People act really weird in the job search process. In all other aspects of your life, you act another way. If you want a cup of coffee, you stand up, walk to the coffee maker, and make some coffee. When you need groceries, you get in the car, drive to the store, buy some groceries, and bring them home and put them in the refrigerator. Imagine if you wanted a cup of coffee, and you just sat there at the kitchen table, drumming your fingers, hoping and wishing that a cup of coffee would magically appear in front of you? Imagine that your refrigerator was empty, and you responded by just sitting at the kitchen table, hoping that somehow the food would just magically appear in it. No, you wouldn’t do that, would you? That would be completely ridiculous.
But in a job search, that’s how people act. They wait for a job to be posted in a public place, like Monster or Craigslist. Then they email in their cover letter/resume, or they apply on the company’s website. Then they sit and wait. What’s up with that? You wouldn’t act like that in any other aspect of your life. So why do you act like that in your job search?
You already act like something else in all other aspects of your life. So you already know how to act like that. Now do it in your job search, too.
I’m not saying break the rules. Follow the rules, and then do more. The rules are usually “email your cover letter and resume to XYZ”, or “apply on our website at jobs.company.com”. So do that. But then do more.
That’s what this book series is all about. The “do more” part. It shows you, step by step, how you can do more.
For some reason, people are so “supplicative” in the job search. They don’t act like that in any other aspect of life. Why do they act like that during the job search?
