Never Apply for a Job Again!: Break the Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest by Darrell Gurney, Ivan Misner Page A
Authors: Darrell Gurney, Ivan Misner
Tags: General, Social Science, Business & Economics, Careers, Job Hunting, Human Resources & Personnel Management
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yourself—much less humanity—because of your fear!)
Investing some quality time in yourself by engaging in these exercises should evoke ideas, insights, and inquiries that get your heart pumping a little faster…or break up the flatline if it has stopped beating altogether.
At a minimum, you should be able to arrive at three to five possibilities for interested inquiry. Once you’ve isolated those areas of passionate interest, write out 20 questions you want answers to in each subject. That shouldn’t be hard at all because you’re authentically interested in this stuff, remember?!
N OW, TO B ECOME Q UESTION-ABLE
A few potential areas for interest exploration and possible questions based on the previous Classifieds Exercise might be:
Again, notice that this isn’t an exact science. Yet, the inner ideas and fascinations illuminated by the Classifieds Exercise gives you a jumping-off point for lots of inquiries into these areas.
The previous possible lines of questioning are just a few to be mined from the full palette of career colors that arose through the exercise. Notice that one line of inquiry is based on an industry segment (wellness industry), another explores a role to fulfill (business development), and another is focused on an element of duties and responsibilities to fulfill (travel). There’s easily another 15 questions to ask in each area, and many more areas that could be mined out of the results of the overall Classifieds Exercise. Add this plethora of inquiries to those developed from the Freebird and Resparking Exercises, and you have a huge reason to be out talking to people! You become a very “question-able” person!
NOTE: For even more help with identifying your particular Sweet Spot, see a special eBook that delves into greater detail, Finding the S Spot , at www.CareerGuy.com .
CareerGuy Tip: You have lots of reasons for being question-able with people!
Now, your job is simply to get ready to go out and talk to people in those areas of interest.
Remember, first and foremost, that you are seeking answers only because you’re fascinated by the subject: not because you need a job. And, believe me, if you approach your meetings completely for this reason, you’ll meet more people and actually create inroads into otherwise foreign territory simply by your passionate interest.
Principle #4: You Can Never Have too Much Information, and the Higher the Altitude, the Better
How many folks do you know who went to law school but never practiced law? How about people who invested years in an MBA, PhD, or even ministerial school who then went in a completely different direction? There’s nothing wrong with that from an overall growth perspective: We all expand from every experience, and learning even for the sake of learning alone is admirable and worthwhile.
But, if you’re interested in zeroing in on your Sweet Spot in the most time-efficient way, and would like to actually see income arise from that Sweet Spot, then you can never have too much information…and the time to get it is before you commit energy, money, or working hours to some particular career pursuit.
Have you ever had a job, or worked for a particular company, when you wish you had found out more about it before you took the job? Many of us have. The problem is, when you interview overtly, it’s all about looking good, answering the interviewer’s questions correctly, and doing whatever it takes to have the company hire you. Sounds like desperate dating, right?
When you are so transfixed on selling yourself rather than getting information about a direction or industry you are considering, you miss out on a lot—and sometimes pick bad bedfellows. There’s often no way to get the full skinny through overt search. Lack of full information is a natural downfall of the traditional, overt-search beast. You’re competing for the job, you feel lucky that they picked you to interview, you don’t want to make waves by being
Investing some quality time in yourself by engaging in these exercises should evoke ideas, insights, and inquiries that get your heart pumping a little faster…or break up the flatline if it has stopped beating altogether.
At a minimum, you should be able to arrive at three to five possibilities for interested inquiry. Once you’ve isolated those areas of passionate interest, write out 20 questions you want answers to in each subject. That shouldn’t be hard at all because you’re authentically interested in this stuff, remember?!
N OW, TO B ECOME Q UESTION-ABLE
A few potential areas for interest exploration and possible questions based on the previous Classifieds Exercise might be:
Again, notice that this isn’t an exact science. Yet, the inner ideas and fascinations illuminated by the Classifieds Exercise gives you a jumping-off point for lots of inquiries into these areas.
The previous possible lines of questioning are just a few to be mined from the full palette of career colors that arose through the exercise. Notice that one line of inquiry is based on an industry segment (wellness industry), another explores a role to fulfill (business development), and another is focused on an element of duties and responsibilities to fulfill (travel). There’s easily another 15 questions to ask in each area, and many more areas that could be mined out of the results of the overall Classifieds Exercise. Add this plethora of inquiries to those developed from the Freebird and Resparking Exercises, and you have a huge reason to be out talking to people! You become a very “question-able” person!
NOTE: For even more help with identifying your particular Sweet Spot, see a special eBook that delves into greater detail, Finding the S Spot , at www.CareerGuy.com .
CareerGuy Tip: You have lots of reasons for being question-able with people!
Now, your job is simply to get ready to go out and talk to people in those areas of interest.
Remember, first and foremost, that you are seeking answers only because you’re fascinated by the subject: not because you need a job. And, believe me, if you approach your meetings completely for this reason, you’ll meet more people and actually create inroads into otherwise foreign territory simply by your passionate interest.
Principle #4: You Can Never Have too Much Information, and the Higher the Altitude, the Better
How many folks do you know who went to law school but never practiced law? How about people who invested years in an MBA, PhD, or even ministerial school who then went in a completely different direction? There’s nothing wrong with that from an overall growth perspective: We all expand from every experience, and learning even for the sake of learning alone is admirable and worthwhile.
But, if you’re interested in zeroing in on your Sweet Spot in the most time-efficient way, and would like to actually see income arise from that Sweet Spot, then you can never have too much information…and the time to get it is before you commit energy, money, or working hours to some particular career pursuit.
Have you ever had a job, or worked for a particular company, when you wish you had found out more about it before you took the job? Many of us have. The problem is, when you interview overtly, it’s all about looking good, answering the interviewer’s questions correctly, and doing whatever it takes to have the company hire you. Sounds like desperate dating, right?
When you are so transfixed on selling yourself rather than getting information about a direction or industry you are considering, you miss out on a lot—and sometimes pick bad bedfellows. There’s often no way to get the full skinny through overt search. Lack of full information is a natural downfall of the traditional, overt-search beast. You’re competing for the job, you feel lucky that they picked you to interview, you don’t want to make waves by being
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