Having good habits is a major key to being successful in your job hunt and in fact they are key to being successful at anything.
Most people associated habits with bad things, smoking, biting your fingernails, or even more nasty things.
But, you do have good habits that help you out, brushing your teeth, going bed at a fixed time, exercise, telling a spouse you love them, reading a book, or what ever.
Job hunting is like everything else, you can develop good habits or bad habits.
I have a theme of articles on http://www.ZaleTabakman.ca called the 10 Best Job Hunting Habits. The articles outline in depth, the 10 best job hunting habits a person should have.
These are things that a good job hunter will make as part of their essence when job hunting. Once they become a true habit, everything will go through the filter of the habit.
I have given just a short summary of the habit here, if there is a habit you find surprising or one you think you should explore further, check out the full article.
- Start With The End In Mind – The hardest thing for everybody to learn is that you need to focus in on a small number of things to get where you want. Typical to this is the thinking that says getting a job “anywhere” will get you a job faster than saying only a “15 minutes drive from my house”. The former means you spend time looking everywhere, and your precsous time is wasted on opportunities that you won’t ever want. The latter focuses you and helps others help you. Laser focus on a fixed number of possibilities is incredibly powerful. Read more here.
- Know What To Do Everyday – The single largest predictor if success is taking immediate, intelligent action on everything that you learn. Successful people do this. They do it quickly. They look at the risks, the consider the consequences of their actions, and they do this quickly. They know (a) that inaction gets nothing done, (b) most problems can be solved, and (c) they will almost never get it perfect at first. The easier it is to undo an action, the faster they take the action. Read how some of the greats did it.
- Do New And Very Uncomfortable Things – Yes, you need to get out of your little comfortable box. If what you doing is not getting you the results you want, then you have to change what you are doing. Find out what is stopping you. Are you afraid to be different? Are you afraid to try something new? Are you afraid to do things that somebody will say is not “the way its normally done.”? Maybe one of these things is the thing that is stopping you from getting the job you really want. I understand how you might feel, I know how hard it was for me to tell anybody I wanted to be a regular on Oprah. I was afraid the ridicule. Now I tell the world, and guess what – nobody actually laughed at me. Read more here.
- Do You Have A Job Hunting Process To Work On? – Looking for a job is like anything else, you need to have a goal and measure your progress to that goal. The problem is, what do you measure. Certainly not the number of resumes you :”Click and Apply”. You want to be measuring things that are moving you closer to the jobs you want. Read here on some of the things a good job hunter is continuously measuring.
- How Many Calls Should You Be Making Today? – The telephone is more powerful for the job hunter that the resume or the cover letter. The telephone helps you connect to people. It lets them hear the smile in your voice, your personality, your self confidence, your experience, it lets them know what you can do. Learn some telephone tactics here.
- Planning Puts You In Control Of The Job Hunt – Success in marketing is all about planning. Its not about planning how to spend the marketing budget, its about planning your contact with the customer. How you are going to contact them, where, which time. Have you considered the plan for your contact with a hiring authority? Here is an example of plan summarized from the Guerrilla Job Search Program that you can use as a template.
- Know Every One Of Your Hidden Assets – There are many ways of looking at a problem, and there are many ways of looking at a job. Knowing your hidden assets means thinking beyond the functionality of the actual job you performed. Your assets are about the company, the industry, the customers, and even beyond that. You can be a programmer that wrote code for telecommunications, or you can be person that knows what customer want and need is software and be an expert creating software that delivers on that. Read more about this here.
- Put The Employer’s Needs Before Your Own – This habit is one of the hardest job hunting habits to acquire, but with this habit you will be farther ahead than the majority of job hunters in the world. Why? Because most people think of themselves first, and how do you feel when you meet somebody like that, rather than somebody trying to help you solve a problem? Read the full article here.
- Your Job Hunt Is A Sales Presentation – You need to remember this at all times. But its most important during the job the interview. So as you are preparing different content to get a job, think about how this can be used in the job interview. You can read the full article here.
- Are you job hunting like Ted? – Poor Ted, he sounds like CNN. Make sure you don’t think like Ted. Learn about poor Ted here.
That’s all for now. You have 10 habits to ingrain into yourself.
If you make these 10 habits part of you everyday job hunt, you job hunt will go better, faster, smoother, than you can imagine.
And everyone of these habits will help you be successful in every endeavour you try for the rest of your life.
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This article is just a small sample of how you can do to take control of your Job hunt and make it effective. I work closely with the two experts in the field,
Kevin Donlin and David Perry, co-creators of the Guerrilla Job Search System.
Job hunters who use “Click and Apply” wonder why they are not getting interviews and ultimately taking far too long to get a job. I hope you are not using “Click and Apply” as your major tactic. You have many more strategies and tactics to make an effective job hunt.
The only Job Hunting system I recommend is the Guerrilla Job Search System.
The system works, because it helps you do what you do best. Kevin and David have been interviewed by Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune magazine, and the Christian Science Monitor about their method to finding a job.
Go right now and listen to a sample of how Kevin and David will get your job search into high gear
If you want to know why I think the Guerrilla Job Search System is so effective for job hunters read my review of it here.
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