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Showcase the Professional You to Get that Job

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We all need meaningful work to pay the bills and feel good about who we are.

Liz Strauss (KScholle)

Liz Strauss (KScholle)

In the past six months, I’ve had the experience of interviewing candidates for positions with my conference and a new roles for a company that’s starting up. What I’m finding explains a lot. Most of us don’t know how to talk about ourselves, our personal vision, and our successes. Few of us have a real strategy. It points to why some of us aren’t finding clients, customers, and jobs.

To bring it down to it’s most basic form, most people only think they are actively looking for work. In reality, they are in the act of waiting to be hired.

Many folks I’ve met have accepted a passive role — to react to a “job offer.” In hopes of getting more they open their net broad and wide, and then wider, and wider to take more and more potential customers in. Too often I hear, “I’ll do anything.” To my ears that’s the same as “I’ve not done the work to figure out what I do well.”

Most clients, customers, hiring managers aren’t looking for anyone who “will do anything.” They unique contributors who will add value and who are obviously passionate about doing what the hiring folks do.

Showcase the Professional You

How do you show that passionate, unique side of you and get the attention of the folks who value what you do? I’m launching a program that will show you how to showcase the professional you.

We start by defining you and who you love to serve — the ideal employer, client, customer. We’ll do the work, answer the questions that get to the heart of your successes and your competencies. It won’t take long — maybe an hour. We’ll pull out the relationships and patterns to define what you talk most about and where you excel. We’ll discuss the kind of problems you enjoy solving and identify the passion at the heart of your business profile.

Have Answers that Equal the Odds

Any negotiation, even interviewing for a project or a position, is best navigated when both parties get to mutually setting goals. That requires seeing each other as each having something of value to offer. Doing the work to define your value makes the entire communication much easier for both of you, because then it becomes about the work.

We’ll get you to these answers that equal those odds …
1. What are your professional strengths are and what are you known for?

2. What you can promise and will will deliver? — this usually is bringing people or customers to the table, getting people to buy, act, move,

3. What is the a partnership you offer? — In what ways do you demonstrate that you can think as they think? What will you bring to this situation that no other person will? In what work situations do you thrive in and what sort of people do you help grow?

4. What is your brief answer to “What do you do? — a tagline that describes you that’s easy to remember because it expresses the authentic you.

We’re all attracted to people who know who they are and where they’re going. We know people like that get things done and moving. They have time for ideas and action.

Don’t fit yourself into a job, find the job that fits you.

Yes, you can afford this. This pilot program is a special low priced personal coaching offer for no more than 15 readers of my blog. Call me now 773 619 0371 . . . It’s fun. Really. It’s what I’m good at. If you like that, we can keep going and make a longer plan for your business.