How to Become "A Fan" Of A Targeted Company

Opening Day at Fenway is upon us. And the fans are ripe.

Becoming "A Fan" of the Company
What would happen if you selected five to ten companies that you would love to work for and that could use your skills, and embraced their company like "a fan". I mean really spending time gaining inside knowledge about the company, talking to present and past employees, connecting with the company's mission and purpose, developing an understanding of their passion, customers and brand by reading online writings, news articles and their website details. Becoming "a fan" of the company, regardless of their present hiring freeze or lack of job openings.

Try it.

Invest the time and become "a fan" of the company, just like sports fans do in baseball.

Then put together a resume and a cover letter, just for that company, showing how you can be a valuable contributor to the team.

As an experienced fan, you know that you won't win every game or every job interview. Sometimes you will experience a "losing streak" just like the Sox and other teams do. But, win or lose, they always come back.

 Don't give up. Come back even stronger. Change your strategy. How's your line-up? Who's your starter? Do you need to change pitchers? 

Yes, change your job-getting strategy depending on which company you are targeting and applying to. Those strategies might include looking at your career goals and skills, upgrading or gaining new skills, researching, networking, cover letters, targeting resumes, practiced interview skills, follow-up letters and more.

Stay positive.

And imagine winning an interview of one of your targeted companies and someday dusting off homeplate on your very own "opening day".

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Lou Holtz, American Football Coach

I attended a motivational conference a few months ago and one of the speakers was Lou Holtz, Head Football Coach at the University of Notre Dame who led the Fighting Irish to a National Championship. His presentation was inspiring, memorable, and life-changing.

Here are the points that made an impact on my life and that I'd like to share with you:

• A Winning Attitude
• The greatest power we have is the power to choose.
• Often we let what happens to us control us.
• We can choose to be positive or negative today.

• A Positive Self Image
• Everyone makes mistakes. Learn and benefit from them.
• That's life! Try to make amends. Move on.
• Happiness is nothing more than having a poor memory.
• If you can't remember what happened today, you'll be happy.

• Set a Higher Standard
• Whatever you do, do it to the best of your ability.
• The higher your standard for yourself, the higher your self image.
• As our self-image grows, our productivity grows.

Lou Holtz'  "one day at a time" wisdom has led so many to improve their game and achieve personal and career success.

I got my helmet on.  How about you?

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A Career Change for Tiger Woods?

Have you heard the news about Tiger Wood's recent talk about changing his career from World Champion Golfer to United States Navy Seal? Some of Tiger's professional golfing skills are transferrable ones, that is, skills and abilities that he has acquired and can apply to a variety of work environments.

Let's think about this. Tiger's physical skills like leverage, stamina and endurance, to name a few, would be transferrable to a Navy Seal career. And some of his other skills like international relationship management, strategic development, conflict management, and more, might transfer too.

Tiger says he's not making the switch.

No matter his decision, to me, Tiger Woods and careerists like him, who give thought to their careers, skills and dreams, are champions - champions of their lives, passions, goals - their careers and their future destiny. ~ka

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Keep Moving Forward

Stay positive.

Target.

Network.

Strategize.

Take the hits.

Keep moving forward. ~ka

"The more No's you hear, the closer you are to that Yes" - Richard Bolles.

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