Material by Chris Maymire

I attend the local chapter of Business Professional Exchange.  Every week we have a lesson and some practice on getting a job.   I’ve learned a great deal so far. Below are notes I took of Mr. Waymire’s recent class on the Quality of Being.

What kind of BEING do you need in a job search?

BE AVAILABLE – Let people know you are available. Don’t assume they know.

BE NICE to everybody.

• Help the interviewer be the best interviewer.
• Use rejection letter to write NICE thank you letter reinforcing your skills (maybe they hired the wrong person…).

Be REMEMBERED

• For what you want to be remembered for, be on your toes
• Be appropriate in every interaction.
• Be on your BEST behavior.

Be KNOWN and Be SEEN.

• Use networking events and get to as many as you can. Networking is about establishing relationships.
• Be together with people to network.
• Be connected through networking. Seventy percent of people getting hired knew someone who did delegating bragging for them.

BE IN COMMUNICATION

• Be CONFIDENT
• Be ENTHUSIASTIC… Smile! Ask Questions, be engaged.

 Be SPECIFIC

• What do you want? Be clear about it.
• Be TARGETED – No shotgun resume approach.
• DON’T look for the HR person, look for the person I can get my resume to who can get it to a decision maker

Be DETERMINED

• Embrace failure as a learning experience.
• Every job search is a series of no’s followed by a yes.
• Be COMMITTED. Don’t just dabble at a job search
• Be IN CONTROL. Statistically, takes over 5 hours per day of focusing on Job search to be successful. Spend the time to become an expert at getting a job.

Be Informed

• Be able to teach the interviewer. Do homework and digging ahead of time.

Be Healthy – can speak to your impression of commitment to the job.

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Our class then brainstormed “BE” Qualities and here are the combined results.

• Be Timely —  10 or 15 minutes early.
• Follow instructions on resumes
• Where do I want to spend my time in my search?
• Be Proactive —  Anticipate things, planning preparing, not waiting for someone to do it for you
• Be Helpful – what goes around comes around… share Job Leads
• Be Assertive – not aggression or pushy, but I have a right to ask
• For what I want
• Be Careful – Watch for scams and pitfalls, false assumptions
• But proceed!
• Watch for the minefields: not prepared for interview, late, cant find it, etc.
• Be Teachable & Open minded

• Willing to learn, able to take suggestions

• Be a Mentor/Teacher to help others
• Be Sensitive especially to other cultures.
• Be Honest and Genuine
• Be Hopeful
• Be Respectful – treat others the way you want to be treated
• Be Responsible – be a worker someone wants to employ
• Be Upbeat – positive – don’t bad mouth previous employer
• Be Diligent
• Be Connected
• Be Receptive
• Be Prepared (Get good at interviewing)