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Prepare For Success
• y You’ll be more flexible and creative
• y You’ll be easier to be around
• y You’ll have a general feeling of wellbeing and achievement
• y You’ll have organized time in your schedule to allow for friends, family and all those
other important little things
So what steps can you take to be organized during your recruitment campaign?
Establish A Professional Working Space
Set up an office space at your home, which is purely dedicated to your job seeking activities
and where you can work in peace. This should include a PC with Internet access (if possible), a
web browser and Microsoft Word installed. (Make sure there is no TV in the workroom as this
can be a major distraction.)
‘Possible’ is the all-important word here.
As with all things I Got Hired TM , we work exclusively within the ‘art of the possible’. Sure, in a
perfect world you might want a home office dedicated to your job-hunt with your very own
Personal Assistant sitting outside the door waiting to serve your every job-hunting need – but
in the real world that is pretty unlikely to happen!
We work exclusively on making the best of what we do have, and not hankering after what we
could have. There is no point in even thinking about the ‘if onlys’ if they are not achievable; if
only I had an office, if only I had a printer, if only my children weren’t at home during the day.
This type of thinking just drags us down and bursts the all-important bubble of enthusiasm and
motivation and you’ll find yourself making excuses for
your failure before you have even started.
We need to build our environment with a combination
of what we have and what our job-hunt requires.
Different job-hunts require different environments. If
you are currently out of work your job-hunt should be
pretty central to your life right now.
Setting up an area of your home as your ‘Job-Hunt
Patch’, whether it’s a home office, a spare bedroom or a
corner of your living room, kitchen or dining room, is a
great idea. Just having a space where you work, where
your family and friends know you work, and where your files, computer, etc. are located, will all
give real focus to your search.
Some of the most focused job-hunters will even hang an ‘Occupied’ sign on the back of their
chair just to make sure their partner, kids or flatmates know that they are ‘at work’ and serious
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