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Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we get in a situation is not the other person’s fault, rather it is our own hang-ups. A life filled with bias, hatred, judgment, insecurity, fear, delusion and self-righteousness can cloud the soul of anyone you meet. Our job is never to assume,instead it is to listen, communicate, ask questions then ask more, until we know the true depth of someone’s spirit.
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Shannon L. Alder
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After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.
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Michael Zadoorian (The Leisure Seeker)
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This isn't a game we're playing between ourselves," he continued. "Don't pretend that it is."
"Isn't it?" A challenge flared in her eyes, like fire inside the purest emerald. "Don't lie to me, John. Don't pretend it's any more than it really is. It's a job. One we're both determined to complete, nothing more."
"Like hell.
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Lora Leigh (Heat Seeker (Elite Ops, #3))
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In the end when God does speak, it is not the pious friends who are commended. God tells then they have been guilty of misrepresenting God. Only Job – only angry, defiant, doubting Job has been faithful.
The story of Job reminds us that God is not offended when we question. Indeed, if anything God is offended when we speak too glibly.
Make room in your heart for the angry, defiant and doubting questions. You may find God there as well.
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Peggy Haymes (Strugglers, Stragglers and Seekers: daily devotions for the rest of us)
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Saw you with my brother." His gaze moves over me. "Guess that explains your attraction to me-he looks just like me."
His cocky grin fading when I roll my eyes in reponse.
"Well,you sure spend a lot of time thinking about me-searching for me-don't you,Santos?" he says,determined to make me admit the ridiculous.
"Don't flatter yourself,Coyote. It's an occupational hazard.Purely job related.
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Alyson Noel (Fated (Soul Seekers, #1))
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If you can deny your talents, if you can conceal them from others or, even better, persuade yourself that they weren’t even given to you, you’re off the hook.
And being off the hook is a key element of the industrialized school’s promise. It lets parents off the hook, certainly, since the institution takes over the teaching. It lets teachers off the hook, since the curriculum is preordained and the results are tested. And it lets students off the hook, because the road is clearly marked and the map is handed to everyone.
If you stay on the path, do your college applications through the guidance office and your job hunting at the placement office, the future is not your fault.
That’s the refrain we hear often from frustrated job seekers, frustrated workers with stuck careers, and frustrated students in too much debt. 'I did what they told me to do and now I’m stuck and it’s not my fault.'
What they’ve exchanged for that deniability is their dreams, their chance for greatness. To go off the path is to claim responsibility for what happens next.
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Seth Godin
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In books, coaching sessions, and networking events aimed at the white-collar unemployed, the seeker soon encounters ideologies that are explicitly hostile to any larger, social understanding of his or her situation. The most blatant of these, in my experience, was the EST-like, victim-blaming ideology represented by Patrick Knowles and the books he recommended to his boot-camp participants. Recall that at the boot camp, the timid suggestion that there might be an outer world defined by the market or ruled by CEOs was immediately rebuked; there was only us, the job seekers. It was we who had to change. In a milder form, the constant injunction to maintain a winning attitude carries the same message: look inward, not outward; the world is entirely what you will it to be.
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Barbara Ehrenreich
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The Greek word “nostalgia” derives from the root nostros, meaning “return home,” and algia, meaning “longing.” Doctors in seventeenth-century Europe considered nostalgia an illness, like the flu, mainly suffered by displaced migrant servants, soldiers, and job seekers, and curable through opium, leeches, or, for the affluent, a journey to the Swiss Alps. Throughout time, such feeling has been widely acknowledged. The Portuguese have the term saudade. The Russians have toska. The Czechs have litost. Others too name the feeling: for Romanians, it’s dor, for Germans, it’s heimweh. The Welsh have hiraeth, the Spanish mal de corazon. Many
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Arlie Russell Hochschild (Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right)
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Think of your resume as your calling card. Your goal is to make people want to meet you after they’ve read it.
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Michelle Kinsman (Real-World Feminist Handbook: Practical Advice on How to Find, Win & Kick Ass at Your First Job)
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you see, my whole life
is tied up
to unhappiness
it's father cooking breakfast
and me getting fat as a hog
or having no food
at all and father proving
his incompetence
again
i wish i knew how it would feel
to be free
it's having a job
they won't let you work
or no work at all
castrating me
(yes it happens to women too)
it's a sex object if you're pretty
and no love
or love and no sex if you're fat
get back fat black woman be a mother
grandmother strong thing but not woman
gameswoman romantic woman love needer
man seeker dick eater sweat getter
fuck needing love seeking woman
it's a hole in your shoe
and buying lil sis a dress
and her saying you shouldn't
when you know
all too well that you shouldn't
but smiles are only something we give
to properly dressed social workers
not each other
only smiles of i know
your game sister
which isn't really
a smile
joy is finding a pregnant roach
and squashing it
not finding someone to hold
let go get off get back don't turn
me on you black dog
how dare you care
about me
you ain't go no good sense
cause i ain't shit you must be lower
than that to care
it's a filthy house
with yesterday's watermelon
and monday's tears
cause true ladies don't
know how to clean
it's intellectual devastation
of everybody
to avoid emotional commitment
"yeah honey i would've married
him but he didn't have no degree"
it's knock-kneed mini skirted
wig wearing died blond mamma's scar
born dead my scorn your whore
rough heeeled broken nailed powdered
face me
whose whole life is tied
up to unhappiness
cause it's the only
for real thing
i
know
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Nikki Giovanni
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From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large groups of people carried away by some emotion--some alluring, attractive, even speciously inspiring, public presentation of a nostrum, a cure-all. Many Americans lost their heads because several plausible fellows lost theirs in expounding schemes to end barbarity, to give weekly handouts to people, to give everybody a better job--or, more modestly, for example, to put a chicken or two in every pot--all by adoption of some new financial plan or some new social system. And all of them burst like bubbles.
Some proponents of nostrums were honest and sincere, others--too many of them--were seekers of personal power; still others saw a chance to get rich on the dimes and quarters of the poorer people in our population. All of them, perhaps unconsciously, were capitalizing on the fact that the democratic form of Government works slowly. There always exists in a democratic society a large group which, quite naturally, champs at the bit over the slowness of democracy; and that is why it is right for us who believe in democracy to keep the democratic processes progressive--in other words, moving forward with the advances in civilization. That is why it is dangerous for democracy to stop moving forward because any period of stagnation increases the numbers of those who demand action and action now.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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You have to take responsibility and become the architect of your own success by learning what it takes to navigate the twists and turns of a long career, because if you don’t take responsibility for your own success, nothing will happen.
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Martin Yate (Knock 'em Dead Secrets & Strategies for First-Time Job Seekers)
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A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against their will, instead of by fraud and against the will of all the rest of us, as now...
...that the names of all the men eligible in each assembly district be put into a hat (or, if no hat can be found that is large enough, into a bathtub), and that a blind moron, preferably of tender years, be delegated to draw out one...
The advantages that this system would offer are so vast and obvious that I hesitate to venture into the banality of rehearsing them. It would in the first place, save the commonwealth the present excessive cost of elections, and make political campaigns unnecessary. It would in the second place, get rid of all the heart-burnings that now flow out of every contest at the polls, and block the reprisals and charges of fraud that now issue from the heart-burnings. It would, in the third place, fill all the State Legislatures with men of a peculiar and unprecedented cast of mind – men actually convinced that public service is a public burden, and not merely a private snap. And it would, in the fourth and most important place, completely dispose of the present degrading knee-bending and trading in votes, for nine-tenths of the legislators, having got into office unwillingly, would be eager only to finish their duties and go home, and even those who acquired a taste for the life would be unable to increase the probability, even by one chance in a million, of their reelection.
The disadvantages of the plan are very few, and most of them, I believe, yield readily to analysis. Do I hear argument that a miscellaneous gang of tin-roofers, delicatessen dealers and retired bookkeepers, chosen by hazard, would lack the vast knowledge of public affairs needed by makers of laws? Then I can only answer (a) that no such knowledge is actually necessary, and (b) that few, if any, of the existing legislators possess it...
Would that be a disservice to the state? Certainly not. On the contrary, it would be a service of the first magnitude, for the worst curse of democracy, as we suffer under it today, is that it makes public office a monopoly of a palpably inferior and ignoble group of men. They have to abase themselves to get it, and they have to keep on abasing themselves in order to hold it. The fact reflects in their general character, which is obviously low. They are men congenitally capable of cringing and dishonorable acts, else they would not have got into public life at all. There are, of course, exceptions to that rule among them, but how many? What I contend is simply that the number of such exceptions is bound to be smaller in the class of professional job-seekers than it is in any other class, or in the population in general. What I contend, second, is that choosing legislators from that populations, by chance, would reduce immensely the proportion of such slimy men in the halls of legislation, and that the effects would be instantly visible in a great improvement in the justice and reasonableness of the laws.
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H.L. Mencken (A Mencken Chrestomathy)
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In a classic study of how names impact people’s experience on the job market, researchers show that, all other things being equal, job seekers with White-sounding first names received 50 percent more callbacks from employers than job seekers with Black-sounding names.5 They calculated that the racial gap was equivalent to eight years of relevant work experience, which White applicants did not actually have; and the gap persisted across occupations, industry, employer size – even when employers included the “equal opportunity” clause in their ads.6 With emerging technologies we might assume that racial bias will be more scientifically rooted out. Yet, rather than challenging or overcoming the cycles of inequity, technical fixes too often reinforce and even deepen the status quo. For example, a study by a team of computer scientists at Princeton examined whether a popular algorithm, trained on human writing online, would exhibit the same biased tendencies that psychologists have documented among humans. They found that the algorithm associated White-sounding names with “pleasant” words and Black-sounding names with “unpleasant” ones.7 Such findings demonstrate what I call “the New Jim Code”: the employment of new technologies that reflect and reproduce existing inequities but that are promoted and perceived as more objective or progressive than the discriminatory systems of a previous era.
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Ruha Benjamin (Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code)
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Ulysses S. Grant (1822–85), only a decade from the U.S. presidency, pitied himself for his lack of “privileges” compared with German job seekers who seemed to have all the luck. During the Civil War, seizing a chance to legalize his prejudices, Grant enacted one of the rare nineteenth-century anti-Semitic policies. Called General Orders No. 11, it expelled all Jews, including families with children, from the Department of Tennessee in December of 1862. Grant’s excuse? He insisted that he had to control Jewish peddlers. In fact, his directive affected all Jews in Tennessee, no matter their vocation, sex, or age. President Abraham Lincoln quickly rescinded the order, but not before several families were displaced.
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Nell Irvin Painter (The History of White People)
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He felt that the job was not particularly hazardous physically but was incredibly hazardous emotionally and too often led to divorce, alcoholism, and suicide. No, policemen were not danger lovers, they were seekers of the awesome, the incredible, even the unspeakable in human experience. Never mind whether they could interpret, never mind if it was potentially hazardous to the soul. To be there was the thing.
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Joseph Wambaugh (The Onion Field)
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Pathways toward a New Shabbat Do 1. Stay at home. Spend quality time with family and real friends. 2. Celebrate with others: at the table, in the synagogue, with friends or community. 3. Study or read something that will edify, challenge, or make you grow. 4. Be alone. Take some time for yourself. Check in with yourself. Review your week. Ask yourself where you are in your life. 5. Mark the beginning and end of this sacred time by lighting candles and making kiddush on Friday night and saying havdalah on Saturday night. Don’t 6. Don’t do anything you have to do for your work life. This includes obligatory reading, homework for kids (even without writing!), unwanted social obligations, and preparing for work as well as doing your job itself. 7. Don’t spend money. Separate completely from the commercial culture that surrounds us so much. This includes doing business of all sorts. No calls to the broker, no following up on ads, no paying of bills. It can all wait. 8. Don’t use the computer. Turn off the iPhone or smartphone or whatever device has replaced it by the time you read this. Live and breathe for a day without checking messages. Declare your freedom from this new master of our minds and our time. Find the time for face-to-face conversations with people around you, without Facebook. 9. Don’t travel. Avoid especially commercial travel and places like airports, hotel check-ins, and similar depersonalizing encounters. Stay free of situations in which people are likely to tell you to “have a nice day” (Shabbat already is a nice day, thank you). 10. Don’t rely on commercial or canned video entertainment, including the TV as well as the computer screen. Discover what there is to do in life when you are not being entertained.
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Arthur Green (Judaism’s Ten Best Ideas: A Brief Guide for Seekers)
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I think about what the man at the Coney joint said. He was right. We are the people who stay. We stay in our homes and pay them off. We stay at our jobs. We do our thirty and come home to stay even more. We stay until we are no longer able to mow our lawns and our gutters sag with saplings, until our houses look haunted to the neighborhood children. We like it where we are. I guess then the other question is: Why do we even travel? There can only be one answer to that: we travel to appreciate home. (p.97)
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Michael Zadoorian (The Leisure Seeker)
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Lord, here's what we need today, right away, or as soon as we can get it: we need world peace, prosperity, security, life without risk, pleasure without pain, happiness without cost, and discipleship with no cross. That's why we're here, at church, to get our needs met. Our church tries to be user-friendly and seeker sensitive. That's why on Sundays we serve espresso with a dash of amaretto before our services, a little caffeine boost until we get to the main point of our worship: the prayer requests. So like we were saying, we need a quick recovery from gall bladder surgery, an effortless cataract removal, a happy marriage, obedient and chaste kids, and a reason to get out of bed in the morning. If you love us, you'll meet our needs. Now then, is there something that we could do for you? You're thirsty? Well, if you're the Messiah, why don't you fix yourself a divine drink? We've got needs of our own, thank you. It's our job to have need; it's your job to meet need. For this and all other needs, spoken and unspoken, felt and unfelt, incipient and obvious, personal and corporate, immediate and long term, we pray. Amen.
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William H. Willimon (The Best of Will Willimon: Acting Up in Jesus' Name)
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There were seven people on a Quidditch team: three Chasers, whose job it was to score goals by putting the Quaffle (a red, soccer-sized ball) through one of the fifty-foot-high hoops at each end of the field; two Beaters, who were equipped with heavy bats to repel the Bludgers (two heavy black balls that zoomed around trying to attack the players); a Keeper, who defended the goalposts, and the Seeker, who had the hardest job of all, that of catching the Golden Snitch, a tiny, winged, walnut-sized ball, whose capture ended the game and earned the Seeker’s team an extra one hundred and fifty points.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3))
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There is another call, the one that arrives the day when what once worked no longer does. Sometimes people need a shock; sometimes a tocsin call. It is time for a wake-up call. A man is fired from a job; a child runs away from home; ulcers overtake the body. The ancients called this “soul loss.” Today, the equivalent is the loss of meaning or purpose in our lives. There is a void where there should be what Gerard Manley Hopkins calls “juice and joy.” The heart grows cold; life loses its vitality. Our accomplishments seem meaningless. As Tolstoy wrote in his Confessions, “Nothing ahead except ruins.” We seem to be in the thick of the forest without a road. “What, then, must we do?” The long line of myths, legends, poetry, and stories throughout the world tell us that it is at that moment of darkness that the call comes. It arrives in various forms—an itch, a fever, an offer, a ringing, an inspiration, an idea, a voice, words in a book that seem to have been written just for us—or a knock. THE KNOCK The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away. I'm looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling. —Robert Pirsig
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Phil Cousineau (The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred)
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Something important follows.” Employment experts have
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Michael Lawrence Faulkner (Power Verbs for Job Seekers: Hundreds of Verbs and Phrases to Bring Your Resumes, Cover Letters, and Job Interviews to Life)
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Beyond the US Army’s apps platform, it seems that every industry today relies upon some form of platform business model—many of them internet-based. Doctors quickly cross-check prescriptions to identify interactions between drugs, job-seekers exchange insights about various employers, and property values and other attributes of a given zip code are easily comparable. Successful platforms in a solution economy exhibit one or more of these three characteristics: (1) they invite participants to collaborate and exchange at little or no cost; (2) they encourage decentralized, user-generated content; and (3) they enable average citizens to contribute to problem solving.
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William D. Eggers (The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society's Toughest Problems)
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In 1830, America’s farmers comprised seventy-one percent of the workforce. Yet, in modern times, this number had plummeted to less than two percent. Improved automation of farms had impacted a greater percentage of the workforce than autonomous vehicles ever could. Even so, society had readily absorbed the loss of these farming jobs, which had morphed into opportunities in other sectors.
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Douglas E. Richards (Seeker)
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Why do so many seekers report that they are attracted to Jesus but not to the church? Perhaps the problem is that the church has done a splendid job of concealing the powerful life-giving Jesus. We domesticate him; we make him our servant; we assume that people have more knowledge about him than they do. We are producing Christians who lack the vitality and depth that should mark Christ-followers.
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David T. Olson (The American Church in Crisis: Groundbreaking Research Based on a National Database of over 200,000 Churches)
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Rajeev Wadhwa
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You will only speak of your salary expectations, not your salary history.
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Michelle Kinsman (Real-World Feminist Handbook: Practical Advice on How to Find, Win & Kick Ass at Your First Job)
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When he asked about work, Noor laughed. Guled learned that employment in Kenya was forbidden. Like many governments anxious about asylum seekers, Kenya didn’t want Somalis taking Kenyan jobs, so all formal work with a decent salary, with the agencies and the UN, was reserved for Kenyans. Most of the camps’ economy is informal, however, and in the grey economy it was possible to get work in the market, driving, butchering, teaching in the private colleges. The
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Ben Rawlence (City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp)
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Many of my friends think I read books all day and alphabetize the shelves. Well, sometimes I do alphabetize shelves. But more often than not, my job title could be "friend". Or just simply "caring ear." Public librarians are often part information seekers, part social workers.
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Carrie O'Maley, Jack Canfield
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Guess what the first consideration was of the graduating class of 2014 when looking for a job.1 Nature of the work. Salary and the friendliness of co-workers come in second and third, to complete this completely dysfunctional job-seeker trifecta. The problem with this scenario is that there is no way to know the real “nature of the work” before you have gotten very close to actually getting the job. It’s impossible. Since so many job descriptions are dysfunctional and inaccurate, most people rule out a job as not being “right” for them before they’ve even applied (and before they actually know what they’re rejecting). It’s a nasty chicken-and-egg problem that can severely shrink your potential opportunities. That’s why the most important reframe when you are designing your career is this: you are never looking for a job, you are looking for an offer.
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Bill Burnett (Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life)
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Use time to be a seeker of the Kingdom
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Sunday Adelaja
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Perhaps the ultimate two questions for any seeker are: What's your Why?, and What's your edge?
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Garry Fitchett
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How to Quantify Achievement Stories
When hiring managers, recruiters, and staffing firms see a resume or LinkedIn profile or attend an interview with verbiage but no numbers, they don’t know what those words mean.
In fact, they know next to nothing until you add the numbers that explain the impact of your work. Here’s how you can resolve this issue.
Work With Finance
Sometimes the impact of our work is not always clear. At times like this, reaching out to one of your friends in the Finance Department can be very helpful. Finance has access to numbers that are not always readily available to other departments.
If you’re no longer with the company, explain to the Finance associate that the numbers he provides could make the difference in determining whether you land another position.
Using a Range
Per Lily Zhang of the Muse, one reason job seekers avoid quantifying is not knowing the exact number. Lily suggests using a range. Using my work experience, here’s what that means:
Before: Chaired weekly product manager meeting.
After: Chaired weekly meeting with 7 to 12 product managers so plans could be discussed and coordinated. Confusion and rework were eliminated.
Frequency
Lily shared that one of the easiest ways to add numbers is to identify the frequency with which you perform a given task. This can help the hiring manager understand how much you can handle. For example:
Before: Responded to pricing requests from the Sales Force.
After: Responded to 15 to 20 pricing requests from the Sales Force on a daily basis.
Scale
Everyone on the hiring side of the business loves when candidates provide numbers, because numbers explain the impact of what you’ve done.
The most meaningful numbers are those associated with making money, saving money, and driving productivity. Here are a couple examples from my work experience:
Before: Reduced time to perform Operations Manager’s role; after analysis showed tasks could be batched and performed at the end of the month.
After: Reduced time to perform Operations Manager role by 66%; after analysis showed tasks could be batched and performed at the end of the month. Asked Director if I could take on the responsibilities of employees who were laid off.
Before: Analysis revealed misconfigured offers; worked with other departments to correct errors. Implemented process to prevent future errors.
After: Analysis revealed misconfigured offers; worked with other departments to correct errors. Recognized $7.2M. Implemented process to prevent future errors.
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Clark Finnical (Job Hunting Secrets: (from someone who's been there))
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information technology (IT), which turned Bangalore into a world city. This attracted not only job seekers in the tens of thousands but also highly qualified Indians who had struck roots abroad and now found the idea of Bangalore alluring.
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T.J.S. George (Askew: A Short Biography of Bangalore)
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Cognitive empathy is not conventional empathy, nor is it sympathy. It’s connecting with someone who has been (or is) in your shoes.
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Phyl Terry (Never Search Alone: The Job Seeker’s Playbook)
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The founder of eHarmony, Neil Clark Warren, wants to get into matching people with the perfect job or the perfect financial adviser or even the perfect friend. That may be good business, but you have to wonder whether this effort will work any better for recruiters and job seekers than it does for singles.
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Tim Harford (Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives)
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You will only see the active job seekers, who are unlikely to be the candidates you really want.
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Frank Slootman (Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity)
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The Idea Generators So let’s open the net wide and get down to generating ideas . . . I mean problems! Here’s what the process of coming up with a million-dollar business idea does NOT look like: Getting on TikTok or YouTube and mindlessly copying whatever the influencers say is working for them Getting struck with the perfect vision for a genius new product Meditating, following your passion, and brainstorming Following any other woo-woo method that promises inspiration in a box Here’s what the actual process looks like: What’s the most painful (aka valuable) problem you can solve for people . . . That you also have passion for and/or unique expertise in . . . For the largest niche possible that you belong to and understand . . . Simple enough, but takes some light and fun brainwork. Remember to focus on your Zone of Influence here (your existing community): the 150 followers you have on TikTok, the 200 in your local Taco Aficionados group, the 300 in the WhatsApp group for your mountain biking club (not to mention the 143,000 in the subreddit r/mountainbiking). Your job as a problem seeker is to go to a community of yours. You can access all the idea challenges and more examples at MillionDollarWeekend.com. Now it’s your turn. Use the following four challenges to come up with at least ten potentially profitable ideas:
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Noah Kagan (Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours)
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Bryan at his best was simply a magnificent job-seeker,” Mencken observed, “deluded by a childish theology, full of an almost pathological hatred of all learning, all human dignity, all beauty, and fine and noble things.
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Brenda Wineapple (Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation)
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I learned was that most job seekers are doing just two or three things wrong -- that if they just fixed two or three of their actions in job research, in letter-writing, in interviewing, or in following up, that they would greatly increase their chances of success.
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Philip Whitford (5 Steps to Raising Your Self-Confidence (Customized Modern Job Search))
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Most job seekers don’t understand this. If you are not in the recruiter’s database and you are not present on the Internet, to the recruiter, you don’t exist.
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Jay Conrad Levinson (Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0: How to Stand Out from the Crowd and Tap Into the Hidden Job Market using Social Media and 999 other Tactics Today)
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A still more extreme market malfunction occurs if the costs of transacting are so high as to swamp any potential benefits from the deal. Transaction costs can thwart exchanges that would otherwise be worthwhile. Unemployment exists, for example, not simply because there are too few jobs, but also because transaction costs in the labor market prevent some employers and job seekers from connecting with each other. A new way of doing business that lowers transaction costs can benefit everyone.
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John McMillan (Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets)
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I was in a unique position.
I joined the New Church organization as an innocent new member, a seeker for truth. I was welcomed with open arms. The old folks shared their stories with me, what people had done, what ministers had said, why someone had left, or died.
When I expressed an interest in the priesthood, older ministers began to share their own stories. This time from the inside of the organization. I was after all a new soldier, carrying the hope of the future. In the theological seminary we were instructed how to interpret doctrine. The old ladies of Bryn Athyn gossiped about neighbors. College students talked about growing up here. In a men’s group I witnessed tales of in-family pain and abuse, shared in confidence. I sat in on board meetings and heard about land deals, donations, and powerful families that had their own agenda for the church. From the bishop we got the background on hirings and firings, divorces, rogue ministers who had not toed the party line. We listened to, but did not believe, reports from African congregations. There was the occasional suicide.
I got ordained and sent to Sweden. Now I had insight into the paperwork, the contracts, the long term plans. I had the keys to the doors and the passwords to the computers. I got copies of the financial records. My job required it. In the library I read ancient New Church magazines with some very strangely slanted articles in Swedish or Norwegian. Photos of men in uniforms.
I collected it all.
This would make a good book some day, I thought.
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Stephen Muires
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Later, John Paul II would challenge seekers like Jobs, noting that “Carmelite mysticism begins at the point where the reflections of Buddha end.
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Al Kresta (Dangers to the Faith: Recognizing Catholicism's 21st-Century Opponents)
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After each interview a job seeker should achieve some clearer understanding of their target opportunity, but it is much more efficient to try and have at least part of your wish list nailed down before burning up vacation days and raising suspicion with your current employer.
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Dave Fecak (Job Tips For Geeks: The Job Search)
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It is very difficult for wealth seekers to understand the motives of powerseekers. A wealth seeker tried to improve his condition by, we hope, producing goods or services of value to trade for what he wants. This process of production and trade is satisfying in itself, and it moves the wealth seeker in the direction he wishes to travel.
The powerseeker is willing to trade his wealth for the privilege of forcing others to bend to his will. If you watch closely in every election, you will see people investing thousands or millions of their own dollars for campaigns to acquire political jobs paying small salaries that can never repay the investment.
Are these people trying to get government jobs to get rich? Or are they after something else, for the ability to impose their plans on others?
If you are not a powerseeker, war is just a big waste (unless you are an arms maker). Bur war is the most thrilling and, therefore, most satisfying expression of political power. If you are a powerseeker, war is nirvana.
Very important: war is not the route to nirvana; it is nirvana. War is the end in itself, the big payoff.
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Richard J. Maybury
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For Toynbee, finally, the "higher religions" displaced societies or civilizations as the units that gave meaning to history. While brashly insisting on his naively English empirical reliance on facts, which he amassed in prodigious quantity, still in his personal quest for salvation he had developed his own universal apocalyptic view. His reassurance of universal salvation had wide appeal in an age of two world wars. Scholars have objected less to Toynbee's vague definitions of society and civilization than to his tendency to simplify the study of history into a branch of theodicy-an answer to Job, a science of justifying God's ways to man.
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Daniel J. Boorstin (The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World)
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Tad squeezed through the line of visitors in the White House corridor. He looked them over. Most were wounded soldiers, job seekers, and widows who had lost husbands in the Civil War. For a few hours every afternoon, Tad’s father, Abraham Lincoln, the president of the United States, would do his best to meet with them.
Tad dashed to the staircase, blocking the path of a young woman with a baby.
“Halt!” Tad ordered in his deepest voice. “Five cents to pass. The proceeds help wounded soldiers in the Union army.”
The woman burst into tears.
“What’s wrong?” Tad asked, startled.
“Recently I was very ill,” she explained, wiping her eyes. “My husband left his army post to come visit me. He went back, but they arrested him for desertion anyway.” Her lips trembled. “He’s to be shot tomorrow.”
Tad winced. “Oh, that’s dreadful sad, ma’am.”
“I pray the president will pardon him.”
“Oh, he will,” Tad said, his face brightening. “Pa’s a good man.”
“There are so many people ahead of me,” the woman said anxiously. “I’m afraid I’ll be too late.”
Suddenly there was a commotion on the stairway above. Tad looked around and noticed one of the president’s aides, his mouth tightly drawn, coming down toward him. “Your father wishes to see you,” the man said. “Immediately.”
Tad turned back to the woman. “What’s your name, ma’am?” he asked.
“Elizabeth Miller.”
Tad nodded and hurried up the stairs. As he rounded a corner he glanced over his shoulder. The hall was empty. By his father’s office, the table with the visitors’ calling cards stood unguarded. Tad quickly found Mrs. Miller’s and placed it at the top of the pile.
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Gary Hines (Thanksgiving in the White House)
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Guideline #11: Embellish at your own risk. In troubled economic times and during periods of high unemployment, many job seekers will embellish or outright lie on their résumés to secure employment. Employers are well aware of this. Many companies will terminate the interview or your employment if they discover you lied on your résumé. Yes, you have to be resourceful and aggressive to get your foot in the door. But keep in mind that today employers are conducting extensive background and reference checks more than ever before. If you lie on your résumé to get your foot in the door, chances are when they find out, you’ll get the boot.
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Jay A. Block (101 Best Ways to Land a Job in Troubled Times)
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Guideline #12: Hire a professional. Remember the definition of a job seeker I posted at the front of this book? Take a moment and go back to the definition, and study all the aspects of the job campaign you have to master or be proficient in. CEOs of Fortune 500 companies would be hard-pressed to master or be proficient in that many disciplines. They have finance professionals, sales teams, IT departments, management personnel, and consultants to help them. However, most job seekers conduct the job campaign solely on their own.
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Jay A. Block (101 Best Ways to Land a Job in Troubled Times)
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I have known people who have been content to remain seekers all their days. They have felt comforted by the thought that they are seekers. Now, such comfort is like plastering with unmixed mortar.
Imagine an unemployed man who has been walking up and down the London streets to find something to do. His family is in need, and he must find a job. He is quite right to seek, but he will not be satisfied with seeking; he wants to find. Tramping the street will not feed his children. He is not content with having called at many shops. He will not rest until he finds what he is after, and he would be very foolish if he did. So, to be a seeker of Christ, walking up and down the streets will not fill your hungry soul. You must get Christ Himself.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Many job seekers unwittingly choose the low-cost strategy when they should be pursuing a differentiation strategy. Instead of doing the hard work of differentiating themselves, they choose the easy path of low cost, effectively advertising themselves as commodities.
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Anonymous
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Drawing on the long-term marginalization of women workers as "mere seekers
of `pin money,'"" temp executives repeatedly emphasized the secondary nature of both temp jobs and temporary workers ("extra work for extra women").12
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Erin Hatton (The Temp Economy: From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America)
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This isn’t, however, just a public relations challenge for organizational leaders;
corporate social responsibility is a very real issue for job seekers. For the 2007
Cone’s Millennial Cause Study, 68 percent of Generation Y’ers stated that they currently do or will refuse to work for a company that does not have a strong corporate social responsibility record, and 75 percent will pay particularly close attention, both for employment and consumer choices, to companies who have strong
CSR records. Numerous studies have found that a company’s CSR record will affect
an organization’s ability to recruit and retain qualified employees (i.e., Chesloff,
2010; Greening & Turban, 2000). Murray’s (2008) survey found that one third of
the respondents felt working for a caring and responsible employer was more important than the salary that they earned, and nearly one half would turn away from
an employer with a negative corporate social responsibility history.
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Daniel P. Modaff (Organizational Communication: Foundations, Challenges, and Misunderstandings)
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sit well with Michelangelo. The project seemed like a series of insurmountable challenges: •It would be the largest fresco on earth—there would be more than twelve thousand square feet to cover. •He had never frescoed before. •His competition would be staring him in the face every day—the Moses and Jesus wall panels, world-class masterpieces created by the top fresco artists in the world—including his own first maestro, Ghirlandaio. When and if he ever finished the ceiling, his beginner’s work would be compared with these. •The chapel was in constant use, more than twenty times per month. The scaffolding could not be of the traditional kind, which would require too much wood and thus block up the chapel and render it unusable for years. •The pope’s rigid and unimaginative concept for the ceiling stood against everything Michelangelo believed in, both as a spiritual seeker and as an artist. •The pope’s advisers would be trying to catch him at any changes or “heresies” that he might insert in the work. •The pope and Bramante had given him a large number of Roman assistants to help with the plaster and paint—but Michelangelo knew very well that their other job would be to spy on his work.
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Benjamin Blech (The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican)
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No one is a lost cause. And it hurts seeing people get dismissed because at one point in their career they had a setback and might have not been able to stand back up. As time passes, they fall even deeper into hopelessness. It could have been anyone of us and you know it.
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Hamza Zaouali (The 30-Day Job Search: Supercharge your Resume, Renew your Motivation, Secure & Succeed at more Job Interviews, and Negotiate your Salary like a Pro!)
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Be aware of age discrimination. If you are nearing retirement age but still want to work, beware of the difficulties your age may pose. Age discrimination is tough to prove, but many older job seekers know it as a fact of life. To find a job that feels like a good fit—not like something that fit you 20 years ago—you might look for smaller organizations, including nonprofits, that will take advantage of your experience and expertise.
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Karen Barrow (Smarter Living: Work - Nest - Invest - Relate - Thrive)
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Many seekers are stuck or lost because they believe their life calling must also be their career or occupation. Our true calling is a fulfillment of our original divine purpose. And for most people this is seldom about their day job.
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Anthon St. Maarten
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Responsibilities or Achievements?
A common belief among job seekers is, “I need to explain my responsibilities in prior roles.”
No. Hiring managers determine that by looking at your job title
One way to do both is to list achievements, highlighting your responsibilities. Amy Michalenko describes this excellently, when she says:
A duty describes what you did and an accomplishment describes how well you did it.
For example, “planned events” would be considered a job duty, whereas “raised $100,000 by selling out tickets to a 200-person charity event” is an accomplishment.
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Clark Finnical (Job Hunting Secrets: (from someone who's been there))
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TalentWeb3
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Iknow it can be hard to imagine, but more often than not, the best jobs don’t really go to the best candidates. Instead, they go to the best job seeker, and the best job seekers may not have much “relevant experience” for their dream job, but instead are captivating communicators who never underestimate who they’re talking to.
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Ashley Stahl (You Turn: Get Unstuck, Discover Your Direction, and Design Your Dream Career)
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External Recruiters Say, “Your Salary Expectations Are Way Too High”
As Liz Ryan, wisely points out:
“If personnel agency people and recruiters tell every job-seeker to lower their expectations, they'll have an easier time finding those job-seekers work -- and collecting their finder's fees from employers.
It's much easier to put people into low-paying jobs than high-paying jobs! Agencies have more low-paying jobs to fill than higher-paying ones.
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Clark Finnical (Job Hunting Secrets: (from someone who's been there))
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Cynthia Shapiro's take on Self-Talk
Cynthia Shapiro, in her wonderful book, What Does Somebody Have to Do to Get A Job Around Here? says:
What you’re telling yourself with your inner voice comes through in every stage of your job search process.
When you have negative or insecure self-talk constantly running through your head, it will tend to govern the tone of your cover letters, e-mails, phone screenings, and interviews.
Cynthia shares how successful athletes visualize getting baskets, making touchdowns, or hitting home runs.
Job seekers need to do the same thing. We need to visualize succeeding in interviews, excitedly sharing our achievement stories, and enjoying getting to know hiring managers and their teams.
Your self-talk plays an incredible role in your life. If you say anything that sounds the least bit negative, STOP yourself, and say:
I’m better than that. I’m capable and talented.
I’m going to share my achievement stories with hiring managers and help them understand how I can help them solve their problems.
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Clark Finnical (Job Hunting Secrets: (from someone who's been there))
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As job seekers, when we start our job hunt, we have no restrictions on what we can or cannot do. However, practically everyone we meet tells us what we have to do. The sad thing is that, because most job seekers don't know any better, we fall for what we hear.
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Clark Finnical (Job Hunting Secrets: (from someone who's been there))
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Their Inability To Understand
One of the more challenging parts of being unemployed is how others can’t understand what you are going through.
In fact, no one understands unless they’ve been through it.
I’m not sharing this to get you down.
It’s simply a fact that we as job seekers need to accept, understand and then move on.
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Clark Finnical (Job Hunting Secrets: (from someone who's been there))
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Much of what job seekers are told helps the person who is telling you.
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Clark Finnical (Job Hunting Secrets: (from someone who's been there))
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The Under-Informed…
I saw this continuously when I was a job seeker. I’d call a friend working for a great company and make the mistake of asking him,
“Do you know of any good job opportunities at your company?”
He responded, “Oh no, they’ve been eliminating jobs for years.”
After hanging up, I went to his employer’s career site and found page upon page of good jobs, many of which I could apply for.
When you worked for your last employer, did you know anything about open positions outside of your department?
Unless you worked in HR or were actively looking for a new position there, you knew nothing.
It’s easy to think, “They work there, and they’re closer to it than I am, so they should know.”
In reality, they rarely know more than you. If they do know more, it’s rarely a full picture of all of the opportunities.
TAKEAWAY
1. Don’t ask people who don’t know.
2. Don’t listen to people who don’t know.
Believe me, everyone and their brother, cousin, great aunt (you get the idea) will be only too happy to give you their opinions.
So, after you’ve read the resume section and created your resume, and one of these people tells you, “You’ve done it all wrong,” ask that person, “When was the last time you hired someone? When was the last time you interviewed someone?”
If you don’t feel inclined to pose these questions, make a beeline for the door or turn up the volume on your ear buds.
A few years ago when I was in between roles, I messaged a former co-worker and made the mistake of asking her about jobs in the Tampa Bay area.
She replied, “There are no jobs in Tampa Bay.”
She was obviously misinformed or at least under-informed, because I had a phone interview for a position in Tampa Bay the next day.
In short, don’t be quick to assume that the people you’re communicating with are the best source of information. Do you really want to make what could be life-impacting decisions based on people whose knowledge is limited?
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Clark Finnical (Job Hunting Secrets: (from someone who's been there))
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Staffing Firms and Executive Recruiters are responsible for 10% of positions that job hunters find.
Employment agencies, “temp” firms, executive recruiters, and other staffing firms fill job openings for a commission, which is usually between 15% to 33% of the annual salary. The employer pays the fee.
The remaining 15% of jobs come through online applications and recruiters who are not Executive recruiters.
As job seekers, if we complete three online applications a day, it’s easy to fool ourselves into thinking we’re being productive. So here’s my question:
Given that “Talking To Other People” yields five times the number of jobs as online applications (75% vs. 15%), and staffing companies yield almost as many opportunities as online applications (10% vs. 15%), don’t we owe it to ourselves to pursue these avenues?
If not for ourselves, then maybe for our loved ones who depend on us and our salaries.
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Clark Finnical (Job Hunting Secrets: (from someone who's been there))
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Before You Can Be Successful, You Need To Know What Failure Looks Like
One of today’s best job search experts, Liz Ryan, described what failure looks like for a job seeker:
The worst -- and most common -- interview mistake you can make is to be a forgettable applicant, and to leave the building without leaving any impression whatsoever on your interviewer.
Managers are busy. They are overloaded with information the same way we all are. If you don't make your mark in your job interview, all traces of you will have left your manager's memory before you get home.
Many job seekers believe they should just sit there, respond to a hiring manager’s questions and then ask one or two questions at the end.
That is a recipe for failure.
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Clark Finnical (Job Hunting Secrets: (from someone who's been there))
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Will Spelling Keep You Out Of Interviews?
Whether we like it or not, hiring managers judge job seekers based on how our resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn profiles are written.
That’s why it is essential that you turn on Microsoft Word’s spell-check so it catches every error in your resume and cover letter.
But don’t stop there, after turning on Microsoft Word’s spell check, copy all of the verbiage in your LinkedIn profile and paste it into a Word document.
Here are some of the reasons I say this…
• 5,908 LinkedIn Profiles contained “Universiry” where they meant to write “University”.
• 34,254 profiles contain “Graduat” where they meant to write “Graduate”.
• 25 English teacher’s profiles contain “Colege” where they meant to write “College”.
If you’re not getting interviews, take a second look at your resume, cover letter and LinkedIn profiles.
Hiring managers get to choose who they want to hire. Don’t let your spelling be the reason they don’t hire you.
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Clark Finnical (Job Hunting Secrets: (from someone who's been there))
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There exists a similar culture-based racial bias: studies show that job seekers who added typical “white” identifiers to their résumés received significantly more calls for interviews than those without these identifiers.
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Becca Levy (Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live)
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The Manual: A Philosopher’s Guide to Life.
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Phyl Terry (Never Search Alone: The Job Seeker’s Playbook)
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Moreover, “after 10 years in Sweden, only half of asylum seekers have a job.”39 Immigrants, who are now 16 percent of Sweden’s small population, have become 51 percent of the long-term unemployed and 57 percent of the recipients of welfare payments.
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Thomas Sowell (Discrimination and Disparities)
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Forced schooling is a cultural relic, reminiscent of a bygone age. Stuck preparing young people to do the jobs now done by robots, mass schooling ignores the cultural and economic realities of a new human era. Instead of robots, we need inventive thinkers, curious seekers, and passionate doers. Inventiveness, curiosity, and passion are all characteristics that young children naturally exude. We don’t need to train them for the jobs of the future; we just need to stop training these inborn characteristics out of them. We need to give them the freedom and opportunity to pursue their passions, follow their curiosity, and invent creative solutions to complex problems. Given the vast amount of information available to us, the creative skills necessary to process it all, and the seemingly insurmountable challenges our planet now faces, we desperately need to embrace a new paradigm of education. We need to let go of the notion of schooling—something someone does to someone else—and instead reclaim learning—something humans naturally do.
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Kerry McDonald (Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom)
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Two-sided networks have two groups of users who each consistently play a distinct role in transactions. For example, credit card companies serve cardholders and merchants, recruiting websites match job seekers and corporate employers, and videogame consoles connect gamers with game developers. By contrast, one-sided networks have just one type of user. Although every Skype call has a sender and a receiver, these roles are transient: Most Skype users make and receive calls at different times.
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Tom Eisenmann (Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success)
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When I was 15 years old, I came in contact with my first ashram, my first spiritual commune, in the form of Ljusbacken ("The Hill of Light") in Delsbo in beautiful Halsingland in the north of Sweden.
Ljusbacken consisted of an international gathering of yogis, meditators, therapists, healers and seekers of truth. It was on Ljusbacken that I for the first time came in contact with my path in life: meditation. It was also on Ljusbacken that I met people for the first time in my 15 year old life, where I on a deep wordless level felt that I met people, who were on the same path as me. It was the first time that I met people, who could put words on and confirm my own inner thirst after something that I could only occasionally sense vaguely, like some sort of inner guiding presence, or like a beacon in the distant far out on the open and misty ocean. For the first time in my life, I met brothers, sisters and friends on the inner path.
It was also on Ljusbacken that I met the mystery called love for the first time in my 15 year old life. With my 15 year old eyes, I watched with wide eyed fascination and fear filled with excitement the incomprehensible mystery, which is called woman.
My own thirst after truth, together with my inner guiding light, resulted in an early spiritual awakening when I was 15 years old. It led me back to the inner path, which I have already followed for many lives. It led me back to a life lived with vision, with dedication and meaning, and not only a life governed by the endless desires of the ego, a mere vegetating without substance between life and death. It led me to explore the inner journey again, to discover the inner being, the meditative quality within, and to come in intimate contact with the endless and boundless ocean of consciousness, like the drop surrenders to the sea. At the source, the drop and ocean are one.
Devadas, a beautiful soul, whose meditation and way to God is laughter, house father at Ljusbacken, Giten's first ashram in beautiful Hälsingland in the north of Sweden when Giten was 15 years old. says: "Giten does a brilliant job. I am very happy with Giten's work and his satsangs. I must admit that only joy fills my heart when I read Giten's books and see his understanding and commitment.
I suggest joining in to bless Giten's work.
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Swami Dhyan Giten (Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine)
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When figures identified as thought leaders suggest the real value of higher education rests in its ability to teach new skills to the rising generation (as well as current job seekers who’ve been left behind, outsourced, or downsized), they cast knowledge and knowledge creation in purely instrumental terms, rendering the work of higher education almost completely transactional in nature. Sure, there are platitudes about “deep learning” and “meaningful connections” thrown into the mix, but that instrumental logic remains the dominant trope. This creates a real problem for those of us engaged in articulating and defending the larger value— the intrinsic public good— of higher education. Challenged by the abstract nature of arguments about social contracts and civic connections, we shift to a language we think will be taken more seriously by administrators, politicians, and cost-conscious parents: the language of marketable skills for the “new economy” and of terms like “nimble” and “agile” and “multiple competencies.” But in doing this, we cede the terrain of the debate; we’ve implicitly declared higher education’s real value is transactional and market oriented when we use that language. We’ve sacrificed our larger vision in favor of short-term relevance. While it might be an eminently understandable move, it’s certainly a dangerous one.
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Kevin M. Gannon (Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto)
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The individual soul must be awakened from the deep sleep it is immersed in. One who considers the Self to be the body cannot accomplish anything great. So long as his mind dwells on the body, he will not be able to think of anything other than his own body and his own nation. The reason we consider many of the people of Western nations to be uncivilized is their identification of the Self with the body. When someone with such an outlook joins a religious order, he turns the ashrama into his home and yoga into a job. Even Sri Ramakrishna, the God of Love, has been turned into a zemindar by them. He is being served with great pomp throughout the country—he must have a fancy bed, a beautiful house, and good food! If the mind cannot accept abstract ideas, then what is the point of coming into the circle of Sri Ramakrishna? This worn-out baggage was present in the religion of old. Haven't you seen people take rotten fish, fry it in spices, and kill the smell with onions before they eat it? This is the same thing. The spice of social service has been added to the decaying religion of the olden days—that is all.
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Premeshananda (Go Forward : Letters to Spiritual Seekers)
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We are so irritated by the behavior of the new monks that, if we had enough money, we would manage the work with paid people. Those who come don't want spiritual life; it is as if they had come for a job. In many ashramas, there is not much discussion about spirituality at all, and in many places, the ideal of Swamiji is unknown. As a result, ashramas have become social service leagues. Spiritual seekers desirous of liberation have now become workers. Only one who can give up everything can become a monk. Otherwise, he is merely pretending to be a monk, like a clown in the circus. This life is very difficult. It is not like fighting from within a fort but from the middle of an open field.
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Premeshananda (Go Forward : Letters to Spiritual Seekers)
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It is impossible for one who is lodged in mundane consciousness to evaluate definitively the competence of any guide to transformation and transcendence, without having already attained to an equal degree of transcendence. No number of “objective” criteria for assessment can remove this “Catch-22” dilemma. Therefore the choice of a guide, path, or group will remain in some sense a subjective matter. Subjectivity, however, has many modes, from self-deluding emotionality to penetrating, illuminative intuition. Perhaps the first job of the seeker would best be to refine that primary guide, one’s own subjectivity.10 Ram Dass (Richard Alpert), who has functioned on both sides of the fence (as a devotee of Neem Karoli Baba and as a teacher in his own right), has made the following complementary observation: Some people fear becoming involved with a teacher. They fear the possible impurities in the teacher, fear being exploited, used, or entrapped. In truth we are only ever entrapped by our own desires and clingings. If you want only liberation, then all teachers will be useful vehicles for you. They cannot hurt you at all.11 This is true only ideally. In practice, the problem is that in many cases students do not know themselves sufficiently to be conscious of their deeper motivations. Therefore they may feel attracted precisely to the kind of teacher who shares their own “impurities”—such as hunger for power—and hence have every reason to fear him or her. It seems that only the truly innocent are protected. Although they too are by no means immune to painful experiences with teachers, at least they will emerge hale and whole, having been sustained by their own purity of intention. Accepting the fact that our appraisal of a teacher is always subjective so long as we have not ourselves attained his or her level of spiritual accomplishment, there is at least one important criterion that we can look for in a guru: Does he or she genuinely promote disciples’ personal and spiritual growth, or does he or she obviously or ever so subtly undermine their maturation? Would-be disciples should take a careful, levelheaded look at the community of students around their prospective guru. They should especially scrutinize those who are closer to the guru than most. Are they merely sorry imitations or clones of their teacher, or do they come across as mature men and women? The Bulgarian spiritual teacher Omraam Mikhaёl Aїvanhov, who died in 1986, made this to-the-point observation: Everybody has his own path, his mission, and even if you take your Master as a model, you must always develop in the way that suits your own nature. You have to sing the part which has been given to you, aware of the notes, the beat and the rhythm; you have to sing it with your voice which is certainly not that of your Master, but that is not important. The one really important thing is to sing your part perfectly.
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Georg Feuerstein (The Deeper Dimension of Yoga: Theory and Practice)
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Job creaters not job seekers sounds like a great policy goal but given Modi's history of slogans I am not sanguine that this will go anywhere. As a matter of fact, current Startup India program is highly bureaucratized, almost to the point of being choked off, is a shining example of what not to do.
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Ranjan Mistry
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sharp sword or a robotic warrior or a singing birdbath for your grandmother’s garden. Whatever you wanted. The other cabins filed in: Demeter, Apollo, Aphrodite, Dionysus. Naiads came up from the canoe lake. Dryads melted out of the trees. From the meadow came a dozen satyrs, who reminded me painfully of Grover. I’d always had a soft spot for the satyrs. When they were at camp, they had to do all kinds of odd jobs for Mr. D, the director, but their most important work was out in the real world. They were the camp’s seekers. They went undercover into schools all over the world, looking for
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Rick Riordan (The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2))
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As you move from job seeker to job creator, you move from wages to wealth.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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There are job-seekers, at least two of them. They are probably young men since they have shown up for a low-status job where they hope to see women walking around in lingerie. They are probably not very smart since everyone knows there is no such thing as the Victoria’s Secret Building. There is someone who told them an obviously-false story about the window-washing job. That person, whoever he or she is, probably has a reason for lying to the young men and does not have their best interests at heart. Therefore, whatever the “even better” job is, it is likely to be even worse. And because the young men are stupid, they will probably go along with it. And things will end badly for them.
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Charlie Close (The Art of the Very Short Story: A Guide for Readers and Writers)
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I’m sure you remember how we survived the alien invasion in H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds,” she continued. “Our bacteria got them. Given my job, the final passage of this novel is my all-time favorite. Wells wrote that the moment the invaders landed, and I quote, ‘our microscopic allies began to work their overthrow. It was inevitable.
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Douglas E. Richards (Seeker)
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An interview is either a lesson or a blessing. You either use it as practice or you get a great job.
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Hamza Zaouali (The 30-Day Job Search: Supercharge your Resume, Renew your Motivation, Secure & Succeed at more Job Interviews, and Negotiate your Salary like a Pro!)
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If you just focus on being liked by them, how can you truly join a company that deserves you? You've got to have some standards. You must be assessing them, too. And if things don't work out because they're not up to your standards, then you've probably done yourself a huge favor.
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Hamza Zaouali (The 30-Day Job Search: Supercharge your Resume, Renew your Motivation, Secure & Succeed at more Job Interviews, and Negotiate your Salary like a Pro!)
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It's either in writing or it's nothing.
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Hamza Zaouali (The 30-Day Job Search: Supercharge your Resume, Renew your Motivation, Secure & Succeed at more Job Interviews, and Negotiate your Salary like a Pro!)
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You know, Ahmed, I'm not looking for a job. I'm looking for fulfillment. And for me, there are only two ingredients: knowing that my work means something for others, and the company's culture.
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Hamza Zaouali (The 30-Day Job Search: Supercharge your Resume, Renew your Motivation, Secure & Succeed at more Job Interviews, and Negotiate your Salary like a Pro!)
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Please remember, these homeless or long-term unemployed people were not born this way, they had an accident that brought them to where they are today. Allow them to one day tell the story of this perfect stranger who changed their life without asking for anything in return.
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Hamza Zaouali (The 30-Day Job Search: Supercharge your Resume, Renew your Motivation, Secure & Succeed at more Job Interviews, and Negotiate your Salary like a Pro!)
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keep the pot boiling, the Mirror got a popular psychologist, Dr. William Marston, to make “a close study of the photographs of the petite film star.” As the inventor of the lie detector test and eventual creator of Wonder Woman, Marston obviously had the probity for the job. He determined that Mary was “a pleasure seeker, secretive . . . a square shooter . . . an introspective, pugnacious individual,” who was “inclined to be oblivious to the ordinary conventions and social rules when she is set on a course of her own.” A photo of her face in profile showed that her forehead, nose, and chin barely protruded to the vertical line they had superimposed on the picture. This meant they were “hidden” features, evidence that Mary was a secretive type.
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Edward Sorel (Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936)
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The fraction of international migrants in the world population in 2017 was roughly what it was in 1960 or in 1990: 3 percent.1 The European Union (EU) on average gets between 1.5 million and 2.5 million non-EU migrants every year from the rest of the world. Two and a half million is less than one half of one percent of the EU population. Most of these are legal migrants, people with job offers, or those who arrive to join their families. There was an unusual influx of refugees in 2015 and 2016, but by 2018 the number of asylum seekers to the EU was back to 638,000, and only 38 percent of the requests were granted.2 This represents about one for every twenty-five hundred EU residents. That’s it. Hardly a deluge.
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Abhijit V. Banerjee (Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems)
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The Adee
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Maybe I was paying it forward for the lessons that I learned from Cookie and Alys Giggone about doing the best job you know how, even if it’s more than is being asked for.
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Nathan Lowell (In Ashes Born (A Seeker’s Tale, #1))
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Popular products from the tech boom— including violent and sexist video games that a generation of children has become addicted to—are designed with little to no input from women. Apple’s first version of its highly touted health application could track your blood-alcohol level but not menstruation. Everything from plus-sized smartphones to artificial hearts have been built at a size better suited to male anatomy. Facial recognition technology works far more accurately for white men than darker-skinned women. Social media platforms are hotbeds of online hate disproportionately targeted at girls and women, not simply because some humans are downright mean, but because of how men have designed the very systems that allow this hate to propagate. The exclusion of women matters—not just to job seekers, but to all of us.
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Emily Chang (Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley)
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In decade after decade, threats of job competition—between men and women, immigrants and native born, Black and white—have perennially revived the fear of loss at another’s gain. The people setting up the competition and spreading these fears were never the needy job seekers, but the elite. (Consider the New York Herald’s publishing tycoon, James Gordon Bennett Sr., who warned the city’s white working classes during the 1860 election that “if Lincoln is elected, you will have to compete with the labor of four million emancipated negroes.”) The zero sum is a story sold by wealthy interests for their own profit, and its persistence requires people desperate enough to buy it.
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Heather McGhee (The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together)
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Father, you are sovereign and ordain all things. Help guide me through this transition so that I may see your goodness in everything. Help me to find your peace and not resent my situation due to circumstances I can’t control.
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D. Duane Engler (40 Prayers for the Job Seeker (40 Prayer Series I))
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The recruiters and hiring managers of today are becoming more and more like politicians when asked difficult and uncomfortable questions. If they reply at all, they will not directly answer the job seekers’ questions.
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Paul Babicki (Netiquette IQ: A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email)
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Think of yourself as a seed, and a company culture is the soil. You won't grow in just any soil. Some soil is made for you, some isn't. And good companies are very much aware of what seed they're planting if they want to see the fruits one day.
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Hamza Zaouali (The 30-Day Job Search: Supercharge your Resume, Renew your Motivation, Secure & Succeed at more Job Interviews, and Negotiate your Salary like a Pro!)