The Secret to Finding a Job in a Recession is …
By Kevin Donlin | October 28th, 2008
… right between your ears.
It’s your mindset.
A success-oriented mindset is how all successful businesses survive and thrive in tough times: Their leaders think better thoughts than the competition’s, which produce better actions, which produce better, more profitable results.
Why should you care what business leaders think, if you’re looking for a job and not running a business?
Because you are a small business.
Did you know that? It’s true.
If you’re in the market for a job, you are a “personal services sole proprietorship.” And you need to find just one key customer — an employer willing to hire you.
The more you think and act like a successful small business, the faster you will find that one customer you need.
To that end, you ought to read this eye-opening blog posting on the power of self-belief. Its audience is marketers and advertising copywriters, but that includes you. Because you are marketing yourself with every networking conversation you have, and writing ad copy every time you create a new cover letter and resume.
Best parts of the blog posting:
For every one person who boldly faces reality, actively looks for opportunities and takes fast action, there are nine others who desperately cling to the belief that the government will take care of them.
As someone who’s been in the fangs of financial fear, pushed the bundle of unpayable bills to the back of the drawer, and eventually filed for bankruptcy, I know it’s tough to escape.
Yet, it’s critical.
To excel in the new “scared money” environment means extinguishing the brush fires of fear wherever they spring up. Fear and self-belief can’t exist in the same space.
Though I can’t pinpoint the quote, I remember reading about Sam Walton being questioned by a reporter on how he coped during the Great Depression. Walton’s answer was he…
“Decided not to participate in the Depression.”
It’s not only possible to “not participate” in the recession but to thrive while others are throwing in the towel. But, it means seeing the world differently and more importantly acting differently than everyone else around you.
While others are “taking a pass” and blaming their business misfortunes on the economy, the believers will be asking themselves, “what can I do to succeed today?”
By the way, this is exactly what we teach in our Guerrilla Job Search Home Study Course.
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