Day: September 8, 2016

You Certify Yourself

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses how we certify ourselves during a job interview as the person to be chosen.

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I’ve been part of a nonprofit group that runs men’s retreats around the world. In the course of standing for what is called certification (basically, being authorized by a committee of men who are leading these weekends to have the authority to lead weekends), I’ve been told that the basic idea that you try to have is you certified yourself.

Your matter and your demeanor go along way toward whether or not you will ever be chosen to be hired for an organization. That is true whether I was going for certification of that organization to leave these retreats. That’s true when you are being interviewed for a position.

Does that mean you have to carry yourself as a firm determined individual? No. It’s really about your self-confidence and your certainty in yourself, no matter what your personality is and how it displays itself in the course of the interview.

You have to be an interview clone and parade in like so many other people do with the behavior that’s false or having false arrogance. You just have to that presence and bearing that says, “I’m comfortable in my skin. I know what I know.” You need to be able to look people square in the eye, at times you’re going to smile, at times you may even laugh, a time she may display some discomfort or agony about decisions you’ve made, but you’re comfortable in your own skin as you speak about your experience, your competence and all matters.

When you can do that, it doesn’t really matter if someone chooses you are not. They’ll choose you but when you can certify yourself, when you carry yourself with believing yourself that you are the authority, then, ultimately, you will do so much better on your interviews, do so much better professionally… I want to encourage you – – relax.

You don’t have to act any particular way. You just have to really be yourself and be comfortable in your own skin.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com is there to change that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

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What Do I Do If I Feel Burned Out?

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A common feeling about job hunters is feeling burned out . . . but is that really the right word? I explore that in this video and offer another term for it and suggestions for how to deal with it.

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What do I do if I feel burned out? Man this is such a common question. The follow-up part to the question is that the person is one more interview schedule and the individual he is going to meet with has been rude to him up until this point so, obviously, the question was feeling it degree of pessimism about this interview and feeling burnt out.

I’m thinking burned out may not be the right term here. I think frustrated is the right term. It seems he’s feeling frustrated because he hasn’t gotten the results that he thinks he deserves.

So, if you are feeling burned out, if you’re feeling frustrated, if you are doing a lot of stuff and not getting the results that you hoped for, I invite you to put aside these expectations that you deserve a certain type of result in slow things down a little bit.

Often “burn out” is frustration that “if I do these things, I expect certain results NOW.” Unfortunately, life doesn’t work that way.

Would you need to do is reevaluate how your search has been conducted, what are you doing right and what could you be doing differently. Maybe you are in a field that operates differently than your expectation. Maybe you need to adjust to remain in that field.

I hear that someone is feeling frustrated, I encourage people to take a couple of hours to sit back and asked themselves what’s been going on in the search so far? Have you been going “great guns” to launch your search? Have you done anything since to market yourself? Maybe what you need to do is arrange for a few more interviews because, to use this person’s example, they only have one more interview schedule is not feeling particularly optimistic about it.

To get the results that you want, you can’t just simply charge out “great guns.” You need to exert effort that sustains itself over the course of time. You have to be patient until you get the opportunity to kiss the right frog that turns into a prince or princess, you’re going to be kissing a lot of dirty frogs, right?

So, think in terms of you get the right outcome. How do you do that? Generate more interviews. Improve your interviewing, if that’s the issue. If the issue is your field requires you to do certain things that up until this point you have wanted to do, then you have to sit back and say, “okay, what’s the price I’m willing to pay?” After all, is a choice that you have to make in order to remain in your chosen industry.

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Do you really think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com is there to change that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn http://bit.ly/thebiggamehunter