personal brand

Songs for job seekers

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This is going to be a fun post – I invite you to join in and post your favorites :)

Starting your job search

Let's get it started, Black Eyed Peas

Obstacles are inefficient, follow your intuition, free your inner soul and break away from tradition.

Start me up, Rolling Stones

If you start me up
If you start me up I’ll never stop

To keep yourself going during your job search

I will survive, Gloria Gaynor

Oh no, not I! I will survive!
Oh and as long as I know how to love I know I stay alive.
I’ve got all my life to live, I’ve got all my love to give.
And I’ll survive!
I will survive!

Stayin' Alive, Bee Gees

You know its all right. its ok.
I’ll live to see another day.
We can try to understand
The new york times effect on man.
Feel the city breakin and everybody shakin,
And were stayin alive, stayin alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin alive, stayin alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin alive.

Eye of the Tiger (wonder why is this a favorite? :) )

So many times, it happens too fast
You change your passion for glory
Don’t lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive

Tubthumping, Chumbawumba

I get knocked down but I get up again, cause nothing’s gonna keep me down.

Preparing for an interview

Lose yourself, Eminem

If you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted…One moment – would you capture it or just let it slip

I've got the Power, Snap!

Maniac brainiac winning the game
I’m the lyrical Jesse James

Which songs get YOU going in your job search?

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It works both ways

in communication,Tools

Both ways! Many job seekers look for jobs with a view that they and they themselves are responsible for taking the message to prospective employers *all the time*.

Remember that recruiters (employers) that are hiring are also looking for candidates. You know the tools that they use: personal networks, Google, LinkedIn, facebook just to name a few.

Your Online Self

The exercise then really is to create an online profile that will make it easier for recruiters to find you and contact you.  Then you will really see the power of the network work for you.

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Book Review (Video): Escape From Cubicle Nation

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Why job seekers should read Pamela Slim’s sensational new book – Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur

 

Having been a big fan of highly successful blogger and coach Pamela Slim, I *had* to read her book. But I soon realized that this book is a gold mine for job seekers as well. Read on…

No job is permanent

  • Pam proclaims that “No job is permanent” – in this economy, a steady paycheck with benefits does not make a stable job
  • Your ‘job life’ should include a component of self employment or entrepreneurship that can provide you something to fall back on as Plan B and potentially provide you an additional stream of income in case of job loss
  • Pam lays down a very clear path of how can you make the transition towards your new ‘job life’:
  1. It walks you through how to tame you lizard fears
  2. How to find your inner tiger – i.e. ‘what makes you purr’
  3. How to choose a great idea
  4. How do you know you are ready to make the final leap
  5. and one of my favorites is how can you define the spirit of your brand. 

It is a collection of some of Pam’s best material and it has been put together is a simple, personal and readable format. Pam provides a great deal of practical ‘no-nonsense’ advice and the book is peppered with real life examples and comments.

Next time you are on your lunch break, read a chapter or two and start your escape from cubicle nation.

p.s.: If you’d like to see Pam live and get your copy autographed, be sure to sign up for the JobPounce!

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