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<p>Does your job search fill you full of confidence, excitement and joy? Do you feel empowered by all the possibilities and potential options you have?</p>
<p>Most people find a job search to be a tedious, emotionally trying task. Endless rejection and doors slammed in your face. Negative or cutting responses from managers, employment officers and human resource departments.</p>
<p>So how can you change that?</p>
<p>You cannot change the people that you encounter or the way they talk to you. The only person you can change is yourself. You can change how you present yourself, how you interact with everyone you meet, and how you handle the responses that you receive. Amazingly, by changing yourself you will make your job search an empowering experience.</p>
<p>Let's take a look at each one of these three points.</p>
<p>First, what is involved in how you present yourself? How you present yourself during your job search includes everything that people see hear and read about you. I cannot over emphasize the importance of a carefully crafted cover letter and resume. It does not take much work to make your information package leap off the pile and stand out above the rest. This is often the first impression you give of yourself. So make it amazing!</p>
<p>When I hire staff in my business, I am always amazed at how just the tiniest teeniest itsy bitsiest amount of extra effort on their resume and cover letter will make one candidate stand out from the others!</p>
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<p>Another way you present yourself is through how you dress, how you walk, how you talk and how you hold your body. One of my favorite sayings is "How you do anything is how you do everything". That means how you walk, sit, stand, shake hands, look at people, make eye contact and on and on.... all reveal HUGE amounts of information about how you will perform on the job.</p>
<p>The second key point is how you interact with other people. Don't just save your smile and pleasant tone of voice for the interviewer. Use everyone you meet as a chance to practice interacting in positive, empowering, giving way. Be more interested in others than in your own troubles and worries. Ask lots of questions and learn how to really listen to their responses.</p>
<p>Listening is a skill that most people can improve on. Everyone is anxious to share their own story, and get the next word in as fast as possible. I am guilty of all the "poor listener" behaviors at times, but I work at it, and make a regular effort to stop, and really hear what people are saying before I start talking.</p>
<p>The skill of listening is probably the most powerful inter-personal skill that you can learn. Listening is a universal skill that not only will make you shine in an interview and in conversation with a prospective employer, but it will also help you be a better parent, a better spouse, a better friend, and a better employee once you get the job.</p>
<p>The third, and most important point in making your job search more empowering is how you handle the responses you receive from others.</p>
<p>The job search process is an emotional roller coaster for most people. The excitement of the possibility of a new job offer. The disappointment of yet another rejection. The anxiety of dwindling financial reserves, the frustration of bureaucracy and the inner battle with your own confidence and self worth.</p>
<p>So what creates this emotional roller coaster? Is it the external events that you encounter while you search for a job, or is it the way you deal with these events inside yourself after the events have occured?</p>
<p>There is a lot of information available on how to manage your emotional state. The most powerful tools go straight to the core of the problem - your thoughts and beliefs. Teachers like Deepak Chopra and Lester Levinson talk about the mind-body connection, and the power of emotional energy. Whenever you are faced with big changes in your life - and finding a new job is a BIG change - you are in the perfect place to practise and discover the benefits of taking charge of your emotional world. In fact, it is at emotionally charged times like this that you are being challenged to grow - searching for a job, losing a loved one, ending a relationship. Only through learning how to acknowledge and work with your emotional side will you be able to release the limiting beliefs that are holding you back.</p>
<p>The job search process will push you to grow and learn, and if you decide to not take the easy path, but rather the more fulfilling path, you will definitely need tools to assist you.</p>
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<p>One of cheapest and most valuable tools you can get are books. Books can help you through the process of defining what you really want to be doing with your life. Books can help you learn how to acknowledge your emotionals. Books can help you release old emotions and traumas that are holding you back in life.</p>
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