tools you feel jaded, cynical, angry, or frustrated about your executive job search.

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Avoid Sisyphean Job-Search Frustration

• Stop all job search activity.

• Cut out practices that result in anger and disappointment and replace them with high-impact strategies.

• Identify your unique brand.

• Identify what you want the world to know about you.

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Stop Looking On Job Boards

• How much time do you spend looking on the Internet for job postings?

• How many job postings were right for you in all of that searching?

• How many of those resulted in interviews?

• Was your result enough to justify your effort?

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Rewrite Your LinkedIn Profile

• LinkedIn is not working if you’re not getting profile views or new connections.

• Re-craft your LinkedIn profile according to your brand.

• Include searchable, long-tail phrases that will attract the right audience.



Revise Your Resume

• Eliminate all versions of your resume but one, and focus it on your unique brand and proven expertise.

• Don’t confuse your audience with multiple flavors of your experience.

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Apply Only for Positions thatAre Right for You

• Experience a greater return on your effort by focusing on the very few positions that are right for you.

• Don’t waste time spreading your resume around for positions in companies that don’t meet your discerning criteria.

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Start Getting Interviews

• Hone your branded message.

• Eliminate the noise.• Be recognized by your

specific audience for the one or two things for which you need to be recognized.

• Frustration with your executive job search is likely to diminish because you’ll start seeing more reward for the powerful effort.

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Do You Have Trouble FocusingYour Job Search?

• Call Five Strengths for a free evaluation of your unique executive job search situation.

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