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!
