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Excuse Me, Your Job Is Waiting
by Laura George
Book Description:
From the publisher of New York Times best-seller
Excuse Me, Your Job Is Waiting (Hampton Roads, 1-57174-381-2,
2003),
Excuse Me, Your Job Is Waiting approaches job-hunting from Lynn
Grabhorn's philosophy of the astonishing power of feelings
From the Author
Other job search books
may change your job;
Excuse Me, Your Job Is Waiting
will change your life!
The following is an excerpt
from the book
Excuse Me, Your Job Is Waiting
by Laura George
Live and Learn From a
business perspective, rejection is the best of teachers. Look over your
documents. Do you see flaws in your résumé you failed to see earlier? If so,
fix them. The great thing about the electronic age is that résumés can be
cranked out, and out, and out. Tailor the next résumé you send out to fit
the position to a T. Did your cover letter fail to sell you? Did your
follow-up letter do its job? Remember my
little buddy, the soon-to-be college graduate? I wrote his résumé. After a
couple of interviews without offers, he called me, whining and begging, for
me to rewrite his résumé. I frankly told him that if he was getting
interviews then the paperwork was just fine. It was his interviewing that
failed him. So go over the
interview in your head. Don't go over it until you can repeat the errors on
automatic pilot. Go over it to examine what you think you did wrong, and
more so, what you know you did right. The things you did wrong are over and
done. You can't undo them; you can't call up the interviewer and ask for
another chance; you can't do one thing about them. Forget them because they
will nurture negative energy if fed. Forget them because if you focus your
attention on them, you will do them again. Ever notice
that the things you focus your attention on happen even when they are
exactly what you don't want to happen? It's kind of like calling out an old
lover's name when passionate with a current lover. It's something you never
want to do, but you're so paranoid that it might happen that it does! Well,
focusing on all the errors in an interview is pretty much the same. If you
focus on them enough, they will happen again. I talk fast. I
hate talking fast. My mother talked fast, and it's how I learned to talk.
With people I know well, I can pace myself. In front of a crowd, I am just
fine. In fact, in college my public speaking even took awards. But when I
have to meet somebody influential in my life for the first time, I am a
wreck over the speed of my speech. I worry that I won't be able to sound
intelligent. Of course, without fail, I trip over my words and sound like an
idiot. One time, I
was in conversation with a total stranger at a party, and I was talking
well. Our energy had connected, and we were soon bouncing from topic to
topic with great ease. As we chatted, I noticed out of the corner of my eye
that a substantial crowd of people was waiting for this man's attention.
Finally, I asked him who he was. He looked a little surprised. It was
apparent from the look on his face that he thought I was kidding, but I
wasn't. I really didn't know who he was. He smiled and told me his name,
smiled a little more, and told me his title. He was a federal judge. In
fact, he was one of the five most powerful people in the state. Not knowing
who he was, or what he was, I had no trouble talking with him. But once I
had a grip of the situation, my tongue went every which way, and I nearly
choked. Fortunately, he found the entire situation amusing. Yes, what we
focus on appears and re-appears in our lives. There are entire industries
based on this premise. The diet industry comes to mind. If you think you are
fat, you are going to eat like a fat person. If you think you are thin, you
are going to eat like a thin person. But the multimillion-dollar diet
industry tells people they are fat, so they have to eat like fat people who
want to be thin. It works for a little while. Some of these folks shed a few
pounds. But they still feel "fat" because they aren't eating like normal
people. They return to their old eating habits. In short order, they become
fatter people. This works well to fatten the wallets of the diet industry.
If you want to be thin, feel thin. If you feel thin, you simply won't want
to eat like a fat person.
Let It Go Let's get back
to rejection here. Don't keep your thoughts and feelings attached to the bad
parts of an interview. Acknowledge them and abandon them. Focus on what you
did right. Even some of the toughest cases I had to interview did something
right. They were punctual, or they wore the right clothes, or they had the
necessary paperwork. They did something right. Also, keep in
mind, most people do something wrong. I once interviewed three minority
candidates at a company that hired few minorities at the time. These three
gentlemen did everything right. They were punctual. They had résumés that
were well drafted and on appropriate paper. They filled out the application
with perfect penmanship. They answered all of my questions and volunteered
enough information to make me believe they were personable people. I hired
them on the spot. My only reservation was that they interviewed too well.
Nobody interviews that well, much less three people back to back. I felt
something was out of kilter. Within days, I
learned my feelings were right on the money. They had interviewed too well,
and they had done it for a reason. The company had a reputation as having
discriminatory hiring practices at the time. The truth was that few
minorities ever applied, but that wasn't the perception from anybody walking
through the operation. These three gentlemen had been coached, and coached
well, by a group that was considering suing the company for unfair hiring
practices. They believed that if these minority candidates couldn't get a
job, no minority could get a job. They had no case because all three of
these gentlemen had job offers. The above
demonstrates that interviewing is a skill. It's a skill that can be coached,
self-taught, or learned in the school of hard knocks. Most people learn it
in some mix of the three. Rejection is just part of the curriculum in the
school of hard knocks. Learn the lesson well. Remember your strengths, what
you did well, and rehearse it time and again. Rehearse in front of a mirror
if that helps you get your presentation down to a smooth performance. While
rehearsing it in front of a mirror, notice your performance getting better
and better. See the energy you can get going when you do it well. If you believe
you have just botched an interview so badly that you want to crawl under a
rock, it's time to call on a friend to do a little role-playing. Pick a
friend with empathy, compassion, and some business savvy. Do a couple of
mock interviews. If a friend in need isn't a friend indeed, then seek out a
professional coach. If you have
been practicing the energy techniques throughout this book, it's highly
unlikely you botched it badly. Your energy was probably your saving grace
from a job that could have caused you months, maybe years, of frustration.
Move on.
Published by Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.; March 2007;$16.95US;
978-1-57174-529-3
About Author: Laura's job search
knowledge comes from both sides of the human resource desk. She is one
of the people Barbara Ehrenreich describes as a disposable white-collar
worker; a professional who has, more than once, found the world of work
to be a revolving door due to “downsizing.” Her job search advice comes
from interactive, firsthand experience, as well as her efforts in
helping many colleagues find employment. After experiencing
downsizing, and undergoing a frustrating job search, Laura started on a
journey that led her to the Law of Attraction. She realized that her
former jobs had all came to her due to the Law of Attraction. She even
understood that she attracted her unemployment as well. This discovery
led her to open LHG Consulting, Inc. and write
Excuse Me, Your Job Is Waiting to help assist job seekers in
attracting the work they want. Please visit her Website
at:
www.lhgconsultinginc.com |
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working
she went onto complete work towards a Master's in the same field. Laura
has worked in several industries and in several companies, some of which
were small and midsized, and one was a Fortune 100 Company. Based on her
experience, Laura acknowledges how “gut” feelings have prompted her to
give some candidates further consideration while bypassing those whose
presentations may have looked better. She also knows all the tricks of
the trade: how human resource departments weed out résumés with
software, how they flush out incorrect data and what kind of companies
advertise globally and hire locally.