Reinke Faces Life

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/
2006/12/01/8394967/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote

http://tinyurl.com/w5hhh

A MySpace for grown-ups
Social networking has been great for the kids, but not of much use to business – until now. With Reid Hoffman’s MySpace-for-grown-ups at a tipping point, these days you’re either LinkedIn or left out.
Business 2.0 Magazine
By Michael V. Copeland, Business 2.0 Magazine senior writer
December 3 2006: 2:38 PM EST

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LinkedIn is a three-year-old service that takes your personal business network online. People don’t use it to discover new bands or track down a date – there’s nothing social about this network.

LinkedIn is all about business: recruiting, sales, investment. It’s not exactly a marketplace or a job site but rather a community of more than 8 million people who rely on one another to get things done.

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IMHO it’s a better resource than Monster, Yahoo Jobs, or any “job” site.

http://infoworlditexecconnect.leveragesoftware.com/mypage.aspx

Infoworld has its own version of LinkedIn

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InfoWorld is expanding the ways we help you connect and communicate with industry peers, product and systems experts, and InfoWorld staff through an exciting new service, InfoWorld IT Exec-Connect! This free service includes unique online matching tools that will help you:

* Expand Your Network – Search, match and connect with other members.
* Schedule Times to Connect – Plan online or offline meetings.
* Build Business Relationships – Grow your network of industry contacts.

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Let’s see what it accomplishes. Or, rather, what value I can extract from it!

http://www.careerjournal.com/jobhunting/networking/
20030211-osemarin.html?cjpartner=mktw

http://tinyurl.com/y5uszm

Networking Strategies For Shy Professionals
By Judy Rosemarin

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Unlike extroverts, you aren’t energized by contact with others. Frankly, you prefer being alone.

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I’m not sure that is how I’d describe it. But from childhood, we were trained “to be rarely seen and not heard”.

As an ITSJ, techies are used to working on tough technical problems. Heads down. Fingers to keyboard. And, you get used to it.

Vista Print will, from time to time, actually print some for free if you let them advertise on the back. I’d suggest that you need different “cards” for the different types of positions you are trying to target. You do have different resumes for each genre; why not cards? If you’re hard pressed for bucks, you can print your own from that card stock they sell at the OfficeWhatever store, even though in the long run that costs more, and looks worse. So what if you throw them away. Ready, Fire, Aim!

http://www.billbelknap.com/tips.php

TIPS & FUN

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If you are interested in receiving our free Survival Kit, complete the form below and you will automatically receive an email with a link to the kit:

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He offers a survival kit.

http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/archives/192#respond

Carnival Entry from Peter Clayton – TotalPictures.com
November 7th, 2006

Peter is the man with the microphone. Peter Clayton doesn’t have a “blog” – he has a podcast site.

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Sixth. File for unemployment benefits immediately!

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With all due respect, I list this as a waste of time. For other than the factory hands, it’s just not a good use of time.

For example, in one of my transitions, filing for the unemployment benefits in NY by a NJ resident required FOUR in-person visits and repeated under oath certifications that no activity was engaged in that MIGHT be considered “consulting, contracting, or collecting other economic benefit EVEN IF NO TAXABLE INCOME is earned or money is exchanged”. Sheesh! Who writes this stuff?

On another transition (I’ve been “out” seven times in XXXX years! Let’s call it several decades. I’m planning to be “earning” until I FINALLY land … in my grave. That’s the only time you can stop preparing, worrying, and networking!), I took thirteen hours to collect two checks for a total of $800! (I followed the outplacement counselor’s advice and did it. By the time, I collected my second check, I had a new and better job. I TOLD the counselor what I thought of his advice. He said I was “lucky”. I’d call it “focused”. Your Mileage May Vary!)

I think you just have to write this money off as “government theft”. To chase it, takes your eyes off the prize to begin again generating value, and retaining some of that value for yourself.

imho

/RANT ON/

I personally think that, like extended warranties, if someone came to you with the Government’s Unemployment Insurance, you’d laugh them out of town. First of all, ask any insurance underwriter, they will tell you that it is not an “insurable risk”. It’s unavoidable (i.e., happens to everyone) and avoidable (i.e., your personal conduct can influence the outcome). It’s not beyond your control. It’s not random. And, insurance spreads out risk across a pool and levels the cost, so why would someone be in that pool with you.

This is a government scam. It creates a tax that can masquerade as “insurance”. They get a pot of money to employ and reward themselves, their relatives, their friends, and most importantly their campaign contributors. All at the expense of the people who can afford it least. We don’t get a chance to look under the covers at income and out go, but if we use gut feeling then 75% of the “premiums” extracted are wasted. Also, it makes everyone a “welfare queen”.

It is especially despicable to force the working poor to pay such a tax. They’d be better off getting ALL their money. They can make their own decisions as to what is best for them.

If it was an insurable risk, needed, and demanded, why don’t we see insurance companies, banks, brokerages, and credit unions offer such insurance?

/RANT OFF/

http://digg.com/business_finance/
Grab_You_s_some_Popped_Corn/who

http://tinyurl.com/trwss

If you liked it, you should “pile on”.

I saw an ad on Dice the piqued my interest.

So I went to my Job Seeker’s PIM and said hmmm, let me plug in my ad.

But I really couldn’t do it.

So I said to self, “Self, perhaps the metaphor is wrong?” I was aghast. Such disloyalty. Oh wait, I’m just an unpaid volunteer, trying to help. I can’t be disloyal or wrong. I’m the USER!

Perhaps, the seeker’s model is that there is a think called “ADs”. It has a key of date first seen. And, the seeker may want to capture it for awhile. Maybe forever. And, can’t link it to anything. But yet when the call comes out of the blue from a hunter or HRer, then the seeker would really like to know what set of lies … errr, legends that were told to get some interest.

So, associated with an ad, might be a resume, a cover letter, a recruiter, a company. Or none.

My favorite Jobseeker’s PIM doesn’t accommodate that.

A lot of room for improvement here.

http://www.JibberJobber.com

Jason Alba

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So what are the main things that you learned/took away from this carnival?

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Remember I said that I read the entries “carefully”.

What I did was create that OPML of the participant’s blogs, pushed into a Google Reader, and read, not only their entry, but everything that the reader would show me from their blog.

So, what I learned from the carnival that there were 13 people that I never knew before that I could learn from. (I was already reading Slim’s Escape from Cubicle Nation!)

The long term benefit of the carnival is the new sources of DIKW that I have now “gathered”.

Here’s some detailed observations that I “collected” as well!

=== BEGIN OBSERVATIONS ===

Alba

So many great blog posts from a lot of folks I had not known of in the past.

FJR> Hmmm, people will give you their best thinking if you ask!

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Blomgren

Someone once said that “nothing focuses one’s mind more than the sound of bullets whizzing past.” Anyone who has been laid off can tap into this energy, if they try to. The key is doing it methodically.

FJR> Methodically! I need more and better meth!

==

Chapman

Exploring the Candidate Bill of Rights

FJR> Unthinkable! Candidate’s rights?

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Crane

Thinking back over the experience, I asked myself how Nate had created such a perfect buying experience for us. His questions were the key. Through his questions, he found our exact need, then provided a great solution for the need.

FJR> Steal this concept!

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Driscoll

Entrepreneurship and generating passive income through blogs, products, speaking, consulting.

FJR> Either next, or the one after that. (Before WalMart greeter!)

===

Duncan

I can see now that he was right – because I never regained my interest or focus, and that potential is no longer a part of my life.

FJR> Decisions cut off other avenues. “Choose wisely”

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Fluscher

Pick a strategy, tweak it here and there, and you’ll have better success than aimlessly bouncing the ball around.

FJR> Don’t have one? I need my next two strategies, Now!

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Handlin

Before writing your essays draft a few thoughts on paper for each question.

FJR> If I’d have done that, maybe I’d have won Jason’s car. Or produced a better essay.

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Herrick

Your best shot at fast employment is still your current employer.

FJR> Disagree. You’re damaged goods! But, suck everything dry before it happens!

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Ingram

There’s almost always a reason why they haven’t been as visible. This is a great opportunity to find out why.

FJR> I try an age my contacts, but I could should, must do, better.

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Johnson

My skills are not as current as I’d like them to be.

FJR> Me2; so what do I do!?!

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LaRose

Play up how your skill sets and abilities are exactly what the company needs in order to maximize, optimize, advantagize (is that a word?).

FJR> Need 2 advantagize!

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Neitham

Always insist on obtaining either verbally and/or in writing his/her response and commitment to the job offer.

FJR> Make them pay for it!

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Reinke

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 of is the one that is in the bank”.

FJR> My best idea!

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Safani

Attend Events

FJR> But I’m a lazy ITSJ!

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Singer

ALWAYS be thankful (very thankful!) to anyone

FJR> Even BEFORE they help!

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Slim

Always know the 2 things you want to learn each quarter.

FJR> Great Idea!

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Windley

Contextual Authority Tagging is the use of folksonomy to discover and define cognitive authority through reputation within communities of users.

FJR> Wow, how can I exploit that insight?

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Yoest

Morgan Fairchild Marketing is composed of Reach, Frequency and Awareness.

FJR> And knock out beauty. How as a FOWG can I overcome that?

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http://showfile.file.sc/23632/K4cR0vX7/20061106_carnival.htm

I put all the feeds in an OPML.

You can just vacuum that file into your reader and read all the wisdom.

Now maybe I’ll win Alba’s car?

http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/archives/191

Here’s a “carnival”. It has the thinking of some very smart people, and Jason even posted my entry in that elite company. (He probably felt sorry for my modest effort.)

Basically, we were all supposed to respond to the “You just lost your job; what do you do” question.

Oh, oh, OH! I know, I know, first I clear the airway, check to see if the patient is breathing, and then begin compressions. Oh, wrong test.

Seriously, 14 “contestants” submitted entries to the carnival. I’ve read all the entries, and mine isn’t the best. Which one do you think is?

Even I learned some things by reading each entry carefully.

Some after-deadline ones are coming in. I’m planning to read those as well.

One can’t always take “free advice”, but in this case, I suggest that everyone who is “in” take, make, and / or dedicate time to this wake up call.

METHODOLOGY: Plan to deal with the “noise” … …

… … take out the “trash”!

Here’s a classic example of non-traditional spam. I received three of these. So to me, that makes it spam. If I had only gotten one, I’d have been duped. SO here’s some points:

(1) It’s non-specific. It alludes to a “great job”, but doesn’t personalize what it is.

(2) It came in on the “right” email address. Addressed as “Ferdinand” *a sure tip off that the person has NEVER interacted with me.

(3) Taking the link brings you to a general jobsearch site with all the typical tools and advertisements and popups. So, the “jobs” are probably scraped off other sites.

Like with most spam, unsubscribe is a joke. Outlook’s spam filter is my choice.

That’s my take. YMMV FWIW
Fjohn
The Big Turkey

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From: Andrea Tucker [mailto:Andrea@amazingcareer2006.com]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 12:50 PM
To:
Subject: job of interest

Dear Ferdinand,

Based on your background and experience, we believe that you may be interested in one or more positions recently posted by our corporate clients. Please take a look at these recently posted opportunities. You can view the jobs in detail and submit your resume by clicking the links below. Our client is currently hiring for several positions across the country.

Job Match 1

More Jobs

Best Regards,

Andrea Tucker

To unsubscribe from further emails please select this link. 2981 Ford St Oburg, Ny 13669

For example, I went to my Job Seeker’s PIM and said hmmm, let me toss in some VCFs and some text files

For example:

==> “Reinke, F. John”.vcf

==> Some alumni htm files

==> some linked in files

A room for improvement here.

STRATEGY: “findability” is a key element …

… for passive seekers.

There’s a pretty good dialog going on over at [LinkedInnovators] a Yahoo Group I belong to. See “Digest Number 503” Over the value of LInkedIn in a job search.

One of my favorite topics!

LINKEDIN is a cross between the yellow pages for professionals and an ersatz networking tool.

I haven’t figured out the value for me yet. If there is any?

But two things I took out of the discussion:

(1) Get your linkedin profile on your resume with a substantive number of contacts and some endorsements. Thinking outside the box on your profile is more acceptable than on your resume (i.e., pity plays well — my dog died AND hobbies count towards the value proposition).

(2) Participate in the inet groups as a passive strategy to get recognition.

FWIW
Fjohn

ISTJ – “Trustee”. Decisiveness in practical affairs. Guardian of time- honored institutions. Dependable. 11.6% of total population.
Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI)

http://similarminds.com/

Now where is the check box for crotchety old pia?

Chatted with Vincent Wright about my idea, LINKEDIN by ZIPCODE.

Once I established the rationale, that New Jersey or any mass transit challenged area, had limits on the ability to get like-minded folks together. I thought that LINKEDIN-ites who live or work in a particular zip code could get together if they could find each other. By creating yahoo groups, similar to the one Vincent has created for bloggers and power users, by zip code, we could over come the challenge of geography. Hence the concept of LINKEDINzipcode is launched.

So, for example, LINKEDIN90210 would be for Beverly Hills CA. If they have a fool to try and start it.

So, I’ve created LINKEDIN08824 and LINKEDIN08054.

Now, all I have to get, or make, are snazzy badges!

I challenged a bilingual baby turkey-ette to send out twenty letters and resumes in her second language to some targets that I picked out.

The bet is that I’d pay the postage if she did it and didn’t get a good response.

She got her first rejection today. Nineteen chances to go. Will I be twenty bucks poor or be acclaimed as the Biggest Turkey in all Turkey-dom.

In my stupidity, I think if your fluent in a second language that you should flaunt it.

We’ll see if I’m out of luck.

Time for the special prayer to Saint Anthony, the patron saint of hopeless causes.

Dear Saint Anthony come around some thing’s been lost and needs to be found.

I’ll pull out all the stops. I can’t afford to be shown up here.

I’ll have to consult the owner’s manual: does Saint Anthony do “job search”?

Hmmm! Where’s the FAQ!

http://execunet.blogspot.com/2006/10/
executive-leadership-whatever-that-may_31.html

http://tinyurl.com/svjek

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Inspiring (Washington, Lincoln, Truman, Kennedy) and some of them despising (Hitler, Stalin, Ebbers, Lay)

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Well, I’ll quibble about the exemplars, both positive and negative.

Let’s start with the areas of agreement:

Clearly Washington is great positive. Even though he wasn’t the greatest general, suffered from depression, lied to Congress (setting a precedent!), but was happy to be President but not King.

On the negative side, Stalin killed enough people to make Hitler look inept. Stalin had the new American Socialists to cheer lead for him hence he’s not viewed as the ogre he was. History has a way of eventually getting to the truth.

I’ll quibble with rest as “Leaders”.

To me, to earn the appellation “Leader”, one not only has to “lead”, but one has to be “authentic”. Note, I’m not saying they have to be “right”, but they can’t deliberately do “wrong”.

Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, like the current President. Truman dropped the bomb. Kennedy pretended to be a Catholic. Hitler was inefficient when compared to Stalin. Ebbers and Lay just were just common thieves.

Some “leaders” that I would revere are (in a rough order of magnitude) Gandhi, MLK, Pope John 23, Mother Theresa, Pope John Paul 2, Margaret Thatcher and Elinore Roosevelt.

I think that Leadership is inspirational. It gets you going. It’s motivational. It’s smart in being able to divine the correct path that takes the civilization to a better place. We have to be very careful who we designate as a Leader because it gives them tremendous power for good or for evil. I think that “leadership” is as rare as the proverbial hen’s teeth. Managers, pretending to be leaders, are a common as rodents.

No wonder everyone’s looking for it in so many venues.

http://www.thinkfree.com

ThinkFree is web-based tool.

For seekers, who are “out”, this might be a way to get a “microsoft office” clone that wouldn’t require having your own pc or paying for software.

In my thinking, the baby turkey doesn’t want to start the computing trek right after getting nuked, by having to go buy a computer. Basically, they go from using their employer’s to having to select, operate, and learn their own.

(One reason why I tell turkeys who are “in” to address this need before they are put “out”.)

I’m sure that they take the easy way out — when they have so MANY other problems — and just replicate what they had at their employer. That drops a bundle when they can least afford it.

Anyway, ThinkFree could fill the niche for computing need without investment. For example, usually the local library, or any library, has internet access for free. And there are inet cafes around.

The money that a baby turkey would drop on a replacement of the employer’s desktop would buy many library or inet cafe sessions. Or, at the very least, allow them to buy the cheapest computer and inet connection.

For seekers, who are “in” and not delusional that their current gig will last for ever, this may be a solution to lots of issues. Want to write and send an email without leaving a trace on your work top? Want to send an email from your worktop with out using your employer’s email.

I was recently challenged about thinking that a person has an obligation to explain why they are leaving a social networking group. I thought I should capture that answer in my blog.

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> but why in the world would anyone have to explain
>why they were leaving any group, whether social networking

Well, I can think of a few reasons. Some are “why should I”, “why could I”, “why it would be nice if I did”, and one “why I must”.

Let me see if any of this makes sense.

ONE: I think that when one joins a group, even if it is free, and partakes of the benefits of that group, then you OWE an explanation for leaving. If you pay for the group, then you have less of that obligation. The more you pay the less you’re obligated imho.

TWO: I think that it is common courtesy, like saying “please” and “thank you”. It’s a rarity these days in the world of headhunting and jobsearching, which imho constitutes the big usage or big value of LinkedIn. Hence “they” — the hunters and seekers — are bringing that “ethics” of rudeness into the Yahoo Groups.

THREE: It is educational. I’m a big fan of the Johari Window. So, this fellow, leaving, has certain insights (DIKW) that we could benefit from. If he had said why, then perhaps I could have learned in my quest for the “value in linkedin”. By leaving no note behind as he committed virtual suicide, I’m left guessing. (I don’t do well with ambiguity. I r an injineer. I need explicit facts and formulas. I don’t watch the poker shows because I NEED to see the rabbit card (the remaining cards being dealt) to KNOW how the soap opera would have played out.)

FOUR: He may have had friends and acquaintances in the group that would need some closure.

FIVE: It’s always somewhat satisfying to read someone ranting about this or that, as they stomp out the door. Even more satisfying when they sheepishly creep back in admitting they were wrong.

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Comments?

http://www.networkworld.com/careers/2006/
101606-career-cio-tips.html?netht=101606netflash

Create your own career destiny
Three CIOs share tips for advancing in your profession.

Management Strategies By Sandra Gittlen, Network World, 10/16/06

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Bill Leo began his career putting paper in printers at a Fortune 100 firm. Greg Morrison started out as a commissioned officer doing project management in the Army Signal Corps. And Scott Townsend used a background in economics as a springboard into IT.

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It doesn’t matter how you start. It does matter how you finish.

It’s an interesting read.

IMHO if we had more techies in CIO positions and more business people as CTOs, our industry would be better off.

What does one tell a new turkey about learning the ropes? (A new turkey is a now unemployed person who has yet to realize that, de facto, they are a turkey!)

When this one turkey contacted me for help, he seemed pretty far up on the learning curve. He had a networking profile! Although he didn’t call it that. He thought it was just a short one page resume that he used for “non specific job opportunities”. But, that’s for another email.

So, it wasn’t long (less than a week), that I saw something that clicked his name in my mind. (I put any active turkey’s networking profile on my wall — not for them — to remind me it’ll be my turn soon!) The email’s quoted below. I immediately drop kicked to him. My thinking was that just because it wasn’t spot on, it was a GREAT opportunity in several dimensions.

My thought was that he could springboard off it to: (1) make contact with one of my silver hunters for future consideration; (2) learn everything he could about the 18 other opportunities that she said she was trying to source; (3) identify all those companies or agencies who were hiring; (4) identify all those supplier, customers, competitors, and cooperators who might have needs. AND (5) possibly trigger an idea for a new product, service, or niche that he could exploit.

Because he was presenting (A term I like from the TV show ER) like an experienced turkey, I did NOT go into this level of detail. I just mumbled something about it not being “spot on” but “exploitable”.

He kicked it back with he didn’t want to do intra-week travel on a steady basis.

First, he was focused tactically; I was thinking strategically.

Second, in consulting, there’s travel, and then there’s “travel”. I had a consulting job with 100% travel, and never left the tri-state area. What they meant was that you didn’t have an office. I was either working from my in home office or the client prem. So, he closed it down without learning what does travel really mean. (I was “out” when that consulting gig said “100% travel” and I was hungry enough to say “yes, but what does that mean?”!)

Third, he missed the point. Early in the jobsearch, you want a huge sales funnel. Premature pruning of leads eliminates all possibilities.

If you have and use a methodology, then you won’t do this. It used to be, when I was “out”, and I may well be “out” again, to never say “no”. That wasn’t my job. My job was to be always saying “yes”. “yes, maybe”, “yes, perhaps”, “yes what if”, but always “yes”.

When we hit them saying “no”, that’s when I would stop. (Usually because there was nothing further to be gained.) But not before I drained every drop of value.

A premature “no” in this case denied him the chance to find out who this silver hunter knew, to learn what he truly might not know that no one can tell him, and to practice the craft of interviewing.

(Yeah, yeah, you know what’s coming … a long boring lecture on the Johari window.)

https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/06/08/turkey-the-joseph-luft-and-harry-ingham-window-aka-the-johari-window/

We don’t know what we don’t know. Watch the quiz shows when someone gets a question wrong that they were 100% dead certain they knew. We need to minimize that column (i.e., that which we can’t see).

So, I would suggest that all turkeys always need to be thinking strategically and that a methodology will help you do that. It can be Lucht’s, Parachute’s, or a roll your own. The methodology will help decide when it is safe to safe “nah!”, “ney”, “nyet”, “no”, or “are you kidding me”.

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From: A Silver Headhunter
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 12:42 PM
To: John Reinke http://public.2idi.com/=reinkefj
Subject: Can you recommend someone for this job?

If you have a moment, I’d appreciate your help. Please take a look and forward this job on to anyone you think would be interested in the position, or anyone else who could help me find a great candidate.

We also have needs for the following types of people:

BLAH, blah, blah.

Thanks for your help!
-Lauren

Company: Management Consulting Firm
Job Title: ASSOCIATE PARTNER-OPERATIONS STRATEGY
FOR MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Description: INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE: Defense & Aerospace; Manufacturing, Automotive, or Hi-Tech
LOCATIONS: Most Major Cities
TRAVEL: Mon- Fri

The Candidate must meet the following requirements to be considered qualified:

BLAH, Blah, blah

COMPENSATION: 165-200K + bonus (35%)

———-

This email was sent to you by XYZ through LinkedIn because XYZ thought you might be interested in this job opening or know people who would be interested in applying.

If you wish to change how you receive future job notifications, please click here.

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STRATEGY: How well does your Unique Value Equation sell …
… … this post, for students, works well for seekers too … imho.

http://www.nichegeek.com/
why_youll_never_get_rich_studying_
african_feminism_in_the_19th_century

http://tinyurl.com/ycsaq3

Why you’ll never get rich studying African feminism in the 19th century
By BEN STEIN

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For students slogging their way through school, here are the merest hints of how you can and cannot reach that top 1 percent, that place where you are paid well even if you make mistakes:

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When I talk to baby turkeys, I try to get them to see the uniqueness I see. Everybody has something (Mine must be my ability to pontificate!) that sets them apart.

But that’s not enough.

One of my unique value propositions is that “I can make three different type of paper airplanes that will fly”.

It’s unique. It has value. And, it’s an equation.

BUT is there are market for it.

Sadly know. As usual, there are people who can do it better, faster, cheaper, and have written books about it.

So, this particular pontification is about taking your UVE and creating a Unique Sales Proposition.

How can I propose creating value for you with my paper planes ability and retain for myself some of that value I create for you?

That’s a USP.

What’s yours?

From: John Reinke http://public.2idi.com/=reinkefj
To: Vincent Wright
Sent on: October 19, 2006
Category: New Venture

LINKEDIN … ZIPCODE

Vincent,

As the Lord High Poobah of the LinkedIn XXX Yahoo Group genre, if you would like to create a LinkedInBYZipcode, LinkedIn08824, and LinkedIn08054. then I’d be happy to “help”. Consistent with the high standards I’ve seen in the three groups I frequent, I promise to (1) be kind to the clueless; (2) be firm with the rule breakers; and (3) obsessively thankful for you showing me how to get some value out of LinkedIn.

Respond if you think it’s a good idea. And, where can we get those snazzy linkedin badges.

?

http://socialtech.ca/ade/index.php/2006/10/unqualified-enthusiasm/

Unqualified Enthusiasm

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This was sent to me by a friend who works at an advertising agency. They have a job opening in their research department, and they received this email cover letter along with a resume from someone applying for the job (I have removed the names and email addresses of the people involved, everything else is word for word):

<extra stuff deleted>

I’m able to use a computer (sending this email is proof) and I work well with others. Another one of the benefits I bring to the table is I never have a problem with customer service. I have returned many items with no to little questions asked. I must have one of those faces people trust. I don’t cook, so most of the meals I eat are cold, and raw… so sushi is cool too.

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What a hoot! But, it’s probably fake. Everyone has spel chekers!

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000703.html

Many people can’t find the value in LinkedIn.

I think it is:

(1) making yourself findable (i.e., to headhunters);

(2) finding others (i.e., to solve “problems” or exploit “opportunities”; and

(3) strengthening weak bonds.

There are 398 Yahoo Groups about LinkedIn. Here’s the list:

http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=LinkedIn&sc=0&sg=0&ss=1

Here are the ones that I have found are useful.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LICM/

LICM is especially for users of the LinkedIn Contacts Management Application developed by Arnnei Speiser of Mega AS Consulting Ltd.

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyLinkedinPowerForum/

Linkedin Power Forum is to help Linkedin users power up their networking in order to do business better. To do business better, we need to communicate better, faster, and WITH LESS STRESS! Communication is POWER – and at 7.5 million users, Linkedin represents a LOT of power for you!

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkedinBloggers/

LinkedIn Bloggers is a forum for discussing how blogging and related technologies, such as podcasting, video blogging (vlogging)and wikis can support members’ professional networking using LinkedIn.

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