JOBSEARCH: How do you fit “work” into your real work!

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

>”When do top networkers work?”

I don’t regard my self as a “very good networker”; some will argue with me that I’m better at it than they are. BUT I don’t regard that as an appraisal; just an urging to try harder. Some of my concepts are: differentiating “networks” by objective, measuring “days outstanding” by group, and “build it; they will come”. Those make me look more like a “very good networker” than the shy fellow I really am.

So, I can say that this mediocre networker works every chance he gets. I try to multitask, innovate, and use “power” whenever I can.

Part of the realization that I came to after I was fired for the first time, (Quite a shock to a kid who grew up with the concept of lifetime employment in a big company. Where only drunks, thieves, and philanderers were fired! So what was I? Just unlucky.), was that my most important “job” was finding my “next job”. If you adopt the “me, myself, and I incorporated” mentality, then networking is “working”. Finding the next job is the highest priority. Sorry to say that, even if you sacrifice the oft-cited kid’s softball game, dance recital, skool play, even if you give it “all” to mother company for that paycheck, even if you bleed company ink, it ain’t gonna matter when the layoff notices come.

You have to realize the cold hard facts.

=> You have to generate value to keep retaining value (You deserve a “pay check” today. Do You?). [[I think that was the ‘work” you were asking about!]]

=> You have to keep your head screwed on straight as to what is your long term value generation strategy (Where do I retain value tomorrow?).

=> You have to think about how you retain some of that value for yourself (No margin; no mission).

=> You have to think about WHERE you’ll find that situation that allows you to retain it (How will I sell myself?) going forward.

=> You have to ANTICIPATE what will change (Silent traumatic violent changes will upset your nice plans?) in the future.

IMHO “working” on one thing must be integrated, mutiltasked, folded into the overall activities of the day.

When someone is “networking”, then IMHO they are “working” on facets #2, #3, #4, and #5!

All I can say is that goodness for long boring mandatory attendance conference calls that give considerable time for introspection.

From my point of view, as a big fat old turkey,
Fjohn

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PRODUCTIVITY: Don’t sent to the “dog pound” by LinkedIn

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

I notified 7 of my contacts that they have been “pounded”. I don’t think they could know that they had been “pounded” by any other method than by someone telling them. (The commercial “even you best friends won’t tell you” comes to mind. Yeah, I know, too much teevee!)

So why don’t you check your LinkedIn contacts and see if any are pounded. (Maybe I’ve been pounded and I don’t know it?) It seems like a cheap way to add value to your networking relationships.

Here’s what I sent:

Your profile has been sent to the “dog pound” by LinkedIn. I think you need to take some action on that, but I don’t know what to tell you.

Is Your Profile Ending Up In The Linkedin Dog Pound?
Posted by: “Vincent Wright”
Tue Nov 7, 2006 10:01 pm (PST)

Because of the way the symbol for it is pronounced, I think of the “#” Section of Linkedin’s Remove Connections as “The Dog Pound” . (Some may think this a good name for certain types of profiles. :-))

In case you’re not familiar with the “#” Section on Linkedin, it’s located at the end of the alphabetized list of your contacts at: http://www.linkedin.com/connections?displayBreakConnections

You and I cannot place any contacts in this area. Profiles are assigned there by Linkedin’s contact algorithm based on certain types of elements
being present in the name field – I believe.

Food For Thought: Some people may use this as a way to clean up “weak” connections en masse. If this happens, your profile may unintentionally be removed even by a connection who may know you pretty well as a “strong” connection.

—
Thanks!
Vincent Wright
Chief Encouragement Officer

Feel free to steal!

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RANT: NJ property tax “relief”

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

JimG on 1015 was on the bandwagon this morning saying that there were three state senators that deserved kudos for their actions in this joke in trenton.

I prefer to judge the entire corpus on what it produces … nothing, nada, nyet.

An unconstitutional income test on property tax relief.

Even over and above that it is unconstitutional, it’s more progressive socialism right out of the Communist manifesto.

The same day the news broke that state worker benefits cost 2 billion this year and are unfunded by 80 billion over some time period.

If I was in Trenton, then I say “Sorry, we can’t afford to pay benefits. Sorry, we can’t afford pensions. Sorry we can’t afford this nonsensical public government education. Sorry, we can’t afford the dole.”

Dual office holding would end, tomorrow. Pick your favorite job and that’s it. Freeze retirements. Age becomes 65! Pensions, no. 401k, yes. Benefits, phase out.

It’s my way or the highway.

Oh, and can that feather brained scheme. Selling the highway to give the politicians more money to blow. “I”, the New Jersey Taxpayer paid to build it. Why sell it? So, I can pay more for it again. Are you idiots out of your collective minds?

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