61 Year Old Man Desperately Seeking a Job Could This Be You
recently spoke with a 61 new job quickly were important to
year old man who came to his success. But that faded
our firm looking for a job. quickly when he found himself,
He was desperate. weeks later, with nothing to show
for his efforts. With no income,
Jeff had been a 30-year employee Jeff was getting desperate.
of a well-known car manufacturing
company. First his pension had Sadly, Jeff is not alone.
been converted into a 401k Thousands of family men and women
program with a substantial loss around the country are facing the
to him. Then, in a down-sizing same desperation. The cure, of
move, his job was eliminated. course, is to find a job that
While he was offered a small exit will answer their needs. Here s
package, it was not going what Jeff did to accomplish that
seriously dent his financial over a period of several weeks:
burden and give him reassurances
for the future. 1. Wrote a traditional resume
with objective statement and
In short, Jeff was out on the reverse chronology work history.
street and his family and their
future in turmoil. He felt he had 2. Mailed and emailed it to
to move fast to find a new job. dozens of employers . . . posted
He had two kids in college and it on several job sites like
another graduating from high Monster.com and HotJobs.com.
school in a year. He simply
couldn t sit back and hope for 3. Routinely answered lots of
the best. want ads.
Obviously, Jeff s admirable 4. Contacted several employment
intentions and ambition to find a agencies and a handful of
recruiters. were exploring possible talent.
5. Made phone calls directly to 5. Total frustration. The more
several companies in the area. effort he pumped into the job
marketplace, the less the result
6. When a decent response didn t s and the more a corresponding
materialize he redoubled his rise in his feeling of rejection
efforts and wound up distributing and desperation.
hundreds of resumes.
Jeff asked himself: Was it his
7. Waited and waited for the age? Was his background
phone to ring with the right irrelevant? Were his references
opportunity. turning on him? Was his former
employer sabotaging him?
Here s what Jeff got in return
for all his efforts: In fact, none of the above. Very
simply, Jeff was doing it ALL
1. Dozens of TNT (thanks but no WRONG!
thanks) letters.
The good news is it could go
2. A couple offers for low-wage entirely different for Jeff if he
temp jobs. was willing to abandon everything
he thought he knew about how to
3. Four pitches from network find a job. And then jump aboard
marketing enterprises. the 21st Century alternative job
search train where he could be
4. Three dead-end phone entertaining real job offers in
interviews with recruiters who as little as 14 days!
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