Long-Term Unemployed: Stop Hitting Your Head Against the Wall
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter speaks to those who are finding it impossible to find work and offers them a suggestion that will help.
I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. I’m referred to as The Big Game Hunter because I’ve been hunting down leaders and staff organizations for 40 plus years. So, for some of you, you’ve been hitting your head against the wall in your job search now for what seems like an eternity.
You’re getting no results. And, by the way, an eternity is not a week, by the way. But this can apply to you, as well, during the time that you are searching.
But this is really a tip for the long-term unemployed, for folks who are just hitting your head against the wall. And this could be true of, you know, veteran individuals and it’s certainly true of people who are trying to launch. You’ve graduated school and just not getting anywhere.
What can you do? What can you do in the face of all this mounting pressure that you’re feeling to find work, all the lack of results that you’re getting? What can you do? And the answer is create your own job. Now, creating your own job can be as simple as, if you’re a writer, you start doing freelancing. You market yourself as a freelancer.
You blog. You do a variety of different things that help other individuals through your efforts. Through that, you’re going to publicize yourself.
People will find your work on the web. You’ll mobilize yourself to get out and about in completely different ways so that when all is said and done, people are going to learn about you. As I found with one person I was speaking with yesterday, she wound up with offers based upon her writing and her blogging and a variety of other things that she was doing.
And the same can happen for you. You may be a marketing person. You may be a salesperson.
You can still teach others to sell or to market. You can still write about some of your ideas along these lines. You can pick up freelance work in your local community or around the country or, for that matter, around the world.
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Do you have to get the highest rate imaginable? No. You just need to work. And through that working, you’re going to build relationships and develop skills and efforts that are going to be very helpful to you.
So, don’t just simply look for big companies to hire you. Don’t just simply try and knock on doors of small companies and say things like, hi, I’m a fast learner. I can learn anything you give me to do.
No one cares. What they care about is can you give them results? Can you help them based upon what they need? Starting your own . . . creating your own job, starting your own small business, marketing your skills and your talent. I’ve seen it help so many people land work during this great recession, depression, however you want to refer to it.
So, don’t just settle. Promote yourself. Create effort.
Pick up freelance work. There are online sites like Elance, for example, that are going to help you find work. Get out there.
So, this is Jeff Altman. Hope you found this video helpful. If you did and you’re watching on YouTube, share it, leave a comment, click the like button.
Do something that helps you know that helps others know that this is a worthwhile video. Then I want to encourage you to come over to my website which is TheBigGameHunter.us and there’s a lot of great content there. There’s all my YouTube videos about job search as well as about hiring.
There’s information about my books and guides there, places you can post your resume to, places that you can post your job ad to, you know, lots of stuff to help you as a job hunter, help you as a HR professional, find work or find talent. You can also subscribe to my two e-zines there, No BS Job Search Advice and No BS Hiring Advice, both of which were published with an eye toward helping you find work or hire talent. And I also want to say that I’m here to help.
Reach out to me through LinkedIn. That’s LinkedIn.com forward slash i n forward slash TheBigGameHunter.us. I’m happy to accept connection requests. If you’re trying to hire, by the way, contact me at the email address below.
Let me know when to reach you. I’d love to help your firm staff positions. And finally, if you have a question about job hunting, I’m a live person job search and career coaching expert.
Reach out to me through liveperson.com. I’d be happy to answer your questions. This is Jeff Altman. Hope you have a great day.
Take care!
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