How To Get a Job You'll Love - Not Just Tolerate

When you're job-hunting, it's easy to fantasize that your job search will be quick and easy and land you in a fantastic new position. We haven't seen that happen very often in real life.

Your task as a job-seeker is to reach out to and start conversations with a lot of employers, because it's important to get a job you'll enjoy and feel good about.

If you take the wrong job, it will crush your mojo -- and your mojo is the most important thing you've got, apart from your health and your family.

It's tempting to take the first job offer you get, but why? If you spot even one red flag or warning signal along the way to getting that first job offer, you may be better off talking to a few more employers and waiting for a better job offer, even if you have to take a survival job in the meantime.

It is understandable that a person who's thrown out of work by a company closing or a layoff might think "Being unemployed is the worst state there is." You will think that right up until the moment you realize you've accepted a new job that is much worse than another month of unemployment!

At Human Workplace our motto for job-seekers is "If they don't get you, they don't deserve you." 

That's why you should accept every invitation to a job interview you can get. Go on the job interview if you can manage it, whether you think you want the job or not. Every new job interview is a chance to learn more about yourself and other people. 

You'll try out different interview questions and answers on each interview. You'll meet new people. People move around. You might click with someone you meet on a job interview and end up working for that person at a different company from the one where you had your job interview!

Most traditional job-search advice tells job-seekers to suck it up and be whoever the employer wants them to be, just so they can get the job offer.

That's bad advice! If you throw yourself  into your job search activities so that you an generate five or six interviews quickly, you'll get a good feel for your local talent market.

You'll generate those interviews by sending Pain Letters together with your Human-Voiced Resume, directly to your hiring manager's desk.

The way to get a job you'll love -- rather than just tolerate -- is to have a very clear picture in your mind of what you want in a job. Assuming your expectations are reasonable, you can find your own Human Workplace and a job you'll love. Here's a basic list of expectations to get you thinking about your own job-search Wish List:

• I want to work in a place where the people respect one another.
• I want to work in a place where the leaders are smart, committed and ethical.
• I want to do interesting work that will challenge me.
• I want to work alongside co-workers who like their work and who support one another.
• I want to have right tools and working conditions to do my job well without distractions.
• I want to be fairly paid for my experience and talents.
• I want to have learning and personal growth opportunities in my job.

It is easy to become fearful on your job search, and to think "I just want a job -- any job!" That's a mistake. The universe puts roadblocks in our way (a job loss being the perfect example) to give us an opportunity to re-evaluate our situation. We all feel financial pressure to take a job quickly, but is that really the best answer for you?

There is a job you will love out there waiting for you. Your job is to find it!

- the Human Workplace Team 

What is Human Workplace?

Our company is called Human Workplace. We are a publishing, coaching and consulting firm. Our mission is to reinvent work for people.

Our CEO and Founder, Liz Ryan, is a former Fortune 500 HR SVP and the world's most widely-read career and workplace advisor.

Our new virtual course, Get the Job You Deserve, teaches you how to get a great job with an organization that deserves you.

In the virtual course Get the Job You Deserve, you'll learn to use your Human-Voiced Resume, Pain Letters and the STOP! Don't Send That Resume approach to reach your hiring managers directly with a compelling message about Business Pain and solutions.

Take control of your job search and stop flinging resumes into faceless,anonymous automated recruiting portals!

Learn more about the virtual course Get the Job You Deserve at this link!