Barbara Howell, a 35-year-old marketing director, is stuck. She feels frustrated, depressed, scared, and unmotivated. She has already spent ...
Barbara Howell, a 35-year-old marketing director, is stuck. She feels frustrated, depressed, scared, and unmotivated. She has already spent three months sending multiple résumés to online job postings with no results and is losing confidence in her skills and abilities. These feelings prevent most qualified candidates from getting a job. Barbara needs to start over. She needs to turn off her job search engine and restart the car. Bob Hillman, 50, and a successful finance vice president, is confident and very busy applying to multiple job postings. During his prior job searches, he would hear about jobs through buddies and get them almost every time. But this time, he has typos in his résumé, arrives just in time for interviews, does not do any research, and creates answers on the fly in his interviews. In summary, Bob has gotten lazy and sloppy and reliant on what used to work for him. As a result, he is not winning a job. Barbara and Bob need to Cut the Crap and Get a Job! Crap comes in two forms: excuses and mistakes. Barbara needs to pick herself up, emotionally, get over her excuses, and change her approach. Bob needs to begin with a more disciplined process, fix his mistakes, and take his job search steps much more seriously. If both cut the crap, they will get a job. If you haven't studied and practiced job search skills recently, you should assume you are terrible at job search. Here's why. • The job market has changed tremendously, both the hiring process and the ... Less
