Attitude

Recovering from Disappointment

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter channels his inner Hans and Franz in order to encourage you to recover from disappointment.

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.

Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.

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Whatever You Call It, Show It!

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Whether you call it mojo, swagger, or attitude, make sure you show it on your next interview.

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.

Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.

Visit www.TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot more advice there.

Email me if your firm is trying to hire someone.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

Pay what you want for my books about job search

Subscribe to TheBigGameHunterTV on YouTube for advice about job hunting and hiring. Like videos, share and comment.

Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us

Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching program.

Want to ask me a question via email, chat or phone ? Reach me via PrestoExperts or Clarity.fm

 

Exhilaration!

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Most people live pretty ordinary lives.

Most people do pretty ordinary work.

They may delude themselves into thinking they are important to their employer. In fact, the only time they re seen as being valuable is when they give their notice to change jobs. Management isn’t prepared for their departure and tries to persuade them to stay.

Many people are their own worst enemies.

They give themselves permission to be mediocre and blame others for their professional failures.

In fact, it is the willingness to allow yourself to be a good homogenized citizen of American business and American culture that is causing you problems.

Is it any wonder that many are not happy in their work?

Is it any wonder that American employees work in ways that show little difference than factory workers in the late 19th century. Work has made conveniently boxed by people working in boxes (cubicles). Is it any wonder that the boxes are eventually moved to the curb to be picked up by the sanitation workers (government)?

Then the people working in the boxes blame others for what has happened to them.

They are, in my opinion, mistaken.

Many of you have fallen into a trap that tries to convince you that if you are good girls and good boys, you will get raises, promotions and the chance to do good work. That if you follow the rules everything will turn out OK.

Folks, many of you have made a mistake, but one that can be corrected. Some of you have turned out OK, but for many many people, the strategy has been one sold to you by people in authority to convince you to be nice docile workers.

It is important for you to take control of your careers and of your lives. No one else is responsible for them, no one else is to blame if they don’t work out.

It is important to think about what serves you and your families, what you really need to know in order to be successful, what allows you to standout from the mediocrities mascarading as your co-workers and correct the mistakes you made that caused you to accept the terms and conditions demanded of you by.

For many of you, being rebellious and taking charge is the way to go now. Drop out of the system and learn what you need to do something that has meaning for you, rather than be another cog in the system.

That will require you accept responsibility for your mistakes regularly.

Freedom, that is exhilarating!

 

 

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Defeating Your Fear of Interviews

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On this show, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter looks at some of the palpable ways your fear hurts you and how to defeat them.


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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.

Follow him at the Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.

Pay what you want for his books and guides to job hunting.

Sign up for a complimentary subscription to No B.S. Job Search Advice at TheBigGameHunter.us.

Connect with me on LinkedIn.

Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us.

Subscribe to TheBigGameHunterTV on YouTube for advice about job hunting and hiring. Like videos, share and comment.

Listen to Job Search Radio, No B. S. Job Search Advice Radio and No B. S. Hiring Advice Radio in iTunes and other podcast directories and apps.

Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching  program.

Want to ask me a question via email, chat or phone ? Reach me via PrestoExperts or Clarity.fm

Perseverance and Job Hunting: Getting Through the Dark Days

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I have been a sports fan since I was young. Not a college sports fan; native New Yorkers don’t follow college sports unless they are gamblers (I know that’s a generalization but it is one that is trueof me), but professional sports.

I grew up in The Bronx not far from Yankee Stadium. I played little league baseball where the new Yankee Stadium stands. I was a pitcher and a catcher and did pretty well at both.

There are lessons you learn from playing sports and they are repeated over and over throughout life.

The strongest lesson that I remember being given by a coach was the one on perseverance. Never quit. In sports being labeled a quitter is the ultimate insult. Recently, we watched the St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Washington Senators in the post season down to their final out down by a run.

All season long, the Yankees have lost critical players– Andy Pettite, C.C. Sabathia, Mariano Rivera, Mark Teixeira, Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez– and managed to fight to baseball’s best record while playing with “the B team.” In sports, you learn to play hard, develop stamina, get better, practice as hard as you play every day and learn how to win. The same holds true in job hunting.

If you are not someone who is trying to get better at their job every day, someone will eventually be better than you and get the promotion and salary you want.

If you are not trying to develop your job search skills, learning how to network better (that’s a job skill but that’s a topic for a different day), interview better, negotiate better, use social networks better, have a better resume . . . all the big and little skills better, someone will get that job you should have gotten.

It’s easy to make excuses for both failure and mediocrity. That’s another lesson of sports. After all, winners find the way to win and losers find a way to lose and have great excuses for why they didn’t win. It was too hard. They wanted someone who . . . He was 27 and I was 51 and they are biased against older workers. Yep! Lots of good explanations.

A few years ago, the football Giants played the undefeated New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. No one gave them a chance to win except themselves. New England was favored by 13 and 1/2 points by the odds makers. The betting line for the number of points scored in the game was 54 (the combined score of the two teams was expected to be 54 points).

Yet the Giants walked off the field winning 17-14 in what was though to be a huge upset. They fought for every yard that day and won in spectacular fashion crafting a miraculous final drive with very little time left on the clock, first escaping heavy pressure to throw a drive continuing pass that was caught against a receiver’s helmet then a final touchdown to win the game with very little time left on the clock.

So, take a moment and notice how you have sold yourself short and settled for mediocrity in your job search performance and set out to improve and persevere.

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Be Passionate on Your Job Interviews

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Whether you are doing a phone interview or being interviewed in person, one of the most engaging qualities a job applicant can display is passion.

In the context I am using the word, passion can be described as:

a strong or extravagant fondness, enthusiasm, or desire for anything: a passion for music. *

Passion displayed for your work usually expresses itself as excitement or eagerness which when contrasted with “coolness” which can be interpreted as antipathy or indifference makes passion a more desireable behavioral characteristic to express.

Now to be clear, I am not asking you to say, “Oh! I am passionate about what I do!” I am inviting you to be passionate as you speak about what you do and have done.

Being excited, being passionate is fun. It;s certainly more fun than being bored.

As Richard Nelson Bolles, author of “What Color is Your Parachute?”, maintains, landing a job once you get to the dreaded interview table is all about being enthusiastic and showing that to a prospective employer.

As he wrote:

“Why is enthusiasm so important during the job interview?

“You better be darn well interested in the interviewer and company. It’s deadly when you go to interview at a place, (and) you really don’t care if you get the job there or not.

“The key is enthusiasm. Let’s say you’re somebody who is over 50, a baby boomer. What employers are looking for is they want to see energy. That comes from being fascinated by what you’re doing. You can hardly wait to get to work and have at it.

“Lean forward in your chair, ask intelligent questions about the place and interview in places where you think you would love the work.

 

* Source http://dictionary.reference.com

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