This might seem an odd way to learn about how to get a job, but it as necessary as preparing a field before planting. See the quote below and ponder how it might apply to your own life. Journal the answers to the following questions:
- What are you hanging onto that is impeding your search?
- Are you making an unconscious choice to lose rather than let go of impediments?
For example, I worked with a client who was adamant about keeping his 30+ years of experience on his resume and at the same time was infuriated that it would get his resume rejected. His experience could have been easily truncated because it spanned different companies and jobs. His superficial reasoning was that it wasn’t honest to remove earlier jobs. (By the way the current style is to include the most recent 12-15 years of experience.) This was not an issue of integrity; it was stubbornness and a wish fulfillment for failure. He wanted to be angry and to have that anger reinforced. He both won and lost.
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QUOTE FOR THE WEEK
Herminia Ibarra, author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), relates a terrific parable by Elizabeth P. McKenna “about a woman swimming across a lake with a rock in her hand. As the woman neared the center of the lake, she started to sink from the weight of the stone. People watching from the shore urged her to drop the rock, but she kept swimming, sinking more and more. To the gathering crowd, the solution was obvious. Their ‘drop the rock’ chorus grew louder and louder with her increasing difficulty staying afloat. But all their yelling did little good. As she sank, they heard her say, ‘I can’t. It’s mine.’ ” [ McKenna's parable can be found in When Work Does Not Work Anymore: Women, Work, and Identity, Dell, 1998]
Thanks to tech guru David Behrens (http://neptunestudios.net), and editor M. C. Pastoret.
