Did you know that there is a single accurate predictor of success?
Yes, that is true.
And, did you know that you can quickly distinguish a successful person from a non-successful person using this?
A successful person takes immediate, intelligent, massive action.
They do not wait.
The do the following,
- taking action on new ideas quickly,
- analyzing and improving those actions, and
- continuing to move ahead until they achieve their goal.
By immediate, I mean now. As in “Do it now,” the motto of W. Clement Stone, who founded the Combined Insurance Company in 1919 and built it to more than $1 billion in assets. Some of Stone’s greatest successes came selling insurance door-to-door in the 1930s. (If you want to know what works in a recession, emulate people who succeeded in the Depression.)
Mary Kay Ash created a billion dollar enterprises and she started when she was in her 40′s.
Every morning Mary Kay woke up at 5:00 and wrote out her 5 goals for the day. She did not go to sleep until these were completed.
By intelligent, I mean you should ask yourself three questions every Friday or Saturday, to review your prior week’s efforts and continually improve:
- What’s working to produce job interviews? (Do more of that.)
- What’s not working? (Change or stop doing that.)
- What’s next? (Plan the upcoming week.)
By massive, I mean you must spend at least 40 hours a week looking for work if you’re unemployed. According to Jason Alba (JibberJobber.com) and Orville Pierson (Lee Hecht Harrison), the average job seeker spends just 10 hours a week on their search.
If that’s true, it’s no wonder most people are struggling to find work.
The following things do not count as job hunting:
- “Click and Apply” does not count as work.
- Scanning Workopolis, Monster, etc.
- Going out to lunch with your buddy.
- Mailing resumes with no research to HR departments.
If you don’t know how to effectively use your time, I recommend you consider finding out what you should be doing.
You can start by implementing one job hunt tactic you have learned on http://www.ZaleTabakman.ca each day.
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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.
Finding a job is hard, most people don’t know how to do it, and the results are months of needless waiting.
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