After 30 years of trend analysis and over 4,000 case studies, I can tell you that the main work in career transition is not job searching.
Yes, it’s vitally important to clearly articulate your job goal, have clear and concise answers to questions from people who want to help you, compose your resume and LinkedIn profile in crisp and clear language that is memorable, network to be found and to find ways to help others (i.e., be in the circulation of the community you want to live in), to practice interviewing, research organizations and market trends, and sort out your negotiation with a knowledgeable person. All that is true.
Yet, if you are still not getting a good offer, it doesn’t mean you didn’t do a good enough job in your search activities. And it doesn’t mean the powers that be don’t like whatever stripe of person you are. Discrimination may be the reason you don’t get a particular job, but it is not the reason you don’t get a job.
The ties that bind you to the past are internal messages and rules that hold you back from showing who you are to other people.
The reason a person doesn’t get a good job offer is because they are standing back from people in some way. They don’t like to ask for help, they only want to give it. They can’t hear what other people are saying. They are too shy to tell people they are looking, or that they want something, or that they’re tired. They hide some facet of their upbringing, saying it doesn’t belong in business. It’s still hiding.
They might think if others are qualified for a job too, that the others will get it - or should get it, and so they word their requests as though they are the only person in the world who can do something, so no one else can compete for it. This leaves people thinking that particular work isn’t needed, or there’d be other people doing it.
For 30 years, my 10-second commercial has been “I help mid-life professionals remove obstacles from their path to employment.” The community has terrific resources, groups and coaches, as well as technical support online. I am following the path to expanding the work that excites people - removing the most entrenched obstacles to well-being.
You can read important tips and strategies for effective job searching on our blog, HERE. Please read especially, HOW WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY OPEN.
The new design is to open up our thinking about transition to observe what is really happening and apply it to our lives for increased prosperity, joy, and ease - or peace from healing, if you’d like to think about it like that.
I’d love it if you’d check out our new ideas for real life changing. Workshops are coming. But you can read the blog HERE. The site is called HEALING THE TIES THAT BIND YOU and I can’t wait to share more with you.
Sue Nelson