Job Journal, Success Stories and a Job Seekers Strategy Ego

Job Journal, Success Stories and a Job Seekers Strategy Ego Recently I wrote a post about the idea of a Job Journal and the power of recording your past successes to help you communicate your value to people in interviews, on resumes, etc. Mary Lou Hely left a great comment: I’m a believer. The PAR statements make a critical difference in both keeping you from feeling like a loser for not having a job, and for positioning yourself as the ideal job candidate on your resume. I kept putting off the effort. I guess subconsciously I didn’t really believe I had any successes. But, finally one day recently, I just buckled down and started making notes of my successful experiences with each company I’d worked for. My brain hurt at the end of the day, but it completely changed my approach. I then took the rough notes, fine tuned them into brief, succinct PAR statements and transferred them to one of my resume versions. It’s pretty powerful let me tell you. What a boost of confidence it gave me! What a powerful statement it gave my resume! On my resume, instead of a long boring list of every job and responsibility I had, it zooms right into where I added the most value. I can pick and choose from my PAR statements to customize the resume for the type of job I’m targeting. It’s a GREAT exercise for every current and future job seeker. I hadnt thought of this exercise as something to help you change the way you think about yourself, or how you communicate (except that you can more effectively communicate your value props), but Mary Lou reminded me of how low you can get in a job search and that doing something like this can remind you that YOU HAVE SELF-WORTH! Heres what Id suggest, if you were my job-seeking client: Put off everything you had planned to do today, except for any phone calls that you have to make, and spend the entire day brainstorming wins and past accomplishments. If you can, like Mary Lou, get such value, isnt that worth the entire day??  She mentions: It can help keep you from feeling like a loser, It can completely change [your] approach, It can add meaty content to your resume, indeed, give your resume a powerful statement! Give you a BOOST of confidence! Give you PAR statements you can pick and choose from how powerful is that?? Awesome thanks for sharing Mary Lou! Brad Attig, a career coach, also left a great resource on developing your PARs.  Check it out here, and read his comment here. Job Journal, Success Stories and a Job Seekers Strategy Ego Recently I wrote a post about the idea of a Job Journal and the power of recording your past successes to help you communicate your value to people in interviews, on resumes, etc. Mary Lou Hely left a great comment: I’m a believer. The PAR statements make a critical difference in both keeping you from feeling like a loser for not having a job, and for positioning yourself as the ideal job candidate on your resume. I kept putting off the effort. I guess subconsciously I didn’t really believe I had any successes. But, finally one day recently, I just buckled down and started making notes of my successful experiences with each company I’d worked for. My brain hurt at the end of the day, but it completely changed my approach. I then took the rough notes, fine tuned them into brief, succinct PAR statements and transferred them to one of my resume versions. It’s pretty powerful let me tell you. What a boost of confidence it gave me! What a powerful statement it gave my resume! On my resume, instead of a long boring list of every job and responsibility I had, it zooms right into where I added the most value. I can pick and choose from my PAR statements to customize the resume for the type of job I’m targeting. It’s a GREAT exercise for every current and future job seeker. I hadnt thought of this exercise as something to help you change the way you think about yourself, or how you communicate (except that you can more effectively communicate your value props), but Mary Lou reminded me of how low you can get in a job search and that doing something like this can remind you that YOU HAVE SELF-WORTH! Heres what Id suggest, if you were my job-seeking client: Put off everything you had planned to do today, except for any phone calls that you have to make, and spend the entire day brainstorming wins and past accomplishments. If you can, like Mary Lou, get such value, isnt that worth the entire day??  She mentions: It can help keep you from feeling like a loser, It can completely change [your] approach, It can add meaty content to your resume, indeed, give your resume a powerful statement! Give you a BOOST of confidence! Give you PAR statements you can pick and choose from how powerful is that?? Awesome thanks for sharing Mary Lou! Brad Attig, a career coach, also left a great resource on developing your PARs.  Check it out here, and read his comment here.