Experienced MIT Grad For Hire
Just as I was motivated to a start my blog www.oracleofny.com to keep in touch with the hundreds of people from around the world who contacted me by email and telephone with words of encouragement and job leads after my sign board publicity initially went viral, I was motivated to write a book after I eventually landed a job and hundreds more people contacted me proclaiming I was an inspiration and seeking job hunting advice. During the cold, lonely winter nights and on weekends, while my wife and children were in Omaha and I was working at an accounting firm in NYC, I started writing Experienced MIT Grad For Hire based on my personal experience and career coach Paloma Bowland’s transformational advice. I wanted to share my inspirational story and give encouragement to the many people who gave me encouragement when I needed it most — during my long stretch of unemployment. I wanted to reach out to people all over the world with words of help and hope. Even a year and a half after my photograph and story first went public, they continued to circulate the globe — and even a year after I started working again, many people asked for the details of my inspirational act, unique job search, what I learned and where it had taken me. I realized that I enjoy — and am good at — helping others, so I decided to share the tools I learned from my experience — to inspire people to think and act in new ways to land a job. Anyone who is looking for a job or who could use a bit of personal inspiration may be interested in my informative tale of creativity, bravery, perseverance and practical job hunting advice.
Just as I was motivated to a start my blog www.oracleofny.com to keep in touch with the hundreds of people from around the world who contacted me by email and telephone with words of encouragement and job leads after my sign board publicity initially went viral, I was motivated to write a book after I eventually landed a job and hundreds more people contacted me proclaiming I was an inspiration and seeking job hunting advice.
During the cold, lonely winter nights and on weekends, while my wife and children were in Omaha and I was working at an accounting firm in NYC, I started writing Experienced MIT Grad For Hire based on my personal experience and career coach Paloma Bowland’s transformational advice.
I wanted to share my inspirational story and give encouragement to the many people who gave me encouragement when I needed it most — during my long stretch of unemployment. I wanted to reach out to people all over the world with words of help and hope.
Even a year and a half after my photograph and story first went public, they continued to circulate the globe — and even a year after I started working again, many people asked for the details of my inspirational act, unique job search, what I learned and where it had taken me.
I realized that I enjoy — and am good at — helping others, so I decided to share the tools I learned from my experience — to inspire people to think and act in new ways to land a job.
Anyone who is looking for a job or who could use a bit of personal inspiration may be interested in my informative tale of creativity, bravery, perseverance and practical job hunting advice.
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Lesson Learned—Be Creative!<br />
• When searching for a job, get inspired and be creative! You want to<br />
stand out from the competition and get noticed. If your approach is the<br />
same as everyone else’s, how are you going to find a job? There are a lot<br />
of fellow job hunters out there. You are looking for the job—it’s not<br />
necessarily looking for you.<br />
• It doesn’t take much. You don’t have to be as creative as Leonardo da<br />
Vinci or Thomas Edison. A little ingenuity can go a long way. All I did<br />
was put on a $2 sign board and go out to Park Avenue to hand out some<br />
resumes, and my life was never the same.<br />
• When doing the same old thing does not work, don’t give up, but also<br />
don’t keep doing the same old thing. Get inspired and do something<br />
innovative. Think out-of-the-box, and take a little risk. (One of the<br />
definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting<br />
to get different results.) You might have to overcome your fears and<br />
inhibitions, but it may well be worth the effort.<br />
• Don’t be afraid of embarrassment. When I donned a sign board on the<br />
corner of 50 th Street and Park Avenue, I felt as awkward and embarrassed<br />
as could be, but I went through with it. I do not strive to do one thing that
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