Do you ever have different people address different Unique Value Propositions?

Friday, February 10, 2006

I personally have identified SEVEN different UVPs that I “offer”.

I have seven different resumes (actually 14 – 7 pairs of functional to hide my age and traditional chronological) to advance selling those UVPs.

Remember a search is about stages. You don’t go from “needing a new job” to “having a new job”. You start by “recognition”.

You have to progress to “this is what I can offer” or “this is what I want to do”. Here’s where the feedback loop begins.

You may be offering X and worst case there is no market for X. Or, the market for X doesn’t pay you what you want, want you where you want to be, or has other facets that you haven’t considered.

So, you HAVE to (imho and this is my pov and your mileage may vary) define what peanuts you want to peddle. You should ALSO define your geographic comfort zone and your financial comfort zone.

In my case, I said that my Geographic Comfort Zone was NYC/NJ because I have to be there for my mom. That was my number one constraint. And, because my my wife has the first dollar she ever earned and many of the ones after that, my money demands were secondary. So, I said my Financial Comfort Zone was: X$ for a 30 minute NJ drive, 150%ofX$ for more than 30 minutes, 200% for NYC (It’s basically a three hour round trip commute and you have no life but weekends), and would consider for the right Big Bucks oppty an intra area relo say to South Jersey, North Jersey, parts of upstate NY, CT,  or into NYC.

AND, then you have to look at every opportunity using that filter.

At times, I have been what I call an “interview slut”. I shamelessly was chasing opptys for the practice or desperation. As I got older and smarter, I just flat out didn’t want to waste my valuable time doing that.

Note well, my current job was geographically correct and the original job $ was below my target. I went on the interviews and they were impressed enough to up the ante to very close to my number. I felt good enough about the perks that I closed on it. It was about 6k off from my target.

So don’t be afraid to pursue something that appears not to fit. BUT don’t invest a lot into the obvious misfits.

Again free advice is worth what you pay for it. Your mileage may vary. 

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When some one asked me “Can you endorse me on LinkedIn?”, I replied … …

Friday, February 10, 2006

Sure. When I solicit endorsements, I usually prompt people with my “unique value proposition” and some thoughts about what I think they might think. Has to be done gently, but it helps people. And it gets what I am trying to accomplish across.

So for example, if you are trying to sell the value proposition “managing tech info into effective and efficient projects” then I’d talk about a technical project. If on the other hand, you are trying to sell the “ensuring that projects are achievable as well as effective and efficient”, I’d talk about “doing something hard for the business with the added global complications”.

So what are you trying to sell and what should we use as the example? It’s only 400 characters so we have to get it crisp as well as right.

 

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Using LinedIn for networking

Thursday, February 9, 2006

OK, it is time to see if LinkedIn can be used for anything other than a giant resume resource for headhunters. BTW it appear that Linkedin is going to try to monetize all the people that they have on it. A million people time $50/year is $50 mil. That will pay off a lot of VCs. Fourteen groups, with a standard email, and track the sucess. Sucess is measured by some a positive response. The first batch is 31 minus 5 excludes is 25. So far three positive.

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Getting turkeys to recognize the value imperative.

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

We don’t work!

We generate value, retaining some small portion for ourselves. Anything that threatens our retention is a critical concern.

To a lesser extent when the relationship between value liberated and value retained changes, OR is PERCEIVED to change, the entire generation process is at risk. All we can count on is that retained value which is cleared in our bank. Bonuses, 401k contributions, options, perks, defered salary, and or anything else can be not given, called back, or changed.

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Activities as a “turkey” spurred by a colleague

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

When one is no longer sure that you can “keep extracting vlue while retaining some for yourself” in your current instantiation, one begins to prepare for the inevitable.

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An old employee of mine told me that he’s been told to find another job

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Argh. But it brings to mind an old mind map.

 http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/Continued_value_extraction_with_partial_retention.jpg

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“gentle” or “passive” networking

Sunday, February 5, 2006

Well, thinking about the upcoming reorg, it makes me want to start a gentle sifting or networking. Execunet, (http://www.execunet.com), my favorite “job” site, has 17 Jaspers on it. Maybe I should contact them with my networking profile? I’m thinking about how to approach them. Do they get my jottings or are they on LinkedIn. It’s got to be sensitive.

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cnn article makes a good point

Sunday, February 5, 2006

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2006/02/01/8367527/index.htm

Remember, your earning power is the single most valuable financial asset you control over your lifetime, more than your house or your investment portfolio. You can’t afford to let it be compromised by … … 

… … ANYTHING!

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Every Turkeys should have a side

Saturday, February 4, 2006

http://goalsuccess.typepad.com/goaltips/2006/01/diversify_your_.html

This fellow makes the exact point that I have been telling anyone who will listen. I worked with a fellow who was IT fellow who did wood working as a hobby on the side. When we were downsized, he just took on extra work in his “hobby” and never looked back. Others like me flailed around a little before landing. The model for sucess is to have a skill and an education and remember the only paycheck you are sure of is the one you just cashed. imho

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TECHNOLOGY data encryption protection

Wednesday, February 1, 2006

METHODOLOGY  ***
STRATEGY         ***
TACTICS            ***
TECHNOLOGY     data encryption protection
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Dear fellow turkey,
 
http://www.truecrypt.org/

In these days of bad things happening to good people, I would like to recommend that everyone who uses a keyboard think about what happens if … …

… … some one steals, repossesses, or otherwise removes from your control the computer you use. It can be your working desktop in your office. It can be your employer’s notebook that they have “loaned” you for the term of your employment. It can be your personal desktop at home. It can be your personal notebook that you lug around with you. Or, if you’re like me, it could be anyone of a number of computers that you touch in a day’s time.

Clearly, if some one steals your employer’s property, then it would be nice if there wasn’t much they could do with it. [You obviously wouldn’t make the mistake of keeping anything personal on something you don’t own! Would you?]

Clearly, if some one steals your personal property, then it would be nice if there wasn’t much that they could do with it. [You obviously wouldn’t make the mistake of keeping anything of your employers on something he isn’t paying for! Would you?]

Now here we have an interesting requirement. For different reasons, we want a computer to be as useful as a brick if it falls into the wrong hands. Change of employment status is just one reason why you might want to sanitize a computer before it embarrass you.

Never fear, the big turkey is here, with a solution, that is, of course, free.

So think about the opportunity and consider taking this baby out for a spin. I always recommend good backups whenever one plays with encryption. But, it definitely can make you sleep just a bit easier when things go south.

FWIW, your mileage may vary, all free advice is just that,
Fjohn
yet another fellow turkey
just bigger and dumber

 

 

 

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