Job Search Courage

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Job Search Courage:Looking Inside & Out for Hope & Help


By Thomas Bachhuber, Ed.D.

September 30, 2009



Job Search Courage Workshop Topics

1. Transition Theory/Practice

2. Addressing Fears; Faith

3. Myths in Job Seeking

4. Falvey’s Rules

5. Employer Research

6. Elevator Speech/Branding

7. Net “Working”

8. “The” Resume

9. Art & Science of Job Seeking

10. Managing Anxiety

11. The Economy

12. Zen Ideas in Job Seeking

13. Merton and Daily Work/Prayer



“God didn’t give us a spirit of timidity but rather one of courage, of love and of sound mind.”

2 Timothy 1:7



Objective

To deliver a workshop experience where

participants can grow in hope and job

search effectiveness through new ideas,

strategies and resources…and by

exploring their own spirituality.



Courage

“The state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger with confidence and resolution.”

American Heritage Dictionary



The “S” Word

To be spiritual means to know and to live according to the knowledge that there is more to life than meets the eye……



Telliard de Chardin

“We are first spiritual beings--- who happen to be on this earth for a finite time—not just human beings with spiritual encounters.”



Managing TransitionsWilliam Bridges

STAGE

ENDINGS

TASKS

Dealing with loss

EMOTIONS & OUTCOMES

Anger, blame, fear, shock,denial, self-deception

NEUTRALZONE

Managing conflictAnxiety, confusion, uncertainty, apathy, immobility

BEGINNINGS Setting new goalsIntegration, reinventing yourself, new meaning,Success--elation, satisfaction



Everything is changing....

Everything is connected....

Pay attention.

Jane Hirshfeld



F E A R

• No shortage of things which cause fear.

• Waves--feeling rejected, forgotten, misunderstood; sometimes anger, resentment, self-pity and even revenge.

• Uncertainty causes fear—uncertainty extended can be a barrier.



Parker Palmer

• “It’s me. Don’t be afraid.” (Matthew 14:27)

• “You can have fear but you don’t need to be your fear….you can choose to stand in other places—hope, beauty, family, your own mortality (PP)….

• “Reality won’t let you down. It is what it is. And we have to learn to deal with it. (PP)”

• “Accepting what is brings you away from the negativity which is the mind…….” Eckhart Tolle

• Parker’s analogy to his own depression—a hand of a friend.





Parker Palmer








Eckhart Tolle

"Accept what is; this will take you away from the negativity which is the mind and moves you toward Being."



Parker Palmer








Job Search 101

1. Myths

2. Falvey’s Rules

3. Employer Research

4. Elevator Speech/Branding

5. Net “Working”

6. Resume

7. Art & Science of Job Seeking



Job Search Myths

1. If I can show my talents, employers will put me in the right opportunity.

2. I must develop the perfect resume.

3. A successful interview is all about chemistry.

4. Most jobs are in print or on the web—80/20

5. There’s a “best” job out there for me—if I don’t find it I’ll be unhappy.



Career Change

“Our working identity is not a hidden treasure waiting to be discovered at the very core of our inner being. Rather, it is made up of many possibilities: some tangible and concrete, defined by the things we do, the company we keep, and the stories we tell about our work and lives.”

Working Identity

Herminia Ibarra



No Hard and Fast Rules (1987)Jack Falvey

• No rules—right, wrong• Too many variables for a

prescription• Get yourself in front of people• Keep yourself alive in a network of

10-20• Lightning—in the rain, damp and

cold



Net- “Working”

• Not schmoozing.

• Start simple and familiar…curiosity through good questions, sincerity—and eventually value you add.

• Become a colleague. Information turns to recruitment.What Color Is Your Parachute? Hidden Job Market

• Technology (Linked-in, Facebook, Twitter) and Face to Face

• Asking the right question. Saying the right thing. At the right time. To the right person….to create INTEREST and POSITIVE IMPRESSION.



Value of Research and Networking

“Intense introspection poses the danger that a potential career planner will get stuck in the realm of daydreams.”

“We learn who we have been and who we might become –--in practice, not in theory—by testing fantasy and reality, through exploration and examination, not just by looking inside.”

- Herminia Ibarra





Have faith…

“If you’re in transition and you happen to have an old faith hanging in the closet of your heart, it’s probably a good time to bring it out and dust it off.”

- Dick Bolles



Faith is a process…

“Jesus said to the father that all things are possible for those who believe.

And the father said, “Lord, I believe..please help me with my unbelief.”

- Mark 9: 15-29



Finding a Job; Finding Faith

“……he surrendered himself to the slow heart work of seeking God one day at a time and one night at a time in the place where his eyes opened and shut…he got up and fell down, he got up and fell down, he got up over and over again.”

Patrick Hart, Jonathon Montaldo

The Intimate Merton



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