Just How Important is Your Personal Network?

Your personal network is not only a source of enhanced career market value, long term job security and wealth creation, but it is the absolute heartbeat of your executive job search..... 

     

Negating to notify your personal and professional network of your latest career endeavor just might perpetuate your search endeavor in to a drain circling spiral of career delusion and abyss (internet postings and headhunters).

This forlorn and most forsaken stagnation must be avoided at all costs... Sadly, Most folks know of no other way to conduct a job search and therefore it becomes the norm to not inform their friends and colleagues of their career situation. But this exploit and true to life consequence is not the job seekers fault, it's what the job market and inaugurated hiring protocols within corporate America are designed to do! Follow the rules, don't call us, we'll call you! It's a buyers market ladies and gentleman! The more you allow traditional job hunting to become your median, the longer you will struggle in this mixed up mania of job search futility ...

  

"Man can live 4 weeks without food, 4 days without water, 4 minutes without air, but only 4 seconds without hope!" 

If you refuse to communicate with your own network and/or have wholeheartedly convinced yourself you don't have a network, in some ways, its almost better that you continue to hound the published job market...When you finally do spot the perfect job, or the one you profess you are able to do with one hand tied behind your back, you just might buy yourself an intermittent delusion of an additional 4 seconds of counterfeit hope...Unfortunately, when the employer doesn't call or even acknowledge receipt of your resume submission, you just might embark on an unintentional plummet in to what I call "terminus isolation." (Working in the garden, the dreaded Honey-do list, or worse; bury yourself deeper in to the job you hate) Lets face it, every time you chaotically submit a resume or reach out to a headhunter and don't hear back, a small piece of your self-assurance, certainty and confidence is hacked away! Not a good state of mind to be in when one of your friends or colleagues calls with a real job interview...      

    

Lego your Ego - Call your buddies a.s.a.p.. 

People you know will welcome you...This will invoke confidence and a sense of positive well being...Your network is the emotional life source of your job search endeavor...It will feed your every being, which in turn will enable you to trudge onward in the face of rejection which is always an illusive, invisible and victorious enemy for every executive job seeker who reasons his network is a spare tire and not the steering wheel.... Smile and dial!