Unfortunately, “D” is still a very widespread way of thinking by job seekers. One by one, though, many job seekers are discovering the “process” of job search. Many great channels and resources such as Twitter, LinkedIn, ExecuNet, JobDig, career blogs, Careerealism’s T.A.P. program and more are communicating contemporary job search and career management strategies.
The resume, in fact, is a process, in and of itself, created organically, in tandem with the job search plan. It must be tuned to the target organizations’ needs versus just a pretty document laced with dozens of bullets boasting numbers, dates,company names and big titles. Though #%$ and titles, etc. are nuts and bolts info, it is MORE about the nuance of the document and how a job seeker’s unique thinking and problem-solving skills speak to the challenges (problems, issues, pain points) the target company/hiring manager/CEO, etc.) feels.
A, B and C are unique entities, as you eloquently graph, and I hope other experts will post comments, thereto. The more connected these four dots can become, the more fruitful the job search and hiring process will grow to be. My role, as I see it, is to encourage job seekers to move toward the other entities, resonating to their needs, while also maintaining their own sense of identity, pride and individuality. Sometimes I see rigidity in the hiring process from A, B and C … but mostly, I see opportunities for job seekers to uniquely package their communications campaign to penetrate those walls and prove themselves to be the valuable resource they are. As job seekers refine their processes and message, I believe, resonating to the hiring side, then the hiring side’s walls may begin to drop, a bit, too, a win-win in my hopeful, yet realistic and pragmatic thinking, world.
Jacqui / Master Resume Writer, Job Search Strategist and Optimist
I think you have touched on something more fundamental than job disconnect. It is “disconnect” itself. This pattern occurs in many places – customer vs vendor, project manager vs team member, parents vs children, employer vs employee etc. Many of them are bi-directional disconnects (sounds like an oxymoron)
What one party thinks the expectations are vs what the real ones are. This disconnect is the cause of lots of disillusionment in different styles of relationships.
I enjoy your posts. They make me think. And I can relate to a lot of them. Thanks a ton.
Jacqui….good comment and addition. I think some like you can help the job seeker move into the larger circle.
Doral….ah, you really got it, didnt you. The fun..and difficulty in making these graphs, for me, at least, is to make a larger point with disparate ideas, but from the same category. I really appreciate your nice comment because your own posts over at Dorai’s LearnLog Always make me think as well. Readers can read more from Dorai at http://dorai.wordpress.com/.
Maybe everyone knows this, but you can click on the commenter’s nsme to be sent directly to their blogs.
I also think this graph is sadly accurate for many job seekers, who are so wrapped up in the need to get a job – any job – that they perhaps fail to think how they meet the employer’s needs.
And who can blame them? There is nothing worse than needing a job so badly that you are wiling to take anything and do anything.
But you are right, the first they must do is convince the new company that they need what they have.
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Jeanne Male said,
on April 20th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Commenting on your “Job Hunter” letter:
The tone is that of a young person but the same melody is hummed by a lot of people that that “dial it in” everyday and don’t realize how much of a disservice they do to themselves in the process. The people who just coast or “quit and stay” can feign interest in their job but can’t maintain the facade so the cycle continues. Ironically losing the job reinforces the attitude that being invested in one’s job is a waste of time when it’s really a waste of life not to care about what you spend most of your day doing…or not doing.
Sure…your job is NOT you – instead of trying to get over by not working why not use your job to serve you. The goal is to identify your happiness potential and find a job (or series of jobs) that can help you reach it.
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Unfortunately, “D” is still a very widespread way of thinking by job seekers. One by one, though, many job seekers are discovering the “process” of job search. Many great channels and resources such as Twitter, LinkedIn, ExecuNet, JobDig, career blogs, Careerealism’s T.A.P. program and more are communicating contemporary job search and career management strategies.
The resume, in fact, is a process, in and of itself, created organically, in tandem with the job search plan. It must be tuned to the target organizations’ needs versus just a pretty document laced with dozens of bullets boasting numbers, dates,company names and big titles. Though #%$ and titles, etc. are nuts and bolts info, it is MORE about the nuance of the document and how a job seeker’s unique thinking and problem-solving skills speak to the challenges (problems, issues, pain points) the target company/hiring manager/CEO, etc.) feels.
A, B and C are unique entities, as you eloquently graph, and I hope other experts will post comments, thereto. The more connected these four dots can become, the more fruitful the job search and hiring process will grow to be. My role, as I see it, is to encourage job seekers to move toward the other entities, resonating to their needs, while also maintaining their own sense of identity, pride and individuality. Sometimes I see rigidity in the hiring process from A, B and C … but mostly, I see opportunities for job seekers to uniquely package their communications campaign to penetrate those walls and prove themselves to be the valuable resource they are. As job seekers refine their processes and message, I believe, resonating to the hiring side, then the hiring side’s walls may begin to drop, a bit, too, a win-win in my hopeful, yet realistic and pragmatic thinking, world.
Jacqui / Master Resume Writer, Job Search Strategist and Optimist
I think you have touched on something more fundamental than job disconnect. It is “disconnect” itself. This pattern occurs in many places – customer vs vendor, project manager vs team member, parents vs children, employer vs employee etc. Many of them are bi-directional disconnects (sounds like an oxymoron)
What one party thinks the expectations are vs what the real ones are. This disconnect is the cause of lots of disillusionment in different styles of relationships.
I enjoy your posts. They make me think. And I can relate to a lot of them. Thanks a ton.
Jacqui….good comment and addition. I think some like you can help the job seeker move into the larger circle.
Doral….ah, you really got it, didnt you. The fun..and difficulty in making these graphs, for me, at least, is to make a larger point with disparate ideas, but from the same category. I really appreciate your nice comment because your own posts over at Dorai’s LearnLog Always make me think as well. Readers can read more from Dorai at http://dorai.wordpress.com/.
Maybe everyone knows this, but you can click on the commenter’s nsme to be sent directly to their blogs.
thanks one and all.
I also think this graph is sadly accurate for many job seekers, who are so wrapped up in the need to get a job – any job – that they perhaps fail to think how they meet the employer’s needs.
And who can blame them? There is nothing worse than needing a job so badly that you are wiling to take anything and do anything.
But you are right, the first they must do is convince the new company that they need what they have.
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Commenting on your “Job Hunter” letter:
The tone is that of a young person but the same melody is hummed by a lot of people that that “dial it in” everyday and don’t realize how much of a disservice they do to themselves in the process. The people who just coast or “quit and stay” can feign interest in their job but can’t maintain the facade so the cycle continues. Ironically losing the job reinforces the attitude that being invested in one’s job is a waste of time when it’s really a waste of life not to care about what you spend most of your day doing…or not doing.
Sure…your job is NOT you – instead of trying to get over by not working why not use your job to serve you. The goal is to identify your happiness potential and find a job (or series of jobs) that can help you reach it.
@JeanneMale The JobLifeArchitect