Heard at Career Transition Workshop-Dallas 7/12/10

Session 1 Accepting the Ax: How to Get by the Why

Think one word that best describes how you feel about your transition

• anxiety
  
• frustration
  
• confusion
• surprise
• Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it
• The only thing we learn from history is we don't learn anything from history
• the unexamined life is not worth living
• Morality rate of 2d marriages are more likely to fail than 1st marriages

Part 1- Transition Process

• Journey of a Lifetime with 5 phases
• Objection is the rule, it's the norm to hear no
• But always ends in a YES
• The most qualified candidate rarely gets the job it's the best packaged and promoted.
• If you don't know where you are going any road will do-Alice in Wonderland
• Passage of Severance becomes Passage of Promise
• In life loss is inevitable growth is optional
• If you want the rainbow you have to put up with the rain-Dolly Parton
• "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want to change the world?" said Steve Jobs to John Sculley to take over Apple Computer as CEO
  

Part 2-Emotional cycles

• Emotions of demotion-stages of Death & Dying
• Denial, Anger, Worry, Depression, Acceptance
  
• We run faster when we have lost our way
• F*E*A*R by Zig Ziglar
  
• False Expectations Appearing Real
  

Part 3- Length of search

• Rule of thumb one month of job search for each $10K of salary
• Hiring authorities hire the candidate of the least cost risk controversy
• More mature you are as a worker the less mature company should be sought
• Less mature you are as a worker the more mature company should be sought
• Six stumbling blocks
• age, gender, minority status
• employer status
• employment status-if employed now have current employer underwrite job search
• Ten tasks to beat the odds
• Pace yourself, don't go up like a rocket and down like a rock
• Properly packaged
• two page resume
• two minute verbal resume
• two hundred targets
  

When it's dark enough you can see the stars - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Clarity of purpose in the trauma of transition You're destiny in life is not to climb but to fly

Next session Tue, 7/20/10 at Park Cities Baptist Church CAREER CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES
Learn basic decision models designed to simplify the complex choice of "Now what?"

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