2 Great Resources for Job Hunters and the People Who Help Them Succeed!

Two great resources for your job hunting...
Start the New Year - move on to your future... here


 https://www.createspace.com/5076094

The Job Hunting HERO Method: For Hunters and the People Who Help Them Succeed.
 https://www.createspace.com/5076094

The Job Hunting ToolKit I - IV: Dozens of exercises for all Job Hunters.
https://www.createspace.com/5157706


More coming your way in the new year... soon!

Essentials: JobHunt Lesson 6: Bees Can't Fly and You Can't Work?

Lesson 6: Bees Can't Fly, You Can't Work and Other Lies

Yup, for years there was a theory that the little bug, bees, could not possibly fly. Scientists and other really-smart-people said that these round, tubby creatures with itty-bitty wings can't physically or aerodynamically fly.  

They do, the story goes, because nobody told them they can't.  If somehow we would get word to the bees that they cannot possibly fly and that they should just stop trying, then millions of bees would suddenly fall out of the sky never to fly again. 

What Bees teach you in your job hunt...

In the 1990’s, scientists used really...slow...motion...film to show that bees actually had adapted a way of beating their wings that was unique – not up and down but in a circular motion that made what had been thought impossible to be possible. 

Let us Talk about YOU: 

Do you ever hear that there are things you can't do because you are too short, fat, old, dumb, bald, poor or just too (fill-in-the-blank)??  Others say the same sad things over & over to you or worse yet, maybe you are saying them to yourself.  

Repeating these lies about who you are and what you are capable of can limit you so that you may never “fly” to where you are capable of. 

Back to my original point – if bees didn’t fly, 

think of the flowers that would never get pollinated, 

the honey that would never be made – 

we are all better off because bees do not worry about 

what they “cannot” do and they have adapted a new way 

because they thought they CAN. 

How about you?  The world would be a sadder place if you do not take the steps to be more than ‘they’ (or you) may think you can become.  

Speaking Frankly:

My high school friend Frank had a problem.  He wanted a career, but his guidance counselor kept saying no.  

Frank just had to aim lower.  Don't aim high, his counselor said  - it would only frustrate him to get rejected.  Avoid the frustration he was told and just aim lower. Frank told me he had one thing in his heart, but the counselor must know something he didn’t know, the counselor was the expert for crying out loud.  

But Frank followed his dream instead.

It had been years since I had seen Frank when we met last year.  He was the same affable guy I knew growing up and he was home on leave from the Navy.  You see his title is now Admiral Frank.  He got there by listening to the one expert about Frank who would always be with him, 

Frank himself.   

Making it Work:

1. What are 3 stories you know of where “everyone” thought something would happen and it did not?  It does not matter where the story comes from – politics, sports, weather.   Now write them down.  

2. What are three stories you have heard about other people (like family members, Babe Ruth, others?) who were told they had limits but they went on to success anyway.  Write them down, too. 

3. What are three things you have heard about your limits?  

Write down 3 supposed limits – and take a long look at them.  List ways you can prove them wrong through hard work or, like the bees adapting to get things done another way.  

Through the Tool Kit Series together we will have fun proving them wrong.  

Please remember something I tell others at the groups I run:  

“Every great idea, every dream that ever was started with 

someone dreaming it and a thousand other people saying 

‘Are you crazy?’”  

Prove them wrong and Keep On Dreaming.

Other Lessons: 

Lessons from the Babe:  Lesson 2.

Essential: Where do you put YOUR but?  Lesson 3

Workshop 5 Essentials: Comparing yourself to Buddy...

Comparing Yourself to Buddy

You have great gifts and talents inside of you.  For those of you thinking 'hey, George, you don’t KNOW me, how can you be so sure?'  I know because I know “Buddy”.

Compare yourself to your favorite stuffed animal, like my favorite fictional person, Buddy - - a 'person' without ANY real skills or motivation (OK, he knows how to breathe in and out, but that is about it.)

From the days I taught preschool kids, I have loved the lazy bones who is “Buddy”.  Take a moment and picture him, folks.  He never went to school and has only hung around watching television, not developing any work skills, responsibilities, social skills or hobbies.   Now down to business...

Making It Work:

Below write down 25 ways you are different from Buddy.  

For a more advanced version, compare yourself to a 'Buddy' at your job, school or neighborhood  (Hint: you can spot him pretty easily at work, he acts a lot like the potted plants in the lobby).  Need help?

** List ways others have given you responsibility & you have performed well.  

** Write the skills you have gained, from playing guitar to cooking 

to not mixing darks & lights in the laundry.  

** Abilities for dealing with people, from selling cookies at fundraisers 

to giving compassion to others in their time of need.  

**   Ways you have proven being trustworthy (honest), loyal & brave (such as how you meet and beat the challenges you face each day).  

**  List how you have worked independently meeting goals/responsibilities.   

**   How do you respond to the needs of others? 

Remember when you babysat the terrible Tanner triplets 

and you all survived the night?  

Or when you had to learn about new medications 

your grandmother was on so you could better care for her?  

Or that school project you completed with others as a team? 

Have fun letting your mind wander when building your list.  Compare yourself to that stuffed animal or co-worker who never helps train other employees, never works overtime on short notice or working with difficult clients.  Keep in mind, how are you different from “Buddy” and do not worry about being too full of yourself because you are comparing yourself to a blank slate after all. 

Let your imagination roam to areas that may not seem job related, but that show your character and skills. 

Once you have listed the first 25 examples

add 20 more.

These set you apart from your job hunting competition.  Now put letters next to the items on your list:
H: Which ones are related to how you relate well to others?
E: Which relate to how you have energy and drive?
R: Which show your ability to learn things?
O: Which show you have integrity and honesty?

Keep this list handy, it will come up again in the Tool Kit and in preparing for your future.   Onward!

My ‘Buddy’ List

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Here... Your first FREE Work Shop: "Yes, you have the brains"

Welcome to the |first in dozens of FREE workshops to help job hunters and the people who care for them get ready and land that job.  Check out more blogposts to see what I mean.  In the meantime, enjoy...
Helping people in the Job Hunt, you need to start with one basic... 
how to prove that the Job Hunter has brains?  

This is when I use "Teaching Aliens About (Baseball)"

When I explain about finding your Oz factor, many people get worried and humble.  “George” they say, “I’m not smart at all, how can I tell the employer I have the brains for that job… I will never get hired; I should just go home and eat worms”.  I normally say “Stop!  Really?  Worms?” followed by “if you do not know that you have the brains for the job, you are already as good as fired for a job you have never even applied for.”

Here is a quick way to have the confidence that you have the brains in something you enjoyed learning or had to learn in order to survive. 

Making It Work:

Pretend that I am a Martian come to earth and says to you in whatever accent Martians have “hey, tell me about this baseball you earthlings have.” Or maybe it says “tell me about this thing called makeup” or “tell me some things about music, eh?”

Quickly I ask you to write 12 things you know about baseball (famous players, some of the rules, etc.), makeup (brand names, where/how applied, etc.) or music (styles, singers, instruments, etc.).

 "OK  Not bad, earth person" I laugh the way Martians laugh and say "now write down twelve more (the survival of our planet depends on it, folks.)  Now finally add five more.

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Now you have one impressed Martian in front of you saying

“WOW!  You know a lot about baseball/ makeup/ music… you must do that for a living.”

The morals of this story are that

-          if you can learn that much about something that does NOT pay the rent…  think of how you will make yourself learn about things (like operating a cash register, learning a computer program, caring for elderly patients) when it IS for money to pay the rent. 

-        Now I am back to being earthling George - - It is already inside you, folks.  The other moral is that if you can talk baseball with an alien you can talk about yourself with anyone who today is a stranger and tomorrow may become your employer.   

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