http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/archives/142
Here’s the topic/theme/question:
> Yikes! You just lost your job!
Hey, no surprise! The First Sunday of every month, I have a meeting with my mythical team of me, myself, and I. We discuss the implications of “the only paycheck you’re assured on is the one that is in the bank”. I’ve been expecting this to happen ever since I took the job.
> You’ve been so busy at *work* that you don’t feel your
> network is as strong as you would like it to be!
Kick myself in the ass. I knew better than not to trust them bastards. Sneaky SOBs. Can’t trust them. OK, now it’s time to find my “last job”. (Given my age, I’m only planning one more job max before I go teach, consult, and write. Shift job search activities from “passive and fussy” to “active and discriminating”. (Yes, there are other gears, frenzied & panicked & desperate hamburger flipper & WalMart greeter.)
>What are you going to do with (and to) your network in the next 6 weeks
> as you begin an aggresive job search campaign?
Week 1: Immediately, draft a press release! Ring up my three friends, consume a suitable number of adult beverages, and commiserate how life sucks. Update my Plaxo mini bulletin board with my new status.
Week 2: Reopen consulting efforts; tell existing clients that their free ride is over; retainers anyone?; contracts? orders?
Week 3: Notify my graduated turkeys that their tuition bill is due and they are now on the hook to help me. Reactivated the resume and automatic job feed on the NINE boards that I watch regularly (weekly).
Week 4: Notify my 900 LinkedIn contacts that I need their help. Notify the three job search groups I belong to that I am now in play.
Week 5: Message my 1750 fellow alums, who read my ezine, that I’m available to make big bucks. Message the other 9k fellow alums that I can be hired for wakes and weddings. Message the 3k of non-alumni non-linkedin contacts that I’m in play.
Week 6: Now, grow up, get over it, pull up your big boy shorts, and get to serious work. What IS the UVP and USP that I am trying to exploit.
>And, outside of your network, what job search tactics will you employ?
Machine gun mass mailing of it (resumes) to public lists.
Shotgun it to some various subset of good companies.
Rifle shots it at key targets of known entities.
Pistol shots putting it up close at personal networking meetings.
Job search is WAR. Hence the metaphor!
>Or your best networking tips related to job searches.
Awareness, prior to being nuked, that it could happen. The first Sunday morning of every month should have an hour dedicated to the topic. Fore warned is fore armed! Or is that four armed.
https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/
turkey-seekers-need-a-monthly-staff-meeting/
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yfebmh
Establish which of your value propositions that you are going to sell by market testing. Test, test, and test! It’s not your opinions that count, it’s evidence that leads to results.
Follow a sales funnel approach. Selling yourself is not different than selling any other product or service. No, no, no, … … YES! It just wading thru the NOs to get to the YES.
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Reinke Faces Life 
Hi there, John. I came over here via the Blog Carnival. Interesting response.
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