James, from a small town in Mississippi, was hired twice in one year by employers who created jobs especially for him, to do administrative work (at a doctor’s office) and construction work (for a cell phone company).
How did he pull off this feat in the middle of a tight job market in the last recession?
He asked!
“I met the company owners, told them I admired their companies and wanted to work for them. They hired me. It didn’t happen overnight, but I planted a seed in their minds that I could make a contribution. So they asked me to come to work for them. The positions started out small and part-time, but each time, I did more than what was asked of me, which led to more hours and more pay,” says James.
(Doing more than you are paid for is a Napoleon Hill concept!)
It didn’t hurt that James was known throughout his town for his outstanding work ethic.
If you live in a big city or don’t have a reputation as a workhorse, you can convince others to create a position you if you do these three things:
Create Your Own Job – Tip One:
Document every achievement and award that you possibly can, in a 3-ring binder or other organizing system. It’s one thing to claim that you’re a hard worker, but it’s quite another to prove it in writing.
Create Your Own Job – Tip Two:
Research companies you honestly admire and want to work for. Get to know their products, problems, competitors and opportunities.
Create Your Own Job – Tip Three:
Approach your target companies and meet directly with a decision maker who can create a job for you. Then, make them an offer they can’t refuse!
Action Step: Remember the Universal Hiring Rule, as put forth by success coach Brian Tracy: “Wherever you can find an opportunity to increase revenues or reduce costs in greater amount then the cost of hiring you, you can create your own job.”
Adopting this mindset will give you an INSTANT and overwhelming advantage over other job seekers, who confine their job search to scanning the help wanted ads in the newspaper or the job postings online.
Create Your Own Job – Bonus Tip
Focus on small businesses with less then 50 employees. Small companies have more flexibility, so you’ll stand a better chance of catching on faster with them than you would at huge international conglomerates like IBM.
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This job hunting post was adapted from content provided to by my good friends Kevin Donlin and David Perry, co-creators of the Guerrilla Job Search System.
Kevin and David have been interviewed by CNN, New York Times, Fortune magazine, and the Christian Science Monitor about their method to finding a job.
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